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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...
03 February 2025

The world is heading towards 3 degrees Celsius of warming. Will humanity have a future?

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  The world is heading towards 3 degrees Celsius of warming.  Will humanity have a future?  Join me for an online discussion on Tuesday 11 ...
31 January 2025

Is Catherine King’s third Tullamarine runway approval valid? No, if climate impacts are included

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Air travel is just about the fastest-growing source of climate-heating greenhouse gas emissions.  So the Australian government would be stop...
15 January 2025

Climate and security risks? Shhh, says the Albanese Government

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 by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations The Los Angeles fires have again demonstrated the need for a steely-eyed appro...
10 January 2025

Mobilise as if our lives depend on it

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by David Spratt This article appears as the concluding section of Collision Course: 3 degrees of warming & humanity's future , recen...
01 January 2025

A(nother) year of scientific shock and awe

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Aftermath of Cyclone Chido, Mayotte   by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations If an unexpected leap in the global averag...
31 December 2024

Podcast: Facing the world at 3-degrees of warming

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  Listen to The Climate Pod interview with David Spratt What would the world look like at 3-degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industri...
17 December 2024

Climate's collision course: Science meets politics

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Is humanity on a path to collapse in a 3-degree hotter world? That's the question Breakthrough's recent report, Collision Course , s...
03 December 2024

Climate policy is on a collision course with physical reality

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by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations Download the report There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate poli...
19 November 2024

Where is our flight from a safe climate taking us? It's time to expose the layers of aviation industry greenwash

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   by Mark Carter Qantas says it doesn’t buy political favours . But it has illegally sacked its workforce, short changed its customers, a...
12 November 2024

America first, Earth last: Australia’s security now needs a climate focus

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  by David Spratt , first published at Pearls and Irritations There’s a new, stark reality we must face: Donald Trump’s victory will push t...