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21.01.2022 #ShowYourStripes : as a zoom background, a header on your Facebook or Twitter account, or in your profile picture. The stripes set of visualisations is intended to highlight how we have witnessed temperatures change across the globe over the past century or more. The color of each stripe represents the temperature of a single year, ordered from the earliest available data at each location to now. https://www.climatecentral.org/showyourstripes/stripessocial

21.01.2022 19 June 2021 was a milestone on ABC News in Australia. For the first time Australian viewers saw - in the program ABC News Regional - a weather report on climat...e as it can and should be done by a public broadcaster in 2021. Starts at 25:26 #DutyOfCare #ReportersForFuture #TellTheTruth #StoryChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateForAll #AllForClimate https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2127H021S00

19.01.2022 Support the Rudd petition: https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938 317,000 signatories so far. Keith Burrows from Fairfield makes a strong case for clim...ate groups to be active in promoting this petition: "Around two thirds of Australians see only Murdoch controlled newspapers and media. Kevin Rudd has put a petition to parliament calling for a Royal Commission into the problem of the concentrated media ownership in Australia. As Rudd says, our democracy depends on diverse sources of reliable, accurate and independent news. I have been watching the Murdoch media, particularly The Australian, for over seven years now and have NEVER seen a serious article explaining the science of climate change - why we believe it is human caused and dangerous. On the other hand, the Murdoch media has consistently downplayed or even denied the need for urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The science is overwhelming now. Unless the world cuts emissions by something like 6% every year from now on we face a climate catastrophe. Murdoch’s newspapers and other media have constantly denied this simple fact. Below, I have given just three recent examples of the way they constantly mislead us. There are dozens more I could quote - I have attached a pdf which includes some more. Unfortunately, so far the ALP and the Greens have said little or nothing about the petition, Albanese simply saying that it is not Labor policy to support it. One can’t help but feel that this is simply another example of the overwhelming influence of Murdoch! Are they just too afraid of the repercussions of opposing him? But also, where are the environmental organisations on this? Why aren’t they all sending out emails to their members asking them to sign? In the recent Global Smart Energy Summit, Bill Mckibben (350.org) said, on being asked about Australia’s fossil fuel exports, said By far the most dangerous export Australia has sent the world is Rupert Murdoch! I would argue that the single biggest roadblock to serious action on climate change in both Australia and the USA is the Murdoch media. This petition is an opportunity for all of us concerned for the future of our children and grandchildren to do something significant to reduce this menace. But not only should we sign the petition ourselves, we should pressure our politicians to publicly support it. So far over a quarter of a million Australians have signed. That’s a lot, but not enough to force the government to act on it and set up a Royal Commission. I call on all environmental organisations, all concerned citizens and all politicians who understand the seriousness of the threat climate change to not just sign themselves, but to encourage all their members, friends and colleagues to sign the petition. Keith Burrows, Fairfield, Vic www.cs4s.net (Please feel free to forward this email to others!) Here are just three recent examples of the Murdoch media’s denial of the urgency of climate action. There are dozens more: 1) From the front page of The Australian 1 July 2020: The Murdoch media carried not only this story (front page and big article inside) but several other comment articles and a segment on Sky TV all promoting the view of someone who claimed On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologise for the climate scare we created over the past 30 years. In fact of course he was roundly condemned by environmentalists everywhere for making such an absurd claim. 2) From The Australian 3 Oct 2020 Promotion of the totally discredited book from the IPA recycling old nonsense from the likes of Lindzen, Svensmark and Ridd. The idea that nature will beat climate change itself does have some ring of truth - yes, nature does regulate the Earth's temperature - when more heat is trapped by greenhouse gases its temperature increases to radiate more heat into space - its called global warming! 3) Just last Tuesday the International Energy Agency published a very important World Energy Outlook 2020 Report. While The Age featured it on the front page "Solar power reigns as old king coal burns out", The Australian had a little article tucked away in the Business section which hardly even mentioned solar power. This article, Exports tipped to fall if Covid recovery ‘slow’ simply featured a very minor point from the WEO about the fact that Covid would slow exports of coal and virtually ignored one of the major points of the report that in fact Solar becomes the new king of electricity. On the other hand, this point was the main headline in The Age the same day. But the main omission in the Oz article was any reference to a major part of the IEA, WEO report - the two sustainable scenarios of the four possible energy futures. - The Stated Policies Scenario (STEPS), basically business as usual in which Covid-19 is gradually brought under control. - The Delayed Recovery Scenario (DRS), same as STEPS but with a more delayed Covid recovery. - The Sustainable Development Scenario (SDS), which puts the energy system on track to achieve sustainable energy objectives, including the Paris Agreement - The new Net Zero Emissions by 2050 case (NZE2050) extends the SDS analysis to the goal of targeting net-zero emissions, by 2050. While the Oz mentioned the first two it totally ignored the last two futures. On the other hand the Age included them in its reporting. #ClimateDeniers #AusPol

