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climate change in Australia through theday.com

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climate change in Australia through theday.com

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Through theday.com, nothing was reported on climate change in Australia

what’s your local news paper?
- theday.com

Does it report on international news?
- mainly attention-grabbing major current events. Events that are globally concerning

Why is local news important to “global challenges?”
- it can provide a more relatable point of view to someone who might not directly be impacted my a global issue

Why does ownership of the news matter?
- to provide reliable news sources and credit a person's work

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theday.com - New London and southeastern Connecticut News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Video and Weather - The Day newspaper

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WSJ (Right) covering wildfires in Austalia

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WSJ (Right) covering wildfires in Austalia

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- indigenous people have a practice of setting and control wildfires
- practice was flushed out during colonization
- new research is backing the practice for reducing carbon emissions
- education camps are being established to teach proper techniques

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SYDNEY-When Tremane Patterson sets fire to the countryside, the 34-year-old walks alongside the flames, using leaves and branches to put out embers and make sure the fire stays along his desired path.

Mr. Patterson, from the Banbai nation, is one of many indigenous Australians seeking to reintroduce cultural burning, a practice that was widespread for thousands of years but was disrupted after Europeans colonized the continent.

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​To Prevent Huge Wildfires, Australia Leans More on Indigenous Experience

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SYDNEY-When Tremane Patterson sets fire to the countryside, the 34-year-old walks alongside the flames, using leaves and branches to put out embers and make sure the fire stays along his desired path. Mr. Patterson, from the Banbai nation, is one of many indigenous Australians seeking to reintroduce cultural burning, a practice that was widespread for thousands of years but was disrupted after Europeans colonized the continent.

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ABC (Left) video covering climate change in Australia Documentary

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ABC (Left) video covering climate change in Australia Documentary

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- highlights Australian bushfires
- heavy wildlife damage
- interviews director
- highlights Australia's poor attention toward climate change
- Australia is behind in working toward net zero emissions
- Australia says they are working toward net zero but has shown very little action
- highlights youth involvement in climate change
- interview focuses on issue more than film

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Video ‘Australia is ground zero for climate change’: ‘Burning’ documentary director

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ABC News’ Trevor Ault speaks with Academy Award-winning director Eva Orner on her film “Burning,” an in-depth look at the catastrophic Australian wildfires and their connection to climate change.

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How is the climate changing?
- increase in temperature
- sea levels rising
- oceans becoming more acidic
- change in rainfall patterns
- harsher fire weathers

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[Music plays and image shows a computerised image of a spinning globe. Text appears: Global Climate Models]

Narrator: Global climate models, which are based on the laws of physics, enable scientists to answer a range of questions about our climate.

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Like, what happens as atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations rise?

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Emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, are a major driver of climate change.

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This graph shows global warming observed over the 20 th Century.

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If only naturally occurring factors, such as variations in the earth's orbit, solar fluctuations and volcanic eruptions are included, climate model simulations of global temperature cannot match the observations. Add the effect of increases in greenhouse gases to natural factors and the simulated warming agrees with observations.

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The extent to which we can restrict future emissions of greenhouse gases is unclear, so scientists explore possible future scenarios by running the models with different levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The output from each simulation provides projected changes for many aspects of climate, such as temperature, rainfall, and sea level]

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Australia is likely to warm in future. Higher emissions cause greater warming.

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Winter rainfall in southern Australia is likely to decline. Most of the country is likely to experience more extreme daily rainfall.

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Sea levels are projected to increase at a faster rate than during the last century.

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Climate projections are being incorporated into the planning processes of governments and business.

Climate projections are helping us prepare for a climate that will be different from what we have experienced in the past.

