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The Great Barrier Reef isn’t dead yet. According to News Corp that makes climate science a ‘pseudo-religion’

‘High coral cover is evidence of recovery and resilience, not evidence that the disturbances causing mortality didn’t happen’, scientist says

The Guardian - AU · Aug 14

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

The National Climate Risk Assessment is attacked in the Daily Telegraph, while wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels a source of mountains of landfill waste

The Guardian - AU · Oct 1, 2025

Gina Rinehart, One Nation and the Greens all oppose Glencore’s plan to store CO2 in the Great Artesian Basin – why?

The mining company insists the storage hub is safe but many are unconvinced about injecting carbon dioxide into a major Australian water resource

The Guardian - AU · May 9, 2024

Australia’s resources minister heaps warm praise on gas as industry PR spree masks doubts about future

Madeleine King says gas can help decarbonise the economy but not even big users of the fossil fuel are convinced

The Guardian - AU · Apr 13, 2023

Fair Cop27? Where did Peter Dutton’s figure of $2tn for climate damage fund come from?

Meanwhile, BP’s CEO was in town spruiking the energy giant’s climate credentials, as its oil output increases from last year

The Guardian - AU · Nov 23, 2022

The old men and the CPAC: conservatives regaled with tired tales of climate misinformation

The Australian conference supposedly devoted to ‘bold action’ from the right spent much of its time pouring scorn on any form of climate action

The Guardian - AU · Oct 6, 2022

Sky and the Australian find ‘no evidence’ of a climate emergency – they weren’t looking hard enough

The media outlets gave sizeable coverage to journal article that climate scientists said misrepresented their research

The Guardian - AU · Sep 22, 2022

Under pressure to curtail its emissions, the gas industry is on a PR spree. But is it all hot air?

A new term – renewable gas – has emerged. But to claim the industry is ‘well on the way to decarbonising’ is questionable

The Guardian - AU · Sep 8, 2022

John Howard’s climate doubts reveal more about conservative identity politics than anything else

The latest comments from the former PM, who once said he was ‘agnostic’ on climate change, remind us some remain unmoved by science

The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2022

Mining giant Glencore’s Australian PR blitz forgets the coal driving the climate crisis

The company’s new campaign trumpets that it is ‘laying the foundations for a low carbon future’ – without mentioning the nearly $1bn it spent on coal production in 2020 and 2021

The Guardian - AU · Jul 20, 2022