{"id":1506,"date":"2014-11-12T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2014-11-12T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:25:53","slug":"g20-to-follow-the-long-tradition-of-climate-inaction-the-drum-australian-broadcasting-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"G20 to follow the long tradition of climate inaction &#8211; The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-11-12\/jericho-g20-to-follow-the-long-tradition-of-climate-inaction\/5882240\">G20 to follow the long tradition of climate inaction &#8211; The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><strong style=\"word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><em style=\"word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Discussing future economic growth and not mentioning climate change is like staging Hamlet and forgetting to mention that his father recently died. Greg Jericho previews the G20.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The G20 this week in Brisbane will discuss a number of topics. But one topic that won&#8217;t come up, due to Tony Abbott&#8217;s insistence that it not,\u00a0<a style=\"word-wrap: break-word; color: #0058cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/g20\/climate-change-hopes-for-g20-diminished-20141104-11grej.html\">is climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">This is nothing new; in fact, it is just another example of purposeful intransigence from climate change sceptics that has been going on now for over a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The 25th anniversary of the end of the\u00a0<a style=\"word-wrap: break-word; color: #0058cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-11-08\/25-years-since-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall\/5877218\">Berlin Wall<\/a>had me searching through my archives of news magazine from 1989. The adverts and articles within the pages of my old Time and Newsweek copies reminded me of how much the world has changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G20 to follow the long tradition of climate inaction &#8211; The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Discussing future economic growth and not mentioning climate change is like staging Hamlet and forgetting to mention that his father recently died. Greg Jericho previews the G20. The G20 this week in Brisbane will discuss a number of topics. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,240,344],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-economic-growth","tag-g20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}