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20 December 2023

COP28 adalah "tragedi bagi planet ini" saat Sindrom Stockholm berlangsung

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  Oleh  David Spratt  dan  Ian Dunlop , diterjemahkan oleh Owen Podger .  Aslinya: https://johnmenadue.com/cop28-a-tragedy-for-the-planet-as...

COP28 a “tragedy for the planet” as Stockholm Syndrome took hold

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A self-congratulatory standing ovation greets a deeply-flawed final resolution at COP28 by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at ...
07 December 2023

How climate disruption turns strategic priorities upside down

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 by Ian Dunlop and David Spratt , first published at Pearls and Irritations Second of a two-part series. The first article in this series...
04 December 2023

The stark choice facing climate conference: A livable climate or more oil and gas?

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 by David Spratt, first published at The Bulletin Guardian story, 3 December 2023 Looking for ideas for a new streaming video series on cl...
24 November 2023

COP-out: Why the petrostate-hosted climate talkfest will fail on key emissions-reduction task

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by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls and Irritations N ew York Times story on extreme heat in COP host nation After...
26 October 2023

Climate activists deserve our support, say 70 Australian and international researchers in public statement

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  Seventy scholars from 16 countries have signed a public letter in support of climate activists taking non-violent direct action and speaki...
18 October 2023

One swallow doesn’t make a Spring, so do a few super-warm months mean global warming has really hit 1.5°C?

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by David Spratt One swallow doesn’t make a Spring. And a week, a month, or even a year of global warming above 1.5°C does not make that the ...
28 September 2023

Did Penny Wong really just suggest China is an ‘existential’ threat?

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by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations Poster and cover of Cold War comic book, 1947 The Australian Government has a bi...
10 September 2023

Decarbonising? Only just.

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By David Spratt The scientific imperatives are overwhelming. The planet has just experienced its first month with warming more than 1.5C abo...
05 September 2023

Betting against worst-case climate scenarios is risky business

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Illustration by Erik English As the world is hit my mind-boggling, even-more-extreme climate events, records are busted and some events are ...
30 August 2023

Thinking in boxes, Australian Government's Intergenerational Report misleads and fails to connect the climate dots

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by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls & Irritations The Australian Government’s public analysis of climate risk, ou...
23 August 2023

Australia’s greatest security threat is a Canberra secret

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by David Spratt , first published at The Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald It's a no-brainer: China is the greatest threat to Austral...
08 August 2023

Are we failing to see the wood for the trees on climate risks?

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 by David Spratt , first published at Pearls and Irritations Extreme climate impacts are exploding in this year’s Northern Hemisphere summe...
04 August 2023

The Australian Government refuses to say what it knows about climate-security threats, so we gave policymakers a helping hand

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By David Spratt Last year the Australian Government asked the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) to assess climate-related security risks...
28 June 2023

What scientists say...

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Scientists in their own words provide a compelling way to communicate often-complex ideas. So we have put together a small collection of use...
21 June 2023

Three climate interventions: Reduce, remove, repair

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Courtesy Climate Crisis Advisory Group In September 2022, Stockholm University’s David Armstrong McKay and his colleagues concluded that ev...
12 June 2023

Dramatic Arctic sea-ice news should not be a shock: We were warned.

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by David Spratt It's almost unthinkable. The Arctic Ocean blue all over in summer, with none of the eight million square kilometres of s...
05 June 2023

James Hansen’s new climate bomb: Are today’s greenhouse gas levels enough to raise sea levels by 60+ metres?

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By David Spratt Prof. James Hansen is sometimes affectionately referred to as the ”godfather” of modern climate science, so when he drops a ...
31 May 2023

Why markets fail on fossil fuel pollution, heralding an era of climate disruption

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For more than 30 years, policy-makers have believed, and relied on, market mechanisms to respond to rapidly rising fossil fuel emissions and...
04 May 2023

Are climate–security risks too hot to handle for the Albanese government?

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Heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan, June 29, 2015.  Credit:Asim Afeez/Bloomberg by David Spratt   [An abridged version of this article was first...