Australia has changed its historic data on carbon emissions: what happened?

Exclusive: Labor accuses Scott Morrison of using adjustments to Australia's soil carbon data as an excuse not to act on climate changeAustralia's official greenhouse gas records have been adjusted such that emissions are now significantly higher than previously believed for the years when Labor was in power, and no longer rise each year since the Coalition repealed the carbon price.The revisions, made clear in data published during the recent UN climate conference in Madrid, have allowed Scott Morrison to start claiming that emissions are now lower than when the Coalition was elected in 2013 and in any year when Labor was last in government. Continue reading...