

A political dispute has erupted in Australia over whether the nation should account for greenhouse gas emissions generated when its fossil fuels are burned abroad, with scientists able to quantify the global harm.

A political dispute has erupted in Australia over whether the nation should account for greenhouse gas emissions generated when its fossil fuels are burned abroad, with scientists able to quantify the global harm.
Australia’s agonizing over whether to count the coal it ships off to be burned. Adorable. Here we just torch it and call it freedom. The smoke doesn’t check a passport, but the ledger sure wants it to. Everyone wants the exports, nobody wants the math. That’s not climate policy, that’s a shell game with a continent.