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2 October 2023, The Conversation: Too hard basket: why climate change is defeating our political system. When I was first asked to write an opening piece in The Conversation’s series on climate change and the energy transition, I wanted to say … Continue reading →

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1 September 2023, The New Daily: What is Albanese hiding? Maybe it’s the experts’ vision of the climate hell ahead. A good way to scare people is to suggest your chief security body has written something so frightening that you can’t possibly … Continue reading →

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25 January 2021, Renew Economy, One year after “Black Summer” bushfire crisis, media misinformation still burns. During Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis, misinformation raged alongside the flames. Large media outlets pushed the line that the sheer intensity of the crisis could be explained by a sudden surge in arson attacks, using an inflated number that simply kept growing in size. This falsehood was presented as a counter to the widespread assumption that climate change had played a major role in making that bushfire season so wildly catastrophic and unusual. That misinformation was eventually firmly debunked. About 0.09% of the fires in New South Wales were found to be deliberately lit, and all of these were minor spot fires, found the NSW Royal Commission report, and the federal equivalent firmly pins climate change as a major cause. Much of the initial misinformation was driven by 7 News Australia, first with a post claiming the following: Read more here

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31 January 2020, The Conversation, Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous. In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking what he called a “zero-tolerance” … Continue reading →

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