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15 March 2014

14 things we learned — and the Abbott government didn’t

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by Giles Parkinson, via RenewEconomy It has been a busy few weeks. All sorts of things have become apparent: Climate change is real, an...
05 March 2014

Too hot to handle: life in a four-degree world

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by Gabrille Kuiper , first published in Overland Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a hot world 
Peter Christoff (ed), Earthsc...
26 February 2014

Connecting the dots to win on climate

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by David Spratt On 20 March I spoke, together with Adam Bandt MP, at a forum in Melbourne on Global warming, Tony Abbott and the need fo...
23 February 2014

Arctic sea-ice loss adds 25% to carbon dioxide warming over last 30 years

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First posted at robertscribler What’s the difference between a majestic layer of white sea ice and an ominous dark blue open ocean? For ...
12 February 2014

Oceans warmed at a rate of 12 Hiroshima bombs per second in 2013 as temperatures spiked

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by Lindsay Abrams , via Salon.com  Think global climate change hasn’t been very noticeable from where you’re standing? Down in the ocean...
07 February 2014

The why and how of radical emissions reductions (2): Corinne Le Quere

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Second in a series | Part 1 On 10-11 December 2013, a Radical Emissions Reduction Conference was held at the Royal Society, London unde...
06 February 2014

No warming "pause" says World Meteorological Organization head

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The head of the World Meteorological Organization says there is no standstill in global warming, which is on course to continue for generat...
02 February 2014

As Tony Abbott launches all-out war on climate action, what's the plan?

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[ Updated 2 February 2014] NOTE: This blog was originally drafted as notes for a small group discussion in Melbourne. It is in part a sit...

Code Red's most popular climate posts

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Here's the pick of the crop: our most popular posts over the last three years, starting with the most read.  A sober assessment of...
29 January 2014

With Arctic freezer door open, frigid air drains into USA and Eurasia, with Arctic unusually mild

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by David Spratt It's a cliche that a picture tells a story better than a thousand words, and it's really true in the case of this ...
21 January 2014

The why and how of radical emissions reductions: (1) Kevin Anderson

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Prof. Kevin Anderson First in a series On 10-11 December 2013, a Radical Emissions Reduction Conference was held at the Royal Society,...
17 January 2014

A climate of denial grips Abbott government's holiday madness

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by James Wight While many of us were distracted in December by seasonal festivities and summer sports, the Abbott government quietly ann...
16 January 2014

Landmark TV series puts people at centre of the climate change story

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Introduction: Regular readers of  this blog will know we have argued long and hard that to communicate climate change effectively and to ma...
07 January 2014

Australia’s hottest year was no freak event: humans caused it

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by Sophie Lewis and David Karoly , via The Conversation Australia saw extreme heat and bushfires in 2013. Flickr/Rossco ( Ima...
01 January 2014

Warming climate may cut cloud cover, push temperatures even higher

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One of the great unknowns of climate science is what effect clouds have in accelerating or slowing warming. A new study sheds a disturbin...
24 December 2013

Reigniting the debate: Climate change is fundamentally a human story

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A British group says people's interest in global warming has dwindled, and new ways of telling what is essentially a human story shou...
12 December 2013

Naomi Klein: Radical GHG emissions policies need radical social movements to back them

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by Gabriel Levy , People and Nature Naomi Klein Policies to counter global warming effectively “will only advance if accomp...
10 December 2013

Crunch time for Victorian government on coal exports

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Right now, the Victorian  Government is charging forward with plans to develop a major new brown coal export industry in the state. If t...
03 December 2013

2 degrees hotter not an acceptable climate target but a disaster, say leading scientists

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Countries round the world have pledged to try and limit the average global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial figures. That’s way ...
17 November 2013

Parts of Australia reaching threshold where it is impossible for normal life to continue because of the heat, says climate impacts researcher

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Some parts of Australia, such as Darwin, and some farms and factories, are likely to be  unviable in a 4°C hotter world, according to clima...