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Prof Colin Butler

Climate change and health: a risk multiplier that Australia keeps fuelling

Finkel, JCSMR. ANU, June 24, 2015

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Dr Maurice Kingb.1927

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Prof Henry Kendall1926-1999

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Prof AJ (Tony) McMichael1942-2014

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Prof AJ (Tony) McMichael1942-2014

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Damascus, 2014. Line for food aid from UN Relief and Works Agency in a great city - large parts of which have been destroyed by civil war, along with basic food supply infrastructure

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Damascus, 2014. Line for food aid from UN Relief and Works Agency in a great city - large parts of which have been destroyed by civil war, along with basic food supply infrastructure

PNAS2015

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http://www.africaprogresspanel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/APP_REPORT_2015_FINAL_low1.pdf

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Prof Mike Raupach1950-2015

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If Australia doesn’t accelerate its transition to clean energy we could end up like Argentina – a country in

decline, that rivalled Australia a century ago

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Climate change: a great risk multiplier

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Climate change: a great risk multiplier

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Climate change: a great risk multiplier

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Climate change: a great risk multiplier

Might Australia be spared an Argentinian fait by a Chinese takeover? Or – if we have 4 degrees of warming – even Chinese discipline & its respect for science won’t be enough

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References

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