Global Warming and Climate Change: What Australia knew and buried...then framed a new reality for the public

Abstract

Relevant to both Australian and overseas audiences, here is the untold story of how Australia buried its knowledge on climate change science and response options during the 1990s ” going from clarity to confusion and doubt after arguably leading the world in citizen understanding and a political will to act in the late 1980s. Preliminary pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; The legacy; Foreword: the hidden history of Australia's early response to climate change; 1. History is what we make it; 2. Loading the dice: humans as planetary force; 3. Framing information to influence what we hear; 4. What Australians knew 25 years ago; 5. Australians persuaded to doubt what they knew; 6. Influences on a changed story and the new normal 1990s: values and beliefs; 7. Influences on a changed story and the new normal: media locks in the new narrative. 8. Influences on a changed story and the new normal: scientists' beliefs and public scepticism9. In search of certainty and applying uncertainty; 10. Dicing with the climate: how many more throws?; A chronology of some major climate science/policy milestones; List of acronyms; Bibliography.