AGL buys Loy Yang A brown coal generator, swapping its moniker for being the cleanest utility to the cheapest. After spending more than five years arguing that investing in green energy was the best way to prepare for a carbon price, AGL proposes to buy the nation’s biggest emitter.
Climate
Heart of the matter: Climate world divided on Heartland case
Scientist Peter Gleik’s role in leaking documents from the climate sceptical Heartland Institute has elicited strong reactions from both sides of the fence.
Ice melt: NASA satellites point to huge losses
Ice mass lost from Greenland, Antarctica and the Earth’s glaciers and ice caps enough to cover the US with a 1.5 feet deep layer.
Can cutting short-term pollutants help close the emissions gap?
A plan to reduce short-lived pollutants could put the world on a path to faster temperature reductions. But it’s only a short-term fix.
The Week: Why we might like global warming
How much ice is disappearing and what lies beneath?; global warming in a video nutshell; hurricanes vs wind power; an upside to climate change?
America’s secret, corporate-funded climate hoax curriculum
A right-wing think tank funded by top US corporates is developing an elementary school curriculum that presents climate science as a ‘major controversy.’
Why King Coal won’t pay to clean the throne
Why the coal industry, and many investors, have their heads in the ground. And no, it’s not just because that’s where you find coal.
Soil carbon: time to bury the emissions problem
UN highlights growing risk of soil depletion to the environment, and to food and water resources, as well as its critical role in reducing emissions. Meanwhile, Australia’s Carbon Farming Initiative is likely to getting off to a slow start – and low international prices will not be a help.
The Week: Steroids, floods, Hollywood stars
America’s snowless winter, glacier theft, behind Europe’s deadly cold and why greenhouse gases are like steroids.
NOAA measure high CH4 emissions over gas field
NOAA study suggests methane leaks during production may offset climate benefits of natural gas.









