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19 May 2010
Liberals would cut $1.5 billion in climate funding
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A detailed statement outlining the savings measures or cuts that would be made by the Coalition has been released by the opposition's ...
02 May 2010
Door knocking in Coburg
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Climate Action Moreland and the Climate Action Centre held our second day of door knocking in Coburg today. Hundreds of residents of the...
10 lessons for the climate movement
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Damien Lawson [First published for the second Australian climate action summit, Canberra, March 2010] For the 2009 climate summit, I wro...
26 April 2010
Taking "Replace Hazelwood" to the streets
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The Labor member for Northcote, Fiona Richardson, is greeted by members of Darebin Climate Action Now, Fairfield shops, Saturday 24 April ...
A climate of can-do
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by David Spratt [First published in Earth Song Journal (Perspectives in Ecology, Spirituality and Education), Autumn 2010] In an Austral...
14 April 2010
The greens’ proposal for a carbon tax
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by David Spratt [First published for the second Australian Climate Action Summit, 12 March 2010] On 21 January, The Greens proposed a “le...
20 January 2010
How the Murdoch press got it wrong on the Himalayan big melt
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Published in Crikey, 20 January 2010 by Damien Lawson and David Spratt Drawing on a January 13 New Scientist story by Fred Pearce rep...
21 December 2009
A climate con: Analysis of the "Copenhagen Accord"
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By David Spratt and Damien Lawson 21 December 2009 Climate Action Centre Briefing Note ''In biblical terms it looks like we are...
21 November 2009
Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers!
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Thanks to Gristmill for pointing to this amazing advertisment from a 1962 issue of Life Magazine. Humble Oil later merged with Standard to...
04 November 2009
Copenhagen reality check: 25% by 2020 isn't in the ball park
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First published in Crikey, 4 November 2009 Climate policy analyst David Spratt writes: Columnist David Roberts sees the Copenhagen clim...
01 October 2009
A 4 degree world
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A recent conference in Oxford attended by the best and brightest of the climate science academy examined the prospects and impacts...
30 September 2009
Copenhagen in a Nutshell
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This figure from the Washington Post and statement by Jose Barroso sums up what we can expect from the current Copenhagen process. As ...
11 September 2009
Forget about 2050, we're blowing the carbon budget right now
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by David Spratt Sick of hearing about greenhouse emission reduction targets for 2020 or 2030 or 2050? Now there's a new way to think...
Punting on coal is a loser, tell the Government
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First published in The Age , 10 September 2009 Everyone else can see the folly of propping up polluting industries. THERE'S an irony...
19 August 2009
The CPRS aftermath
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CPRS emissions will be higher than baseline till 2035 Since the CPRS was defeated in the Senate last week, there has been a vigorous debat...
05 May 2009
Has Kevin Rudd taken "a significant step forward on climate change"?
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Kevin Rudd's announced changes to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme has again split the climate movement, and this time it...
03 May 2009
A new reality check on the global carbon emissions budget
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Two new research papers published this week in Nature on emissions targets have been widely reported, including Humanity's carbon budge...
21 April 2009
Climate countdown
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Last night, Monday 20 April 2009, I had an opportunity to debate the topic "Climate Change: What Should the Federal Government Be Doi...
07 March 2009
What's up with emisions reductions of 25-40% by 2020?
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The “25-40/2020” scenario was published in the IPCC’s 2007 Fourth Assessment Report Working Group III report , in Box 13.7 on page 776, “...
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