Barnaby backs coal unless Australians want nuclear power supply

Barnaby Joyce has called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) recommendation to phase out coal by 2050 as “wrong and ridiculous”, while once again suggesting Australians need to look at nuclear power.

 Grasp the mettle: Barnaby Joyce said that if Australia
wants zero admission then nuclear power is the obvious
solution following the IPCC report.

Last weekend the IPCC, the world’s foremost panel on climate change, issued a report stating global greenhouse gas emissions must reach zero by 2050 in order to stop global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The authors warned that if warming was allowed to reach 2C, the world would risk hitting "tipping points", setting a course towards uncontrollable temperatures, as well as the complete destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, and devastating rises in sea levels.

Read the story by Chris Bath from The Northern Daily Leader - “Barnaby backs coal unless Australians want nuclear power supply.”

(Challenged over the safety and legitimacy of Roundup (and its active ingredient glyphosate) the coalition government rushed to the shelter of science, but now when that same science tells them that unless they make significant changes to nearly all of society’s behaviours to avoid catastrophic climate change, that it is “wrong and ridiculous”. It’s Barnaby Joyce who is wrong and ridiculous - Robert McLean)

Leaked final government draft of UN 1.5C climate report – annotated

What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C?

The UN's climate science panel has produced a new
draft report on the impacts of 1.5C of warming. 

The 2015 Paris climate deal outlined two distinct goals:

Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, recognising that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.

At the Paris conference, governments also charged the UN’s climate science panel, the IPCC, with producing a report that assessed the difference between these two goals would be, in terms of impacts on human life, the economy and the global environment. That report is due to be published in October.

Read the Climate Home story - “Leaked final government draft of UN 1.5C climate report – annotated.”