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28 August 2024

State of the global energy system

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Shane White at worldenergydata.org has an excellent, data-driven site about global and country-by-country emissions and energy use trends, ...
06 August 2024

Q: Are new liquid airline fuels good climate policy? A: Pigs might fly.

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by Mark Carter The Australian government has recently provided $1.7 billion in funding to commercialise ‘net zero innovations’ including th...
25 July 2024

The Albanese government has created a climate vacuum, and we will pay the price

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 by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls&Irritations Whilst the global impact of climate disruption is rapidly accel...
25 June 2024

1.5 degrees Celsius is here and now

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Surface air temperatures, 21 June 2024. Credit: C3S/ECMWF ( pulse.climate.copernicus.eu ) By David Spratt Has the world already reached a gl...
13 May 2024

One event could wreak global climate havoc. Neither side of Australian politics has got a clue about it.

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This a case study from the report, Too hot to handle , recently published by the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group. There is no grea...
11 May 2024

Are climate risks ‘too big’ for politics?

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 by Adm. Chris Barrie (Rtd) , first published at The Canberra Times . We all know that climate change is a massive issue. So why is it not a...
10 May 2024

Climate security risks and Australia’s failure

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 by Ian Dunlop , first published at Pearls and Irritations  “ Too hot to handle: The scorching reality of Australia’s climate–security failu...
03 May 2024

Climate-security risks too hot to handle for Australian Government

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  Register here for webinar. by David Spratt This week, the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group (ASLCG) released a new report, Too h...
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 ...