With swathes of New South Wales still smouldering and temperature records tumbling all over the world, Malcolm Turnbull is losing his grip on the prime ministership, partly because of his inability to land a very modest emissions policy. His is the latest failure in a decade-long story of broken climate policy in Australia.
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| A real fire in southern New South Wales - not to be confused with the metaphorical one in the halls of Canberra. |
Like most voters, scientists are tired of these political games when clearly so much more is on the line.
That’s because what is happening now with extreme weather events and longer fire seasons is exactly what we forecast a decade ago. This isn’t breaking news. In fact, the science around the role of climate change in extreme temperatures is so solid that the editors of the world-leading Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society have discouraged scientists from researching extreme temperatures in its annual extreme events issue.
Read the piece from The Conversation - “Australia burns while politicians fiddle with the leadership.”
(Listen to the interview with Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick on the podcast “Climate Conservations”)
