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09 March 2024
Is scientific reticence the new climate denialism?
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Jonathon Porritt (technically, Sir Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE) has an excellent piece out, called "Mainstream climate s...
29 February 2024
Pigs might fly: Australian aviation’s delusional emissions future
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by Mark Carter , first published at Pearls and Irritations Australian aviation is in the news again. Having ripped off passengers , illegal...
14 February 2024
As warming accelerates and 1.5°C is breached faster than forecast, Australian Government stumbles on climate risks
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by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls and Irritations If there was shock and awe last week when the Copernicus Clima...
26 January 2024
Towards an unliveable planet: Climate’s 2023 annus horribilis
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The "production gap". Government plans and projections would lead to an increase in global coal production until 2030, and in glob...
25 January 2024
Humanity’s new era of “global boiling”: Climate’s 2023 annus horribilis
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by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls and Irritations For climate change, 2023 was an “unprecedented” year, “absolut...
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...
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