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10 January 2025

Mobilise as if our lives depend on it

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by David Spratt This article appears as the concluding section of Collision Course: 3 degrees of warming & humanity's future , recen...
01 January 2025

A(nother) year of scientific shock and awe

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Aftermath of Cyclone Chido, Mayotte   by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations If an unexpected leap in the global averag...
31 December 2024

Podcast: Facing the world at 3-degrees of warming

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  Listen to The Climate Pod interview with David Spratt What would the world look like at 3-degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industri...
17 December 2024

Climate's collision course: Science meets politics

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Is humanity on a path to collapse in a 3-degree hotter world? That's the question Breakthrough's recent report, Collision Course , s...
03 December 2024

Climate policy is on a collision course with physical reality

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by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations Download the report There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate poli...
19 November 2024

Where is our flight from a safe climate taking us? It's time to expose the layers of aviation industry greenwash

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   by Mark Carter Qantas says it doesn’t buy political favours . But it has illegally sacked its workforce, short changed its customers, a...
12 November 2024

America first, Earth last: Australia’s security now needs a climate focus

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  by David Spratt , first published at Pearls and Irritations There’s a new, stark reality we must face: Donald Trump’s victory will push t...
10 October 2024

Climate’s economic impacts will have unexpected social and security consequences

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 by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations “I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-waggin...
30 September 2024

A climate duty of care

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In 2018, the UN Secretary General António Guterres noted that “We face a direct existential threat” from climate change as “we career toward...
28 August 2024

State of the global energy system

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Shane White at worldenergydata.org has an excellent, data-driven site about global and country-by-country emissions and energy use trends, ...
06 August 2024

Q: Are new liquid airline fuels good climate policy? A: Pigs might fly.

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by Mark Carter The Australian government has recently provided $1.7 billion in funding to commercialise ‘net zero innovations’ including th...
25 July 2024

The Albanese government has created a climate vacuum, and we will pay the price

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 by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls&Irritations Whilst the global impact of climate disruption is rapidly accel...
25 June 2024

1.5 degrees Celsius is here and now

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Surface air temperatures, 21 June 2024. Credit: C3S/ECMWF ( pulse.climate.copernicus.eu ) By David Spratt Has the world already reached a gl...
13 May 2024

One event could wreak global climate havoc. Neither side of Australian politics has got a clue about it.

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This a case study from the report, Too hot to handle , recently published by the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group. There is no grea...
11 May 2024

Are climate risks ‘too big’ for politics?

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 by Adm. Chris Barrie (Rtd) , first published at The Canberra Times . We all know that climate change is a massive issue. So why is it not a...
10 May 2024

Climate security risks and Australia’s failure

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 by Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls and Irritations  “ Too hot to handle: The scorching reality of Australia’s climate–security failu...
03 May 2024

Climate-security risks too hot to handle for Australian Government

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  Register here for webinar. by David Spratt This week, the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group (ASLCG) released a new report, Too h...
09 March 2024

Is scientific reticence the new climate denialism?

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  Jonathon Porritt (technically, Sir Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE) has an excellent piece out, called "Mainstream climate s...
29 February 2024

Pigs might fly: Australian aviation’s delusional emissions future

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by Mark Carter , first published at Pearls and Irritations Australian aviation is in the news again. Having ripped off passengers , illegal...
14 February 2024

As warming accelerates and 1.5°C is breached faster than forecast, Australian Government stumbles on climate risks

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 by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls and Irritations If there was shock and awe last week when the Copernicus Clima...