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  1. A year on, survivors still counting cost of 'one-in-500-year' disaster
    By Emma Siossian and Wiriya Sati

    It was six months before Ed Trotter could return home after record floods on the NSW Mis North Coast. A year on from the disaster, others are still without working kitchens and bathrooms.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-21/rec

    #Floods #RegionalCommunities #EmmaSiossian #WiriyaSati

  2. Australia's costliest disaster recovery program fails to build single home
    By Hannah Ross

    A new report finds a disaster recovery program set up after the devastating 2022 floods in northern NSW is yet to deliver any of the homes it promised.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/res

    #Floods #HousingPolicy #FederalStateIssues #RegionalCommunities #HannahRoss

  3. Australia's costliest disaster recovery program fails to build single home
    By Hannah Ross

    A new report finds a disaster recovery program set up after the devastating 2022 floods in northern NSW is yet to deliver any of the homes it promised.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/res

    #Floods #HousingPolicy #FederalStateIssues #RegionalCommunities #HannahRoss

  4. Australia's costliest disaster recovery program fails to build single home
    By Hannah Ross

    A new report finds a disaster recovery program set up after the devastating 2022 floods in northern NSW is yet to deliver any of the homes it promised.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/res

    #Floods #HousingPolicy #FederalStateIssues #RegionalCommunities #HannahRoss

  5. Australia's costliest disaster recovery program fails to build single home
    By Hannah Ross

    A new report finds a disaster recovery program set up after the devastating 2022 floods in northern NSW is yet to deliver any of the homes it promised.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/res

    #Floods #HousingPolicy #FederalStateIssues #RegionalCommunities #HannahRoss

  6. Australia's costliest disaster recovery program fails to build single home
    By Hannah Ross

    A new report finds a disaster recovery program set up after the devastating 2022 floods in northern NSW is yet to deliver any of the homes it promised.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/res

    #Floods #HousingPolicy #FederalStateIssues #RegionalCommunities #HannahRoss

  7. "I watched the weather forecast closely as disaster unfurled in the provinces around mine; I wondered when the storm would hit us too."

    A reflection on recent deadly #floods in Southern Africa.

    act.gp/4wFaZlQ

  8. Stranded students rescued from flooding in national park

    Almost 50 high school students and teachers have been rescued after becoming stranded by floodwater at a national park in the Scenic Rim.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/sch

    #Floods #Weather

  9. PM knocks back $94 million proposal to help flooded farmers restock
    By Abbey Halter, Tim Little, and Zara Margolis

    Widespread flooding in north-west Queensland killed more than 90,000 head of livestock this year, but farmers will have to go it alone if they want to rebuild.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/flo

    #Floods #BeefCattleFarming #AbbeyHalter #TimLittle # #ZaraMargolis

  10. PM knocks back $94 million proposal to help flooded farmers restock
    By Abbey Halter, Tim Little, and Zara Margolis

    Widespread flooding in north-west Queensland killed more than 90,000 head of livestock this year, but farmers will have to go it alone if they want to rebuild.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/flo

    #Floods #BeefCattleFarming #AbbeyHalter #TimLittle # #ZaraMargolis

  11. PM knocks back $94 million proposal to help flooded farmers restock
    By Abbey Halter, Tim Little, and Zara Margolis

    Widespread flooding in north-west Queensland killed more than 90,000 head of livestock this year, but farmers will have to go it alone if they want to rebuild.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/flo

    #Floods #BeefCattleFarming #AbbeyHalter #TimLittle # #ZaraMargolis

  12. PM knocks back $94 million proposal to help flooded farmers restock
    By Abbey Halter, Tim Little, and Zara Margolis

    Widespread flooding in north-west Queensland killed more than 90,000 head of livestock this year, but farmers will have to go it alone if they want to rebuild.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/flo

    #Floods #BeefCattleFarming #AbbeyHalter #TimLittle # #ZaraMargolis

  13. PM knocks back $94 million proposal to help flooded farmers restock
    By Abbey Halter, Tim Little, and Zara Margolis

