Will 2019 be the year Australia takes on its responsibilities in effective action on climate change?
Our Federal Government continues to fail to put into practice any meaningful policy on tackling climate change, apparently held hostage to the small group of right wing climate change deniers within the LNP.
This lack of policy direction demonstrates that these politicians care more about their personal survival in Canberra than the welfare of the nation. Not only does lack of policy make it extremely difficult for those wanting to invest in renewable energy, but it means that Australia will not meet its Paris Agreement targets.
Federal Government has not indicated that it accepts the scientific evidence collated by the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology that global heating is real and is caused by human based greenhouse gas emissions. To continue to ignore the evidence in the joint State of the Climate 2018 Report released in December, puts all species at serious risk from heat stress, bushfires, intense rainfall events and drought.
All of these happenings are also extremely costly to our economy, but still the Federal Government fiddles while Australia burns. 84% of the Australian population wants action on climate change and the politicians ignore this at their own (and our) peril.
We must refuse to accept the Government’s bland statements that we will meet the Paris Agreement targets, which is debatable, and demand more – http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/