“There was a realistic assessment . . . by the leaders that it was unrealistic to expect a full…. agreement.”
That quote from U.S. deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs Michael Froman about his hopes for a final agreement in Copenhagen would be funny if wasn’t so, well… unfunny.
The full quote:
“I don’t think the [...]
Interesting take on the CPRS and the hidden agendas in The Oz last Friday. No, that’s not a reference to the big end of town furiously lobbying behind the scenes, it’s not about the BCA, or even the Liberal backbench determined to bring their leader down over this issue.
Nope, the all powerful cabal in this [...]
Mark Hertsgaard in The Nation:
They say that everyone who finally gets it about climate change has an “Oh, shit” moment–an instant when the full scientific implications become clear and they suddenly realize what a horrifically dangerous situation humanity has created for itself.
It’s especially alarming when people who, ahem, know their shit, speak about their own [...]
Today in Crikey Bernard Keane suggested that many young Australians were well and truly fed up with the government’s approach on climate change. In fact, he contended, many of them despair of any politicians achieving anything meaningful on the issue:
Don’t underestimate the sense of disillusionment and even anger among some young Australians, who don’t see [...]
Love coffee? Love the planet? Love coffee more than the planet? Then this plastic vessel is for you.
As Senator Fielding did his bit to “blow apart the great global warming scare” , Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama discussed the issue of global warming with US President Barack Obama during a phone call yesterday.
The Greens senator has laid bare the climate change facts better than any other politician.
If the Rudd government can urge the parliament to maintain a bipartisan approach to Indigenous affairs — going so far as to create a war cabinet in fact — then why not for climate change?
Rudd’s further politicisation of the ETS over the last few days proves once and for all that politics is incapable of [...]
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?)
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 a [...]
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