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Very excited that a paper I co-wrote with awesome researchers @TanyaFiedler@sarahinscience Andy Pitman, Nick Wood, Christian Jakob was accepted by Nature Climate Change and... IT IS HERE. Some threads to follow.
Kate Mackenzie
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Writer/researcher on finance, econ + climate also @[email protected] Haunts include @centrepolicydev@climate@polycrisis@phenomenalworld ex @FT
- I sometimes struggle to describe the Australian media landscape to people who’ve never lived here...now I can just show them this.
- Ok here is the best headline about the 1.5C climate report:
- Welcome to Australia, where the “energy & emissions reduction” minister is shouting on national radio that we can produce zero emissions energy from coal and gas.
- This is absolutely staggering. The most cited coral reef research centre in the world is not having its funding renewed.
- Um wow. Basically every big deal US economist signed letter calling for carbon tax. Yellen, Bernanke, Greenspan, Volcker - also Summers, Mankiw....27 Nobel laureates, 15 former Ec Council chairs.
- If you only learn one thing about climate change from all these northern hemisphere extreme heat incidents: 2C of warming doesn’t mean “like now, but 2C warmer”.
- Amazing how quickly the possibility of profit-driven inflation went from ludicrous to established.
- Replying to @kmacIn fact this one is better as (c) shows change in variance.
- Private equity, which helped drive the fracking boom, is now exiting just as quickly as it entered. "Everyone is getting into renewables... It's just a smarter long-term play." axios.com/private-equity…
- One of the most interesting pieces I've read in the past few months, keep referring to it to people:
- I honestly think that for many smart people climate change is still just another topic, another issue, another thing to play clever contrarian games with. After all we've seen and learned.
- Just incredible that misinformation deemed too bad for *youtube* is beamed into Australian householdsBreaking: Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation theguardian.com/media/2021/aug…
- Vietnam went from almost no solar in 2017 to more than Australia by end of 2019. economist.com/asia/2020/01/2…
