Green Left - AUSTRALIA: Climate emergency: birth of a new protest movement

The scientific consensus now is that climate change will progress in sudden, violent leaps that will go beyond our ability to stop it. As British writer Mark Lynas put it, “The end of the world is nigh, and it’s already been published in Nature”.

Fast forward to 2008. The vested interests that peddled climate change “scepticism” have now decided, in most cases, to acknowledge reality, but they are acting as though they can solve the problem at the pace of the market. The climate “sceptics” and denialists have fallen from grace in more official circles, but some, like the Melbourne Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt, have found a new role feeding soothing disinformation to all those who do not read Nature magazine.