California Governor Gavin Newsom (picture) steals the spotlight at COP30 in Brasil - "Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip";

"This widely used chart makes the clean energy switch seem much harder than it actually is";

"Indigenous People, Long Sidelined at Climate Talks, Take the Stage in Brazil";

"‘I didn’t agree to that’: The proposal that triggered uproar in the Coalition party room";

"A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics";

"Earth Nowhere Near Where It Needs to Be to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change";

"COP30 Forges Ahead as World’s Biggest Emitter, the United States, Stays Absent";

"How Monash Uni took a $43m moral stand and gave Building 94 its name back";

"The comforting but dangerous fantasy of ‘normal’ climatic and political aberrations".

Liberal Party leader, Sussan Ley (pictured), is at the centre of discussions that mean little to what it is that Australians need to hear about addressing climate change.

"These numbers say net zero is doomed – and so is Sussan Ley";

"Where the sky keeps bursting";

"Greenwashing in the Evergreen State";

"Ley’s job on the line as Liberals reject net zero";

"Birrell advocates for coal, gas, and eventually nuclear";

"The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity";

"The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target".

Marian Wilkinson has sliced through the fossil fuel companies, particularly Woodside, and our politicians, in her latest Quarterly Essay," Woodside vs The Planet: how a company captured a country".

The Australian investigative journalist is interviewed here by the co-convenor from Climate 200, Kate Hook.

It's long — more than an hour — but well worth your time.

Victorian Trades Hall Council assistant secretary, Danae Bosler (pictured), told those at the Saturday, November 8, launch of the Climate Safety Plan, that it was the workers who bore the brunt of the world's changing climate.

She argued that they knew best what the problems were and how they should be confronted and resolved.

Nurse practitioner and union member, Sigrid Pitkin, explained to those at the Millennium Building launch at Seddon, in Melbourne's west, how a thunderstorm asthma event impacted Melbourne's health services.

Sigrid predicted that a warming climate would bring more similar and even worse events.

The Climate Safety Plan will propose policies spanning eight key areas: built environment; health; insurance; emergency management; community resilience; food and agriculture; workers' rights; and income support.

Speakers at the launch included:

• Kate Thwaites MP, Special Envoy for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience.
• Madeleine Serle, Maribyrnong Community Recovery Association.
• Danae Bosler, Assistant Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall Council
• Sigrid Pitkin, Nurse Practioner and union member
• Angela Ashleigh-Chiew, Environment Victoria.
• Shweta Dakin, GenWest and;
• Emma Bacon, Sweltering Cities.

The new book, "Human Nature" by climate scientist Kate Marvel is, in a sense, a whole new genre, for in it Marvel explores the feelings of a climate scientist, and from it we learn that they are just like us with emotions ranging across the entire arc of human feelings.

Marvel talks about her new book with Columbia University's Andre Revkin, who is one of America’s most honoured and experienced environmental journalists and the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

At Columbia, he is building programs, courses, tools and collaborations bridging communication gaps between science and society to cut climate risk and boost social and environmental resilience.

Kate can also be found on TEDx talking about "Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?".

Her book, to give it the full title is "Human Nature: nine ways to feel about our changing planet".

Melbourne's recent All Energy Conference was fascinating for many reasons, but left me flummoxed, as it was, at its essence, about limiting climate change, even though it seemed to be about growth. The exhibits were impressive, almost like social events with free coffee, lots of meetings, and the exchange of ideas (pictured).

"The $4.1 million question: How did the BOM get its new website so wrong?";

"‘If you ignore emissions, we did great’: Germany’s challenging fight to go green";

"Backbench heat over Labor plans to ‘gut’ environment safeguards";

"People trust podcasts more than social media. But is the trust warranted?";

"‘We’re not going to streak ahead’: Nationals officially dump net zero climate target";

"Hastie rebukes Liberals ‘living in Howard era’ as opposition weighs net zero rebrand";

"View from The Hill: Nationals dump net zero – say Australia shouldn’t cut emissions faster than comparable countries";

"Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’";

"Money to Help Nations Cope With Climate Disasters Is Declining, U.N. Says";

"Deadly rivers in the sky".

Robin Bell (pictured), a Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor with the Marine and Polar Geophysics department at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, was one of three speakers at a webinar organised by The Columbia Climate School and chaired by the Professor and Senior Vice Dean, Columbia Climate School; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Jeffrey Shaman.

Experts from the Columbia Climate School and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory gathered for a candid conversation about what real climate responsibility looked like at the personal, local, and systemic levels.

The panellists discussed the connection between individual actions and large-scale societal efforts, all within the context of the planet’s rapidly changing climate and the evolution of climate awareness and action. They explored the steps we could each take to expand our impact.

A Treaty with Victoria's indigenous people brings benefits to all, and our environment.

"Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast";

"Extreme weather costs Australia more than any other rich country, bar one";

"Gondwana Link - connecting people, connecting nature";

"Man arrested, accused of starting deadly Palisades Fire in California";

"‘Vanish in a puff of smoke’: Monash plans to close climate crisis institute";

"Extreme weather now costs Australians $4.5b a year. Better insurance options and loans would help us adapt".