The week before the election was called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its third and final report on the IPCC’s review of climate science, detailing the likelihood of temperatures rising 1.5C (almost certainly) and 2C above pre-industrial levels. It was pretty shocking reading; and it has been completely ignored during the campaign.
On Tuesday it seemed finally climate change was going to appear in the election campaign. Alas, as Adam Morton noted, it was an appearance characterised by fear and numbers plucked from nowhere – too often seen in Australia these past 20 years.
