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Debunked Australian Bushfire Conspiracy Theories Were Pushed by Alex Jones, Murdoch Media

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Read time: 3 mins As unusually intense and widespread bushfires have ravaged a drought-ridden Australia, bots and trolls have begun pushing climate science denial across the internet in the form of conspiracy theories about the fires. Tags: climate science denial conspiracy theories alex jones

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Australian Teens Bring Class Action Climate Lawsuit to Stop Coal Mine Expansion

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Filing a class action lawsuit in federal court , these students are representing not just themselves but young people under age 18 across Australia and around the world, as the generation that is particularly imperiled from the climate crisis and the continued fossil fuel expansion driving climate breakdown. .

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Australia's Decade of Burning Environmental Apathy

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Tags: australia wildfires climate science denial Tony Abbott scott morrison Malcolm turnbull This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

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Michael Mann: Australia, Your Country Is Burning – Dangerous Climate Change Is Here With You Now

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Prior to beginning my sabbatical stay in Sydney, I took the opportunity this holiday season to vacation in Australia with my family. Tags: Covering Climate Now Professor Michael Mann Australia australia wildfires climate change science It too is now threatened by climate change. I witnessed this firsthand.

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A Look at the Oil Industry’s Favorite Climate Solutions

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billion gas project in Australia. Tags: carbon capture natural gas carbon tax biofuels ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Imperial Oil Covering Climate Now Shell recently announced plans to “stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by 2050,” a move hailed by some as a major step towards addressing climate change.

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Adani Beware: Coal Is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable

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Read time: 6 mins By John Quiggin , The University of Queensland The announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months earlier, brings Australia into line with Europe where most major insurers have broken with coal.

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After a Decade of Fracking, Billions of Dollars Lost and a Climate in Crisis

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The new year started amid devastating wildfires, tied to the worst droughts Australia has experienced in hundreds of years , which encircled much of the continent. Tags: fracking extreme weather fracking finances climate impacts natural gas drilling So far, 29 people have been reported dead.