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Nuclear and climate threats create ‘profoundly unstable’ world Robinson: climate inaction is ‘death sentence for humanity’ The risk of civil collapse from nuclear weapons and the climate crisis is at a record high, according to US scientists and former officials, calling the current environment “profoundly unstable”. Related: Trump’s impeachment lawyers ‘tending toward conspiracy theories’ says

Publication date: May 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 171 Author(s): Li-Jing Liu, Qiao-Mei Liang, Felix Creutzig, Hauke Ward, Kun Zhang Abstract The Chinese government aims to mitigate climate change while also reducing local air pollution; this requires co-control of greenhouse gases and pollutants. Here, we develop a method combining an elasticity analysis and a multi-regional

Prof Sandy Harrison tells the Liberal on his Facebook page that his misuse of her study should not go unchallenged A leading UK climate scientist has used the Facebook page of the MP Craig Kelly to correct his “blatant misrepresentation” of a study she co-authored on a 70,000-year history of bushfires in Australia. Kelly, a

Former US presidential candidate tells global elite that crisis is a ‘challenge to our moral imagination’ Former US vice-president Al Gore has tried to mobilise the global elite to fight the climate crisis by comparing it to some of history’s greatest battles, from Agincourt to Dunkirk. Gore told delegates at the World Economic Forum in

Exclusive: anti-Adani campaigners may protest bus company’s involvement in controversial mine, email tells workers The boss of the Australian bus company Greyhound has warned its workers they could be caught “in the crossfire” after signing a contract to help build the Adani coal project in Queensland. The email from the chief executive, Alex de Waal,