{"id":424666,"date":"2026-02-04T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424666"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:58:02","slug":"aussie-green-radicals-in-despair-at-media-ignoring-their-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424666","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Green Radicals in Despair at Media Ignoring Their Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, they still find space to blame President Trump withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a record 48.9\u00b0C summer. The media doesn\u2019t care, and there\u2019s a few reasons why<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>JEFF SPARROW<\/a>
FEB 2, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parts of Australia recorded their highest temperature of all time this month, while across the world, the crucial 1.5\u00b0C warming limit is sliding increasingly out of reach. But much of the media no longer cares.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In January 2021, it [media climate mentions] dropped back, with 2,050 references. It then continued to slowly decline: 1,779 in January 2022, 1,913 in 2023, 1,629 in 2024, and 1,600 in 2025. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But then came the COVID-19 pandemic \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The genocide in Gaza \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s surely the context for the media\u2019s declining attention to climate. This week, the US finished its withdrawal<\/a> from the Paris Climate Agreement \u2026 political and media insiders feel less pressure than ever to discuss climate: a topic increasingly off the global agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the day, many scientists thought the reality of a warming planet would be enough to force a response. That\u2019s clearly not the case. Without a renewed movement for climate action, the temperature records will continue to fall \u2013and nothing whatsoever will follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the author<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Sparrow<\/a>
Contributor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a former columnist for\u00a0Guardian Australia<\/em>, a former\u00a0Breakfaster<\/em>\u00a0at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of\u00a0Overland<\/em>\u00a0literary journal. His books include\u00a0Provocations: New and Selected Writing<\/em>,\u00a0Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating<\/em>,\u00a0Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre<\/em>,\u00a0Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right<\/em>,\u00a0No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson<\/em>\u00a0and several others titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2026\/02\/02\/climate-change-heatwave-summer-media-coverage-global-warming\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As usual greens are blaming everyone and everything but themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real reason the green agenda is collapsing is nothing bad has happened. Hitting 1.5C without any climate disasters caused a critical loss of credibility for the green movement. Their pathetic flailing about claiming the climate disaster is here, trying to redefine Australia\u2019s beach weather Summer as a climate catastrophe, or talk up the January US snow storm, it’s like a comedy horror story reveal where the terrifying monster turns out to be a mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yale 360: We Briefly Crossed 1.5C But We Still Have Time to Reverse Climate Change<\/a><\/blockquote>