- 29 Dec 20 The Guardian: WA
coastline facing marine heatwave in early 2021, CSIRO predicts.
- 29 Dec 20 SolarMarket: Real-time
Solar Irradiation | BOM Partners With Powerlink - see
also SolarQuotes: SOLAR
POWER FORECAST TOOL - BETA.
- 22 Dec 20 SBS: Joe
Biden vows to tackle 'existential threat' of climate change as
he introduces his environmental team.
- 16 DEc 20 ABC: Former
Wallabies captain David Pocock calls for national anthem
discussion, action on climate change.
- 16 Dec 20 New Scientist: Health
impacts of climate change have reached 'worrying' levels.
- 16 Dec 20 The Saturday Paper ($): The
Liberal minister forcing action on climate change.
- 16 Dec 20 The Guardian: Australia's
path to net zero emissions is massively behind schedule +
China
formalises cut to Australian coal imports, state media reports
+ Silent
treatment: how Scott Morrison earned Boris Johnson's climate
summit snub.
- 16 Dec 20 The Conversation: The
Paris Agreement 5 years on: big coal exporters like Australia
face a reckoning + Up
to 90% of electricity from solar and wind the cheapest option
by 2030: CSIRO analysis.
- 16 Dec 20 ABC: The
vanishing Arctic + Nature Climate ($): The
future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated
ecosystems
- 6 Dec 20 Japan Times: Japan
considering emissions trade system for carmakers as it eyes
carbon neutrality +
- 5 Dec 20 The Conversation; Climate
change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening
health impacts, over 120 researchers say.
- 5 Dec 20 BBC: 2020
set to be one of the three warmest years on record + PM
aims for world-leading UK emissions cuts +
- 5 Dec 20 ABC: Tim
Flannery warns of adverse climate impacts if South32 coal mine
expansion approved + This
tropical glacier is rare, revered, and could be gone by next
year + Great
Barrier Reef outlook worsens to 'critical' as climate change
named number one threat to world heritage sites
- 5 Dec 20 The Guardian: [in 2017 former federal environment
minister] Frydenberg
proposed delisting part of wetland to allow Queensland's
Toondah Harbour development
- 1 Dec 20 RenewEconomy:
- 1 Dec 20 The Conversation: Australia’s
states have been forced to go it alone on renewable energy,
but it’s a risky strategy.
- 22 Nov 20 The Guardian: 'We'll
be left behind': Australia's electric car inertia is getting
it nowhere + Caradvice: Victoria
will follow South Australia with a per-kilometre usage fee for
pure electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
- 16 Nov 20 Japan Today: Public
money guarantees 'risky' fossil fuel projects: experts.
- 16 Nov 20 ScienceAlert: Here's
How Microbes Help to Hoard Earth's Greatest Greenhouse Gas
Reserves
- 16 Nov 20 ABC: BOM
and CSIRO State of the Climate 2020 shows Australia is
experiencing climate change now.
- 16 Nov 20 Phys.org: Ending
greenhouse gas emissions may not stop global warming:
[controversial] study
- 16 Nov 20 The Conversation:
- 9 Nov 20 The Conversation: ‘The
Earth was dying. Killed by the pursuit of money’ — rereading
Ben Elton’s Stark as prophecy +
- 9 Nov 20 ACEEE: Biden’s
Election Offers Opportunity to Cut Energy Emissions and Fight
Climate Change.
- 2 Nov 20 The Conversation: Labor
politicians need not fear: Queenslanders are no more attached
to coal than the rest of Australia.
- 12 Nov 20 ABC: Australia
will lose more than $3 trillion and 880,000 jobs over 50 years
if climate change is not addressed, Deloitte says.
- 29 Oct 20 SciAm: Floating
Offshore Wind Turbines Set to Make Inroads in U.S.
- 26 Oct 20 RenewEconomy:
- 26 Oct 20 ABC: All
of South Australia's power comes from solar panels in world
first for major jurisdiction.
- 26 Oct 20 The Guardian: Coalition
accused of 'ideological wishlisting' after BHP pulls out of
multibillion-dollar project.
- 24 Oct 20 The Saturday Paper ($): Queensland
teenagers launch legal challenge of Adani mine
- 24 Oct 20 The Conversation:
- 24 Oct 20 The Guardian: Humanity
has eight years to get climate crisis under control – and
Trump's plan won't fix it.
- 6 Oct 20 New Scientist ($): A
question of degrees - takes a dfig at the Global Warming
Policy Foundation
- 6 Oct 20 The Guardian: Amazon
near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah –
study.
- 6 Oct 20 The Conversation: Ardern’s
government and climate policy: despite a zero-carbon law, is
New Zealand merely a follower rather than a leader?
- 28 Sep 20 The Guardian: China's
carbon pledge will require complete inversion of existing
system + Labor's
Joel Fitzgibbon threatens to quit shadow cabinet over
emissions target.
