Some think the point of politics is to explain why necessary and right things cannot be done.

Others envision a better world and work and push for it to happen.

'Michael Mann: “Defeatism is as much of a threat as climate denial” by @MeganEKenyon for The The New Statesman (UK): newstatesman.com/spotlight/sust…

Can someone please explain how more greenhouse gas pollution from Australia could reduce greenhouse gas pollution from Australia?

Cognitive dissonance - how can more fossil fuels reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Corals at Lord Howe Island World Heritage Area have been bleaching and dying over a broad depth range since late February, due to record sea temperatures and extreme levels accumulated heat stress.

This is anthropogenic heating, not a natural event.

the xdenburg You wouldn’t want to do Ministers out of jobs would you?

“Every single resources minister in Coalition and Labor governments since 2001 has gone to work in the fossil fuel sector.” australiainstitute.org.au/post/removing-…

📺 Tune in as Polly Hemming joins ABC News at 9.20am to discuss the govt's Future Gas Strategy.

Watch live: abc.net.au/news/newschann… #auspol #climate

For the IPCC junkies out there...

We have 10 articles on improving the IPCC in our npj Climate Action Special Collection.

Get reading: nature.com/collections/gf…

Tingle on govt signalling no barriers to LNG export expansion

'most egregious and dishonest bit of parochial toadying we have seen from this govt... undoing a lot of political work persuading voters that it was more serious about climate'

abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…

I'd make this the lead story in every paper and newscast on the planet.
If we don't understand the depth of the climate crisis, we will not act in time.
theguardian.com/environment/ar…

'It’s tiresome to keep having this conversation, but carbon capture and storage is a massive failure'

Ebony Bennett unpicks how a technology that 'only works in glossy brochures' is greenwashing the Future Gas Strategy. Canberra Times #auspol

canberratimes.com.au/story/8624221/…