Climate News: 'Climate change affects everything, why didn't we get onto this earlier', Professor Ralph Chapman

Listen to Hilary Harper talk on the ABC's "Life Matters" with Anna Skarbeck (pictured) and Professor Mark Howden about the implications and complications of climate change. Learn about "Circonomy"; "Pachamama Alliance"; "Understanding Climate Change: All the Natural and Human Causes"; "How much carbon pollution do big companies produce? A new California law will force them to say"; "These are the places that could become ‘unlivable’ as the Earth warms"; "Glacial lake outburst floods in Alaska and the Himalayas show evolving hazards in a warming world"; "Wildfire smoke can infiltrate your home, even when windows are closed"; "£89 million of funding to develop cutting edge new electric vehicle technology"; "The problem with making green hydrogen to fuel power plants"; "A watchdog group found a big flaw in a major environmental policy"; "The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence"; "Early heat and insect strike are stressing urban trees – even as canopy cover drops"; "Even temporary global warming above 2℃ will affect life in the oceans for centuries"; "Why Australia urgently needs a climate plan and a Net Zero National Cabinet Committee to implement it"; "Preparing for the Inevitable: what a 50°C day means for Victoria’s food system"; "When to act on climate change? Before your drinking water turns salty."; "U.S. Scales Back Hopes for Ambitious Climate Trade Deal With Europe"; "Eating the Earth - Fossil Fuelled Capitalism"; "Hurricanes arriving earlier due to climate change"; "Failure to address climate issues will raise household bills say researchers": "Climate change: Study warns deadly humid heat could hit billions as wet-bulb temperatures soar"; "Where This Summer Was Relentlessly Hot"; "Heat, High Water, Hurricanes: Schools Are Not Ready for Climate Change"; "Government provides green NGOs with ‘no evidence’ that it is on track for key nature target"; "Aldi pilots blister pack recycling as retailers are urged to join ‘game changing’ refill collaboration"; "‘Formidable coalition’ of policymakers and NGOs rap Rishi Sunak for biodiversity rollbacks"; "Hope for power bill relief as eastern Australia’s wholesale electricity price tumbles"; "CIVIL RESISTANCE FOR CLIMATE DEFENCE"; "Coalition are ‘climate charlatans’ making false claims about Australia’s nuclear power potential, energy minister says"; "More heatwaves on the way but fewer cyclones, BoM predicts"; "California to require big firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind"; "‘We are vulnerable’: demand for drought aid rises as El Niño takes hold in Queensland".