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- utilizing green technology, Australia can cut its GHG emission by 80% in five years
- wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, electrolysers and electric vehicles with chargers
- The plan will create 195,000 jobs that are “not susceptible to the boom and bust of the fossil fuel markets”
- the plan includes approaches such as habitat restoration, ecosystem protection, tree planting and soil improvement to draw down carbon from the atmosphere

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Australia can slash its total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by over 80 per cent in five years using existing clean technology , a report has found. This is almost double the Federal Government's current target of 43 per cent from 2005 levels.

The report, Deploy - Ambitious cleantech rollout to cut emissions and build a prosperous Australian economy , published by think tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE), outlines the steps Australia can take to get there. Just six existing technologies do the heavy lifting: wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, electrolysers and electric vehicles with chargers.

The plan will create 195,000 jobs that are "not susceptible to the boom and bust of the fossil fuel markets", states the report. This also lays the foundation for "a prosperous modern economy."

Accelerating decarbonisation

In December 2022, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted Australia's renewable capacity would almost double in the next five years. While this would represent an impressive shift to a greener economy, the BZE report outlines a much bolder path. This also means the rewards of the net zero transition are felt much sooner.

The ambitious Deploy target is achievable and already supported by over 50 companies already getting on with the task in hand, said BZE Chief Executive Heidi Lee. "Australia can cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 81% by 2030 with a rapid rollout of technologies we're already using and the help of carbon drawdown initiatives", she said. "We've already shown we can lead the world in the deployment of renewable energy technology. We have the highest proportion of solar generation in our energy mix at 12%, supported by more than a quarter of households generating power on their roofs."

While household solar generation has boomed over the past five years, we now need to double down on utility solar, wind and storage, she explained. "If we take this approach to other renewable technologies we won't just meet our legislated emission reduction targets, we'll go well beyond them."

The Deploy plan

To reap the rewards of the 80 per cent emission reduction in five years, annual deployment rates for each technology must be accelerated as follows:

Two times for solar panels, from household to utility-scale

Four times for wind turbines, generating grid-scale energy

Five times for energy storage, including batteries from household to utility-scale

Fourteen times for electric vehicles and chargers, including passenger vehicles, buses, vans, trucks, farm machinery and mining equipment and 1.2 million chargers

Thirty-seven times for heat pumps for water heaters, air conditioning and industrial heat

Building 600 new electrolysers each year for five years for the green hydrogen industry

The Deploy plan also includes rolling out other efficient technology to reduce emissions. This includes induction cooktops, home insulation, revegetation and machines to produce biochar on farms.

BZE also highlight the importance of community buy-in. Local engagement and participation must be at the forefront to ensure a just transition.

"It's ambitious but achievable, and Australian businesses are ready to rise to the challenge", said Lee. "Our research shows Australians that emissions-cutting technologies are here, we're using them and there's no reason why they can't be scaled up to help us cut emissions, create jobs and lay the economic foundations for modern and competitive export industries."

Protecting nature

Alongside using clean technology, the report also recognises that natural carbon sequestration offers a key opportunity to reduce emissions while protecting biodiversity. Therefore, the plan includes approaches such as habitat restoration, ecosystem protection, tree planting and soil improvement to draw down carbon from the atmosphere. In five years time, these measures would sequester 35 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, highlights the report.

A green economy means more jobs and lower bills

This ambitious technology rollout is a once-in-a-generation opportunity, say BZE. The Deploy plan would upgrade Australia's building stock to increase comfort and reduce energy bills by thousands yearly. Electrifying vehicles also means quieter, cleaner roads.

Australia already manufactures lithium-ion batteries, solar photovoltaics (PV), thermal storage and electric vehicles domestically, points out the report. Therefore, leveraging existing manufacturing strengths will create economic opportunities in regional heartlands. Clustering manufacturing in Renewable Energy Industrial Precincts (REIPs) can quickly accelerate the mass deployment of clean technologies while creating jobs and boosting the green economy. This will also reduce reliance on international supply chains and, therefore, strengthen Australia's sovereign security. Furthermore, the plan would power a new green export boom worth AUD $333 billion by 2050. This is triple the current fossil fuel export revenue, say BZE.

