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The report concludes that the old scientific and environmental target of constraining warming to 2C is now well out of date and that we must do [...]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 [...]
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 [...]
Join the Crikey and Rooted teams for blow-by-blow (yes, wind powered!) coverage of K-Rudd’s ETS announcement from 12:30pm AEDT.
Executive Secretary of The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Pozan Poland Yvo de Boer gives his Day 3 Update on the progress of the conference.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is convinced the science on man made global warming is settled. In fact he’s so convinced that the science of the IPCC and NASA’s James Hansen is correct that his number 1 political priority is the introduction of an Emissions Trading Scheme by mid 2010.
The latest science shows that the [...]
Our current Australian anti-farmer policies coupled with a population that grows by 1 person net each 1.3 seconds will lead us to a point within 40 years where we will be a net importer of food. As the world population grows by another 2.3 billion people, food in Australia will indeed become a scarce resource.
During [...]
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 [...]
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