The Labor party has manufactured a widespread delusion that climate action can be left to later. What will it take to break through the fog of denial?
Labor’s Safeguard policy is a mirror image of fossil industry greenwashing
Every trick that features in the climate plans of the planet’s worst emitters features in the Safeguard Mechanism.Â
Labor isn’t rising to the climate occasion – their own projections prove it
The Labor government wants to keep climate a quiet issue. But their latest projections show how dire the situation is.
New coal and gas projects will erase Albo’s climate gains several times over
Australia’s massive pipeline for new coal and gas projects will cause more emissions than avoided by Labor’s climate policies. This is very bad.
Labor won’t act urgently on climate unless it’s forced to
Labor should be aiming at emissions cuts of 70 to 80% by 2030. There is no shortage of feasible, detailed and immediately beneficial policies to do this. But they won’t.
A rudderless Coalition could find destructive purpose in energy and climate crisis
Thanks to an election campaign that ignored energy prices, the stage is set for the Coalition to blame Labor for the mess it created.
The real climate wars are only just getting started
What are the climate wars? There has been bipartisan agreement to not act sufficiently on climate between major parties. They’re at peace. We are not.
The political and media establishment ignored climate – but voters didn’t
Media outlets and big political parties ignored climate change. Will they recognise their mistake, as the issue gets bigger for voters?
How the Coalition’s deflated electricity scare campaign was (probably) confected
Remember News Corp’s big climate scare campaign from a few weeks ago? Turns out there was never any modelling behind it – just a clumsy guess.
The media needs to get better at interrogating hydrogen
Most media coverage of a big new brown coal hydrogen project greenwashed the news and talked up CCS. An accident on Morrison’s website shows us why.