- 28 Sep 20 New Scientist ($): 'Massive
failure': The world has missed all its biodiversity targets
- 25 Sep 20 Japan Today: Oil
refiners worldwide struggle with weak demand, inventory glut.
- 13 Sep 20 SciTechDaily: “Worst-Case
Climate Scenario” [is happening] – Ice Sheets in Greenland and
Antarctica Loss Rates Rapidly Increasing.
- 13 Sep 20 The Conversation: Earth
may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5℃ warming limit by 2024,
major new report says.
- 13 Sep 20 NewSci: Winter
ice in the Bering Sea is doomed to disappear within decades.
- 13 Sep 20 The Guardian: The
future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate
change wakeup call + Greta
Thunberg says Venice documentary shows her real self.
- 3 Sep 20 Nature ($): Vulnerability
of Antarctica’s ice shelves to meltwater-driven fracture +
Crevasse
analysis reveals vulnerability of ice shelves to global
warming.
- 2 Sep 20 LiveScience: Half
of Antarctic ice shelves could collapse in a flash, thanks to
warming.
- 2 Sep 20 The Conversation: Japan
is closing its old, dirty power plants – and that’s bad news
for Australia’s coal exports + Under
Biden, the US would no longer be a climate pariah – and that
leaves Scott Morrison exposed.
- 2 Sep 20 The New Daily: Government’s
push for a gas-fired recovery crumble as Suncorp cuts ties to
industry.
- 2 Sep 20 The Saturday Paper: ($): Hopes
of a gas boom fizzle.
- 2 Sep 20 JPL: NASA-led
Study Reveals the Causes of Sea Level Rise Since 1900.
- 21 Aug 20 The Guardian: Greenland
ice sheet lost a record 1m tonnes of ice per minute in 2019
(JPL
research)
- 20 Aug 20 RenewEconomy: NSW
to fund four new big battery projects as it readies to flick
switch from coal.
- 5 Aug 20 SMH: Yes,
Senator, climate change is real: A Liberal MP's open letter to
One Nation's Malcolm Roberts.
- 3 Aug 20 SciAm: With
Fires, Heat and a Cyclone, Arctic Breaks Melting Record
+ ($) The
False Logic behind Science Denial.
- 3 Aug 20 The Conversation: Unwelcome
sea change: new research finds coastal flooding may cost up to
20% of global economy by 2100.
- 3 Aug 20 The Guardian: James
Murdoch resigns from board of News Corp [objects to global
warming denial] + Extra
23 million people could face coastal flooding within 30 years,
even with emission cuts, study says + Plan
that tackles recession and climate change could create 76,000
Australian jobs, report says +
- 30 Jul 20 RenewEconomy:
- 30 Jul 20 The Guardian: In
100 days, the climate emergency may be even more serious.
That's why we’re launching this series... [US election]
- 30 Jul 20 ABC: Fossil
fuel industry levy should pay for bushfire impact, climate
action group report says.
- 9 Jul 20 The Guardian: Koalas
will be driven to extinction before 2050 in NSW, major inquiry
finds.
- 6 Jul 20 Japan Times: Beginning
of the end for megadam projects in China as solar and wind
power rise.
- 6 Jul 20 Science Alert: There's
A Place On Earth Getting Cooler, Not Hotter. A New Study Sheds
Light On Why.
- 6 Jul 20 The Conversation: Global
report gives Australia an A for coronavirus response but a D
on climate +
- 4 Jun 20 The Guardian: Rapid
shift to renewable energy could lead Australia to cheap power
and 100,000 jobs.
- 21 May 20 SMH: Old
friendships alone won't save us from climate change -
governments’ continued support for fossil fuels in the face of
overwhelming evidence of potentially catastrophic climate change
is to recognise “the extent of the depth and reach of fossil
fuel incumbency”.
- 21 May 20 The Guardian: Angus
Taylor's 'tech, not taxes' approach is likely to create more
problems than it solves.
- 19 May 20 The Conversation: Climate
change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends
on it + Be
worried when fossil fuel lobbyists support current
environmental laws.
- 19 May 20 ScienceDaily: How
climate killed corals - Multiple factors joined forces to
devastate the Great Barrier Reef in 2016
- 19 May 20 Japan Times: Mexico cites coronavirus as reason to
reduce renewable energy - "...a champion of the state-owned oil
industry who dislikes renewables and private-sector energy
projects..."
- 18 May 20 The Saturday Paper ($): Damning
denial
- 18 May 20m The Conversation: Just
how hot will it get this century? Latest climate models
suggest it could be worse than we thought.
- 12 May 20 NewSci: Climate
change has already made parts of the world too hot for humans.
- 7 May 20 The Conversation: 3
times Michael Moore’s film Planet of the Humans gets the facts
wrong (and 3 times it gets them right + ARENA: 75%
renewable NEM possible by 2025: AEMO - " The Australian
Energy Market Operator has laid out an action plan to prepare
the National Electricity Market for a high share of renewable
energy generation..."
- 7 May 20 RenewEconomy: Massive
Pilbara wind and solar export hub gets environmental green
light.
