Next Sun Meet with Speaker: Earth's Past and Future

Dear Citizens’ Climate Lobby members and friends!

Yes, it's time for our regular meeting on the second Sunday of the month! You are invited to the meeting of Citizens' Climate Lobby starting 2:30 pm AEST Sunday 14 December 2025. (Please put recurring monthly meeting time second Sunday in your diary.)

All are welcome either in person or online from anywhere in Australia.

Details follow:

FEATURED TOPIC
‘Earthstory’ A look at Earth’s past and possible futures. It turns out that the “ancient history” in our text books isn’t really so long ago, and our world wasn't always like it is today. Can we see into the future from studying Earth’s past?

SPEAKER Tom Hunt, just back from Rising Tide coal ship blockade, Newcastle. See bio at the end of this posting.

MEETING TIME 2:30 pm AEST 9 November 2025.

ONLINE OPTION Join us live or on Zoom Meeting ID: 847 9565 9897 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84795659897. Please email Howard, howard.w@ccl.org.au, if you intend to join via Zoom.

PHYSICAL MEETING PLACE Board Room, Oatley RSL, 23 Letitia St Oatley.

MEET BEFOREHAND OPTION from 1:15 pm, all welcome for lunch or refreshments at a table just a few steps down from the foyer. Look for Citizens' Climate Lobby T-shirts.

Please see below for other suggested topics of conversation, tell me which you are interested in, and send new topic suggestions to me at george_carrard@yahoo.com.au.

Hope to see you there, either in the room or on the screen!

George Carrard
Convenor, Southern Suburbs Branch of Citizens' Climate Lobby

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION and topics suggested for previous meetings and not covered:

Earth's Past and Future - Tom Hunt (see his bio below)

Labor's recent environment legislation designed to speed uptake of renewable projects - Peter Todd

Report of meeting with Zhi Soon, MP for Banks - David Stewart

Progress with establishment of Voices of Banks – George Carrard

Use of artificial Intelligence to create a strategy for emissions reduction – David Stewart

Progress with Australia’s emissions reduction - Peter Todd

Topics to discuss with your local MP. Battery subsidies (solar/vehicle). Reduction in concrete paved areas in urban areas to reduce local temperatures. Reduction of vehicles in urban areas and more Greenspace. Funding for coastal management measures to better prepare for sea level rise. Reduced HECS for higher education. Housing policies for younger persons. - David Stewart

The CCL Liveable Future Priorities - Peter Todd

Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year - David Stewart

Update on methane from sinkholes in the Arctic https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/arctic-sinkholes/2099393603585 – Howard Witt

Net Zero Commission https://www.netzerocommission.nsw.gov.au/2024-annual-report - Howard Witt

Communicating with voters - Sarah Wilson - George Carrard

Climate 200 event screening film No Safe Seat (trailer), with discussion panel comprising Simon Holmes a Court, and candidates Sophie Scamps (re-elected 2025) and Nicolette Boele - George Carrard

Publicising CCL's priceourpollution.com.au with old people (Oatley Flora and Fauna Society); and with young people Australian Youth Climate Coalition and Climate Writers meetings. See also young people in Climate 200 video - George Carrard

The Australia Institute has released a video about the impact of global overheating on insurance premiums. For those wanting detail, the link to the video is https://australiainstitute.org.au/event/fossil-fuelled-insurance-premiums-what-climate-change-means-for-your-premiums-and-property-value/ - George Carrard

Update on sea surface temperature and disappearance of polar ice – David Stewart

Progress with mandating no gas appliances for new building work in the Georges River Council area – George Carrard

Urban forests - George Carrard

Australia's net zero target is being lost in accounting tricks offsets and more gas background - Jim Tippett

Predictor of climate in your suburb - Jim Tippet

End of Drug Dealer Defence of Coal Exports? - Jim Tippett

All welcome to bring a topic that is relevant to the aims of Citizens' Climate Lobby

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SPEAKER Tom Hunt is a retired systems engineer and project manager, with a degree in physics and maths, certificate in electronics, and passion for sailing, photography, art and music, now living in Oak Flats, NSW.
After 31 years in the IT division at BHP Port Kembla developing and managing commercial systems, he built his family’s dream home on the shore of Lake Illawarra in 2003. Now living just above sea level, he became concerned by the reports that climate change might threaten his lifestyle investment. He started studying the science to check out what was actually going on, and was surprised by what he learned.
After his lakeside building project, he worked as a project manager at the University of Wollongong, on space utilisation and later on sustainable transport for university commuters. On retiring in 2016 he decided he would do what he could to help resolve the climate change issue, from engineering to protesting to lobbying. He likes to share stories of the more interesting things he has learned along the way.