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Existing Clean Technology Can Cut Australia's Emissions 80 per cent in Five Years

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Australia can slash its total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by over 80 per cent in five years using existing clean technology, a report has found. This is almost double the Federal Government's current target of 43 per cent from 2005 levels. The report, Deploy

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Multiple Fossil Fuel Companies Have Numerous Sponsorship Deals in Communities

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Multiple Fossil Fuel Companies Have Numerous Sponsorship Deals in Communities

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- 535 sponsorship deals from fossil fuel companies
- goals of building influence in communities
- 53% of Australia supports fossil fuel ban

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An investigation has revealed the vast scale of sponsorships linked to fossil fuel corporations in Australian arts, sports, education and community organisations. The list was compiled by author Penny Tangey and expanded by the climate group 350.org. Guardian Australia verified and the results.

The survey found 535 sponsorship deals for community organisations from fossil fuel-related companies. Fossil fuel giant Woodside Energy had the most known signings with 56 deals. BHP had 44 and had links to another seven through an associated entity, the BHP-Mitsubishi Alliance. Santos had 41 known sponsorships.

Big polluters are 'engineering social support'

The deals are about building influence, said Belinda Noble from ComsDeclare, a campaign working to ban fossil fuel adverts. "It's a subtle way of trying to engineer social support, or continued social support, for these polluting products", she said. "Most of these companies don't sell to the general population. There's no reason for them to be spending millions of dollars on sports and arts sponsorships. What they're trying to do is sell their brand."

The terms of sponsorship deals are rarely made available to the public. Moreover, they are often subject to non-disclosure agreements. Organisations should therefore consider their policies regarding sponsorship associations, said Kelly Albion from 350.org. However, the responsibility ultimately lay with governments and companies, she added. "I think it's not on the clubs and organisations - they need money to operate and often those companies are coming in there with big offers", Albion said. "Often athletes or artists are unable to speak up when their clubs take on these arrangements."

Public opinion and fossil fuel corporations

Polling from the Australia Institute in October 2022 revealed the majority of Australians - 53 per cent - support a ban on fossil fuel corporations sponsoring national sporting teams. The polling also shows that 60 per cent of Australians agree with the statement that fossil fuel sponsorship "is the new cigarette advertising".

Likewise, i n July 2022, more than 200 health professionals and organisations signed an open letter calling for bans on fossil fuel advertisements due to the devastating health and climate effects. "Fossil fuels are hazardous to human health", said Roland Sapsford, CEO of Climate Action Health Alliance."We restrict alcohol and tobacco advertising and sponsorship for health reasons. As leading health professionals have said, we need to bring the fossil fuel industry in line with other restricted products."

Rejecting fossil fuel sponsorship

Such sentiments are already shifting sponsorship affiliations of cultural institutions. For example, in the latter part of 2022, Australia saw a growing movement of educational, arts and sports organisations cutting ties with polluters.

In September 2022, Macquarie University ditched Santos' branding and support for a school science roadshow. This followed criticism from senior Australian climate scientist Professor Lesley Hughes, who said fossil fuel sponsorship was inappropriate. The following month, the Science Schools Foundation, which runs the Santos Science Experience, also dropped the oil and gas giant as its main sponsor.

Darwin Festival its sponsorship from oil and gas company Santos in October. The same month, Perth Festival it would cease its decades-long sponsorship deal with oil and gas giant Chevron.

Also in October, cricket star Pat Cummins confirmed he would no longer feature in promotional material for the fossil fuel corporation Alinta Energy. Cricket Australia then agreed to end an AUD $40 million sponsorship deal with the company. Australia's national netball team, the , also took a stand against Netball Australia's sponsorship deal with mining giant Hancock Prospecting. The Victorian government then it would take over the four-and-a-half-year deal worth AUD $15m following the controversy.