- 7 May 20 New Scientist: It’s
impossible to predict if crucial Antarctic glacier will
collapse.
- 5 May 20 The Conversation: Aren’t
we in a drought? The Australian black coal industry uses
enough water for over 5 million people.
- 27 Apr 20 One step off the grid: NSW
paves way for more – and bigger – rooftop solar systems.(not
requiring local council approval)
- 23 Apr 20 ABC: Science
denial among the greatest risks to humanity, new 'call to
arms' report finds + CHF: Call to Action on
Global Catastrophic Risks.
- 20 Apr 20 New Scientist: US
megadrought is being made more intense by effects of climate
change.
- 8 Apr 20 ACEEE: States
step up climate efforts by requiring utilities to increase
energy efficiency + Applied Energy ($): Technologies
and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and
assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070.
- 7 Apr 20 The Conversation: We
just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we
saw was an utter tragedy (worst bleaching on record) + Coronavirus
is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to
pandemics + Sorry
to disappoint climate deniers, but coronavirus makes the
low-carbon transition more urgent.
- 27 Mar 20 The Guardian: Great
Barrier Reef suffers third mass coral bleaching event in five
years.
- 27 Mar 20 The Conversation: A
rare natural phenomenon brings severe drought to Australia.
Climate change is making it more common.
- 27 Mar 20 Renew Economy: Acciona
to build huge 1GW wind farm in Queensland after landing
CleanCo deal (but where is the battery that was required
in the tender process?)
- 27 Mar 20 ABC: Study
supports case linking coal mining and poor air quality in
nearby towns ( see this
diagram)
- 19 Mar 20 ABC: Adani
executive Lucas Dow talks up bigger coal mine in leaked video
at LNP fundraising event.
- 15 Mar 20 LiveSceince: Ice
loss in Antarctica and Greenland increased sixfold in the last
30 years.
- 13 Mar 20 New Scientist: Turn
your home into a power plant + Solar Quotes: Virtual
Power Plant Comparison Table.
- 11 Mar 20 The Conversation: It’s
official: the last five years were the warmest ever recorded.
- 11 Mar 20 CNN: The
young conservatives who believe Greta Thunberg and want to
bring Republicans with them.
- 11 Mar 20 ABC: Great
Barrier Reef coral bleaching event linked to 'anthropogenic
climate change'.
- 11 Mar 20 RenewEconomy: Global
fossil fuel subsidies reach $5.2 trillion, and $29 billion in
Australia (IMF
report takes into account health and some climate change
effects) + 2014 ABC: Australian
coal, oil and gas companies receive $4b in subsidies: report.
- 11 Mar 20 The Guardian: Climate
emergency: global action is ‘way off track’ says UN head.
- 5 Mar 20 ABC: Greta
Thunberg says EU is 'pretending' to tackle climate change
crisis.
- 3 Mar 20 CNN: Half
of the world's beaches could disappear by the end of the
century, study finds
- 3 Mar 20 Nature: Climate
lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet
+
Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion + Disappearing
beaches + Knitting
while Australia burns.
- 28 Feb 20 LiveScience: See
record-high temperatures strip Antarctica of huge amounts of
ice.
- 28 Feb 20 The Conversation: The
last ice age tells us why we need to care about a 2℃ change in
temperature.
- 23 Feb 20 ABC: Why
Germans all agree on shutting down the coal industry.
- 23 Feb 20 The Guardian: Great
Barrier Reef could face 'most extensive coral bleaching ever',
scientists say + JP
Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race
- Leaked report for world’s major fossil fuel financier says
Earth is on unsustainable trajectory
- 20 Feb 20 Renew Energy: Tesla
big battery at Hornsdale gets big jump in revenues, more to
come - "French renewable energy developer Neoen says
revenues at its Tesla big battery at the Hornsdale Power Reserve
enjoyed a 56 per cent jump in revenues in the last quarter of
2019, primarily due to a jump in the value of frequency and
ancillary services...But those earnings may be dwarfed by the
first quarter revenue, given that the effective “islanding” of
the South Australia grid caused by storms that tore down the
main link to Victoria has seen a surge in FCAS requirements and
prices over the two weeks that the state was islanded." + Cannon-Brookes
teams with Tesla, 5B to fund solar and batteries for fire
victims.
- 28 Jan 20 ABC: The
[dire] future of coal has already been decided in boardrooms
around the globe + Bureau
of Meteorology chart shows how temperatures have soared in
Australia over the past century.
- 23 Jan 20 ABC: Australian
bushfire photos from the air show scale of carnage and
destruction - good news that the Sunnataram Forest
Monastery near Bundanoon was saved.
- 18 Jan 20 ABC: Mark
McVeigh is taking on REST super on climate change and has the
world watching - Mr McVeigh has alleged that REST has
failed to protect his retirement savings from the financial
devastation that will flow from climate change...
- 18 Jan 20 New Scientist: Antarctica's
doomsday glacier is melting. Can we save it in time?
