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09 April 2013

“Critical decade” or “lost decade”? (3)
Is the future unspeakable?

The Australian Labor government’s climate policy steps were slow in coming and incremental, when the...

08 April 2013

“Critical decade” or “lost decade”? (2)
Inside the beltway

With a victory for Tony Abbott and the Liberal–National Party coalition at Australia's federal e...

07 April 2013

“Critical decade” or “lost decade”? (1)
The conservative tide

Political parties which vacillate between denial and delay on climate action are set to dominate Aus...

30 March 2013

Doubling down on our Faustian bargain

Intro note: NASA's James Hansen and colleagues Pushker Kharecha and Makiko Sato have a new pape...

13 March 2013

Ending the stupid technology innovation vs. deployment fight once and for all

By David Roberts, via Grist Human beings are pretty damn clever. We have adapted and inven...

07 March 2013

Putting carbon back into the ground – the way nature does it

by Adam D. Sacks Global climate change and land degradation have to be put on a war footing inte...

25 February 2013

Apocalypse Not: The Oscars, The Media And The Myth of ‘Constant Repetition of Doomsday Messages’ on Climate

By Joe Romm , via Climate Progress The two greatest myths about global warming communications are...

20 February 2013

New study reveals Labor will hand $2.3–5.4 billion profit bonanza to Australia's dirtiest power stations from carbon price compensation

by David Spratt The warnings were clear and now its happened: bending over backwards with carbon...

19 February 2013

To fear or not to fear...

.. as Australia’s contribution to climate change on track to double in next decade or so thanks to ...

16 February 2013

Fear, optimism and activism: What drives change?

It's a fair bet that my Brightsiding series in 2012 was responsible for the topic at this ye...

11 February 2013

Effective climate communication: 140 characters at a time

Jeff Nesbitt ( @jeffnesbit ), the Executive Director of Climate Nexus, shows how powerful a tool T...

10 February 2013

Do we need a Plan B for the fossil fuel industry?

by Graeme Taylor Is their any future for the oil and coal industries without doing what they do now: burning the stuff? In Global Warming...

07 February 2013

Renewable energy now cheaper than new fossil fuels in Australia

Note: This wonderful story from Bloomberg New Energy Finance today can be summed up in it final para: “New wind is cheaper than building n...

05 February 2013

Dependence on coal a bad strategy with shift to renewables unstoppable

By Richard Denniss , via The Conversation Last week, Greenpeace released a report calling for a ...

31 January 2013

Australia’s sea-level risk assessment out of date as US authorities say possible 2-metre rise by 2100

by David Spratt In assessing risks, it’s pretty basic that you assess the full range of possible...

24 January 2013

Rebuilding optimism of will for effective climate activism

Many climate activists have experienced depression, exhaustion, and alienation as the time-frame f...

22 January 2013

Connecting the dots to local climate impacts is a key to community engagement

by Graeme Taylor Notwithstanding Australia’s record-smashing heatwave, the impacts of climate ch...

17 January 2013

The Australian admits it misinterpreted research on sea level rise linked to climate change

The Australia runs false story about sea-level rises Forced to apologise, story is deleted from The Australian's website It fits a lo...

15 January 2013

Climate change and the myth of human progress

Illustration by Mr. Fish, TruthDig Note: On present climate policy settings, the world is heade...

12 January 2013

If we need a war footing to rebuild the physical economy, why can't we talk about it?

by Philip Sutton, Manager, RSTI A 2009 WWF report says "a 'war footing' may be the...

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