​Strewth it is getting hot! 2015 smashed the hottest year on record. The only way is up for Australia - it’s at the bottom of the global list for greenie goody two-shoes and the doomsday clock stays at three minutes to midnight - thanks in part to the Paris climate deal. I think that's good news. All that and more in the This Week in Climate Change. 

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

It’s hot. It’s cold. They’re talking climate change in the Alps. They’re talking climate change in the shifting sands of the Middle East. And Australia isn’t there to hear it! We hear it's boom time in renewables; climate change is getting riskier and, apparently we are starting a new epoch because we’ve mucked things up so badly. That’s This Week in Climate Change. ​

 ​A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

Climate change gets more than a fleeting mention in Obama's State of the Union address, next steps post-Paris for the UN, impacts of climate change on the middle class plus the latest economics on coal and solar (and a tiny bit of celebrity gossip!). 

We haven’t finished settling down after the Paris climate convention and already were in a high gear just a week into 2016. The Australian Government was decidedly unfestive over the festive season; it was hotter than ever in 2015; insurers paid out record amounts for storm damage and, ironically, climate change is causing power shortages.

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net