Quick Climate Links: Climate creeping into political contest; Crazy Town tells us about the changes we've endured; ; The WRI looks at latest IPCC reports

'Big Ideas Into Action' from the World Resources institute considers the latest IPCC reports - "The IPCC Reports on Climate Change". We go to "Crazy Town" for a serious main course with a side of frivolity. Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "Two of Victoria’s biggest coal-fired power stations hit with faults"; "Climate action: Victoria's emissions reduction target for 2035"; "Enough About Climate Change. Air Pollution Is Killing Us Now."; "Minnesota woman sees renewable energy projects as progress for rural communities"; "12 books for another Earth Day in the warming climate"; "Climate action, as patriotism"; "Scott Morrison, Angus Taylor stack clean energy agencies with fossil fuel mates"; "Scott Morrison lets rip on native forests in strange oblation to Tasmania’s logging companies"; "What Is "Loss and Damage" from Climate Change? 6 Key Questions, Answered"; "Addressing Climate Damages: A Call to Action from the IPCC Report"; "The US has more clean energy projects planned than the grid can handle"; "Amplifying the voices of artists who inspire action for climate and conservation."; "Should we feel joy or despair that we’re on track to keep global heating to 2C?"; "We are scientists, calling for a climate revolution"; "War on Climate Change" "Marine Le Pen’s Climate Policy Has a Whiff of Ecofascism"; "Australia’s coal export boom forecast to end abruptly amid big drop in demand from China"; "Doughnut Economics - Global Action Lab Update"; "Catastrophic flooding in South Africa kills nearly 450"; "In South Asia, Vehicle Exhaust, Agricultural Burning and In-Home Cooking Produce Some of the Most Toxic Air in the World"; "EVs require mined minerals. What if Indigenous people say no to more mining?"; "How a wonky metric became the proxy war on climate change"; "Earth 365: Is climate change causing more severe weather in Pittsburgh?"; "South Africa's floods a 'teachable moment' for climate adaptation"; "As Kenyans farm in forests, incomes rise and deforestation falls"; "Global Effects of Mount Pinatubo"; "Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries"; "Actionable research on climate change risks"; "Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic"; "Tasmania's Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station program keeping track of the global atmosphere"; "China to use more of its own coal, cutting Australian imports: analysis"; "China’s demand for seaborne coal is set to drop fast and far. Australia should take note."; "Australia must speed up EV uptake to minimise reliance on foreign oil: Report"; "China's demand for Australian coal will decline rapidly over the next few years"; "How to build an Earthship"; "Congo nun overcomes blackouts with homemade hydroelectric plant"; "Dimming the Sun Could Be Climate Science’s Trolley Problem"; "Why are Tropical Forests Being Lost, and How to Protect Them"; "5 Ways US States Can Get More Electric School Buses on the Road"; "3 Essentials to Make Climate Action Stick"; "Rightwing media no longer wield power as they once did. So why is Labor letting them set the election agenda?"; "Wentworth climate showdown: is Allegra Spender the ‘new blood’ voters are looking for?": "Congruent evolutionary responses of European steppe biota to late Quaternary climate change"; "How We Can Get Clean Energy—Fuel and Human Progress"; "Which parties pass the health check?"; "Morrison government’s $7.4bn in dam commitments could be ‘biggest pork barrel in history’"; "In Australia’s election campaign the silence on climate is deafening"; "Climate crisis could lead to rise of smaller bees, study finds"; "MPs to get scientific briefing on climate after activist’s hunger strike". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations