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 [...]
Here is one of my favourite parts of President Obama’s inauguration speech this morning:
“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions – who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women [...]
The latest State of the World report from the globally respected World Watch Institute is one of the highest-profile and credible calls for emergency action on climate change yet released.
The report concludes that the old scientific and environmental target of constraining warming to 2C is now well out of date and that we must do [...]
Nationals Senate leader, Barnaby Joyce, let fly in today’s press and radio with an attack not just on emissions trading but on climate change science, effectively calling it “just a load of rubbish”.
According to Godwin’s Law, Joyce immediately lost his argument by invoking Nazism, referring to “environmental goose-steppers” and coining a new term: “eco-totalitarianism”. He [...]
Beyond the obvious fact that at least this isn’t an unconditional approval, there is only one really good thing about Peter Garrett’s pulp mill decision today: it puts the mill firmly on the 2010 election agenda!
Having approved a pile of modules for the mill that will see Tassie Devils and other wildlife flattened by log [...]
It’s hard to find the words to express quite how atrocious today’s decision announcement has been.
Here’s a video that expresses what a lot of us are starting to think – that all those who voted for Kevin Rudd thinking he’d be better than John Howard on climate change were sold a lump of coal.
If you’re [...]
If rumours are true, on Monday Penny Wong will announce an emissions reduction target that completely throws out of the window all the scientific opinion the Government has ever been given. But where are the scientists?
One story I have been told this morning is that Wong will be wildly spinning a 10% reduction below 2000 [...]
I’ve written here before about the perverse view that Australia’s weak targets actually help in our international negotiations – the view that we need to be what proponents of this argument call “realistic” to bring others on board.
This is a nonsense. Everybody knows that, to get a real global agreement, we will need to bring [...]
Yesterday the Rudd Government demonstrated very clearly where its climate and energy priorities lie – not with the proven renewable energy solutions, but with the geosequestration pipe-dream that Al Gore has recently called “too imaginary to make a difference in protecting either our national security or the global climate”.
Fresh from burying Christine Milne’s feed-in tariff [...]
The thing I’ve found most fascinating about the responses to the Treasury’s ETS modelling released yesterday is how, all of a sudden, a pile of big coal’s biggest fans are agreeing with us that coal with geosequestration isn’t going to come cheap!
Malcolm Turnbull, for example, told the media yesterday that “The cost of carbon capture [...]
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