A mixed bag of green news for the day:
Economists agree on climate change. Don’t believe the media hype: there is a consensus amongst economists that man-made climate change is real, says Eric Pooley in Slate’s The Big Money:
There is an emerging economic consensus about the cost of climate action, but most journalists have failed to [...]
James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies takes it to the coal industry.
Yesterday, Wayne Swan asked the House Economics Committee to inquire into and report on the choice of emissions trading as the central policy to reduce Australia’s carbon pollution. WTF?
This is bizarre. The ALP committed to an emissions trading scheme years ago. As did the coalition. In the December White paper, the Government has came up [...]
Reducing water consumption could be the key to saving energy. In areas where large amounts of electricity are used pumping and distributing water, policies leading to reduced water consumption would be a more efficient way of addressing climate change than requiring people to use less energy, a water expert says.
Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific [...]
As the Victorian bushfires continue to rage, so to does the debate over just who is at fault for the fires.
In today’s SMH, the always delightful Miranda Devine declares: “… it is not arsonists who should be hanging from lamp-posts but greenies.” ‘Greenies’ bare the responsibility, she argues, for stopping the clearing of vegetation which [...]
News from around the planet … about the planet.
It comes as no surprise that scientists believe in a link between climate change and an increased likelihood of bushfires. But is it right?
Extra rain in the northern states turns out to be great news for Victoria’s duck hunters. But environmentalists are not happy.
Kevin Rudd will tell you that to weather a GFC you need an NBP. But some commentators think his Nation Building Plan should do more for the environment.
“If you disobey a police directive, there is a risk you will be arrested and charged with trespass,” I explained gently to countless groups of people as they lined the front of Parliament House yesterday.
Around two and half thousand people of all ages and from all over Australia gathered to encircle federal Parliament on the [...]
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