Australia’s climate risk assessment prompts deluge of misinformation from the usual suspects

Have you read all the way through Australia’s first national climate risk assessment yet and scoured the many technical reports published to back it up?

Of course you haven’t.

The main report is 280 pages long and has about 20 reports underpinning it, several of which span more than 100 pages.

The process had input from more than 250 experts and generated more than 15 new national datasets.

But the thrust of the report’s content is pretty crystal clear – climate change is already affecting all aspects of Australia – from its economy to its communities – and as temperatures rise, so will the problems they generate. This is definitely not news.

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Deluge of misinformation

But along with a deluge of information in the report – some old and some new – has co