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Australia's Climate Politics: A Satirical History
🔥 Convict Shirts — Editorial BURNTAUSTRALIA'S CLIMATE POLITICS A satirical history of a country that keeps getting warned, keeps watching it happen, and keeps electing the same argument all over again. We were warned. We watched it happen anyway. The Pattern, in Short Australia has one of the most direct, physical relationships with climate change of any developed nation — the fires, the floods, the heat records, all arriving on schedule, decades ahead of when the politics catches up. This isn't a series about melting ice caps somewhere else. It's... Read more...
What "Burnt" Actually Means (And Why We Named It That)
🔥 Convict Shirts — Editorial — Burnt Series WHAT "BURNT" ACTUALLY MEANSAND WHY WE NAMED IT THAT One word. Three meanings. All of them true at the same time, which is exactly the point. The Literal Meaning Australia burns. Bushland burns most summers, and in the bad years, whole regions burn. It's the most immediate, visible consequence of a hotter, drier climate, and it's the image most Australians associate with climate change before any statistic or policy debate. The Vernacular Meaning In Australian slang, to be "burnt" is to be... Read more...
Drought, Flood, Repeat: Australia's Climate Whiplash
🌧 Convict Shirts — Editorial — Burnt Series DROUGHT, FLOOD, REPEATAUSTRALIA'S CLIMATE WHIPLASH Record dry. Then record wet. Same regions, sometimes the same year. The pattern has a name, and it isn't bad luck. The Whiplash, Specifically Eastern Australia moved from the worst drought in living memory in 2019 to some of the worst flooding on record in 2022, in the same river catchments, within three years of each other. That's not a coincidence of unrelated weather events — it's what climate scientists describe as increased volatility, where a warmer... Read more...
The Insurance Crisis No One's Talking About
📄 Convict Shirts — Editorial — Burnt Series THE INSURANCE CRISISNO ONE'S TALKING ABOUT Climate change already has a price tag, and it arrives every year in the mail. It's called your home insurance renewal. The Quiet Part Flood, fire and cyclone-exposed areas across Australia have seen insurance premiums rise dramatically over the past decade — in some postcodes, doubling or tripling. Some properties have become effectively uninsurable at any price. This isn't a future risk being modelled by economists. It's a bill already landing in mailboxes, quietly, without a... Read more...
Coal, Politics and the Great Australian Contradiction
⛏ Convict Shirts — Editorial — Burnt Series COAL, POLITICS AND THEGREAT AUSTRALIAN CONTRADICTION A country that lives the consequences and exports the cause. The maths has never quite added up, and everyone in the room knows it. The Numbers, Briefly Australia is one of the world's largest coal exporters. It's also one of the countries most immediately exposed to the physical consequences of a warming climate — heatwaves, bushfire, drought, coastal erosion. Both of these things are true at the same time, and have been for decades, without either... Read more...
Why Australia Keeps Getting Hotter, Explained Simply
☀ Convict Shirts — Editorial — Burnt Series WHY AUSTRALIA KEEPSGETTING HOTTER No jargon. No modelling jargon. Just the plain version of why Australian summers keep breaking the records set the summer before. The Short Version Australia has warmed by roughly 1.5°C since national records began in 1910, and most of that warming has happened since 1950. That's the global trend, but it lands harder here — Australia is already hot, already dry, and already prone to extremes, so the same amount of global warming produces more dramatic local consequences... Read more...
The Black Summer Bushfires: A Timeline
🔥 Convict Shirts — Editorial — Burnt Series THE BLACK SUMMER BUSHFIRESA TIMELINE 2019 into 2020. Twenty-four million hectares. A summer that changed how Australia talks about fire, and how long it took anyone in power to say the word 'climate' out loud. How It Started By September 2019, fires were burning in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland — months earlier than the traditional fire season. Dry lightning, record low rainfall, and a decade of warming had left forests primed to burn. Firefighters called it early. The response,... Read more...
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