A new meme is being pushed by people close to Labor to help force through the CPRS. Just as the failure of the Republic referendum knocked that issue off the agenda for a decade or more, the story goes, so if the CPRS fails in the Senate will we have lost our chance to do [...]
READ MOREApril, 2009
Garnaut excised from Wong’s vocabulary?
After he embarrassed her government last week by saying the CPRS may be so bad that it should be taken out the back and shot (well, not quite),it seems that Minister Wong has excised Professor Garnaut entirely from her vocabulary. In a speech to the Lowy Institute today (not yet on her website, but will [...]
READ MOREEducation for Sustainability in High Schools
I’d like your advice. I was giving a talk a few weeks ago to Principals of the environmental education centres from across NSW about the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and particularly our high school program, Switched On Schools. A woman came up afterwards and recognised me from when I was in high school in Newcastle [...]
READ MOREClimate change cage match — a fight to the death
The following debate will take place around the general consensus on climate change (yes, there are still a few sceptics who love to thrash it out and who are we to stop people from making fun of them?)
READ MOREOops, this ice shelf just snapped off. Is that bad?
Now I’m no scientist, but … When the people who do know what they’re talking about look deeply worried it unsettles me. When they can’t sleep, I start to feel a bit panicky. So this story about the Wilkins ice shelf, which scientists have been concerned (masters of understatement, scientists…) about for while now, is [...]
READ MORENo more free ride for coal
Guest blogger Simon Roz, Climate and Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace writes: We’re hearing a lot of noise from the Coal industry that they are being treated “unfairly” – the latest from Australian Coal Association’s Chief Ralph Hillman . But is this really a sign that the decades long free pass they have been handed may be [...]
READ MOREBad PCs and underwater islands
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READ MOREUpdate from UN climate talks in Bonn
In the leadup to the UN meeting in Copenhagen in December to finalise the next global agreement to cut greenhouse emissions, there are a series of meetings to thrash out the detail of the negotiating text. I must admit that everytime anyone tries to explain the detail of the negotiations my ears start to bleed. [...]
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