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Global freezing?

Climate politics as high farce

27 November 2021

9:00 AM

27 November 2021

9:00 AM

As delegates from the climate conference in Glasgow streamed home in mid-November, with the official start of the Australian summer just days away, Melburnians were freezing, there were floods in NSW and it was snowing in Tasmania.

This is not the climate hell of searing heat and empty dams scientists and activists have been forecasting for the past 30 years and more – the hell which the annual climate summit held in Glasgow was supposed to help the world avoid.

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