- 13 Jan 20 The Conversation: Bushfires,
bots and arson claims: Australia flung in the global
disinformation spotlight - In late November, some Twitter
accounts began using #ArsonEmergency to counter evidence that
climate change is linked to the severity of the bushfire crisis
+ Bushfires
won’t change climate policy overnight. But Morrison can shift
the Coalition without losing face.
- 9 Jan 20 ABC: BOM
review shows 2019 was a year of weather extremes -
Australia's average maximum daytime temperatures really sizzled
— last year was 2.09 degrees Celsius above the 1961-to-1990
average, smashing the previous record by half a degree...
- 9 Jan 20 Space.com: Australia's
Deadly Wildfires in Photos: The View from Space [has
heatwave info]
- 7 Jan 20 The Conversation: Listen
to your people Scott Morrison: the bushfires demand a climate
policy reboot + The
bushfires are horrendous, but expect cyclones, floods and
heatwaves too.
- 7 Jan 20 SBS: How
a climate change study from 12 years ago warned of this horror
bushfire season.
- 7 Jan 20 SMH: Never
again should we hesitate: the climate emergency is here.
- 3 Jan 20 SMH: Just
2 per cent of Britain's power now comes from coal. In
Australia, it's more like three quarters.
- 2 Jan 20 The Guardian: 2019
was Australia's hottest year on record – 1.5C above average
temperature.
- 2 Jan 20 Japan Today: 12
dead, several missing as Australia counts cost of devastating
bushfires.
- 2 Jan 20 !0 Daily: We
Are A Burning Nation Led By Cowards.
- 2 Jan 20 Gizmodo: NASA
Satellite Images Show The Terrifying Reality Of Climate Change.
- 28 Dc 19 The Guardian: Home
affairs warned Australian government of growing climate
disaster risk after May election.
- 28 Dec 19 Japan Times: In
New Jersey, a slow-motion evacuation from climate change.
- 28 NewSci: Greenland
lost almost 4 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years.
- 28 Dec 19 Science: Australia's
vulnerable species hit hard by fires.
- 28 Dec 19 The Conversation: Attention
United Nations: don’t be fooled by Australia’s latest report
on the Great Barrier Reef + Nine
things you love that are being wrecked by climate change +
- 28 Dec 19 ABC: Climate
change slashes more than $1 billion from farm production value
over past 20 years
- 16 Dec 19 The Guardian: The
UN climate talks are over for another year – was anything
achieved?
- 14 BBC: Climate
change: COP25 island nation in 'fight to death'
- 14 Dec 19 Renew Energy: [Australian] Electricity
prices set to plummet as strong wind and solar investment
kicks in [despite the absence of government policy]
- 14 Dec 19 Japan Times: Climate
change threatens food supplies if growing regions are hit
simultaneously with extreme weather.
- 14 Dec 19 Japan Today: Youth
urge adults to stop 'acting like children' on climate change
- 14 Dec 19 The Conversation: Greenland
has lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice since 1992.
- 14 Dec 19 New Scientist: How
we predicted [?] global warming and Arctic ice melt – 40 years
ago + Scientists
issue wake-up call on dangerous loss of oxygen from oceans
+
- 6 Dec 19 ABC: Greta
Thunberg's La Vagabonde voyage let an Aussie family meet the
girl behind a climate movement.
- 6 Dec 19 The Guardian: Climate
models have accurately predicted global heating, study finds
- Findings confirm reliability of projections of temperature
changes over last 50 years
- 4 Dec 19 ABC: Climate
change displacing one person every two seconds, Oxfam report
says + Greta
Thunberg an 'energised … angry kid' ready for climate summit
after three-week voyage.
- 3 Dec 19 The Guardian: Australia
endures its driest and second-hottest spring on record -
Climate records were broken across the country as the spring of
2019 was dominated by drought and bushfires
- 1 Dec 19 SpaceDaily: US
says will 'protect its interests' at climate conference -
but "Nancy Pelosi will lead a 15-member congressional delegation
to "reaffirm the commitment of the American people to combating
the climate crisis."
- 30 Nov 19 Japan Times: Japan's
promotion of coal-fired power plants spurred U.N. to reject
Abe's request to address September climate summit.
- 30 Nov 19 ABC: Student
climate change protesters take to the streets across the
country
- 29 Nov 19 Science [editorial]: An
even bigger climate problem.
- 29 Nov 19 SBS:
'Our house is on fire': EU Parliament declares climate
emergency.
- 29 Nov 19 NewSci: We
may be closer than we thought to Earth's dangerous tipping
points.
- 28 Nov 19 ABC: Marine
heatwaves threatening oyster industry and affecting Great
Barrier Reef, scientists warn.
- 28 Nov 19 Renew Economy: Finkel’s
national hydrogen strategy gets green light, but could be
lifeline for coal.
- 28 Nov 19 Japan Today: Renewables
could cut power generation health impact by 80%.
- 28 Nov 19 Japan Times: Climate
impacts 'to cost world $7.9 trillion' by 2050, analysis shows.
