Bob Carr: Sydney is now experiencing air pollution that would have disposed of Sydney’s Olympic bid
How could we have asked athletes to heave in lungfuls of particulate pollution when merely walking in a park is a health risk? We would have been running harder than Cathy Freeman to persuade the IOC that while we now suffer savage fires in November, we should be safe in September.
Scientists are struggling with the last. How fast is the permafrost breaking up? How fatal are the gas releases? Australia's Cathy Freeman sits on the track after winning the women's 400m final at the Sydney Olympic Games.I recall arguments on climate with the late right-wing columnist Paddy McGuinness. It was not over data or research, about brittle coral or fire frequency. The thing most distasteful about this climate talk for him, as I think for John Howard or Tony Abbott, was that it was being championed by people on the left., a former Republican Congressman, capturing this sentiment.
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