Today, I read the tragic announcement that Australia’s only commercial-scale solar plant will shut in March, axing about 200 jobs.
The solutions for the global financial crisis and the global climate crisis could coincide in Australia, with Kevin Rudd’s recent announcement of $187 to create an additional 56,000 training places this year. This presents an [...]
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is convinced the science on man made global warming is settled. In fact he’s so convinced that the science of the IPCC and NASA’s James Hansen is correct that his number 1 political priority is the introduction of an Emissions Trading Scheme by mid 2010.
The latest science shows that the [...]
This week has seen yet another round of protestations from the big end of town about how difficult it will be to cut greenhouse emissions, and how they are going to have to move offshore if a decent emissions trading scheme is introduced. Meanwhile, another renewable energy manufacturer has just announced that they are actually [...]
What’s happening on the planet today:
Glaciers melting at record rate. Glaciers are melting at a record rate, except in Norway, where the excess of snow has made them even bigger, according to this Guardian video report.
Gorilla warfare. Gorillas in the Virunga National Park are under threat from fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with [...]
Our pick of the day’s green news and discussion:
Climate model FAQ. RealClimate has written a great FAQ on climate modelling and is answering readers’ questions in the comment section (warning: they already have over 350 of them).
‘Dead zones’ zones to expand by 50%. Tropical ocean ’dead zones’ — areas with low-to-no oxygen — could expand by up [...]
What’s happening on earth today.
Asia’s dirty clouds. The Great Wall is visible from space. And now a brownish haze, sometimes more than a mile thick and stretching from the Arabian Peninsula to the Yellow Sea, is “clearly visible from airplanes”. In essence: “A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out [...]
Our pick of today’s green media:
Kyoto emissions not meeting Kyoto Protocol. Japan’s CO2 emissions hit a record high of 1.371 billion metric tons in the year to March, reports Reuters, making it the world’s fifth-largest carbon dioxide producer. “With developing countries already questioning Tokyo’s political will to rein in emissions and top CO2 polluters China, the [...]
Crikey’s pick of today’s green news:
Snowy mountains make national heritage register. The south-east Australian Alps have been placed on the national heritage register, reports the Independent. The 1.5 million hectare site is the largest area to be listed, and was recently listed by the Australian Conservation Foundation as one of the 10 national icons most [...]
Yesterday the Rudd Government demonstrated very clearly where its climate and energy priorities lie – not with the proven renewable energy solutions, but with the geosequestration pipe-dream that Al Gore has recently called “too imaginary to make a difference in protecting either our national security or the global climate”.
Fresh from burying Christine Milne’s feed-in tariff [...]
Your daily fill of environmentally friendly news:
Finally: a flying car! A biofuel-powered flying car could be ready by 2009, says Tree Hugger. Looking something like the bastard child of a dune buggy and a paraglider, the Parajet Skycar has a range of 180 km running on bioethanol. Designer Giles Cardozo plans to fly the car across the English Channel [...]
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