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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Graham Readfearn

News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction

The energy and climate change minister, Chris Bowen, and the assistant minister for climate change, Josh Wilson, discuss the National Climate Risk Assessment
The energy and climate change minister, Chris Bowen, right, and the assistant minister for climate change, Josh Wilson, discuss the National Climate Risk Assessment. Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA

On the front page of the Daily Telegraph, Australia’s first comprehensive assessment of the risks from climate change became “SCIENCE FICTION”.

In other leading stories, wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels were a source of mountains of landfill waste.

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