- 20 Nov 19 The Conversation: Climate
explained: why coastal floods are becoming more frequent as
seas rise - For every ten centimetres of sea level rise,
the chances of a 100-year coastal flood increase three-fold + New
report shows the world is awash with fossil fuels. It’s time
to cut off supply.
- 20 Nov 19 ABC:
South Australia's giant Tesla battery output and storage set
to increase by 50 per cent. But no mention of the current
system resulting in FCAS
savings of more than $100 million per year.
- 15 Nov 19 New Scientist: Emperor
penguins could go extinct by 2100 if we fail on climate change.
- 13 Nov 19 The Guardian: The
National Farmers' Federation’s drought strategy is like
shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic - "policies that
are fundamentally flawed because they are grounded in ideology
before evidence, particularly in relation to climate. The proof
of this is borne out when the NFF sees climate protesters as a
greater threat to agriculture than climate change..."
- 13 Nov 19 ABC: Fire,
climate change and prescribed burning: What do the experts
have to say? "a soon-to-be published study on fires
in Queensland last year found that the temperatures associated
with the blazes were four
times more likely because of climate change..."
- 12 Nov 19 The Conversation: Drought
and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast
is ablaze.
- 12 Nov 19 ABC: Regional
mayors criticise politicians for failing to link climate
change and deadly bushfires.
- 6 Nov 19 ABC: Climate
emergency declared by 11,000 scientists worldwide who warn of
'catastrophic threat' to humanity.
- 6 Nov 19 The Conversation: Australia
could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to
avoid it
- 4 Nov 19 The Conversation: Friday
essay: thinking like a planet - environmental crisis and the
humanities + The
science of drought is complex but the message on climate
change is clear + Australia’s
hidden opportunity to cut carbon emissions, and make money in
the process
- 4 Nov 19 ABC: Wind
farm rejection leaves clean energy advocates baffled + UN
chief Antonio Guterres warns Asia to quit 'addiction' to coal
as climate change threatens region.
- 4 Nov 19 NewSci: Up
to 630 million people could be threatened by rising seas +
Climate
change may see one in four US steel bridges collapse by 2040
- 29 The Conversation: Low
carbon economy can spur Australian “manufacturing boom”:
Albanese [but with "firm support for coal"!]
- 29 Oct 19 ABC: The
rich-listers funding[Australian] politicians who back climate
action
- 28 Oct 19 ScAm Nov19 issue ($): Global
Warming Is Not Part of Natural Climate Variability "98% of
the planet has warmed at once..." + Warming
Will Cost Rich and Poor Countries Alike "Canada—which
some economists say could
benefit from warming because of expanded
agriculture—would lose 13 percent [of its GDP" + New
Elevation Measure Shows Climate Change Could Quickly Swamp the
Mekong Delta.
- 28 Oct 19 NewSci: Extreme
snow stopped plants and animals breeding in parts of Greenland
- "As the Arctic warms and the sea ice shrinks more each summer,
the atmosphere there gets moister, meaning more snow can fall
when conditions are right..." + How
deadly disease outbreaks could worsen as the climate changes.
- 28 Oct 19 The Guardian: SUVs
second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal,
- 28 Oct 19 The Conversation: Water
may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don’t want
to rock the boat + Politicians
must mine the divide between coal lobbies and energy companies.
- 28 Oct 19 SBS: Australia's
carbon emissions set to peak next year as wind and solar
energy soars.
- 28 Oct 19 ABC: Angus
Taylor repeats misleading claim on carbon emissions yet again
- 23 Oct 19 The Conversation: Climate
explained: how volcanoes influence climate and how their
emissions compare to what we produce.
- 22 Oct 19 The Guardian: Clive
Palmer company reapplies for mine four times size of Adani's Carmichael
- 22 Oct 19 ABC: The
climate is apparently not getting 'worse' because some places,
like Canada, will benefit [spin from a senior bureacrat -
see SciAm Nov19 above]]
+ John
Hewson slams Coalition on climate change while business takes
lead reducing emissions [reality from a former Liberal
politician]
- 17 Oct 19 NewSci ($): Extinction
Rebellion protests should be embraced, not banned
- 12 Oct 19 The Conversation: We
thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research
shows we were wrong.
- 12 Oct 19 NASA/JPL: Celebrating
a Mission That Changed How We Use Radar [to observe
climate change]
- 3 Oct 19 The Conversation: If
warming exceeds 2°C, Antarctica’s melting ice sheets could
[would likely!] raise seas 20 metres in coming centuries
+ Not
convinced on the need for urgent climate action? Here’s what
happens to our planet between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming.
- 3 Oct 19 The Guardian: From
Qatar to Vietnam, global heating is making the workplace
deadly for millions + 'Things
are getting unstable': global heating and the rise of
rockfalls in Swiss Alps.
- 1 Oct 19 New Scientist: Mining
of world's largest untapped coal reserves ramps up [Not
Adani - it's in Botswana!]
- 1 Oct 19 ABC: Perth
notches hottest September on record, driest in 42 years as
weather warms up + ACT
has '100 per cent renewable' electricity from today. But what
does that mean?
- 1 Oct 19 Nature: How
climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth — in
pictures
- 30 Sep 19 Japan Today: [Iki]
City in Nagasaki Pref declares climate emergency, 1st in
country to do so.
- 30 Sep 19 ABC: We
fact checked Scott Morrison's speech to the United Nations.
Here's what we found.
- 30 Sep 19 The Conversation: ‘We
will never forgive you’: youth is not wasted on the young who
fight for climate justice.
- 28 Sep 19 (a busy week!):
- 21 Sep 19 The Guardian: Global
climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead
climate crisis protest.
- 19 Sep 19 NewSci: School
strikes are changing the world, says UN climate science
advisor.
- 19 Sep 19 ACEEE: US
Government Takes Sledgehammer to Clean Car Rules -
"[Trump] administration is revoking California’s waiver to set
stricter vehicle emissions standards that more than a dozen
other states have adopted..." + Energy
efficiency can slash emissions and get US halfway to climate
goals.
- 16 Sep 19 2019 The Conversation: Five
climate change science misconceptions – debunked "The
latest estimate is that the world’s five largest publicly-owned
oil and gas companies spend about US$200m each year on lobbying
to control, delay or block binding climate-motivated policy..."
+ Australia
to attend climate summit empty-handed despite UN pleas to
‘come with a plan.
- 16 Sep 19 The Saturday Paper ($): Warming
to prayer
- 16 Sep 19 Nature:
‘Ecological grief’ grips scientists witnessing Great Barrier
Reef’s decline + Arctic
sea ice is at a near-record low — but that’s just one of the
north’s problems.
- 16 Sep 19 Create: Electric
cars could offer more than just transport – like serving as
easy energy storage.
- 13 Sep 19 Time: These
Charts Show How High Sea Levels Will Rise if Antarctica's Ice
Continues to Melt.
- 12 Sep 19 Japan Today: (European) Car
makers near CO2 cliff-edge in electrification race
- 12 Sep 19 The Conversation: The
Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. There are a whopping 45
reasons why + Climate
change is bringing a new world of bushfires.
- 10 Sep 19 ABC: Climate
change survey shows Australians want action on emissions, but
are divided on nuclear
- 9 Sep 19 BBC: Greenland's
ice faces melting 'death sentence'.
- 9 Sep 19 The Conversation: The
air above Antarctica is suddenly getting warmer – here’s what
it means for Australia + Australia
has met its renewable energy target. But don’t pop the
champagne + Clean,
green machines: the truth about electric vehicle emissions.
- 9 Sep 19 Bank Australia: When
it comes to climate change, there’s power in community.
- 5 Sep 19 SciAm: Earth’s
Orbital Shifts May Have Triggered Ancient Global Warming -
orbital forcing is [not] playing a role in anthropogenic climate
change but expect global heating deniers to try to use this in
their repertoire!
- 4 Sep 19 The Conversation: Nice
try Mr Taylor, but Australia’s gas exports don’t help solve
climate change.
- 2 Sep 19 ABC: Nuclear
power not the answer as renewables continue to boom in
Australia, report finds.
- 26 Aug 19 SciAm: Scientists
Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change.
- 19 Aug 19 The Conversation: Adani
beware: coal is on the road to becoming completely uninsurable.
- 19 Aug 19 SciAm: And
Now, the Really Big [US] Coal Plants Begin to Close.
- 19 Aug 19 ABC:
Australia must listen to its Pacific neighbours on climate
crisis.
- 19 Aug 19 BBC: Climate change: Marine
heatwaves kill coral instantly.
- 19 Aug 19 New Scientist: Hottest
day records set across Europe this year will soon be broken.
- 2 Aug 19 Science: Time's
up, CO2 - "Forty
years ago this summer, a small group of atmospheric and
ocean scientists met in Woods Hole, Massachusetts..."
- 2 Aug New Scientist: The
UK is now using AI to predict solar power and lower energy
bills + Today's
global warming is unparalleled in the past 2000 years.
- 2 Aug 19 The Conversation: 2℃
of global warming would put pressure on Melbourne’s water
supply.
- 2 Aug 19 The Guardian: Revealed:
Johnson ally’s firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network.
- "...campaigns in support of coal power, tobacco, and against
cyclists."
- 26 Jul19 The Guardian: Climate
fears as the UK has second hottest day on record + All-time
temperature records tumble again as heatwave sears Europe.
- 26 Jul 19 ABC: Arctic
Circle burns as heatwaves plague Europe and the US +
- 26 Jul 19 SciAm: Magnet
and Neuron Model Also Predicts Arctic Sea Ice Melt.
- 26 Jul 19 The Conversation: Extreme
weather caused by climate change has damaged 45% of
Australia’s coastal habitat.
