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Off-grid living possible, but it’s not enough to fix climate change
Fixing the planet’s big problems means more than a change in lifestyle. It means scrapping economic growth, and most of the values driving Western culture.
Frederick Trainer

Jan 29, 2013

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What’s causing Australia’s heat wave?
Australia has started 2013 with a record-breaking heat wave across many parts of the country. How much of can be blamed on climate change?
The Conversation

Jan 18, 2013

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333 months in a row of above average global temperatures
NOAA report says November 2012 the 36th consecutive November and 333rd consecutive month with global temperature higher than the long-term average.
Joe Romm

Dec 19, 2012

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Air con: We need to talk about indoor climate change
As the world warms, Australia needs a public debate on air conditioning; on reducing our dependency, cutting wastage, and working with the climate.
Tim Winter

Dec 19, 2012

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Obama to name climate hawk John Kerry as Secretary of State
By nominating one of the Senate’s leading climate hawks, Obama gives his first serious indication of a focus on climate change in his second term.
Joe Romm

Dec 18, 2012

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Leaked IPCC report: Warming is manmade, inaction is suicidal
Ultra-conservative report still concludes sea level rise could reach 6 inches a decade by century’s end. Deniers duped by leaker’s blunder.
Joe Romm

Dec 17, 2012

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Humanity has overshot the Earth’s capacity
A new report on China’s ecological footprint says that humanity, as a whole, overshot the Earth’s sustainability threshold back in the early 1970s.
Jeff Spross

Dec 17, 2012

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A global climate agreement could be an economic win
After Doha, business needs to consider whether it is actively seeking the opportunities international and domestic carbon policy signals create.
Andrew Petersen

Dec 13, 2012

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World’s biggest investors still ‘reckless’ on climate risk: study
Survey of world’s 1,000 largest funds, with $60 trillion under management, finds little accounting for climate risk. Australia ranks comparatively well.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 11, 2012

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20 years on, climate change predictions have come true
Predictions made in the IPCC’s 1990 report have so far proved accurate, suggesting the world is on track for a radical climate shift.
Sunanda Creagh

Dec 11, 2012

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Policy & Planning

Give Monckton credit, he has more guts than Abbott
Lord Monckton’s Doha antics might have got him banned from all future UN climate negotiations, but they had no impact at all on the outcome. It is domestic politics – and the likes of Tony Abbott – that has been the biggest drain on ambition, and on the ability of any major party to respond to calls to meet the science.
Giles Parkinson

Dec 11, 2012

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Doha agreement puts both major parties in the climate hot seat
COP18’s resolution to achieve a new legally binding agreement by 2015 will increase the level of scrutiny on Australia’s contribution over the next two years.
Erwin Jackson

Dec 10, 2012

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