The costs for climate (in) action

As the federal election approaches, debate over the climate policies of the major parties continues – along with a lot of misinformation over how to evaluate the relative merits and shortcomings of what each party is offering.

Flooded intersection of Eagle and Charlotte Streets, Brisbane floods 2011. 

With recent polling showing that the majority of Australians see climate change as the number one threat, we need to understand whether the climate policies pledged by the major parties would get Australia on track to meet its Paris commitments, and how these climate policies compare to what other countries are doing.

Read the Pursuit story from the University of Melbourne by Kate Dooley - “The costs for climate (in) action.”

The march of pseudoscience - in medicine, and climate conversations

Pseudoscience and misinformation has long plagued the climate change conversation.

Those who doubt the unequivocal and evidential science illustrating that humanity has disrupted earth’s climate system, continually turn to both pseudoscience and misinformation too support their views, either in the hope of stopping completely the conversation or at least derailing it sufficiently to allow profits from their undertakings to accrue before reality changes our behaviour.

Something similar has happened in medicine and Neuroscience PhD student Diana Lucia scientists discusses that on Radio National’s Ockham’s Razor.

She wonders whether science and the scientific method being replaced by the misinformation of pseudoscience, new-age therapies and quantum mysticism?

Diana has been trained to know that beliefs must be based on sufficient scientific evidence.

So, she argues, what place do courses in alternative medicine have in public Australian universities?

Listen to Ockham’s Razor on Radio National - “The march of pseudoscience.”