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23 July 2018

Minerals Council still dangerously wrong on coal and climate, says former senior coal executive

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by Ian Dunlop , first posted at RenewEconomy After 30 years of inaction, the focus on climate risk is accelerating as the physical impa...
09 July 2018

The straight-forward climate question Josh Frydenberg will not answer

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by David Spratt Climate warming has been a factor in the Darfur crisis. Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farra Is climate change an existential...
17 June 2018

Our energy challenge in 6 eye-popping charts

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Renewable energy is winning and coal is on the skids. Disruption of the fossil fuel industry is well under way, and the global energy syst...
17 May 2018

Senate report recognises climate change as existential risk, but fails to draw the obvious conclusions

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Download the Breakthrough report on climate and security risks by David Spratt Climate change is “a current and existential national s...
10 May 2018

What goes up must come down: It's time for a carbon drawdown budget

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  by David Spratt There is no carbon budget left for 1.5°C climate warming target, which means that to achieve this outcome every tonne...
30 April 2018

The fiduciary responsibility of politicians and bureaucrats in the era of existential climate risks

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by Ian Dunlop First published at Renew Economy   “Fiduciary: a person to whom power is entrusted for the benefit of another”“Power is re...
05 April 2018

1.5°C of warming is closer than we imagine, just a decade away

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by David Spratt, first published at Renew Economy Also available in French Updated 16 April 2018 Global warming of 1.5°C is imminent,...
25 February 2018

What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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In the depths of the northern winter, and with 24-hour darkness at the North Pole, an extraordinary climate warming event is happening. And ...
12 February 2018

Do we have the capability to reverse global warming within a meaningful timeframe?

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"Do we have the capability to reverse global warming within a meaningful timeframe?" was the topic for discussion at the Sustainab...
01 February 2018

Quantifying our Faustian bargain with fossil fuels

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Our Faustian bargain: the byproduct of burning dirty fossil fuels are short-lived atmospheric aerosols which provide temporary cooling ...
22 January 2018

New study on climate sensitivity not what poor media headlines, deniers are saying

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Courtesy Skeptical Science One swallow doesn't make a spring, and nor does one scientific paper change a whole body of evidence. But...
19 January 2018

Displacing coal with wood for power generation will worsen climate change, say researchers

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The Drax facility in North Yorkshire has transitioned some of its coal power generation capacity to wood pellets with the support of UK go...
15 January 2018

What we learned about the climate system in 2017 that should send shivers down the spines of policy makers

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by David Spratt Much of what happened in 2017 was predictable: news of climate extremes became, how can I put it … almost the norm. Ther...
22 November 2017

Ice Apocalypse: How the rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by the end of this century

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by Eric Holthaus , Grist Pine Island Glacier shelf edge. Jeremy Harbeck In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,...
02 October 2017

Policymakers need to look at the real climate risks

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By David Spratt and Ian Dunlop This blog is an extract from What Lies Beneath: The scientific understatement of climate risks , just publ...
09 September 2017

The climate factor in Syrian instability

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by Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia , first posted at the Center for Climate and Security Observed change in cold season precipitat...
07 September 2017

What lies beneath? The scientific understatement of climate risks

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By David Spratt and Ian Dunlop This blog is the Introduction to What Lies Beneath: The scientific understatement of climate risks , publi...
31 August 2017

Hurricane Harvey: Connecting the dots between climate change and more extreme events

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by Climate Nexus The science of attributing extreme weather to climate change is complicated and developing every day. Here’s a guide of w...
16 August 2017

Chinese climate impacts will hit Australian economy

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By David Spratt and Alia Armistead , first published at RenewEconomy   How hard will climate-change impacts in China hit the Australi...
27 July 2017

Paris 1.5-2°C target far from safe, say world-leading scientists

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by David Spratt , first published at Renew Economy The Paris climate agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsiu...