This comprehensive report and interactive database from our premier scientific and weather agencies should reset the climate debate in Australia. It shows how climate change is and will be slugging Australia,” said John Connor, CEO The Climate Institute. ..downright reckless the current Queensland government’s efforts to airbrush climate change from reports and actively remove sea level rise from planning instruments,”…large chunks of the Australian economy will be whacked by global warming. Under scenarios of un-, or part-checked pollution, sectors like agriculture, health, and ecosystems are hit well beyond their ability to adapt.”…shows starkly how deep pollution reductions and decarbonisation of the economy is squarely in Australia’s national interest—needs to be the guiding principle in the government’s decision this year on Australia’s post-2020 pollution reduction targets.”

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