- 25 Jul 19 The Conversation: 2,000
years of records show it’s getting hotter, faster + BBC: Current
warming 'unparalleled' in 2,000 years + Europe
heatwave: Records tumble in Belgium, Germany and the
Netherlands.
- 25 Jul19 Reuters: [US]
Senators to unveil carbon tax bill to generate $2.5 trillion
in 10 years.
- 24 Jul 19 SciAm August magazine ($): Special
Report: Future of the Arctic
- 24 Jul 19 SBS: Iceland
to open a memorial for the first of its glaciers lost to
climate change.
- 19 Jul 19 The Guardian: Deputy
PM Michael McCormack accused of disputing evidence of global
heating.
- 16 Jul 19 ABC: Adani
demands names of CSIRO scientists reviewing groundwater plans
(comment: a sinister development)
- 14 July 19 Japan Today: King
coal rules for power utilities in Japan + Japan Times: Environmentalist
Kenro Taura talks about why he thinks Japan is a laggard in
the fight against climate change.
- 9 Jul 2019 The Guardian: [more shame]: Australia's
emissions reach the highest on record, driven by electricity
sector.
- 5 Jul 19 Japan Times: Several
deaths reported as Europe's continuing heat wave brings
record-breaking temperatures + Warming
to slash equivalent of 80 million jobs by 2030, U.N. warns.
- 5 Jul 19 NewSci: UK
commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050
+ Spy
satellite images reveal Himalaya glacier ice losses have
doubled + We
need to shut power plants early to stay under 1.5°C warming
+ Antarctic
sea ice is declining dramatically and we don’t know why
[not necessarily global warming] +
Climate change made Europe's heatwave at least five times more
likely.
- 5 Jun 19 The Guardian: Scientists
shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than
predicted + Photograph
lays bare reality of melting Greenland sea ice + 5 Jul 19
Gizmodo: Study
Warns We Could Melt The Entire Greenland Ice Sheet If We Don't
Change Course.
- 5 Jul 19 The Conversation: Everything
you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact
and jobs to its possible future +
- 7 Jun 19 Science: How
fast will the Antarctic ice sheet retreat? There is no longer any serious
scientific doubt that the retreat of glaciers in Antarctica
will eventually cause several meters of sea level rise, unless
the emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gas is reduced
substantially. + Rising
methane: A new climate challenge
- 4 Jun 19 The Conversation: Explaining
Adani: why would a billionaire persist with a mine that will
probably lose money?: By 2030, with the project still in
its relatively early stages, most developed countries will have
stopped using coal-fired power...Major banks in Japan and
Singapore have withdrawn from funding new coal projects,
following the lead of the global banks based in Europe and the
US...
- 1 Jun 19 The Guardian: Scotland
faces climate 'apocalypse' without action to cut emissions.
- 31 May 19 Science: A
call to climate action.
- 23 May 19 National Geographic: As
the climate crisis worsens, cities turn to parks.
- 23 May 19 SciAm: Turn
Methane into CO2 to Reduce Warming, Experts Propose.
- 23 May 19 NewSci: Sea
level rise could hit 2 metres by 2100 - much worse than feared.
- 17 May 19 The Guardian:
‘Extraordinary thinning’ of ice sheets revealed deep inside
Antarctica.
- 16 May 19 Space.com: Bill
Nye Brings Out the F-Bombs and a Blowtorch to Talk Climate
Change.
- 10 May 19 Science ($): Why
coal ash and tailings dam disasters occur.
- 10 May 19 ABC: Britain
records first coal-free week since the Victorian era + Rocky
Hill open cut coal mine 'dead in the water' after Gloucester
Resources abandons appeal option + Climate
change could slash $571b from property values, study warns.
- 10 May 19 The Guardian: New
Zealand introduces bill for zero carbon emissions by 2050.
- 6 Apr 19 SciAm: Climate
Preparation Report Released by Panel Previously Disbanded by
Trump.
- 5 Apr 19 LiveScience: Humans
Have Caused the Most Dramatic Climate Change in 3 Million
Years.
- 5 Apr 19 The Guardian: ‘It’s
no longer free to pollute’: Canada imposes carbon tax on four
provinces.
- 5 Apr 19 ABC: Victorian
coal plants producing highest mercury pollution in the
country, report shows ( see this
diagram)
- 25 Mar 19 NewSci: The
compelling tale of how climate change denial came to grip the
US.
- 22 Mar 19 The Guardian: Climate
change could make insurance too expensive for most people
+ Mount
Everest: melting glaciers exposing bodies of climbers.
- 9 Feb 19 ABC: Green
waste-to-energy power plant could solve power reliability in
regions.
- 9 Feb 19 The
Conversation: Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic
risk [from global warming]
- 8 Feb 18 The Guardian: Court
rules out Hunter Valley coalmine on climate change grounds
- Judge rejects Rocky Hill mine near Gloucester, NSW, because of
its impact on the town and ‘dire consequences’ of increasing
emissions!
- 7 Feb 19 ABC: UN
warns world on track to breach 3C rise by 2100; last year was
fourth warmest on record.
