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Global Warming and Climate Change
What Australia knew and buried...then framed a new reality for the public
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eBook - PDF
Global Warming and Climate Change
What Australia knew and buried...then framed a new reality for the public
About this book
1988: coming to grips with a terrifying global experiment The Toronto conference statement made it clear that climate change would affect everyone. It called greenhouse gas atmospheric pollution an 'uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear war'. World governments we
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Table of contents
- Preliminary pages
- Acknowledgements
- The legacy
- Foreword: the hidden history of Australia’s early response to climate change
- 1. History is what we make it
- 2. Loading the dice: humans as planetary force
- 3. Framing information to influence what we hear
- 4. What Australians knew 25 years ago
- 5. Australians persuaded to doubt what they knew
- 6. Influences on a changed story and the new normal 1990s: values and beliefs
- 7. Influences on a changed story and the new normal: media locks in the new narrative
- 8. Influences on a changed story and the new normal: scientists’ beliefs and public scepticism
- 9. In search of certainty and applying uncertainty
- 10. Dicing with the climate: how many more throws?
- A chronology of some major climate science/policy milestones
- List of acronyms
- Bibliography
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