“Right now, the Earth’s average surface temperature is hotter than it’s been in thousands of years; potentially even longer.” There’s nothing else to say. Well, there is - Sydney Harbour and Port Phillip Bay are turning into warm baths!

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

​History was made last week in climate science - for all of the wrong reasons; climate change to cause massive food shortages and more rain; China starts giving up smoking; and the Liberal Party in Australia wants an inquiry into climate change to see if it is real. Yup. All that and more in This Week in Climate Change.

And the winner is…….. the envelope please…… climate change! The wolf of Wall Street is the darling of climate crisis awareness; China fast tracking coal emission reductions; Australian banks continue their addiction to fossil fuel assets and, South Africa battles through its worst drought in a century.

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

Outrage over the Australian government’s cuts to climate change research grows…. so it funds multi million dollar research into innovation in oil, gas, coal and uranium; Australian energy companies looking for the exit; and Al Gore thumps the table in Vancouver and it can be heard all around the world.

Air pollution causing many millions of premature deaths every year - and it's worse in India and China; international outrage continues over the cuts at the CSIRO; South Australia told to shelve nuclear power and Fiji becomes the first government to act on climate post Paris - 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

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

When all else fails - shoot the messenger - in this case over 300 of Australia’s top scientists, researchers and support staff; don’t worry, we do have the world minister of the year looking after us and, the damage done by 250 years of fossil fuel use could last 10,000 years - yes, ten thousand - all that and more in 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

In Paris two months ago, Australia joined the ‘coalition of the ambitious’. Two months on it seems Australia is not so ambitious any more. Disease lurks - climate change and mozzies - yes, there’s a link. Coal mines are rapidly becoming the black white TV’s of this generation and I have found a way to get Leonardo DiCaprio and the Pope in one paragraph. All that in This Week in Climate Change.

​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