These days the climate change conversation rarely strays from dry political soundbites about emission target percentages and ETS frameworks. But logging on to the Extreme Ice Survey website brings the reality of global warming sharply back into focus.
EIS uses video, conventional photography and time-lapse photography to document changes on the Earth’s glacial ice. The team [...]
Green news for the day:
Happy Birthday, nuclear disaster! It’s 30 years since the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island melted down.
TIME looks at how it changed the US energy industry, and asks: if the disaster hadn’t happened, and the nuclear industry had continued to grow unabated, would the country’s greenhouse emissions be significantly smaller?
Scientific [...]
Anyone else troubled by the PM’s statement overnight that the GFC makes it more difficult to reach a strong climate agreement at Copenhagen?
He’s done it very carefully, of course. The usual Ruddsterness of saying effectively ‘oh, I don’t think it’s a problem, but everyone else does, so don’t blame me if it doesn’t work out [...]
Earth hour. It’s that time of year again, is everyone ready to feel awesome about themselves? Balance it all out? Crikey is. But are there some selling the self satisfied glow a little too cheaply…
Watching one of Australia’s leading fossil-fuel rent-seekers, APPEA’s Belinda Robinson, speaking at the National Press Club today, I was reminded of another of the key reasons why a weak emissions trading scheme is worse than useless.
Robinson put forward the view that we should be investing many tens of billions of dollars in replacing, or at [...]
A look at some clever things being done by smart people in the world of green technologies:
Solar power. Scientists in China and Japan are using the scales on butterflies wings as a template for improved light harvesting on Gratzel solar cells. Tests have shown they absorbs more light than conventional dye-sensitized cells as well [...]
On Saturday, the worlds largest coal export port didn’t have a single coal ship coming or going between 9am and 5pm. And it wasn’t for lack of demand. The mouth of Newcastle harbour was off limits to coal ships for the day as hundreds of people took to the water in open display of people [...]
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