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Fossil Fuel Corporations Sponsoring More Than 500 Australian Community Organisations

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Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs as it cuts costsBy Annabelle Liang & Zoe KleinmanBBC NewsImage source, Getty ImagesAmazon plans to cut more than 18,000 jobs, the largest number in the firm's history, as it battles to save costs. The online giant, which employs 1.5 million people globally, did not say which countries the job cuts would hit, but said they would include Europe. Most of the job losses will come from its consumer retail business and its human resources division.

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Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs as it cuts costsBy Annabelle Liang & Zoe KleinmanBBC NewsImage source, Getty ImagesAmazon plans to cut more than 18,000 jobs, the largest number in the firm's history, as it battles to save costs.

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Australia is Predicted to Face Severe Heat, Fires, and Droughts

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Australia is Predicted to Face Severe Heat, Fires, and Droughts

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- have just faced three years of La Nina: above-average rainfall
- predicted to face El Nino, swing from extremes could bring record heat
- 1.5 degrees Celsius raise in global temperatures which would make it a record
- El Nino caused by warming water temperatures
- La Nina caused when equatorial trade winds become stronger

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Extreme Heat, Fires and Droughts Predicted for Australia as El Niño Replaces La Niña in 2023 - Climate News Australia

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Scientists predict Australia could shift from three years of rainy La Niña to one of the hottest El Niño periods on record.

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Sadly, these are the grim findings of our 'Uninsurable Nation' report. Climate change in creating an insurability crisis in Australia. 

Australians need rapid investment in adaptation and disaster risk reduction to help them cope with climate change. 

https://t.co/4UCAYFzMzh

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Uninsurable Nation: Australia’s most climate-vulnerable places | Climate Council

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Climate Change, driven by the burning of coal, oil and gas is supercharging our weather systems. While climate change affects all Australians, the risks are not shared equally. In the most extreme instances, areas may become uninhabitable.  Worsening extreme weather means increased costs of maintenance, repair and replacement to properties – our homes, workplaces and […]

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Sadly, these are the grim findings of our 'Uninsurable Nation' report. Climate change in creating an insurability crisis in Australia. 

Australians need rapid investment in adaptation and disaster risk reduction to help them cope with climate change. 

https://t.co/4UCAYFzMzh

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Hit by back to back climate-supercharged floods, families in NSW towns like Forbes and Molong are now seeing insurers refuse to offer flood protection on their homes. 

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No man’s land: The NSW towns abandoned by insurers

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NSW towns that have repeatedly bounced back from flooding since being settled in the mid-1800s now face an uncertain future as insurers abandon them, leaving residents in no man’s land.

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Sadly, these are the grim findings of our 'Uninsurable Nation' report. Climate change in creating an insurability crisis in Australia.

Australians need rapid investment in adaptation and disaster risk reduction to help them cope with climate change. https://t.co/4UCAYFzMzh
— Climate Council (@climatecouncil) November 21, 2022

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Climate Change, driven by the burning of coal, oil and gas is supercharging our weather systems. While climate change affects all Australians, the risks are not shared equally. In the most extreme instances, areas may become uninhabitable.  Worsening extreme weather means increased costs of maintenance, repair and replacement to properties – our homes, workplaces and […]

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Sadly, these are the grim findings of our 'Uninsurable Nation' report. Climate change in creating an insurability crisis in Australia. 

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No man’s land: The NSW towns abandoned by insurers

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NSW towns that have repeatedly bounced back from flooding since being settled in the mid-1800s now face an uncertain future as insurers abandon them, leaving residents in no man’s land.

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Sadly, these are the grim findings of our 'Uninsurable Nation' report. Climate change in creating an insurability crisis in Australia. 

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https://t.co/4UCAYFzMzh

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Sadly, these are the grim findings of our 'Uninsurable Nation' report. Climate change in creating an insurability crisis in Australia. 

