Another report from the New York Times tells how in the US, most government subsidies for energy research goes to polluting fossil fuels and unsafe nuclear energy: Despite a lot of promises, no one so far has wanted to pay the extra costs to make wind and solar more than a trivial energy source. Research [...]
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Alternative energy funded funneled to dangerous nuclear
The New York Times reports that money is being funneled to dangerous nuclear energy over safe, clean and unlimited solar and wind energy projects: Scientists are hoping to expand the range of sunlight’s wavelengths that can be absorbed, and to cut the amount of energy the cells lose to heat. One goal is to make [...]
Human activities are the primary driver
With all the hysteria about climate change following the Liberal leadership disaster, it’s easy to be caught up with the notion that there’s a huge backlash against action on climate change, or policies to reduce carbon emissions (eg. the CPRS).There’s even been talk around the pro-climate action groups that the science has been seriously compromised [...]
More double dissolution speculation
With the spectacular self-immolation of the Liberal Party this week (see the spill Twitter chatter here), speculation about a double dissolution on climate change is mounting. Last night, several political insiders expressed their belief that it was in Labor’s interests to go to a double dissolution when (if?) the Liberals delay the Carbon Pollution Reduction [...]
Latest polling on climate change
Unsurprising results from the latest polling on climate change from Essential Research: Q: Do you agree that there is fairly conclusive evidence that climate change is happening and caused by human activity or do you believe that the evidence is still not in and we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s [...]
350.org and the Day of Climate Action
Joe Trippi has a great wrap of the decentralised nature of this global movement, and the massive organising effort that was mobilised to make Saturday 24 October such a success. Quoth Trippi: Issuing calls to action via text message, soliciting photo sharing of actions, and providing real-time updates to supporters, onlookers, and the media, the [...]
The importance of 350
Image from News.com.au Today marked the International Day of Climate Action, organised by 350.org. The Labor Environment Action Network is one of 14 environmental organisations in Australia supporting the activities that took place. Thousands of Australians took part hundreds of local activities, the most visually spectacular of which was a rally on the steps of [...]
Act on CO2
The UK Government has released an excellent (and “controversial”) television ad aimed at parents, wit the goal to get them to reduce their energy, fuel and water consumption. The campaign – ACT ON CO2 – also has a great website.
Coalition ETS amendments shows denalists have won
The amendments proposed by the Coalition (really, the Liberal Party, since the Nationals outright oppose any ETS) are simply a way to divert more money to heavy polluters and will do nothing for the environment. If the amendments are accepted, the already compromised CPRS (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Australia’s cap and trade scheme) will achieve [...]
The economics of climate change
The economics of climate change, like the science of climate change, is becoming clearer. The scientific evidence is saying that unless we rapidly and significantly reduce our carbon emissions, we face a climate catastrophe. The economic evidence is also showing that the cost of inaction will far out-weigh the economic costs of action, and more [...]
Blog Action Day
Today (15 October) is Blog Action Day – a day when bloggers from around the world commit to promoting a single cause (climate change this year) and thus raise awareness of that cause. Climate change is, simply, the greatest ethical, political and policy problem of our age. Climate change is something that is close to [...]
Accommodating China's Carbon Emissions
I am making my most recent paper on climate change available for download as a pdf. This is a change from my earlier policy entries on this website. Originally I cut and pasted the text directly to the website. However, to make it easier to read and print, I have converted the paper to a [...]
Get involved in politics to make a change
Following from my recent criticisms of those who sit on the sidelines and complain, rather than joining in and getting their hands dirty, I’ve tracked down the Maribyrnong Leader article I featured in: A FOOTSCRAY man is determined to shift people’s perceptions on climate change. Alex White says his commitment to the issue has been [...]
Letter in Crikey
My letter in Crikey today Regarding “Make the World Pay“: I’ve noticed it is fashionable for Crikey to publish CPRS-bashing articles from the Greens Party and others (e.g. Bernard Keane). There is no doubt that the CPRS is less than many people hoped it would be — especially the excessive industry assistance. The simple fact [...]
Fifteen Years of Cooling
Surely I’ve already put a link to this famous graph, which answers the proposition put by climate change denialists that there has been a decade (or fifteen years of cooling). Australia’s most famous climate denialist is Senator Steve Fielding, an accidental senator who’s been briefed by several denialist-scientists that anthropogenic climate change is a fraud. [...]
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