What’s happening on Earth today:
The green recession. Could recession be good for Obama’s green agenda? asks Slate.
The year in natural disasters. The Telegraph has an amazing photo gallery of natural disasters from 2008.
Coal reserves low? The world’s coal reserves could be far lower than earlier estimates, reports Wired. If it’s true, it could affect CO2 [...]
Talk about being graceless in victory. The biggest polluters have won virtually everything they could have hoped for in Rudd’s emissions trading white paper. Over 3.9 billion to the polluting coal power stations, billions more in free permits to the biggest emitters. Pretty much everyone who asked for special treatment has got it. As Richard [...]
Now that US President-elect Barack Obama has picked what some are calling the “green dream team”, National Geographic asks environmental leaders what they think the administration’s greening priorities should be.
A white flag has been hoist above Kevin Rudd’s electorate office in Brisbane. Activists are picketing outside MP’s offices in six states. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Rising Tide and student groups are calling for civil disobedience in the face of Kevin Rudd’s climate capitulation. A people’s climate summit has been called for the first [...]
Our pick of the green news for today:
New species in the Mekong. Over 1000 new species have been discovered in the Mekong Region of Southeast Asia over the last decade, report the WWF, including include 519 plants, 279 fish, 88 frogs, 88 spiders, 46 lizards, 22 snakes, 15 mammals, 4 birds, 4 turtles, 2 salamanders [...]
It’s hard to find the words to express quite how atrocious today’s decision announcement has been.
Here’s a video that expresses what a lot of us are starting to think – that all those who voted for Kevin Rudd thinking he’d be better than John Howard on climate change were sold a lump of coal.
If you’re [...]
Join the Crikey and Rooted teams for blow-by-blow (yes, wind powered!) coverage of K-Rudd’s ETS announcement from 12:30pm AEDT.
On Friday Kevin Rudd announced over half a billion dollars in funding for the NSW coal industry. Today, he announced an emissions reduction target and an emissions trading scheme that will have virtually no impact on reducing emissions and will give billions in handouts to the big polluters. This is a climate action plan that [...]
As all Australians* wait with baited (if not entirely optimistic) breath for Kev’s ETS announcement today, we take a look at what the Aussie blogosphere are carrying on about:
Rudd portrays himself as “sensible centrist”. As well as using straw-man style arguments to attack critics, the Prime Minister is arguing that his target will be appropriate [...]
AL Gore addressed delegates in Poznan, Poland, near the end of the UN Climate Talks. It’s a pretty great speech – especially the part where he mentions 350 parts per million (and you can see the international youth caucus get and give him a standing ovation for it).
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