The climate firm Labor used to model its policies before the federal election has advised the government to abandon a proposal that could hand free carbon credits to big industrial polluters – warning it could lead to Australia missing its emissions reduction targets.
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Heat record after heat record will be broken in 2023. Here’s how to make sense of it all.
Most of us use the word ‘heat’ to mean something that feels warm, but science defines heat as the flow of energy from a warm object to a cooler object.
Heat energy is the result of the movement of tiny particles called atoms, molecules or ions in solids, liquids and gases. Heat energy can be transferred from one object to another. The transfer or flow due to the difference in temperature between the two objects is called heat.
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A Scottish government strategy shows that Holyrood funding will not be enough to cover the costs.
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The company will install 9500 solar panels at its two largest Australian wineries and plans to install 29,000 panels across the globe.
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Australia’s energy ministers have started the ball rolling on our renewable energy future. If we remained reliant on carbon fuels, we would have become a “stranded asset”.
Australia is a global energy giant. It ships to the world such vast tonnages of coal and LNG that it’s the third-biggest energy exporter on the planet, after Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet the giant has been brought to its knees. This week millions of Australians living in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia were urged to turn off their electric appliances during times of peak demand to avoid blackouts.
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