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 coming [...]
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 [...]
Join the Crikey and Rooted teams for blow-by-blow (yes, wind powered!) coverage of K-Rudd’s ETS announcement from 12:30pm AEDT.
Applying an admirable glass half full approach to the climate change dilemma, the Russians have decided to look on the bright side of rising sea levels.
The Oz reported earlier this week that senior officials in Moscow are convinced that Russia stands to “reap an economic bonanza from ice-free northern oceans.”
Not put off by the [...]
Each day Crikey publishes a collection of links to stories about the environment which catch our eye. From today, State of the Planet, as readers of the Crikey daily email will know it, will be published here too. Hope ya dig.
Kevin Rudd is firm on carbon cut plan. The Rudd Government will press ahead [...]
Consider this question put to respondents in the latest Oz Newspoll on where an Emissions Trading Scheme stands in the public’s mind in the wake of the global financial meltdown:
Under a carbon pollution reduction scheme, the price of energy sources, such as petrol, electricity and gas may become more expensive. Do you think the federal [...]
Given that the release of the Garnaut report was delayed by a couple of hours this morning while Rudd and the rest wrapped their head around Wall Street, it seems appropriate to ask — will the economic meltdown push the climate change debate off the page for good?
Professor Garnaut reassured The Oz that it won’t [...]
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