Climate News: Democracy and the Online Citizen Assembly will play its part in resolving the climate crisis

Democracy, that&#39;s democracy as envisaged by Emeritus Professor Joseph Camilleri and his Online Citizen Assembly he writes about in Pearls and Irritations.He argues, &quot; Australia’s fading democracy calls for radical rethinking&quot;;&quot;Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.&quot;;&quot;The Australien Government has made an ad for the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!&quot;;&quot;Trump plan would eliminate NOAA climate research, slash agency budget&quot;;&quot;Trump’s new reason for canceling grants: ‘Climate anxiety’&quot;;&quot;World Expo 2025 opens in Osaka themed &#39;Designing Future Society for Our Lives&#39;&quot;;&quot;Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents. An expert explains&quot;;&quot;Scottish wildfire risk increases after lack of spring showers&quot;;&quot;UK weather: wildfire warning as hottest day of the year expected&quot;;&quot;Some good news on the climate transition&quot;;&quot;Pollen peril: how heat, thunder and smog are creating deadly hay fever seasons&quot;;&quot; California’s $59bn agriculture industry reels under Trump’s wavering tariffs&quot;;&quot;Beyond anxiety: Teens’ mental health suffers on Africa’s climate frontlines&quot;;&quot;Fire smoke tied to thousands of premature deaths in 2017 alone&quot;;&quot;Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise&quot;;&quot;‘Waste Wars’: A Conflict With No End in Sight&quot;;&quot;The Home of Natural Sequence Farming&quot;;&quot;A Natural Sequence Farm.&quot;;&quot;Victoria wants to burn more waste for energy – in someone else’s electorate&quot;;&quot;March 2025: Earth’s 3rd-warmest March on record&quot;;&quot;Some good news on the climate transition&quot;;&quot;New Trump Administration Directives to Repeal Environmental Regulations En Masse Make ‘No Sense,’ Legal Experts Say&quot;;&quot;Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers&quot;;&quot;NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire&quot;;&quot;Meet a Family That’s Betting the Farm on a Wild Idea. Literally&quot;;&quot;Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute&quot;;&quot;Governments agree green shipping targets and fees for missing them&quot;;&quot;Renewable and Low-Carbon Sources Accounted for Over 40% of Global Electricity Production in 2024: Report&quot;;&quot;Friday essay: in an uncertain world, ‘green relief’ offers respite, healing and beauty&quot;;&quot;Australian voters are left in the dark on climate targets as they head to the ballot box&quot;;&quot;‘Endearing and fascinating’ yellow-bellied glider faces ‘inexorable slide’ into extinction&quot;;&quot;Green activist group is pausing work after backlash by investors&quot;;&quot;The unusual inspiration for this energy-free cooling system is elephant skin&quot;;&quot;‘Deep Change Theory’ Could Pull Us Out of a Global Climate and Pollution Crisis, Scientists Say&quot;;&quot;Trump Orders a U.S. Exit From the World’s Main Climate Pact&quot;;&quot;‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest capital&quot;;&quot;Energy demands from AI datacentres to quadruple by 2030, says report&quot;;&quot;Bigger than Texas: the true size of Australia’s devastating floods&quot;;&quot;Not enough water available for Coalition’s nuclear proposal to run safely, report finds&quot;;&quot;Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters&quot;;&quot;The Coalition prepares to soften Australia’s 2030 climate target, while reaffirming its commitment to the Paris Agreement&quot;;&quot;How Capitalism Crashes Democracy&quot;;&quot;Livestock producer speaks with SBS about impacts of floods in south-west Queensland&quot;;&quot;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/03/ev-factories-canceled/