Quick Climate Links: This is not about pedagogy, rather encouraging you to think critically and make your own decisions

Yale Climate Connections has recognised the fact that children are, in a sense, excluded from the climate conversation and so have recommended a book - "New children’s book explains systemic nature of climate change". Quick Climate Links is not about pedagogy, rather it's about helping you better understand the climate crisis and subsequently be in a stronger position to make your own choices and decisions. A Melbourne Age story by NIck Toscano - "ExxonMobil fires warning over Victoria’s plan to turn off gas" - needs to be read with a critical mind and looked at through a doubting and questioning prism. Listen to RN Breakfast host, Patricia Karvelas, talk with an atmospheric scientist with the Australian Antarctic Program, Dr Andrew Klekociuk - "Record heatwave hits eastern Antarctica". Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "Flood victims dump debris at PM’s house"; "Wirral RSPB reserve ravaged by fire police suspect was started deliberately"; "Putin Is a Fossil-Fuel Gangster. Clean Energy Could Cut Him Off at the Knees"; "Weather Conditions Continue to Fuel Texas Fires"; "There’s a Messaging Battle Right Now Over America’s Energy Future"; "Problem plastic chip, bread packets tackled with $60 million recycling fund"; "A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater"; "Hundreds of schools, organizations to host teach-in on climate and justice"; "Extremes of 40C above normal: what’s causing ‘extraordinary’ heating in polar regions?"; "We need to talk about how we talk about natural gas"; "Natural gas explained"; "Realtors can be ambassadors for energy efficiency"; "International Day of Forests 21 March"; "‘Urgent national priority’: Pandemic’s staggering mental toll on young Australians"; "Why electric pickup trucks are so hot"; "‘Chattering classes’: Australian government dismisses UN secretary general’s climate criticism"; "Why boomers are set for intergenerational payback as Australian millennials look to square the ledger"; "Grid-scale battery 'really exciting' option as AGL Liddell power station site winds down — analysts"; "Record fuel prices to usher in 'unaffordable' petrol, $7 coffees and costlier holidays, industry warns"; "UN boss: ‘Madness’ to back fossil fuels as global energy crunch bites"; "Reef mission arrives amid access concerns"; "Australian government ‘aggravating extinction’ through land-clearing approvals, analysis finds"; "‘It’s not supposed to be white’: one of the Great Barrier Reef’s healthiest reefs succumbs to bleaching"; "Gladstone hydrogen, renewable energy transition prompts strategy for change"; "Business groups and economists call for tax reform as politicians remain silent"; "How Victoria got hooked on gas, and why the heat’s on to find new fuel"; "Push to turn off gas to help reach state’s climate goal" (published 10 months ago); "Guardian Essential poll: voters mark Morrison government down on flood response"; "Cicada wings inspire packaging innovation"; "Nations vet climate solutions as world 'sleepwalks' to catastrophe"; "Better use of groundwater could transform Africa, research says"; "Adapt, move, or die: repeated coral bleaching leaves wildlife on the Great Barrier Reef with few options"; "Governments love to talk about ‘shared responsibility’ in a disaster – but does anyone know what it means?"; "No future without safe water"; "The S.E.C. moves closer to enacting a sweeping climate disclosure rule."; "India installed 1.2GW of unsubsidized solar in 2021"; "Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations