Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia
by Joelle Gergis
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What does climate change in Australia really look like?What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles?Sunburnt Country pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It uncovers a continent long show more vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It gives an unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been with us for millions of years, and what climate change looks like in our own backyard. show lessTags
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noellib Sunburnt Country by Joelle Gergis nails the climate crisis, particularly as faced by Australia, from the expert climate science point of view.Naomi Klein, in "This changes everything" and her latest work "On Fire", goes deep into the politico-economic causes of the world's leaders' failure to act on this crisis - and suggests practical ways to combat this inactivity.
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Australia, though a smallish country in population, plays a key role in the current climate change crisis due to:
Its very high rate of carbon emissions per capita, ranking it 13th in the world for overall emissions, its continuing reliance on massive coal exports (and plans to expand them), its vulnerability as a dry, "sunburnt" country, and not least the obstinate refusal of both the major governing political parties to make Australia a responsible global citizen and take action to reduce emissions. Joelle Gergis eloquently describes the background to this scenario by a scientific analysis of the impact on Australia of climate change - but also argues passionately for government to listen to the scientists and act now to avoid show more contributing further to a hellish deterioration of the global ecology. show less
Its very high rate of carbon emissions per capita, ranking it 13th in the world for overall emissions, its continuing reliance on massive coal exports (and plans to expand them), its vulnerability as a dry, "sunburnt" country, and not least the obstinate refusal of both the major governing political parties to make Australia a responsible global citizen and take action to reduce emissions. Joelle Gergis eloquently describes the background to this scenario by a scientific analysis of the impact on Australia of climate change - but also argues passionately for government to listen to the scientists and act now to avoid show more contributing further to a hellish deterioration of the global ecology. show less
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