Climate News: Random recognition - 'Are you a podcaster?' - thrill as follower recognises my voice

Joining a Melbourne workshop and arriving early, as I always do, I was helping a woman adjust some blinds and upon hearing me speak she said "Are you a podcaster?" In answering yes and adding that I host "Climate Conversations", she said she was a follower. I was thrilled! Anne is the co-host of RadioMMT, a program that can also be found on YouTube. "What is a passive house?"; "Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts"; "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"; "A third of U.S. adults are interested in cutting back on meat, report finds"; "NOAA Confirms 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event as Climate Crisis Puts Reefs ‘Under Serious Pressure’"; "Dubai floods: Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains"; "Great Barrier Reef experiencing one of its worst coral bleaching events"; "Climate change: Deadly African heatwave 'impossible' without warming"; "Global warming is coming for your shopping cart"; "How Do Neighbors of Solar Farms Really Feel? A New Survey Has Answers"; "‘We would not survive without coffee’: how rules made in Europe put Ethiopian farmers at risk"; "Death Valley is alive this year. A super bloom is the latest sign."; "Meteorologist warns of 'weather wars' between countries after Dubai floods were blamed on 'cloud seeding' - with 'catastrophic' consequences"; "Extreme Heat Resilience: lessons from Spain for Australia"; "Battery-Electric Buses piloted in Seattle reduced maintenance costs per mile by 44.1 per cent compared to their diesel bus counterparts."; "EPA $61 Million in Funding Will Put Clean School Buses on the Streets of New York City"; "EV school bus rollout off to slow start despite billion-dollar subsidies"; "Water is at the heart of farmers’ struggle to survive in Benin"; "‘Step on the gas,’ ‘well-oiled machine,’ and other fossil-fuel phrases that pervade our language"; "Schools in coal country are going solar"; "How much CO₂ does the world emit? Which countries emit the most?" "A California firm may have a concrete way to help the planet with cleaner cement"; "Construction to begin on high-speed rail between Vegas and California"; "Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016"; "Climate crisis: average world incomes to diminish by nearly a fifth by 2050"; "The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records"; "The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)"; "The economic commitment of climate change"; "For the first time, U.S. may force polluters to clean up these ‘forever chemicals’"; "Despite Their ‘Bad Rap,’ Bats Can Help Farmers"; "More Than $100 Billion in Debt-for-Nature Swaps Could Help Fight Climate Crisis, Report Says"; "Climate change played a role in killing tens of thousands of people in 2023"; "Global billionaires tax to fight climate change, hunger rises up political agenda"; "Fossil fuel debts are illegitimate and must be cancelled"; "World Bank climate funding greens African hotels while fishermen sink"; "Researchers at Michigan Tech Want to Create a High-Tech Wood Product Called Cross-Laminated Timber From the State’s Hardwood Trees"; "Fracking-Induced Earthquakes Are Menacing Argentina as Regulators Stand By"; "Ultra-fast fashion is a disturbing trend undermining efforts to make the whole industry more sustainable"; "Following a t-shirt from cotton field to landfill shows the true cost of fast fashion"; "More EV drivers embracing outback roads amid plan to expand Queensland's charger network"; "‘End crippling debt’: Calls mount for global financial reform to tackle debt and climate crisis"; "Airline Places Order for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made From Human Waste"; "‘Climate-controlled pig’? Danish Crown admits to misleading people with greenwashing pork claims"; "Govt urged to protect seabirds on the brink of extinction"; "Global coral bleaching caused by global warming demands a global response"; "Geothermal joins the energy mix".