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Wake up Australia

6/1/2017

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Peter Christoff, Associate Professor at Melbourne University, presents the case for Australia winding back coal exports in this chilling piece in The Conversation. What he points out is that while our position globally as a greenhouse gas emitter is bad enough, when we add in the amount of greenhouse that we are exporting via our coal exports we become the international heavyweight of climate vandals and with our big export markets implementing their own solutions and turning their backs on coal the planning for a phasing out of coal, not being done by us now, will be taken out of our hands.
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While 'Sandy' is fresh in our minds what madness is it that sees Queensland, itself struggling with reconstruction after their floods, developing huge new coal fields and building coal shipping terminals King Canute Newman blithely looks to the short term game and with a time horizon of two to three years doesn't show any interest in anything more nuanced.  There is nothing nuanced about climate tragedies but The Merchants of Doubt have figured out a long time ago how that game is played. 
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