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18 March 2017

Meet Sherri Goodman, who in two words made the military care about climate change

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“The Age of Consequences” climate film and speaking tour The Buzzfeed story lead says it all:  “Meet the woman whose two-word catchphr...
17 February 2017

Antarctic tipping points for a multi-metre sea level rise

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by David Spratt First published 23 January 2017; updated 17 February 2017 Read in French DOWNLOAD REPORT OVERVIEW The Amundsen S...
13 February 2017

Record-busting heat in eastern Australia as climate warming goes extreme

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Projected temperatures across Australia for Sunday 5 February 2017 12 FEBRUARY UPDATE: The average maximum temperature across the st...
11 February 2017

Climate warming unabated, despite media spin

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Global average temperature 1880-2016 (NASA) Climate Nexus As a result of human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, ...
28 November 2016

Climate goals abandoned as adaptation gap opens wide

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The current climate-making paradigm (top) and the reality of current commitments (bottom) by David Spratt Here is a question we need t...
16 November 2016

From White House to madhouse: climate denial in the era of Donald Trump

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by David Spratt It was appropriate, if disconcerting, that I sat down to read “The Madhouse effect: How climate change denial is threate...
23 September 2016

Why is emergency-scale action necessary?

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The world now faces a climate emergency. Our scientists tell us . We know it. Slowly the political elite are realising that the current ...
09 September 2016

Unravelling the myth of a "carbon budget" for 1.5C

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  by David Spratt The carbon budget concept carries several and significant uncertainties, many of which are not fully appreciated, and...
17 August 2016

McKibben: It's time to declare war on climate change

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By Jon Queally , EcoWatch We're under attack, said author and climate campaigner Bill McKibben , and the only way to defeat the ene...
10 August 2016

How climate change will sink China’s manufacturing heartland

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Shenzhen in 2015 (population 10.7 million) at left; and in 1980 (population 58,000). Image: Guardian/David McLeod/Lucien Long by David ...
02 August 2016

Climate heating is an emergency and an existential threat to human civilisation

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In mid-2015, I was one of several people who were interviewed by filmmakers Jordan Osmond and Samuel Alexander for their documentary "...
20 July 2016

Finding the courage to face the climate emergency: Democratic Party platform recognises crisis

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Image: Pixabay/CC0 by Russell Greene Last weekend in Orlando the platform committee of the Democratic Party added language into their ...
17 July 2016

Emergency action is only sane response to escalating climate impacts

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Climate emergenecy statement published in "The Age" 23 June 2016. Click to enlarge. by David Spratt In 2010, Malcolm Turnb...
04 July 2016

What Brexit teaches us about climate change communications

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by George Marshall , Climate Outreach The Remain campaign was an object case in bad communications, one from which there is much to lear...
23 June 2016

Scientists, business leaders and prominent Australians call for emergency climate action

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Climate emergenecy statement published in "The Age" 23 June 2016. Click to enlarge. More than 20 prominent Australians have ...
31 May 2016

"Saving the Reef": The triumph of politics over science?

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by David Spratt The Great Barrier Reef is an election issue.  Labor has just promised $400 million for the Reef. The government had pre...
09 May 2016

After record, mind-numbing coral bleaching, what would it take to "Save the Reef"?

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Charlie Veron has identified a third of all known coral species by David Spratt Global warming impacts right now are beyond some of th...
03 May 2016

Arctic sea ice is falling off a cliff and it may not survive the summer

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Note: Thanks to robertscribbler.com for this excellent post on the eye-popping circumstances of Arctic sea-ice this melt season. Near ...
16 March 2016

As planet burns hot, new report shows Paris a relic of historic failure

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Download 'Climate Reality Check' Prof. Kevin Anderson of the UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change is fond of quoting the twenti...
14 March 2016

Mind-blowing February 2016 temperature spike a "climate emergency" says scientist, as extreme events hit Vietnam, Fiji and Zimbabwe

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by David Sprat t Where do you start when climate data comes out that scientists simply call "jaw dropping", "alarming"...