Articles by David Spratt
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COP28 a “Tragedy for the Planet” as Stockholm Syndrome Took Hold
David Spratt and Ian Dunlop | Pearls and Irritations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
19 Dec 2023 – Up to 100,000 people from climate-related politics, advocacy and business flew into Dubai for the UN COP28 climate policy-making event. And the result? An unmitigated disaster: unfair, inequitable “business as usual” that did not call for the phase-out of fossil fuels.
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Are Worst-Case Climate Scenarios Less Likely, as Media Reports of a New Scientific Paper Suggest?
David Spratt | Climate Code Red - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
28 Jul 2020 – Reading the media reporting of a new scientific paper released on 22 July, it was easy to get the impression that some “worse-case” climate warming possibilities are now off the agenda. “So this is good news?” a friend emailed. “No” was my answer. It would be a grave mistake, and an illustration of how media reporting can get complex climate stories wrong, to find good news in this research.
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