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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...
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...