The thing I’ve found most fascinating about the responses to the Treasury’s ETS modelling released yesterday is how, all of a sudden, a pile of big coal’s biggest fans are agreeing with us that coal with geosequestration isn’t going to come cheap! Malcolm Turnbull, for example, told the media yesterday that “The cost of carbon [...]
READ MOREOctober, 2008
State of the planet: global warming goes… global
What’s hot today in green news. Humans: will they ever get it? Voting Americans are concerned about climate change, yes, but they’re WAY more worried about energy prices. A broad range of opinion surveys conducted in the final months of the 2008 campaign “reaffirm that economic issues — particularly the high cost of energy — [...]
READ MOREState of the Planet — 30/10/2008
Each day Crikey publishes a collection of links to stories about the environment which catch our eye. From today, State of the Planet, as readers of the Crikey daily email will know it, will be published here too. Hope ya dig. Kevin Rudd is firm on carbon cut plan. The Rudd Government will press ahead [...]
READ MOREAn ETS will give you brain cancer, send you broke, and kill your firstborn. Still want one?
Consider this question put to respondents in the latest Oz Newspoll on where an Emissions Trading Scheme stands in the public’s mind in the wake of the global financial meltdown: Under a carbon pollution reduction scheme, the price of energy sources, such as petrol, electricity and gas may become more expensive. Do you think the [...]
READ MOREGuest post: The Institute for Sensible Transport
Eliot Fishman is the Director of the Institute for Sensible Transport, an independent think-tank providing strategic advice on transport and oil vulnerability. Rooted asked Eliot to share his thoughts on Rudd’s infrastructure agenda and what it means for climate and getting around our cities. As the global economic meltdown slows Australia’s commodity led economy, the [...]
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Murray Darling Water Buyback & SE QLD Water Grid the way forward in combating Climate Change – Not an ETS.
Gary Johns is a former minister in the Keating Labor government. In a terrific piece in todays Australian Newspaper he says that the Emissions Trading Scheme will require Australians to pay for something that will have zero impact on climate change. “THE one certainty of climate change (anthropogenic or not) is that it is unstoppable. [...]
READ MORELike paying someone to be a prick
Under the proposed emissions trading scheme, some of Australia’s most polluting companies stand to receive massive public handouts. It’s a essentially a form of corporate welfare – and the figures are quite staggering as I wrote in my posting earlier this week. These are the same companies that have been lobbying against climate action for [...]
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Violence and extinction in Tasmania’s forests
The last three days have been quite a revelation of exactly what’s going on in Tasmania’s forests. Regardless of the rhetoric of sensitive management of the forests, the real story is one of wantonly sending species towards extinction and viciously attacking those brave souls who stand up for protection. On Monday, Bob Brown launched a [...]
READ MOREPaying the polluters
The idea that polluting businesses should be given compensation based on their historic pollution is a curious one. Well, curious is a generous word for it. The Australian Conservation Foundation released a report this week which showed that, based on the model outlined in the federal Government’s Greenpaper on emissions trading, Australia’s biggest polluters would [...]
READ MOREGuest post: Fergus Hanson from the Lowy Institute
Rooted invited Fergus Hanson, Research Associate at the Lowy Institute, to unpack the surprising findings on climate change from its 2008 Poll. It can sometimes be hard to interpret Australian attitudes towards climate change. Lowy Institute polling over the years suggested most Australians are very concerned about it and want action. The ALP seemed to [...]
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