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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...
21 November 2019

Climate emergency (2): The scientific case

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by David Spratt. Second in a series Part 1 | Our climate is already too hot, with dangerous heatwaves and bushfires, droughts and cr...
18 November 2019

Climate emergency (1): “Something has shifted”

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Welcome to this “rough guide” blog series on the climate emergency and climate emergency campaigning. This series looks at some of the ques...
15 October 2019

“We would never board a plane if we only arrive in half the cases, but this is the method in international climate policymaking”

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Introduction: The energy transformation in Germany, widely known as the Energiewende, is the country’s planned transition to a low-carbo...
18 August 2019

At 4°C of warming, would a billion people survive? What scientists say.

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Courtesy: The Guardian by David Spratt In a way it’s an obscene question: if the planet warms by 4 degrees Celsius (°C), would only a ...
10 August 2019

Australia’s climate stance is inflicting criminal damage on humanity

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Courtesy: The Guardian  by Ian Dunlop and David Spratt , first published at The Guardian The top priority of government is security of...
29 July 2019

Climate emergency new update

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Period ending 29 July 2019 DECLARATIONS UPDATE bit.ly/ce-councils No of councils/states to declare/recognise climate emergency: 888 No of ...
24 July 2019

Giving climate impacts the third degree

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Download The following is the introduction to a new discussion paper, The third degree: Supporting evidence & Implications for Aus...
17 June 2019

Is humanity dying?

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The recent release of the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration policy paper on "Existential climate-related security r...
14 June 2019

Climate Emergency: What is safe, the 1.5º target, and is the end nigh?

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Recently I did a talk for Extinction Rebellion Melbourne with the title “Climate Emergency: What is safe, the 1.5º target, and is the en...
03 June 2019

We must mobilise for the climate emergency like we do in wartime. Where is the climate minister?

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Canberra, February 2009 by Ian Dunlop and David Sprat t, first published at The Guardian The second Morrison ministry contains no on...
30 May 2019

Can we think in new ways about the existential human security risks driven by the climate crisis?

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Note: This post is the foreword to a policy paper on existential climate and security risks released today by Breakthrough. It is written ...
27 May 2019

Unexpected surge in global methane levels

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From Climatenexus.org   An unexpected surge in global atmospheric methane is threatening to erase the anticipated gains of the Paris Cli...
21 May 2019

“Climate emergency”: Evolution of a global campaign

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Rally, Parliament House, Canberra, 3 February 2009   by David Spratt In a matter of months, the language of climate emergency has expl...
23 April 2019

Support for action surges, majority say we face climate emergency

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by David Spratt In the first-ever poll of its kind, new research from The Australia Institute (TAI) has found that a clear majority of A...
22 April 2019

Is the Australian Public Service fit-for-purpose to handle existential climate risk?

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by Ian Dunlop and David Spratt , first published at Pearls and Irritations Credit: One World House The f...
17 April 2019

Battle for climate emergency action starts on the Home Front

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 Former Australian defence and security experts say if we are serious about national security then we must decarbonise our economy within...
08 April 2019

Existential risk, Neoliberalism and UN Climate Policymaking (2)

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On the current high-emissions scenario (RCP 8.5), most of the tropical zone experiences many months each year of deadly heat, beyond the c...

Existential risk, Neoliberalism and UN Climate Policymaking (1)

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International climate policymaking has failed to avoid a path of catastrophic global warming. Two often-overlooked causes of this failur...
25 March 2019

New study shows IPCC is underselling climate change

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Note: Last year, we published a detailed report on scientific reticence, What Lies Beneath: The underestimation of existential risk , part...