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02 November 2020

Net-zero emissions by 2050: Leadership or climate colonialism?

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A boy rides his bike through floodwaters near the airport in Funafuti, Tuvalu. The low-lying nation has been classified as extremely vulner...
13 October 2020

What must climate and energy policy really achieve? It's time for a ...

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  by Ian Dunlop and David Spratt , first posted at Pearls and Irritations The Australian Government is dangerously out-of-touch as climate ...
09 October 2020

Surviving the age of extreme heat

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by Alex Smith   This is the introduction  to a new book, Surviving the age of Extreme Heat , by RadioEcoshock host, Alex Smith, featuring hi...
02 October 2020

LobbyLand

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Photo: Unsplash   In Australia, denial mounts. The recent “Gas-Led Recovery” and “Technological Roadmap” announcements of the  Morrison gove...
28 September 2020

When climate risks are so high, short term actions matter most

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by David Spratt , first published at Pearls and Irritations Last week, Prince Charles was the climate radical. Speaking by video link to Cli...
09 September 2020

We live in “disaster alley”: Australia and the region are particularly vulnerable

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Coastal NSW rivers stopped flowing during 2019 record-breaking drought: The Barnard River, a tributary of the Manning River, at Bretti Reser...
24 August 2020

Economic rigidity generates extreme risks including collapse

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by Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls and Irritations   Download PDF A review of The Coal Curse – Resources, Climate and Australia’s Fut...
13 August 2020

“Fear” versus “hope” in #climate communications. How about brutal honesty?

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by David Spratt  “Fear” versus “hope”. It can be a sterile debate, with straw figures and mischaracterisations, none more frequent than the ...
11 August 2020

Canary in the coalmine: A former senior fosil fuel executive speaks out

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by Ian Dunlop Download PDF This post is the introduction, by Ian Dunlop, to the publication this week by Breakthrough of a collection of Ia...
28 July 2020

Are worst-case climate scenarios less likely, as media reports of a new scientific paper suggest?

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by David Spratt Reading the media reporting of a new scientific paper released on 22 July, it was easy to get the impression that som...
09 July 2020

As warming approaches 1.5°C, talk of a carbon budget for the Paris targets is delusional

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by David Spratt There's a lot of delusional talk about how much "carbon budget" (or new emissions) are allowable that would ...
02 July 2020

Canberra unprepared for climate upheavals that will rock the nation

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By David Sprat, first published at RenewEconomy Covid-19 should teach us the value of being fully prepared for catastrophic risks, but on ...
06 May 2020

Covid-19 climate lessons

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by David Spratt and Alia Armsitead This post is the concluding section of a discussion paper, Covid-19 climate lessons , just published by...
16 April 2020

Fatal calculations: How bad economics encouraged climate inaction

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Download Pandemics and climate disruption are existential risks that require that particular emphasis be placed on the high-impact poss...
05 March 2020

Scott Morrison's duty is to protect the Australian people. There is no greater threat than climate disruption

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Our government continues to focus on the supposedly horrendous cost of climate action without mentioning the benefits   by David Spratt...
17 February 2020

A climate reality update at 2020 emergency summit

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2000 people attended an inspiring two-day National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne on 14-15 February. Here is my contribution t...
02 December 2019

Leading climate researchers: we are in a climate emergency, facing existential risks

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Tipping points and potential domino effects by David Spratt Last week a new paper in Nature caused a stir and world-wide headlines, a...
21 November 2019

Climate emergency (2): The scientific case

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by David Spratt. Second in a series Part 1 | Our climate is already too hot, with dangerous heatwaves and bushfires, droughts and cr...
18 November 2019

Climate emergency (1): “Something has shifted”

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Welcome to this “rough guide” blog series on the climate emergency and climate emergency campaigning. This series looks at some of the ques...
15 October 2019

“We would never board a plane if we only arrive in half the cases, but this is the method in international climate policymaking”

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Introduction: The energy transformation in Germany, widely known as the Energiewende, is the country’s planned transition to a low-carbo...