Fallout from Woodside’s birthday bash shows Australia is far from united in climate fight | Temperature Check
by Graham Readfearn from Environment | The Guardian on (#6PZEV)
WA newspaper throws tantrum and Tony Abbott blames climate cult' after prime minister misses fossil fuel company's party
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If we are looking for something to illustrate Australia's inability to have any coherent and sustained response to the climate crisis over the past couple of decades, we can find it in the reaction to the fossil fuel giant Woodside's 70th birthday dinner.
That reaction being a little bit of climate science denial, plus some political patronage and big servings of fossil fuel cheerleading barely disguised as journalism.
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