18.01.2022 "I recently spoke with five design leaders: Josina Vink, Associate Professor at Institute of Design, Oslo School of Architecture and Design; Brenton Caffin, CEO of States of Change; Sarah McArthur, Head of Innovation Practice, City Lab, City of Melbourne; Richard Owens, Director of Learning, Woodleigh Institute; and Mark Strom, dry stone waller turned CEO of Second Road ... to ask for their reflections on system change. A few of these leaders will join us for a public conversation in collaboration with States of Change today - on Monday 19 October at 5pm-6pm AEDT - sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZAtcuCrqjsqHNLcFZ5F32M9CCe74Vynp

18.01.2022 #StoryChange: Mr Constance said it was important the debate moved on from "left-right, green-brown" divisions and towards "great outcomes that everyone benefits from". #Normalisethefactthatyoucareabouttheplanet #ClimateLeadership #ClimateForAll #AllForClimate #putclimatefirst

17.01.2022 These ‘warming stripes’ are visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in Australia since 1901. As you can see, the warming trend over the ...past few decades is absolutely striking. According to the latest science, Australia must cut its emissions by 75% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2035, in order to do its fair share in combatting this warming trend and avoid catastrophic impacts. The warming stripes graphics are developed by Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading). Check out the warming stripes specific to your country or state --> https://showyourstripes.info/ #ShowYourStripes

15.01.2022 Does action on climate change improve your mental health? Researchers from Deakin and Monash are conducting a survey to explore how climate change is impacting... our mental health. Your participation will build understanding of this issue and inform strategies to respond. Complete the survey here: http://deakin.edu.au/tempcheck (Deakin ethics approval no. 2020-224).

14.01.2022 The fact that the World Economic Forum's climate emergency video is now re-published by a mainstream news-outlet such as The New Daily shows how the story is changing. (WEF's video ends with the crucial question: "What role can you play in the climate fight?" For answers to that question, follow our series of 'Stairway to Hiatus' interviews in The Sustainable Hour podcast, https://climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour338/ ) You can share the WEF video on Youtube:... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KyEYa3vuM #StoryChange #ClimateEmergency

12.01.2022 This is the link to the new Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit, Please feel free to share in your networks. https://www.lgcet.com/

11.01.2022 Download podcast audio: https://climatesafety.info///sustainablehour338_056kbp.mp3 Listen online and see more info: https://climatesafety.info/thesustain...ablehour338 The Sustainable Hour no 338: THE SUSTAINABLE DISASTER HOUR We take an encouraging step on the Stairway to Hiatus in The Tunnel this week. Together with our three guests we discover how to live and live well in the climate emergency. Welcome to our first ‘Sustainable Disaster Hour’! We start with long time music lover and climate activist Jane Coker. We learn how she has managed to combine her two great loves to sustain her as she navigates the climate emergency. She introduces us to the music of one of the choirs she organises, the Meeniyan Climate Calamity Choir. Our second guest is psychologist Margaret Klein Salamon, author of ‘Facing the Climate Emergency How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth’ and founder and Executive Director of the Climate Mobilization Project in the United States. She shares her rewarding experience with what happens when you decide to actually take responsibility, going all in for all life, as she says, and begin doing drastic things. Our third guest is Chris O’Neill who is engaged in a fight between the Sunbury community and the Victorian state government who want to dump many tonnes of contaminated soil from the Westgate tunnel into an operational quarry on the edge of his community. We hear how ordinary citizens have had to become citizen scientists and become very organised to mount their case. You can learn more about this at their website https://www.sunburysaysno.com. Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook takes us in a number of issues today: Firstly he quantifies the damage caused by the out of control wild fires in the western states of the USA. These have been burning for months. The word that he uses to describe them is unprecedented. He then gives some hard to believe figures about the percentage of all the plastic that has ever been produced that has ended up being recycled. Thirdly we hear about the scant regard that Donald Trump gave to climate change in the most recent presidential debate. Colin ends up on a positive note with news from South Australia of a world first in energy produced from the sun: All of the state’s power came from solar for one hour on 11 October 2020, close to 80 per cent of it generated from the citizens’ own roof top solar a community energy revolution in the making! We hope you find something that engages you in today’s show. We are always open to feedback as well as suggestions for issues to explore and people to interview. This Friday, we will be celebrating The Sustainable Hour’s seven-year birthday. Until we return, sing the difference, be the difference. . . . Community activities of any sort, in my case singing, are a really good way of getting people to feel strong, of getting them to feel part of something, part of a movement. ~ Jane Coker, choir leader and climate activist . . . Retweet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SustainableH/status/1321263475998527489 Comment on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CG3wr8oD_f-/ #FaceTheClimateEmergency #StairwaytoHiatus #TheTunnel #FirstResponders #putclimatefirst #climateemergency #StoryChange #Climateandmusic #VoicesofGreta #TellTheTruth #youshouldbelistening Psychologyforasafeclimate Climarte - Arts for a Safe Climate