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Monthly Archives: July 2011

$10 million to drive fear and greed on carbon price

July 25, 2011 – 3:19 pm

This weekend multi-billion dollar vested interest groups launched their $10 million “no campaign” against a price on pollution.

By Crikey | Posted in Carbon Price | Tagged , , , | Comments (8)

Will the carbon price rule out new coal?

July 20, 2011 – 9:16 am

On Sunday evening, after reading the Dr Seuss classic “If I ran the zoo” to my three year old daughter, I sat on the couch, fortified myself with a strong drink, and began to read the Treasury modelling on the carbon price (I know, I know, it’s an exciting life). After reading the projections for [...]

By John Hepburn | Posted in Carbon Price, climate change, Climate Change Policy, Energy | Comments (8)

An Orwellian climate: carbon price and the atmosphere

July 15, 2011 – 12:01 pm

Andrew Glikson, earth and palaeoclimate scientist at the Australian National University, writes: Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, chief climate science advisor of the German government and keynote speaker at the Four Degrees or More? Australia in a hot world conference held this week in Melbourne, made a point on Lateline that even the least-informed should be able to understand: [...]

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10 years of drought: one farmer tells her story

July 13, 2011 – 5:18 pm

Vanessa Drendel, a farmer (primary producer of broadacre cereals, legumes and oil seeds) in the Wimmera writes: Recently I went through an old external hard drive and stumbled over a folder I’d called ‘Totally Screwed’. It contained images of my farm life from 2004-2009, nothing out of the ordinary really, except that most of them [...]

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Why a price on pollution is worth it

July 11, 2011 – 12:01 pm

For a look at how the commentariat are judging Gillard’s carbon price, check out the commentary wrap on the Crikey website. It also contains details of the policy from the cost of carbon ($23 a tonne) to how much compensation industry will get ($9.2 billion). Ellen Sandell writes: Yesterday the Sunday Telegraph ran a headline [...]

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Cartoon Explanation of Price on Carbon

July 10, 2011 – 9:04 pm

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By Anna Rose | Posted in Carbon Price, climate change, Climate Change Policy, Global Warming | Comments (1)

Aftermath of Japan shows Oz at greater risk of tsunamis

July 4, 2011 – 12:41 pm

The Japan earthquake in March proved to be so much deeper and damaging than any prior scientific modelling predicted, resulting in wide ramifications for the study of seismology, according to several international experts on tsunamis and earthquakes.

By Amber Jamieson | Posted in Natural disasters | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Global warming: no longer so hot

July 1, 2011 – 9:45 am

Here at Crikey — and Rooted in particular — climate change and global warming are topics we constantly examine and report on. But that seems to set us apart from the mainstream media. This great post, written by Richard Farmer over at Crikey‘s political blog The Stump, examines the drop in climate change and global [...]

By Amber Jamieson | Posted in climate change | Tagged , | Comments (3)