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https://t.co/4UCAYFzMzh

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Climate Change, driven by the burning of coal, oil and gas is supercharging our weather systems. While climate change affects all Australians, the risks are not shared equally. In the most extreme instances, areas may become uninhabitable.  Worsening extreme weather means increased costs of maintenance, repair and replacement to properties – our homes, workplaces and […]

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More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing the oceans to become more acidic. This is due to the water absorbing more carbon dioxide because the surface water carbon dioxide levels are lower than in the atmosphere.

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As reported in the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology's latest report, oceans around Australia are acidifying 10 times faster than at any point in the last 300 million years. When coupled with ocean warming and deoxygenation, this is putting considerable pressure on our marine environments. Recent research from CSIRO and has highlighted the changing conditions on the Great Barrier Reef. Drawing on over a decade of observations collected as part of Australia's (IMOS) the team found that the Reef's rich carbonate seafloor is not buffering against ocean acidification, a process that might offset ocean acidification.

Ocean acidification 101

Although many people have heard of ocean acidification and the role the oceans play in sequestering carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, exactly how these processes occur, and the degree to which they will impact our oceans are somewhat more complex. So, let's take a step back - all the way back to your high school chemistry class!

Ocean acidification is the term used for the chemical reactions that occur when carbon dioxide is absorbed by sea water. These reactions reduce seawater pH, carbonate ion concentration, and the saturation states of the biologically-important calcium carbonate minerals - but more on that later.

The report showed that the average pH of surface waters around Australia has decreased by about 0.12 between the periods 1880-1889 and 2010-2019. Being a logarithmic scale, a decrease in the pH of one unit translates to a 10-fold increase in acidity. Therefore, acidity of surface waters around Australia has increased more than 30 per cent over the past 140 years.

The cause of this drop in pH is rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. When carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are higher than those of ocean surface waters, the water absorbs carbon dioxide. At high latitudes, these carbon dioxide-laden surface waters become cold and salty enough to sink to the deep sea. Deeper water is then pushed up to replace the sinking surface water. This new surface water absorbs more carbon dioxide and so the cycle starts again. It is this connection between surface and deep waters in seas at higher latitudes that is the main pathway enabling uptake of carbon dioxide emissions by our oceans.

And why does absorbing carbon dioxide impact pH? We're glad you asked! When carbon dioxide is absorbed by seawater it forms carbonic acid, which in turn separates to form hydrogen ions and bicarbonate ions. The acidity of a solution is based on its concentration of hydrogen ions; the higher the levels of hydrogen ions the lower pH of the water and the more acidic. Therefore, the more carbon dioxide absorbed, the higher the water's acidity.

Another impact of elevated hydrogen ions in sea water is a reduction in carbonate ions, due to the excess hydrogen ions reacting with the carbonate ions to create bicarbonate. This matters because carbonate ions are used by marine organisms to build shells and skeletal material. As carbonate ion concentrations decrease, this is likely to affect the ability of marine life to produce and maintain their shells.

Monitoring ocean acidification

Given the harmful effects of ocean acidification around the world's oceans many institutions are developing and deploying technologies to monitor these ocean changes. Many of these stations around the world show similar acidifying trends to those reported in State of the Climate.

In Australia, the , or IMOS, operates a network of coastal and ocean observing systems that enable us to track many features of the ocean. CSIRO is responsible for running the network of IMOS ocean acidification moorings and observations that provide data back to scientists who can interrogate changes in ocean carbon. The moorings at Maria Island (Tasmania), Kangaroo Island (South Australia) and Heron Island (Queensland, Great Barrier Reef) provide data at high frequency contributing to national and international studies.

The future is now for the Great Barrier Reef

published by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and CSIRO has shown that ocean acidification is no longer a thing of climate projections, but a present-day reality.

Dr Katharina Fabricius, a Senior Principal Research Scientist at AIMS said people talk about ocean acidification in terms of 50 years' time, but for the first time our study shows how fast ocean acidification is already happening on the Great Barrier Reef.

