‘It’s a tragedy,’ Clive Hamilton says of Turnbull’s climate transformation

Professor David Karoly, left, and Professor Clive
Hamilton during happier times at the Climate
Change Authority in 2012. 

Clive Hamilton has been at the pointy end of public discourse on climate change for more than 20 years.

Among lots of other things, he’s written challenging books on the science, founded a progressive thinktank and had a failed crack at being an MP for the Greens.

He got his Order of Australia medal for his contributions on climate and sustainability almost eight years ago. His book Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change is now a decade old.

In 2012, Hamilton was appointed to the Australian government’s Climate Change Authority (CCA) – a body charged with making recommendations to government on climate policy in line with the science.

Read Graham Readfearn’s story in The Guardian - “‘It’s a tragedy,’ Clive Hamilton says of Turnbull’s climate transformation.”