Health Professionals: Australian Government and Coal Plants

health professionals: There wouldn't be any information in a quantitative sense that I could provide at the moment, according to The Guardian. Labor opposes plan to indemnify new coal plants and warns it could cost billions Read more At the same time, in an open letter in the health journal the Lancet, 22 prominent scientists and health professionals have criticised the Australian government for dismissing the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's recent 1.5C report. This week the new Treasury secretary, Phil Gaetjens, told a Senate estimates hearing the department had done no modelling that compared the difference in economic impacts of 1.5C of warming and 2C. We do not do modelling on that, Gaetjens said. The Australian government's contemptuous dismissal of the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC including the panel's recommendation to dramatically reduce coal power by 2050, is unacceptable, the letter, published Thursday, states. The authors include Prof Fiona Stanley and Nobel laureates Peter Doherty and Tilman Ruff. Australian scientists and health professionals were dismayed at the government's ongoing stance to disregard the consensus of the world's leading climate scientists as well as any idea of duty of care regarding the future wellbeing of Australians and our immediate neighbours the letter said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.