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David Spratt

David Spratt is research director for the Melbourne-based Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration and coauthor of the book Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action (Scribe, 2008). He published “What Lies Beneath: The Underestimation of Existential Climate Risk” with Ian Dunlop in 2018.

 


Articles by David Spratt

The stark choice facing climate conference: A livable climate or more oil and gas?

By David Spratt | Climate Change
Earth dice climate gamble

Betting against worst-case climate scenarios is risky business

By David Spratt | Climate Change
Melt ponds on top of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, two researchers

Faster than forecast, climate impacts trigger tipping points in the Earth system

By David Spratt | Climate Change
burnt-out car and scorched land

On a hotter planet, we are all Australians

By David Spratt | Climate Change
The Greenland Ice Sheet was melting already in 2009

Revisiting the climate collapse: The view from Nuuk in the year 2070

By David Spratt | Climate Change, Doomsday Clock