Australia's Climate Reckoning: Intergenerational Report Ignored, Gas Policy Stalls, and a Record El Niño Looms

Experts have savaged the government's latest 40-year outlook for underplaying the economic damage of the climate crisis, with one academic calling it "negligent" to ignore the horizon's financial risks. The report labels global heating's impact as "highly uncertain," but critics point to Treasury modelling showing a $2 trillion hit by 2050 from a disorderly net-zero transition—a path we're currently on. The failure to integrate complex climate...