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Australia can prosper by fighting climate change
Ross Garnaut | November 12, 2019If Australia is to realise its immense opportunity in a zero-carbon world, it will need a different policy framework. We can make a strong start even with the incomplete and weak policies and commitments we have today.
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Climate threatens Australia’s national security
Chris Barrie | October 10, 2019Climate change is already posing significant challenges to governance, our institutions and the fabric of our societies. It’s time we recognise the potential threats to security in our region as well.
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Hot Aussie summers are driven by a weak Antarctic jet stream
Open Forum | October 9, 2019Extremely hot and dry summers in Australia could be down to more than just El Nino, with Aussie scientists showing that an Antarctic jet stream, known as the Antarctic polar vortex, is driving these conditions across eastern Australia from spring to early summer.
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Morrison’s New York climate no-show
Matt McDonald | September 21, 2019Despite being in the United States, and the massive climate protests on Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison won’t be going to the UN Climate Action Summit in New York next week.
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Australia on the rocks in the Pacific
Kevin Rudd | September 12, 2019Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd argues that Australia’s inactivity on climate change is damaging our ability to ‘Step Up’ regional engagement in the Pacific and counter the growing influence of China.
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Parramatta study reveals ways to reduce city temperatures by 2°C
Fran Strachan | August 31, 2019Cooling strategies, such as increased greenery and shading and the installation of water features, can help mitigate urban heat.
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Climate, coal and kinship in Australia-Pacific relations
Katerina Teaiwa | August 27, 2019Australia’s efforts at developing a positive relationship with the Pacific Islands appear to be shadowed by Australia’s continued reliance on coal, which has greatly angered Pacific leaders.
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Climate change drives global political and religious strife
Alan Stevenson | August 12, 2019Based on information obtained from National Centre for Climate Restoration in Melbourne, Alan Stevenson outlines the threat which climate change poses to vulnerable nations around the world, and its role as a catalyst in terrorism and political instability.
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Land clearing is a major cause of climate change
Mark Howden | August 10, 2019Tackling the interlinked problems of land degradation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and food security can deliver win-wins for farmers, communities, governments, and ecosystems.
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Protecting the future from the past, not the past from the future
Ian Dunlop | August 6, 2019Human-induced climate change poses an existential threat to civilization that will render current political priorities irrelevant but our leaders still ignore the need for urgent action.
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Youtube offers a diet of nonsense on climate change
Open Forum | August 3, 2019Most YouTube videos on climate change prevention and geo-engineering are at odds with the scientific consensus and hijack technical terms to appear credible.
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Future proofing our health system one young doctor at a time
Georgia Behrens | July 17, 2019The effects of climate change on people’s health will pose a new challenge to the next generation of doctors.