Trump's Paris climate withdrawal changes everything - and nothing
We live in times of extraordinary and abrupt change, not just in the climate.
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Adam Morton
Senior Writer
What's really going wrong with electricity?
The extreme weather conditions and 80,000 lightning strikes that thrust South Australia into darkness last week was extraordinary enough; the disingenuous debate it sparked about Australia's changing energy system has been something else again.
Why democracy won in the Senate, whoever you support
Malcolm Turnbull likes to quote a John Howard maxim: that politics is relentlessly driven by the laws of arithmetic. It's usually pretty hard to argue with, given the relentlessly faithless way parliamentarians tend to respond to bad polling data.
The bizarre self-harm that suggests CSIRO has lost its way
The treatment of John Church should prompt questions for the Turnbull government.
Beyond the US-China climate deal
Here's the first thing you need to know about the climate change agreement that the US and China sprung on the world last week: ignore the numbers.