David Spratt
Climate
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World wakes up to scale of climate challenge, so what should a Labor government do?
Here are six steps that could be taken straight away by a new Labor government to address the challenge of climate change, without legislation.
Australian Federal Government
Climate
Governments
Josh Frydenberg
News & Commentary
People
The straight-forward climate question Josh Frydenberg will not answer
Is climate change an existential risk to Australian society and the world community? It's not a difficult question, but one that climate minister Frydenberg has failed to answer.
Climate
Governments
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Renewables
Solar
Senate report recognises climate risk, but fails to draw obvious conclusions
Senate report acknowledges the huge risks of climate change and the "threat to intelligent life". But it needs to do more than that.
Global warming of 1.5°C is imminent, likely in just a decade from now. That’s the stunning conclusion to be drawn from a number of recent studies.
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Coal
News & Commentary
Renewables
Warming past 1.5°C: Quantifying our Faustian bargain with fossil fuels
The climate system will heat well past 1.5 °C and perhaps up to 2°C without any further fossil fuel emissions, new research finds.
Coal
News & Commentary
Displacing coal with wood for power generation will worsen climate change, say researchers
New research has challenged the view that wood bioenergy is carbon neutral, and shows wood pellets actually emit more CO2/kWhr than coal.
2017 marks the first time scientists concluded certain events could not have occurred – like, at all – without global warming.
Climate
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Renewables
Solar
Paris 1.5-2°C target far from safe, say world-leading scientists
Targeting a limit of 1.5-2°C of warning far from safe, and will spur feedbacks with potential to run out of humanity’s control.
Australian Federal Government
Climate
Governments
News & Commentary
Australians say climate change is catastrophic risk, even as government turns blind eye
Three in four Australians understand that climate warming poses a “catastrophic risk,” even as the Australian government turns a blind eye.
Will the policies of either major party actually "Save the Reef," or is this a case of politics triumphing over science?