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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...
10 October 2024

Climate’s economic impacts will have unexpected social and security consequences

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 by David Spratt , first published at Pearls&Irritations “I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-waggin...
30 September 2024

A climate duty of care

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In 2018, the UN Secretary General António Guterres noted that “We face a direct existential threat” from climate change as “we career toward...
28 August 2024

State of the global energy system

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Shane White at worldenergydata.org has an excellent, data-driven site about global and country-by-country emissions and energy use trends, ...
06 August 2024

Q: Are new liquid airline fuels good climate policy? A: Pigs might fly.

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by Mark Carter The Australian government has recently provided $1.7 billion in funding to commercialise ‘net zero innovations’ including th...
25 July 2024

The Albanese government has created a climate vacuum, and we will pay the price

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 by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls&Irritations Whilst the global impact of climate disruption is rapidly accel...
25 June 2024

1.5 degrees Celsius is here and now

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Surface air temperatures, 21 June 2024. Credit: C3S/ECMWF ( pulse.climate.copernicus.eu ) By David Spratt Has the world already reached a gl...