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Policy & Planning

Tony Abbott’s climate policy: the science is still crap
Tony Abbott’s revelation that the Coalition may not meet even a 5% reduction target suggests that the Opposition leader still thinks climate science is crap. Its ironic then, that the IPA should be launching a new anti-science book just two days before the election. And don’t count on Labor to hold them to account.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 3, 2013

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Why politicians have turned their back on climate
Science, and public polling, both call for decisive policy action on climate change. So why is this proving so hard to do for our political leaders?
Clive Hamilton

Sep 3, 2013

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Vicious carbon cycle: Extreme weather exacerbates climate change
Study finds extreme climate events release 11 billion tonnes of CO2 every year – equivalent to around one third of global carbon emissions a year.
Joe Romm

Aug 29, 2013

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Wanted: $1 trillion a year to decarbonise by 2020
HSBC says $1 trillion a year out to 2020 is needed to set the world on the path to decarbonise the global economy, and replace fossil-fueled networks with low carbon and renewable networks. But where will this money come from?
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 27, 2013

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Video: How climate change fuels wildfires, explained in 90 seconds
With a huge wildfire burning in and around California’s Yosemite National Park, here’s a 90-second video explaining how climate change may have fueled it.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 27, 2013

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Atoll nations at cutting edge of climate and clean energy
The Marshall Islands is ‘solarising its nation’ and plans the world’s first commercial scale ocean thermal energy plant as it prepares to host crucial talks on climate change. ‘We are not just helpless natives waiting for coconuts to fall,’ says its deputy minister. It just wants bigger nations to act too.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 14, 2013

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2013 shaping up to be one of Australia’s hottest years on record
Year-to-date BoM data shows temperatures have been above average to record warm over nearly the whole continent in 2013.
David Jones & Blair Trewin et al

Jul 30, 2013

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Arctic melt could cost global economy $60 trillion: report
Research finds that the environmentally disastrous Arctic melt – which will unlock methane and speed global warming – could be an economic disaster too.
Kiley Kroh

Jul 25, 2013

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Policy & Planning

Tony Abbott caught dog-whistling to climate change deniers
Abbott’s latest remarks on carbon pricing – parroted though they may be – suggest, firstly, that this Rhodes scholar who studied for an economics degree does not understand financial markets; and secondly, that his views on climate change are inspired from the depths of the climate denier blogosphere.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 16, 2013

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Rudd slashes climate programs to pay for carbon politics
Rudd protects main renewables programs, but scacrifices CCS program, and funds to support bidoversity initiatives and savings for manufacturers and farmers to pay for the accelerated ETS. He says coal has a future, but he was in Queensland, so he had to say that didn’t he?
Giles Parkinson

Jul 16, 2013

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Global warming ups Australia’s extreme summer risk five-fold: study
University of Melbourne researchers find Australia is much more likely to see extremely hot summers thanks to human-driven global warming.
Jeff Spross

Jul 9, 2013

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Why carbon’s ‘greening’ effect isn’t a good news story
The argument has resurfaced that increased CO2 to plants and agriculture outweigh the costs of climate change. But it’s not quite so simple.
Andrew Glikson

Jul 5, 2013

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