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31 March 2026

"Sustainable" aviation? Qantas's climate policy is heading for a crash landing

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by Mark Carter Rising fuel costs and disrupted flight paths, a consequence of the unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran by Israel and the US...
25 March 2026

Silence facilitates climate dis-information, and the government is complicit

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By David Spratt A shorter version of this article was first published at Pearls and Irritations . The US–Israel war on Iran and another oil ...
24 March 2026

Fossil fuel dependence and climate disinformation are now Australia’s biggest threats. Power must be wrested back from big tech, say former defence leaders

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Download the report A former Chief of the Australian Defence Force, Admiral Chris Barrie Retd, has called for legislation to regulate, and ...
14 March 2026

Former defence leaders say oil wars threaten our security, and climate change deepens the danger

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By Ian Dunlop and David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations    View the  Open Letter In full-page statements in the nationa...
09 February 2026

Authoritarianism is undermining climate action – and time is running out

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  Climate emergency briefing: Impacts, risks and key actions  for Australia in the age of authoritarianism   is published today by the Break...
18 December 2025

Climate hot takes on 2025

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 by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations ClimateGenn podcast :  2025 In Climate Review: AMOC, Overshoot & Emergency ...
03 November 2025

Leading from behind: How governments and advocates in Australia avoid the new climate reality

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  Taken together, governments now plan even higher levels of coal production to 2035, and gas production to 2050, than they did in 2023. Pla...
12 October 2025

Australia’s climate assessment fails on sea-level rise risks and vulnerable communities

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 by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations Australia’s first climate risk assessment has the stated purpose of guiding ad...
07 October 2025

The global heating emergency and preventing 2°C by 2040: What's the plan?

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 by David Spratt We know where we are heading: towards a planet that will be unlivable for most people, as the human systems built up over c...
22 September 2025

Podcast: Climate risk realism and the case for cooling to a livable planet

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  Listen to the podcast by David Spratt Recently I had the opportunity to join  Arjana and Kathy from MEER podcasts  to discuss climate risk...
07 September 2025

A climate-first foreign policy is essential for Australia and regional security

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Adm Chris Barrie (Rtd) launches the report. Parliamentarians attending the launch and supporting the report include MPs Sophie Scamps, Nicol...
18 August 2025

Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment has been a long time coming

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by David Spratt The Australian Government’s soon-to-be-released first National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA), which will be focused on dome...
15 August 2025

Climate intervention in the thick present

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  by Anni Pokela , first published at operaatioarktis Anni Pokela is a founding member of, and srategist for, the Finnish group Operaatio Ar...
03 August 2025

Will Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment be more omission than commission?

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  by David Spratt, first published at Pearls&Irritations The Albanese Government will soon deliver Australia’s first domestically-orie...
29 July 2025

The 1.5 degrees climate advocacy conundrum

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Breakthrough has just released a new discussion paper, Warming has reached 1.5°C. What does that mean for climate advocacy ? This blog is pa...
23 June 2025

How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine

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By David Spratt , first published at The Canberra Times How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine, if Australians’ recent exper...
29 April 2025

James Hansen and the scientific contest about accelerated warming: 2025 is the crunch year

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by David Spratt, first published at Pearls and Irritations The record-breaking warming years of 2023 (1.5°C) and 2024 (1.6°C) were above exp...
13 April 2025

Is AUKUS a priority when climate change - which should be the focus - is about to upend our region?

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By Adm. Chris Barrie (Ret.), first published at The Canberra Times and Pearls and Irritations Global security alliances are in turmoil, an...
20 March 2025

Government refuses to articulate ‘frankly terrifying’ security risks

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 by David Spratt , first published at Pearls & Irritations The Albanese Government has jammed itself by trying to not talk about the gr...
22 February 2025

Collision Course: 3-degrees of warming & humanity's future video

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  by David Spratt On 11 February, more than 250 people joined me for an online discussion on  the findings of Collision Course , the lates...