David Spratt
Australian Federal Government Climate Governments
With climate protection, Labor can turn the table on government’s fear agenda
Climate change needs to be seen as an escalating and potentially existential risk to security in Australia, and to orderly relations between peoples and nations.
CleanTech Bites Climate Governments
Fossil nations sideline science at Katowice, even as emissions rise and warming accelerates
In a deadly diplomatic strike, big oil and gas nations took a key scientific report out of the Katowice text, replacing it with an ambiguous formulation that merely notes...
Climate Other Good Stuff
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 News & Commentary 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.
Climate 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 Other Good Stuff 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.
