Recipes of the week
Recipe #1 - Honey-Sesame Herbed Haloumi
Recipe via Hellofresh
Recipe #2 - Stir-fried vegetarian rice noodles
Recipe via ABC - Hetty McKinnon
Recipe #3 - Farro Risotto with butternut
Recipe via Fais Moi Croquer.
All recipes from past newsletters can be found here.
Takeaways & Reactions from the IPCC Report
I’ve been asked if I was going to write a summary of the IPCC report which came out last week. The answer is no, for a few reasons:
1) I watched the press conference last week but it took me a few days to read my way through the 42 pages of the SPM (Summary for Policy Makers)
2) There are people way more qualified that have done a much better job than I could ever have, so I’ve listed below the best summaries I’ve come across.
3) It’s no fun if you don’t read the report yourself. Don’t shy away from that challenge :)
Takeaways from the IPCC report
What the report says, in a nutshell
It’s warming ‘almost everywhere’.
It’s warming ‘rapidly’.
It’s been a long time since our planet has been this warm.
It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Fixing it ‘requires’ net zero carbon globally as soon as possible.
(words by Eric Holthaus)
In English
In-Depth Q&A on the 6th assessment report - by Carbon Brief
This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know - by The Conversation
The era of rapid climate change has begun - by Eric Holthaus, meteorologist
In French
The IPCC & Australian media
It’s interesting to look at the search trends for the term “ipcc” in Australia for the past 30 days.
Ironically, it follows a trend not dissimilar to GHG emissions trajectory from the past - very low for thousands of years with an exponential growth over the past 60 - and where we should head to in the future - rapidly decreasing until reaching zero as soon as possible.
Similar to other countries, the hype and media coverage around the IPCC report in Australia quickly faded.
Source: Crikey
It started well: according to this analysis, after the first day of the report being released, an encouraging 816 stories in Australian media spoke about it. However, that number fell to less than 100 stories after just 4 days.
The story of a Sydney family charged for a Byron Bay trip spent more time on the home page of major news site.
This tells me we still have a long way to go before we can see the climate crisis treated accordingly by the media.
Some people took the opportunity to raise the topic within their workplace:
🍿 Watch this week
The history of oil, how it’s extracted and its harmful effect on the environnement - narrated by Ethan Hawke? Yes please!
This is the latest episode of the Explained show on Netflix.