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20 September 2021

Renowned climate scientist warns rate of global warming during next 25 years could be double what it was in the previous 50

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A Nov. 30, 2019 view of the Jaenschwalde Power Station near Peitz, eastern Germany. Credit: John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images This blog...
06 September 2021

When Murdoch endorses the "Net zero 2050" climate goal, you know it is the problem and not the answer

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 by David Spratt DOWNLOAD Briefing Paper: Net zero 2050 is a dangerous illusion The Murdoch/News Ltd global media empire, which makes a liv...
02 September 2021

Former defence leaders say Australia “missing in action" on climate-security risks

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DOWNLOAD report: https://www.aslcg.org/missinginaction In a 48-page report released today, “Missing in action: Responding to Australia’s cli...
16 August 2021

Central bankers' “net zero 2050” scenarios fail on risk basics

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Today Breakthrough launches our new report Degrees of Risk , which looks at how financial regulators are underestimating systemic risks and...
05 August 2021

Net zero target for 2050 is too slow, and a strategy for climate failure

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by Michael Mazengarb & Giles Parkinson , first published by RenewEconomy A major new research paper argues that setting “net zero by 20...
04 August 2021

Warnings signs as global oil and gas giants adopt “Net zero 2050” climate goal

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 by David Spratt DOWNLOAD Briefing Paper: Net zero 2050 is a dangerous illusion “Net zero 2050” is the big story in climate politics this y...
26 July 2021

A note to Climate Code Red subscribers

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 To all those people who have subscribed to the email service of this blog, just a quick note... Google has discontinued its Feedburner serv...
09 June 2021

Trickery in climate neutrality – How "net zero" is secretly being redefined

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In the Amazon, fires are contributing to the rainforest becoming a net source of carbon emissions, rather than a natural carbon store  Corpo...
10 May 2021

What roles for markets and for the state when climate risk is existential?

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Climate system tipping points. From Climate Reality Check 2020 This blog is based on a paper given to the University of Hamburg's “Unsus...
13 April 2021

Net zero emissions must be reached before 2030 for 2°C target, new analysis says

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  by Michael Mazengarb , RenewEconomy Calculations of global carbon budgets have underestimated potential increases in global temperatures...
02 March 2021

Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? Demystifying carbon budgets.

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by David Spratt Confused about carbon budgets for the Paris climate  goals? Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? There is a...
08 February 2021

Matters of fact that we ignore at our peril

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by David Spratt “Political reality must be grounded in physical reality or it’s completely useless.”   That statement, by Prof. Hans ...
27 January 2021

New research on forests and oceans suggest projections of future warming may be too conservative, with serious consequences

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  By David Spratt How much will the world warm with ongoing fossil-fuel carbon emissions? It’s a big question that preoccupies policymakers ...
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...