Politicians might get the most airtime when it comes to climate change, but Australians would rather hear about it from weather presenters.
- Director, Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University
Because climate change is so heavily politicised, the declaration of a national emergency would be a disaster for the major parties – and for bringing greater awareness to the problem.
This time last year, Australia was getting over a media storm about renewables, energy policy and climate change. The media storm was caused by a physical storm: a mid-latitude cyclone that hit South Australia…
A recent Monash University study of TV weather presenters has found a strong interest from free-to-air presenters in including climate change information in their bulletins. The strongest trends in the…
As hurricanes terrorise large parts of the world, many are trying to make mileage out of their destruction.
The news last week that Australia’s oldest bank, Westpac, has withdrawn from any prospect of financing Adani’s Carmichael coal mine may well be the death knell for the controversial project. Westpac is…
Veteran environmental campaigner and former Greens senator Bob Brown has previously pointed to Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine as the new Franklin River of environmental protest in Australia. Yet…
Who would have thought that, scarcely five weeks after Treasurer Scott Morrison, paraded a chunk of coal in parliament, planning for Australia’s energy needs would be dominated by renewables, batteries…
This summer has seen a concerted attack on renewable energy coming out of Canberra, featuring everyone from One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts to Coalition ministers channelling the far right of their…
Whether it’s Clinton on Trump in the White House, progressive action on climate change in America - and therefore globally - is going to take a hit.
The mid-latitude cyclone with no name that hit South Australia last week, spawning two tornadoes and 80,000 electricity strikes, destroyed 22 massive transmission towers carrying electricity across the…
If polls are consistently showing that Australian voters want climate change on the election agenda, why are the leaders keeping so quiet about it?
It is the Great Barrier Reef that has drawn out the biggest campaign fight on climate.
As voters confront the physics of the floods, climate change becomes depoliticised.
It is looking ever-more likely that climate change is to be placed way down the order of business – at least for the major parties.
Companies in the fossil fuel business are coming up with ways to green their image - including sponsoring the Paris climate summit.
There is excitement for many at the Paris summit at the arrival of someone Naomi Klein called this week the grandfather of climate science. James Hansen, who is credited with sounding the first alarm on…
The first day of the Paris climate summit was a little different to past summits. For a start, the hosts decided to bring the leaders in as an opener rather than at the end. At first glance this decision…
Just over 100 years before the Paris climate summit, the Eiffel Tower was the site of modern globalisation’s defining moment. On July 1, 1913, the first wireless transmission of a time signal integrated…
With so much build-up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris, the pressure not to fail is as great as it has ever been. This conference of parties (COP) follows the…
In a recent piece for The Guardian, environmental journalist and activist George Monbiot lamented the poor state of environmental journalism globally. He points to the massive conflagration now occurring…
Bjorn Lomborg’s bid to find an Australian home has come to an abrupt end. The Turnbull government has withdrawn the promised A$4 million in funding that the former Abbott government committed to Lomborg’s…
Controversial campaigner for climate change trivialisation Bjorn Lomborg is getting closer to learning his fate in Australia.
After barely two weeks in office, the direction the Turnbull government is likely to take on climate is beginning to emerge. Remembering that Malcolm Turnbull would not have had the numbers for a spill…
The convulsive reaction to Friday’s failed security operation by the Australian Border Force (ABF) in Melbourne was almost as farcical as the event itself. Operation Fortitude had been announced in a press…
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