Dr Bronte Tilbrook is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO who leads IMOS' observational projects for CO ₂ and ocean acidification. He is a co-author of the new research and said that it shows that acidification is rapidly changing the conditions that support the growth of corals on the Reef.

The study has filled this important knowledge gap by analysing 10 years of CO ₂, pH and aragonite saturation state data (2009-2019). These data were collected as part of Australia's IMOS network at two long-term monitoring stations, located 650 kilometres apart at contrasting locations on the central and south Great Barrier Reef.

The researchers found the range of CO ₂ concentrations measured today were already greater than the range expected 60 years ago, even after accounting for the effects of temperature, nutrients, salinity, and daily and seasonal changes.

"We know now that oceans are taking up about 23% of the excess CO2 from the air. They actually provide a service to humanity by slowing climate change. But the price to pay is that the seawater's carbon chemistry is changing, and we didn't know it was happening in dynamic coastal waters at such fast rates," Dr Fabricius said.

"Ocean acidification is not just a climate change issue, but can be addressed and managed in its own right," added Dr Fabricius.

Back to the future - what are the options?

Our changing climate is a slow process, and some further changes in the climate system are locked in based on greenhouse gas emissions that are already in the earth system. This means that adaptation measures for ecosystems affected by ocean acidification will be needed over the near term.

Earlier this year a team of researchers from CSIRO, AIMS and the University of Melbourne used synthetic biology approaches to create . They did this by bolstering the heat tolerance of the corals microalgal symbionts - tiny cells of algae that live inside the coral tissue.

This is a promising breakthrough, and demonstration of the research required to assist marine and coral ecosystems to adapt to climate change.

The State of the Climate report is clear on what the future holds for Australia's climate. The amount of climate change expected in the next decade is similar under all plausible global emissions scenarios. However, by the mid-21st century, higher ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases will lead to greater ocean acidification and warming - with all their associated impacts. Reducing emissions will lead to less ocean acidification and warming, and fewer impacts.
Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent. State of the Climate draws on the latest monitoring, science and projection information to describe long-term changes in Australia's climate. In this upcoming webinar, discover the science behind the report and have your questions answered by the authors of the report from the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO. Register now to find out more about what's changed, including temperature, fire weather, rainfall, oceans and atmosphere and our future climate.

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As reported in the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology's latest report, oceans around Australia are acidifying 10 times faster than at any point in the last 300 million years. When coupled with ocean warming and deoxygenation, this is putting considerable pressure on our marine environments.

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Great Barrier Reef should be placed on the in-danger list (Left)

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Great Barrier Reef should be placed on the in-danger list (Left)

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- UN-backed report says GBR is facing major threats because of climate change and immediate action needs to be taken
- Australian government says that the report unfairly spotlights the GBR
- highlights the impacts of bleaching

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Great Barrier Reef should be placed on the ‘in danger’ list, UN-backed report shows | CNN

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The Great Barrier Reef should be added to the list of world heritage sites that are “in danger”, a team of scientists concluded after conducting a mission to the world’s largest coral reef system.

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Australia says Great Barrier Reef should not be on endangered list (Right)

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Australia says Great Barrier Reef should not be on endangered list (Right)

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- Australia's environment minister says GBR should not be on the endangered list because of outdated assessments of the previous conservative government
- current government has increased reduced emission goals
- the article makes suggestions of different sources saying reduced emissions goal should be higher

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Australia opposes UNESCO adding Great Barrier Reef to endangered listing

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The environment minister of Australia is challenging UNESCO from adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered sites, arguing the reef is no longer at risk.

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- young people are voicing their concerns on the climate following disastrous bushfires
- project 17: 17 year olds look at progress on the UN's 17 goals
- 2019: UN said Australia is not on track to reach its goal to reduce emission by 2030

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Bushfires in Australia, in January 2020, destroyed lives, homes and wildlife.

