Michael Mann is in Australia to give keynote address at a gathering of financiers who are contemplating the risks their businesses face from a worsening climate crisis.

Dr Mann is attached to the American Penn State University and repeatedly warned the world about the dangers of unmitigated climate change.

The idea that the council from the City of Greater Shepparton was raised and discussed in an article in the Shepparton News with one of the trio of activists, John Pettigrew (pictured) articulating their concerns.

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