Article 786DT Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air

Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air

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Adam Morton
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Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo

A giant chunk of glacier-covered mountain has collapsed with catastrophic effect and, whatever the mechanics of the disaster in Nepal's Langtang national park, this is what human-caused climate crisis looks like. The likelihood of it happening again will rise as temperatures increase and the ice within rock and soil formations melts.

Anthony Albanese was in Palau for the Pacific Islands Forum, speaking with the leaders of countries that could lose some or all of their homelands this century due to sea-level rise driven by emissions from burning fossil fuels.

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