A study by the World Weather Attribution consortium said that global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather likely to cause fires by 30%.

Teenage climate activists Airly, Ava and Will want more to be done to tackle climate change in Australia, one of the world's biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters.

"Climate Action" is Goal 13 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, a set of targets announced in 2015 to transform lives around the world by 2030.

The UN wants countries around the world to take "urgent action" to combat climate change.

This video is part of Project 17, a BBC World Service series produced in partnership with the Open University, in which 17-year-olds look at progress on the UN's 17 goals. Find programmes and videos here.
Producer: Phoebe Keane Video Journalist: Eleanor Layhe This video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.

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Australian teenage climate activists push for change

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Bushfires in Australia, in January 2020, destroyed lives, homes and wildlife. A study by the World Weather Attribution consortium said that global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather likely to cause fires by 30%.

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Causes for rising sea levels:
- glaciers and polar ice caps are melting adding water to the ocean
- warming of water leads to expansion and more volume

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The systematic warming of the planet is directly causing global mean sea level to rise in two primary ways: (1) mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets are increasingly melting and adding water to the ocean, and (2) the warming of the water in the oceans leads to an expansion and thus increased volume. Global mean sea level has risen approximately 210-240 millimeters (mm) since 1880, with about a third coming in just the last two and a half decades. Currently, the annual rise is approximately 3mm per year. Regional variations exist due to natural variability in regional winds and ocean currents, which can occur over periods of days to months or even decades. But locally other factors can also play an important role, such as uplift (e.g. continued rebound from Ice Age glacier weight) or subsidence of the ground, changes in water tables due to water extraction or other water management, and even due to the effects from local erosion.

Rising sea levels create not only stress on the physical coastline, but also on coastal ecosystems. Saltwater intrusions can contaminate freshwater aquifers, many of which sustain municipal and agricultural water supplies and natural ecosystems. As global temperatures continue to warm, sea level will keep rising for a long time because there is a substantial lag to reaching an equilibrium. The magnitude of the rise will depend strongly on the rate of future carbon dioxide emissions and future global warming, and the speed might increasingly depend on the rate of glacier and ice sheet melting.

This page supports the exploration of our changing seas through analysis of Historical Sea Surface Temperatures and Historical Sea Level Anomalies (satellite observations), and Future Sea Level Rise Projections (model-based). Projected Coastal Inundation due to Mean Sea Level Rise and Projected Coastal Inundation due to Mean Sea Level Rise + Storm Surge show potential flood risk maps across scenarios and though to 2150.

Use the Dropdowns to select the variable, time period and scenario. Storm Surge can be turned 'on' using the toggle and volume of storm surge can be selected along the slider under the map.

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World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal

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The systematic warming of the planet is directly causing global mean sea level to rise in two primary ways: (1) mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets are increasingly melting and adding water to the ocean, and (2) the warming of the water in the oceans leads to an expansion and thus increased volume.

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Bill Gates backs Australian Start-up targeting cow burps

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Bill Gates backs Australian Start-up targeting cow burps

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- attention has been turned to reducing greenhouse gases that farm animals produce
- Almost half the country's total greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, mainly methane
- Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma show support for Rumin8
- goal is to find a seaweed alternative to feed cows since seaweed is shown to reduce methane production

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Climate change: Bill Gates backs Australian start-up targeting cow burps

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Livestock - such as cows - produce methane when their stomachs are digesting hard fibres.

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- Energy reporter in Australia

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- Two billionaires funding a solar power project could not come to an agreement on funding
- stalls solar power project for the time being
- was supposed to start in 2024

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MELBOURNE, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The developer of a $21-billion project aiming to deliver solar power to Singapore from Australia has collapsed as its two main backers, Australian billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest, failed to agree on a new round of funding.

Singapore-based Sun Cable said it had appointed voluntary administrators less than a year after raising A$210 million from the two billionaires for the Australia-Asia PowerLink project.

