Climate Department Concedes Difficulty in Measuring Long Term ‘Health Risks’ From Climate Change

A Senate Committee is investigating how lawmakers could mitigate ‘climate change health risks’ from future mining projects.

Climate change protestors are seen marching in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 6, 2021. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

Australia’s Climate Change Department has conceded that trying to measure the exact long-term harms individuals may suffer from climate change policy is difficult.

During a Senate Committee hearing into a possible amendment to the Climate Change Act 2022, Labor Senator Karen Grogan probed witnesses throughout the day on what practical methods could be used to measure the health impacts of warming global temperatures.