    Widespread flooding in north-west Queensland killed more than 90,000 head of livestock this year, but farmers will have to go it alone if they want to rebuild.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/flo

    #Floods #BeefCattleFarming #AbbeyHalter #TimLittle # #ZaraMargolis

  14. The parts of Victoria adding the biggest share to disaster damage bills
    By Alex Lim and Sacha Payne

    At least $57 billion worth of infrastructure in Victoria is vulnerable to more frequent and severe bushfires, floods and extreme heat. This figure is expected to grow.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/vic

    #Infrastructure #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeatherEvents #Bushfires #Floods #AlexLim #SachaPayne

  15. persuasion.community/p/rip85

    ".....I’m not even a little bit relaxed about #climate change. Here’s why.
    "In reality, we’re likely to come in at below 6 watts per square meter in added trapped energy, which likely puts us on track for 2.5 to 3 degrees of global #warming."
    '"But there’s an old saying among Earth System #scientists: “nobody lives at the global mean temperature.” Nobody actually cares about cumulative global averages. People care about the weather in the places where they live: the #floods and the #droughts, the storms and the sea levels and the #fires. And while Earth Science has made pretty good progress in connecting the #pollution we emit to likely global radiative balances and temperatures, it’s on much shakier ground when it comes to relating those averages to the actual, on-the-ground conditions people care about."
    "And there’s another, subtler, reason to hold off on those victory laps. It’s now clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions are not likely to bring us to the kinds of catastrophic scenarios RCP8.5 implies. But talk to Earth System scientists and you’ll find plenty of other ways we could end up in other catastrophic scenarios. The Earth System has many poorly-understood, hard-to-measure, hard-to-model feedback loops that could drop us right back in RCP8.5-type scenarios."
    "The one you hear about most often is Siberian permafrost: it could be that it thaws quickly enough to emit masses of new methane, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. But that’s just one; there are plenty of others."
    .....
    "Could there be an #Earth-changing feedback loop out there nobody’s identified yet?"
    .....
    "The maddening reality about climate change is that Earth System #science is not really up to the task of quantifying the risks for the worst outcomes."

  16. persuasion.community/p/rip85

    ".....I’m not even a little bit relaxed about #climate change. Here’s why.
    "In reality, we’re likely to come in at below 6 watts per square meter in added trapped energy, which likely puts us on track for 2.5 to 3 degrees of global #warming."
    '"But there’s an old saying among Earth System #scientists: “nobody lives at the global mean temperature.” Nobody actually cares about cumulative global averages. People care about the weather in the places where they live: the #floods and the #droughts, the storms and the sea levels and the #fires. And while Earth Science has made pretty good progress in connecting the #pollution we emit to likely global radiative balances and temperatures, it’s on much shakier ground when it comes to relating those averages to the actual, on-the-ground conditions people care about."
    "And there’s another, subtler, reason to hold off on those victory laps. It’s now clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions are not likely to bring us to the kinds of catastrophic scenarios RCP8.5 implies. But talk to Earth System scientists and you’ll find plenty of other ways we could end up in other catastrophic scenarios. The Earth System has many poorly-understood, hard-to-measure, hard-to-model feedback loops that could drop us right back in RCP8.5-type scenarios."
    "The one you hear about most often is Siberian permafrost: it could be that it thaws quickly enough to emit masses of new methane, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. But that’s just one; there are plenty of others."
    .....
    "Could there be an #Earth-changing feedback loop out there nobody’s identified yet?"
    .....
    "The maddening reality about climate change is that Earth System #science is not really up to the task of quantifying the risks for the worst outcomes."

