Tag: climate collapse
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Climate risks are rising, but are we doing enough to respond?
Nhi Nguyen It isn’t hard to notice the extreme weather changes in recent times. Here, in Brisbane, we recently experienced heavy downpours of rain and hail, followed by scorching heat close to 40 degree the day after in October. Between 2006 and 2017, heatwaves were responsible for about 36,000 deaths…
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Does anyone really believe we are going to avert a climate catastrophe?
Peter Sainsbury It might be easy, even for someone who follows the scientific evidence about climate change, to think that we are on track to avert a climate disaster. The world’s nations agreed in 2015 to limit global warming to well under 2oC, didn’t they!?? Sources of renewable energy…