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Commentary

What’s next for Minerals Council’s coal and climate policy?
The abrupt and unexpected departure of the Minerals Council of Australia’s CEO, Brendan Pearson, may well be a crucial tipping point in Australia’s debate over domestic energy policy.
Bob Burton

Sep 25, 2017

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Commentary

Factcheck for Andrew Bolt: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming
How Andrew Bolt and other right wing commentators picked up a new climate study published in the Nature Geosciences journal and got it hopelessly wrong.
Zeke Hausfather

Sep 22, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

BHP under pressure to dump pro-coal lobby groups over climate policy
A shareholder resolution highlighting the chasm between BHP’s stated climate policy and the pro-coal advocacy of its mining industry lobby has pushed the company to commit to reconsidering its membership of the hardline Minerals Council of Australia.
Bob Burton

Sep 20, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Keeping global warming to 1.5°C: really hard, but not impossible
The window for staving off the worst of climate change is wider than we thought, but still pretty narrow.
Dave Frame and H. Damon Matthews

Sep 19, 2017

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Commentary

Analysis: UK auction reveals offshore wind cheaper than new gas
Offshore wind auction results means that these projects are close to being subsidy-free, helping shift the conversation from renewables being expensive, towards how cheap, variable zero-carbon power can be integrated into the UK grid.
Simon Evans

Sep 13, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2017
Greenland may have gained a small amount of ice over the 2016-17 year – a one-year blip in long-term trend of year-on-year declines.
Ruth Mottram Dr Peter Langen and Dr Martin Stendel

Sep 5, 2017

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Commentary

A bunch of reasons to be optimistic about clean energy in Australia
Renewable energy is increasingly profitable without subsidies, and coal has become uninvestable without government intervention – this used to be the opposite.
Ketan Joshi

Sep 5, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Trump names climate science denier to run NASA
Republican Congressman named to head NASA had demanded Obama apologize for funding climate change research.
Joe Romm

Sep 5, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

US utility dumps nuclear plant, will invest $6bn in solar and batteries
Duke Energy dumps nuclear plant because of rising costs, will instead spend $US6bn on solar, smart meters, EV charging stations, battery storage.
Joe Romm

Sep 1, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Hurricane Harvey: Connecting the dots between climate change and more extreme events
A guide of what we know about the links between climate change and Harvey to help unpack the elements that contributed to this historic and unfolding storm
Climate Nexus

Aug 31, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Why solar power keeps being underestimated
Most studies on climate mitigation have greatly underestimated the potential of solar power.
Dr Felix Creutzig

Aug 30, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Oops: Rick Perry may have stumbled upon solution to going 100% renewable
Buried in his grid study is how electric cars and smart control systems will enable deep penetration of solar and wind energy
Joe Romm

Aug 25, 2017

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