"While funding proposals were provided, consensus on the future direction and funding structure of the company could not be achieved," Sun Cable said in a statement.

Tech billionaire and climate activist Cannon-Brookes, who became chairman of Sun Cable in October, said he remained confident in the project.

It involves building a 20 gigawatt (GW) solar farm, 42 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy storage in northern Australia and the world's longest undersea cable to deliver power to Singapore, and eventually, Indonesia.

Construction was due to begin in 2024.

"I fully back this ambition and the team, and look forward to supporting the company's next chapter," he said in the statement.

The statement offered no comment from iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest's privately owned Squadron Energy, Sun Cable's other big stakeholder.

It is still possible Squadron could put together a funding deal for the administrators, said a person familiar with the company's thinking who sought anonymity because of confidentiality provisions.

Last year's capital raising of A$210 million included milestones that have not been met yet, meaning that not all of that funding was made available.

Future steps are likely to involve voluntary administrators FTI Consulting seeking fresh capital or selling the business entirely, Sun Cable said.

($1=1.4499 Australian dollars)

Reporting by Sonali Paul in Melbourne and Harshita Swaminathan in Bangalore; Editing by Dhanya Ann Thoppil

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Billionaires' squabble stalls Australia-to-Asia solar power project

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MELBOURNE, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The developer of a $21-billion project aiming to deliver solar power to Singapore from Australia has collapsed as its two main backers, Australian billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest, failed to agree on a new round of funding.

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- Reporter for Reuters
- in Gdańsk, Poland

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Climate change, scarcity chip away at degrowth taboo August 09 2022 11:37 PM leaf Text Size: A A A By Federica Urso and Mark John/London/Tokyo Degrowth - the idea that a finite planet cannot sustain ever-increasing consumption - is about the closest you can get to a heresy in economics, where growth is widely held as the best route to prosperity.

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Climate change, scarcity chip away at degrowth taboo August 09 2022 11:37 PM leaf Text Size: A A A By Federica Urso and Mark John/London/Tokyo Degrowth - the idea that a finite planet cannot sustain ever-increasing consumption - is about the closest you can get to a heresy in economics, where growth is widely held as the best route to prosperity.

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- La Nina went was longer in duration than expected and caused severe floods
- losses linked to floods totaled to $4 Billion

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Natural disasters, many driven by climate change, caused global economic losses of $313 billion in 2022, insurance broker Aon estimated on Wednesday, of which less than half was insured.

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- Based in Tokyo

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- Mitsubishi, Exon, and Nippon Steel plan to start Carbon Capture and storage project
- geared to reduce CO2 emissions in Japan
- Plan to store in Australia for one of countries

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TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T) has agreed with Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Japan's biggest steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp (5401.T) to consider a carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) project, a spokesperson at the trading house said on Wednesday.

The three companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Wednesday to start discussions toward building value chains for overseas underground storage of CO2 emitted by Japanese steel plants, the spokesperson said.

Nippon Steel is considering capturing CO2 emissions from its local steel mills for underground storage at facilities linked to Exxon in countries including Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.

Mitsubishi would handle transportation, such as by shipping liquefied CO2 to depleted gas fields and other storage sites using specialised vessels, the Nikkei said.

"What has been reported is correct," the Mitsubishi spokesperson said, but declined to comment further.

Cutting carbon emissions from steelmaking, which accounts for about 7% to 9% of global CO2 emissions, is a key effort in the fight against climate change.

A spokesperson for Nippon Steel confirmed that it was considering the project with the two companies, but declined to elaborate.

Exxon was not immediately available for comment.

Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Kim Coghill

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Mitsubishi eyes carbon capture project with Exxon, Nippon Steel

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TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T) has agreed with Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Japan's biggest steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp (5401.T) to consider a carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) project, a spokesperson at the trading house said on Wednesday.