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It was a full page in the Australian Financial Review last week and included top names in both energy and climate science. The signatories are calling for the federal government to tax exporters of Australian natural gas with the proceeds to directed to science research including Australia’s developing fire crisis. We hear from one signatory, David Bowman, Professor of Fire Studies at the University of Tasmania.
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