Australia slipping back in the packĭespite movement globally, Australian policy and debate appear stuck in a time warp. They are adopting more aggressive targets for developing renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. High-polluting countries such as the US and China are increasing efforts to confront climate change. Momentum for serious international action is building in the lead-up to the Paris Climate Conference in December. Since the 2013 election, a global renewal of prominent voices have urged action on climate change: from Naomi Klein’s bestseller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, to Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, to the call to adopt the Oslo Principles on Global Obligations to Reduce Climate Change.

Newman has claimed that the UN is using climate change as a vehicle for world domination. They include Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s chief business advisor, Maurice Newman.

The shift of recent years has been exacerbated and enabled by highly concentrated media ownership and conservative mainstream media that are broadly sympathetic to climate contrarians. Media coverage of Maurice Newman and other climate contrarians is generous by global standards.

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