David Shearman

• Dr David Shearman is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Adelaide University and has previously held positions at Edinburgh and Yale Universities and hospitals.

  He is the author of several books relating to climate change, its scientific basis, consequences and its democratic solutions and has served on the IPCC for two reports.

   

  David has been president of the Conservation Council of South Australia. With the late Professor Tony McMichael, he founded Doctors for the Environment Australia in 2001 and was the Hon Secretary 2001- 2018.

   

  He is author and co-author of several hundred scientific and medical papers and writes frequently for the media.

Articles written by David Shearman (29)

• 17 April 2023 | Deteriorating health, housing and education upshot of inequality
• 28 October 2022 | Electric vehicle transition has huge health benefits
• 11 July 2022 | Cooking with gas: A gaslit toxic health hazard 
• 31 May 2022 | Better public health starts with effective climate policy
• 29 March 2022 | Climate crisis worsened by population and economic growth
• 23 February 2022 | HESTA's fossil fuel ties tarnish its reputation
• 16 February 2022 | UK Trade Agreement a climate disaster
• 30 September 2021 | Australia's approval of gas projects lighting climate change fires
• 15 July 2021 | The Coalition is sinking in the uncharted waters of the Murray Darling
• 8 December 2020 | How Rudd and Turnbull could activate climate change bipartisanship
• 28 August 2020 | Clean air is a human right our government chooses to ignore
• 28 July 2020 | New Hope's New Acland mine: No hope for health and environment
• 10 March 2020 | Coronavirus and climate emergency: An opportunity for the Coalition
• 25 February 2020 | Dangerous new coal virus rampant in Canberra
• 24 July 2019 | Adani arrest draws attention to Australia's global harm
• 11 July 2019 | UK and EU carbon neutrality will challenge Australian climate policy
• 19 June 2019 | Obligations to the world’s children in the climate emergency
• 3 May 2019 | The methane gas bomb — a climate emergency
• 4 April 2019 | Dump Brexit and work for the children
• 22 February 2019 | The Murray-Darling needs life support with expert team management
• 1 February 2019 | The economics of climate change
• 20 May 2018 | The Budget reply speech Bill Shorten should have given
• 10 April 2018 | The ACCC and Liddell: Just opinion and no facts
• 28 March 2018 | Government climate policy: Do Australians need to be protected from it?
• 12 September 2017 | AGL's Liddell power station and the Turnbull Government's 'clean coal' lies
• 25 July 2017 | COAG confirms States need to act alone as Coalition's climate failure continues
• 30 May 2017 | Does Queensland really want Adani's dirty, black lung inducing jobs?
• 3 April 2017 | Port Augusta, coal-fired power and the Xenophon deal
• 28 January 2017 | Victorian Government leads the way with healthy reform of the EPA