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29 January 2014

With Arctic freezer door open, frigid air drains into USA and Eurasia, with Arctic unusually mild

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by David Spratt It's a cliche that a picture tells a story better than a thousand words, and it's really true in the case of this ...
21 January 2014

The why and how of radical emissions reductions: (1) Kevin Anderson

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Prof. Kevin Anderson First in a series On 10-11 December 2013, a Radical Emissions Reduction Conference was held at the Royal Society,...
17 January 2014

A climate of denial grips Abbott government's holiday madness

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by James Wight While many of us were distracted in December by seasonal festivities and summer sports, the Abbott government quietly ann...
16 January 2014

Landmark TV series puts people at centre of the climate change story

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Introduction: Regular readers of  this blog will know we have argued long and hard that to communicate climate change effectively and to ma...
07 January 2014

Australia’s hottest year was no freak event: humans caused it

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by Sophie Lewis and David Karoly , via The Conversation Australia saw extreme heat and bushfires in 2013. Flickr/Rossco ( Ima...
01 January 2014

Warming climate may cut cloud cover, push temperatures even higher

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One of the great unknowns of climate science is what effect clouds have in accelerating or slowing warming. A new study sheds a disturbin...
24 December 2013

Reigniting the debate: Climate change is fundamentally a human story

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A British group says people's interest in global warming has dwindled, and new ways of telling what is essentially a human story shou...
12 December 2013

Naomi Klein: Radical GHG emissions policies need radical social movements to back them

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by Gabriel Levy , People and Nature Naomi Klein Policies to counter global warming effectively “will only advance if accomp...
10 December 2013

Crunch time for Victorian government on coal exports

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Right now, the Victorian  Government is charging forward with plans to develop a major new brown coal export industry in the state. If t...
03 December 2013

2 degrees hotter not an acceptable climate target but a disaster, say leading scientists

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Countries round the world have pledged to try and limit the average global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial figures. That’s way ...
17 November 2013

Parts of Australia reaching threshold where it is impossible for normal life to continue because of the heat, says climate impacts researcher

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Some parts of Australia, such as Darwin, and some farms and factories, are likely to be  unviable in a 4°C hotter world, according to clima...
15 November 2013

Typhoon Haiyan and climate change: connecting the dots (updated)

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UPDATED 15 November NEW:  Super Typhoon Haiyan's Intensification and Unusually Warm Sub-Surface Waters A remarkable warming of the ...
06 November 2013

The Abbott government: climate policy as culture war

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by David Spratt , first published at ReNewEconom y Overnight in London, former prime minister John Howard gave the climate-denialist Glo...
27 October 2013

Connecting the dots can turn the table on denialist prime minister

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by David Spratt , first published at The Guardian and RenewEconomy It's hard to imagine that one tweet from Australian Greens deputy...
24 October 2013

Climate change and fire risk: what scientists say

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Prime minister Tony Abbott says that "fire is a part of the Australian experience" and not linked to climate change. Here's w...
22 October 2013

Fire and climate change: don't expect a smooth ride

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By Roger Jones , Victoria University, via The Conversatio n With fires still burning across New South Wales, it’s time to have a look at...
19 October 2013

Is the Abbott government fiddling while NSW burns?

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" …it is precisely during extreme weather events that journalists have the best opportunity to communicate the reality of climate cha...
17 October 2013

Confused about the new IPCC's carbon budget?
So am I.

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by David Spratt When the IPCC's new report on the physical basis of climate change was released in late September, media attention ...
30 September 2013

Climate battle line: Community mobilisation or Canberra lobby?

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by David Spratt Rally against carbon pricing, Canberra, 23 March 2011 How should climate activist and climate campaigning organisation...
28 September 2013

IPCC summary report at a glance, in their own words

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via Climate News Network RELATED STORIES Real Climate: The new IPCC climate report Monbiot: Climate change? Try catastrophic climate br...