Unite to fight terrible climate change future

By Dr Lawrie Wilson
November 29 2015 - 9:00am
VIEWPOINT: When Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt speaks at the Paris Climate Talks on Wednesday he is expected to assert that keeping global warming below two degrees is a “deeply personal goal”, that climate change inaction is “not an option”, and that “climate change is not a matter of belief but a matter of science”.
VIEWPOINT: When Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt speaks at the Paris Climate Talks on Wednesday he is expected to assert that keeping global warming below two degrees is a “deeply personal goal”, that climate change inaction is “not an option”, and that “climate change is not a matter of belief but a matter of science”.

What’s the fuss in Paris – about two degrees? At the December climate change talks in Paris there will be a spectrum of agendas; ranging from the “We desperately need to do nothing”, headed by Australia, to the “We desperately need the world to end fossil fuel emissions”, from the low-lying oceanic island nations.

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