  17. persuasion.community/p/rip85

    ".....I’m not even a little bit relaxed about #climate change. Here’s why.
    "In reality, we’re likely to come in at below 6 watts per square meter in added trapped energy, which likely puts us on track for 2.5 to 3 degrees of global #warming."
    '"But there’s an old saying among Earth System #scientists: “nobody lives at the global mean temperature.” Nobody actually cares about cumulative global averages. People care about the weather in the places where they live: the #floods and the #droughts, the storms and the sea levels and the #fires. And while Earth Science has made pretty good progress in connecting the #pollution we emit to likely global radiative balances and temperatures, it’s on much shakier ground when it comes to relating those averages to the actual, on-the-ground conditions people care about."
    "And there’s another, subtler, reason to hold off on those victory laps. It’s now clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions are not likely to bring us to the kinds of catastrophic scenarios RCP8.5 implies. But talk to Earth System scientists and you’ll find plenty of other ways we could end up in other catastrophic scenarios. The Earth System has many poorly-understood, hard-to-measure, hard-to-model feedback loops that could drop us right back in RCP8.5-type scenarios."
    "The one you hear about most often is Siberian permafrost: it could be that it thaws quickly enough to emit masses of new methane, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. But that’s just one; there are plenty of others."
    .....
    "Could there be an #Earth-changing feedback loop out there nobody’s identified yet?"
    .....
    "The maddening reality about climate change is that Earth System #science is not really up to the task of quantifying the risks for the worst outcomes."

  18. persuasion.community/p/rip85

    ".....I’m not even a little bit relaxed about #climate change. Here’s why.
    "In reality, we’re likely to come in at below 6 watts per square meter in added trapped energy, which likely puts us on track for 2.5 to 3 degrees of global #warming."
    '"But there’s an old saying among Earth System #scientists: “nobody lives at the global mean temperature.” Nobody actually cares about cumulative global averages. People care about the weather in the places where they live: the #floods and the #droughts, the storms and the sea levels and the #fires. And while Earth Science has made pretty good progress in connecting the #pollution we emit to likely global radiative balances and temperatures, it’s on much shakier ground when it comes to relating those averages to the actual, on-the-ground conditions people care about."
    "And there’s another, subtler, reason to hold off on those victory laps. It’s now clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions are not likely to bring us to the kinds of catastrophic scenarios RCP8.5 implies. But talk to Earth System scientists and you’ll find plenty of other ways we could end up in other catastrophic scenarios. The Earth System has many poorly-understood, hard-to-measure, hard-to-model feedback loops that could drop us right back in RCP8.5-type scenarios."
    "The one you hear about most often is Siberian permafrost: it could be that it thaws quickly enough to emit masses of new methane, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. But that’s just one; there are plenty of others."
    .....
    "Could there be an #Earth-changing feedback loop out there nobody’s identified yet?"
    .....
    "The maddening reality about climate change is that Earth System #science is not really up to the task of quantifying the risks for the worst outcomes."

  19. persuasion.community/p/rip85

    ".....I’m not even a little bit relaxed about #climate change. Here’s why.
    "In reality, we’re likely to come in at below 6 watts per square meter in added trapped energy, which likely puts us on track for 2.5 to 3 degrees of global #warming."
    '"But there’s an old saying among Earth System #scientists: “nobody lives at the global mean temperature.” Nobody actually cares about cumulative global averages. People care about the weather in the places where they live: the #floods and the #droughts, the storms and the sea levels and the #fires. And while Earth Science has made pretty good progress in connecting the #pollution we emit to likely global radiative balances and temperatures, it’s on much shakier ground when it comes to relating those averages to the actual, on-the-ground conditions people care about."
    "And there’s another, subtler, reason to hold off on those victory laps. It’s now clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions are not likely to bring us to the kinds of catastrophic scenarios RCP8.5 implies. But talk to Earth System scientists and you’ll find plenty of other ways we could end up in other catastrophic scenarios. The Earth System has many poorly-understood, hard-to-measure, hard-to-model feedback loops that could drop us right back in RCP8.5-type scenarios."
    "The one you hear about most often is Siberian permafrost: it could be that it thaws quickly enough to emit masses of new methane, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. But that’s just one; there are plenty of others."
    .....
    "Could there be an #Earth-changing feedback loop out there nobody’s identified yet?"
    .....
    "The maddening reality about climate change is that Earth System #science is not really up to the task of quantifying the risks for the worst outcomes."