Interview: Rob Priestly, independent for NIcholls; Quick Climate Links: Floods again strike northern New South Wales

Climate Conversations today engaged with an independent candidate for the Federal Seat of Nicholls, Rob Priestly (pictured). From the "full bottle" of facts to speculation about what we should be doing, when we should be doing it and how we should be doing it - the subtle but noticeable change among our scientists. Quick Climate Links for today are: "Wilsons River at Lismore expected to peak at 12m, search for missing Nowra woman continues"; "Climate spending cut as Frydenberg delivers empty budget for clean energy and EVs"; "Australia gets a fail-grade for climate action, falls behind G20 peers"; "Mounting opposition to WA government's new Penguin Island tourist centre as bird population dwindles"; "Extra $1.3b for hydrogen, gas and carbon capture"; "Rain forecast to continue as Sydney clocks up wettest March on record"; "‘Twiggy’ Forrest bills himself as Europe’s ‘Putin solution’ in German hydrogen deal"; "Budget lowers tax for oil and gas industry"; "Fossil fuel subsidies soar past disaster relief, even public schools funding. What’s the scam?"; "Beetaloo Inquiry: gas is for export, Santos admits"; "NT Labor opens up Beetaloo"; "Morrison’s dam could lose taxpayers $2.5 billion"; "Lismore residents evacuate as rising water breaches levee and flash floods sweep through Byron Bay"; "Petrol, diesel prices hiked"; "Vote Gas Out: Renewables are our future"; "Am I the Mass Murderer?"; "Budget papers show Morrison government plans to cut climate spending if it wins election"; "Utility-scale solar farms to accelerate in 2022". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations