Climate change costings that don't count the cost of inaction are worthless

Just seven months ago the United Nations told the world that we have 12 years to limit the climate change catastrophe. It means that to keep global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels we need to cut carbon pollution by 45% by 2030 and down to zero by 2050. Twelve years. Actually scratch that – now it is 11 years.

A protester dressed as prime minister
Scott Morrison in Cronulla on Friday.

Now ask yourself how often that has been raised during this election campaign?

At the time a co-chair of the IPCC working group on impacts of climate change said: “It’s a line in the sand and what it says to our species is that this is the moment and we must act now. This is the largest clarion bell from the science community and I hope it mobilises people and dents the mood of complacency.”

Read the story from The Guardian by Greg Jericho - “Climate change costings that don't count the cost of inaction are worthless.”