Quick Climate Links: 'The Lost Years' - the Climate Council considers the cost of climate inaction

Australia's Climate Council laments the lost years with its latest report: "The Lost Years: Counting the costs of climate inaction in Australia". Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "The rot began with John Howard"; "Deadly ‘Smoke Waves’ From Wildfires Set to Soar"; "Complex Models Now Gauge the Impact of Climate Change on Global Food Production. The Results Are ‘Alarming’"; "Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds"; "Warming Trends: How Urban Parks Make Every Day Feel Like Christmas, Plus Fire-Proof Ceramic Homes and a Thriller Set in Fracking Country"; "Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?"; "Facts Haven’t Spurred Us to Climate Action. Can Fiction?"; "UN chief hails net-zero plan in climate change fight"; "High-resolution BoM models showed Lismore was in danger while evacuation order was lifted"; "What causes spring floods?"; "Impacts of Russia war in Ukraine reverberate"; "Two Native tribes are helping create an electric vehicle ‘pipeline’"; "Man on Westminster hunger strike fighting for MPs to get climate briefing"; "A year after floods devastated Timor-Leste, the country is still recovering as more wild weather looms"; "Lismore residents begin second flood clean-up"; "Climate change is one of Australia's biggest challenges. But according to the government and Labor, it's not so clear-cut"; "Waves wash over roads, lap at houses as wild weather hits NSW coast"; "Switching off"; "Scientists urge end to fossil fuel use as landmark IPCC report readied"; "Severe weather and flood warnings – as it happened"; "Bleaching at Ningaloo Reef puts scientists on high alert, as they test coral DNA for heat resistance"; "Victoria to restore area five times size of Melbourne with $31m boost to private land conservation"; "Threatened native animals get $12m boost"; "World’s Scramble For Energy Drives Australian Exports to Record"; "Scientists risk arrest to sound climate alarm"; "Egypt Calls on Countries to Update Their Water and Climate Plans"; "Climate anxiety: Spike in mental health emergencies on very hot days"; "Australia plans to be a big green hydrogen exporter to Asian markets – but they don’t need it"; "A river runs through it"; "Auckland public transport: Do it once and do it right"; "Dire warning on climate change ‘is being ignored’ amid war and economic turmoil"; "Australia's largest-ever climate poll is here"; "Federal Budget and climate change"; "Heard the one about the climate apocalypse? How to joke about the end of the world". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations