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Policy & Planning

Graphs of the Day: Australia the global climate laggard
If the Turnbull government was setting the standard for global climate action… we’d be going to hell in a handcart, says new report.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 9, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Game 1 of US baseball world series breaks heat record
First game of baseball world series played in 103°F heat. The average for this time of year is 75°F.
Nexus Media

Oct 26, 2017

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Commentary

Factcheck for Andrew Bolt: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming
How Andrew Bolt and other right wing commentators picked up a new climate study published in the Nature Geosciences journal and got it hopelessly wrong.
Zeke Hausfather

Sep 22, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Keeping global warming to 1.5°C: really hard, but not impossible
The window for staving off the worst of climate change is wider than we thought, but still pretty narrow.
Dave Frame and H. Damon Matthews

Sep 19, 2017

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Policy & Planning

What lies beneath: The dangers of understating climate risks
In the magical thinking of Australian policymakers, a pathway of gradual change, constructed over many decades in a growing, prosperous, coal-fired world stretches before us. But that’s not the world that currently exists.
Ian Dunlop & David Spratt

Sep 12, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Hurricane Harvey: Connecting the dots between climate change and more extreme events
A guide of what we know about the links between climate change and Harvey to help unpack the elements that contributed to this historic and unfolding storm
Climate Nexus

Aug 31, 2017

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Policy & Planning

The crazy climate records from 2016 you haven’t heard much about
Here are other climate change-related records that have flown more under the radar, reported in the annual State of the Climate report.
Andrea Thompson

Aug 11, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

2017 is so unexpectedly warm it is freaking out climate scientists
“Extremely remarkable” 2017 heads toward record for hottest year without an El Niño episode.
Joe Romm

Jul 20, 2017

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Commentary

Australia ignores risks, shirks moral responsibility on climate
Climate risks are either not understood or wilfully ignored at leadership level in Australia, a profound failure of imagination, and far worse than that which triggered the GFC in 2008.
Ian Dunlop

Jun 22, 2017

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Policy & Planning

It’s so hot in Phoenix, Arizona, planes can’t take off
In a sign of just how hot things are getting, American Airlines cancelled 50 flights out of Phoenix because the planes can’t operate above 118°F.
Brian Kahn

Jun 22, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Oil majors risk trillions in stranded projects in 2⁰C world
New report finds that $2.3 trillion worth of projects are inconsistent with goals and objectives of limiting global warming to 2⁰C.
Joshua S Hill

Jun 22, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Trump’s staff reportedly feeding him internet hoaxes on climate
Staffers send Trump fake news – including long-debunked climate claims – to “gain an edge in the seemingly endless ‘Game of Thrones’ inside the West Wing.
Joe Romm

May 16, 2017

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