'We're not going anywhere' - CCA dissenters

David Karoly (left) and Clive Hamilton
have refused to endorse 
the Climate Change Authority’s report. 

Despite its brevity, the dissenting report from two members of the government’s supposedly independent Climate Change Authority has landed with a dull and uncompromising thud.

Last week the CCA published its report advising the government what it should and shouldn’t do in the wake of the Paris climate agreement. In short, the report recommended the government keep the chief pillars of its current policies, but make a few tweaks here and there.

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But it emerged that two members of the 10-strong authority would not be endorsing the report, namely Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University, and David Karoly, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Now Hamilton and Karoly have published their dissenting report, which has already been dismissed by the energy and environment minister, Josh Frydenberg.

Read Graham Readfearn’s story on The Guardian -“'We’re not going anywhere,' say Climate Change Authority dissenters.”