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Senator threatens climate body after nuclear 'carbon bomb' report (www.abc.net.au)

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Australia's peak climate body has published new modelling showing the Coalition's proposed nuclear pathway would result in an additional 2 billion tonnes of emissions in the atmosphere.

The analysis has sparked attacks from the Coalition on the credibility of Australia’s independent Climate Change Authority.

What's next?

The Climate Change Authority's chair Matt Kean said the current pathway of transitioning to renewable energy as quickly as possible was "the only viable option".

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The head of the CCA is literally a former NSW Liberal Party Treasurer, so I have my hopes that this story of partisan bias will be dismissed by any serious media (there's a lot of unserious media in our country, though).

The real danger to the independence of the CCA is politicians making threats against the Authority and its staff because they don't like its findings.

Ideally this sort of threat could be referred to the NACC, but they've shown themselves to be pretty pissweak so far.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Ideally this sort of threat could be referred to the NACC, but they've shown themselves to be pretty pissweak so far.

Which the Greens said it was... By design.