Climate Home: Australian lawmakers have been slammed as crying crocodile tears after giving the go-ahead for a mega-mine amid scientist warnings of record bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef.
The Queensland government granted leases on Sunday at the AUS $22 billion Carmichael mine, which aims to produce 60m tonnes of coal a year for shipment through the delicate, coral ecosystem to Asia.
In recent months, warm waters driven by a strong El Nino and man-made emissions have caused vast tracts of the 2,300-km...