A former Australian defence official has spoken out about the political pressure she says she faced during her analysis of climate threats for the Department of Defence.Former defence official Cheryl Durrant says politics got in the way of effectively preparing for climate change
"And you certainly begin from a concept that we prepare for the potential for things to go really wrong." "Australia used to be a much-admired country for the leadership it was showing but in the last 20 years we've just dropped that bundle entirely," he said.Cheryl Durrant was the Department of Defence director of preparedness and mobilisation.
Ten-year-old Matisse Turner recalls the moment her parents woke her up in the night to flee the firestorm that was bearing down on the town.She still thinks about how her home looked before the bushfires. Ms Grieg, who has just moved into her newly built, energy-efficient home, said she was frustrated people were still so divided about climate change."We have the people who think climate change is rubbish and the people who think climate change is happening right now.
The Greenies Are Going After Our Military Now. Are We Going To Launch Solar Powered Missiles? Drop Zero Emission Bombs? Recycle Our Bullets? Use Wind Powered Submarines? This Is Just Embarrassing. We Are Following The US Down The Woke Plug-hole. Weak.
'Mr Taylor, the Minister for Emissions Reduction, told 7.30 that ...' Please, please, please , stop reporting comments from the Morrison Government without fact checking them. Just reporting comments isn't journalism, it's advertising.
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There’s another culture called, “asleep at the wheel”!
So, political unacceptability aside, we can accurately say that a surge in extreme climatechange disasters could and has overwhelmed our ADF 14 years ahead of predictions. Let that sink in Scomo