New research from the Australian National University challenges the claim emissions from Woodside’s $18.9 billion Scarborough gas project off WA’s coast will be “negligible”, while also directly quantifying a project’s climate impact for the first time.

The study, published in the npj Climate Action journal on Monday, also directly attributed nearly 0.0004 degrees of additional global warming to the project’s at least 31 years of emissions from 2026.

While the number may appear small, report lead author Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick said the consequences would be great.

The study pointed to an additional 516,000 people around the world exposed to unprecedented heat and hundreds of heat-related deaths in Europe by the end of the century.

It also claimed exposure to heat at the G

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