- 6 Feb 19 ABC: Himalayas
to lose one-third of glaciers by 2100 even if Paris climate
goals are met.
- 25 Jan 19 The Guardian: David
Attenborough tells Davos: ‘The Garden of Eden is no more’ -
Human activity has created a new era yet climate change can be
stopped, says naturalist + Greenland's
ice melting faster than scientists previously thought: study
- pace of ice loss has increased four-fold since 2003
- 25 Jan 19 Japan Times: Scientists
warn of climate 'time bomb' for world's groundwater.
- 18 Jan 19 Eurekalert: Antarctica
losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago
- 13 Jan 19 SciAm ($): Scrubbing
Carbon from the Sky - 'Southern Company abandoned [its
attempt to make "clean coal"] in 2017, switching the Kemper
County clean coal plant to natural gas after spending $7.5
billion.'
- 11 Jan 19 The Guardian: Warming
oceans likely to raise sea levels 30cm by end of century –
study + Science: How
fast are the oceans warming?
- 8 Jan 19 World Economic Forum: What
just happened? 5 themes from the COP24 climate talks in Poland
+ ABC: COP24
sees Australia walk climate tightrope amid 'Paris Rulebook'
deadlock + NewSci: Katowice
climate talks are making headlines for the wrong reasons +
Seven
steps to save the planet: How to take on climate change and
win.
- 8 Jan 19 The Guardian: UK
power stations' electricity output lowest since 199 + Pacific
nations under climate threat urge Australia to abandon coal
within 12 years.
- 8 Jan 19 NewSci: A
New Year vow for our leaders? Start taking climate change
seriously.
- 8 Jan 19 BBC: Cars
and coal help drive 'strong' CO2 rise in 2018
- 3 Jan 19 SciAm: The
Next Climate Frontier: Predicting a Complex Domino Effect.
- 27 Dec 18 ABC: Australia
projected to miss emissions reduction target set out in Paris
Agreement.
- 7 Dec 18 ABC: Renewables
heading for 80 per cent of electricity market by 2030, putting
pressure on future funding: report + Greenland's
ice sheet melting rate is accelerating, scientists confirm
+ Renewable
energy reduces power prices by more than cost of subsidies,
study finds.
- 29 Nov 18 Create: Summer
blackouts on the horizon and no energy policy in sight.
- 29 Nov 18 West Australian: Julie
Bishop wants Federal Government to support Labor and back
National Energy Guarantee. + ABC: Crossbench
joins Julie Bishop and Labor in renewed push for energy
agreement.
- 29 Nov 18 Japan Today: Scientists
weigh up stratospheric sunlight barrier to curb warming.
- 29 Nov 18 BBC: Climate
change: Report warns of growing impact on US life + Trump:
Climate change scientists have 'political agenda' + Climate
change: Warming gas concentrations at new record high.
- 29 Nov 18 SMH: Labor
announces $15 billion to 'turbo charge' renewables sector
+ ABC: Labor's
energy policy is savvy – now is it scare proof?
- 23 Nov 18 NewSci: Environmentalists
must embrace nuclear power to stem climate change - The
Union of Concerned Scientists has overturned its longstanding
opposition to nuclear power [that is, existing plants without
saftey issues]...
- 22 Nov 18 SciAm: The
Biggest Story of the Century Needs More Coverage.
- 22 Nov 18 ABC: Power
bill pressures vs emissions vs reliability: Behind the new
election battleground + How
China's push for cleaner air is pushing up Australian power
prices + Lack
of network planning threatens Australia's renewable
electricity future, expert warns.
- 22 Nov 18 NewSci: The
race to green domestic heating and prevent climate catastrophe
+ Stockholm Environment Institute: Swedish
heat energy system – new tensions and lock-ins after a
successful transition.
- 13 Nov 18 ABC: Renewables
overtaking fossil fuels in new power generation: International
Energy Agency
- 29 Oct 18 NewSci: Banning
straws isn’t enough. We must get serious about climate change.
- 22 Oct 18 SMH: 'Rallying
cry': Mining giant BHP renews calls for carbon price.
- 19 Oct 18 NewSci: Bill
Gates leads global call to accept realities of a warming
planet.
- 10 Oct 18 ABC: 'You
can't keep arguing this is just a cycle': Farmers struggling
to manage impacts of climate change.
- 8 Oct 18 The Guardian: How
the UN climate panel got to 1.5C threshold – timeline -
Five reports and an agreement: the IPCC has been raising the
climate alarm for 30 years + IPCC: Summary
for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of
1.5°C
approved by governments.
- 3 Oct 18 ABC: Tesla
battery proves a leading source of dispatchable power, AEMO
says - "AEMO's data shows that it can dispatch power far
more rapidly and precisely than conventional thermal power
stations and more swiftly and accurately than the market
operator thought possible — while also pushing down prices...the
speed, precision and agility of the battery is unprecedented in
dealing with these regular, small frequency variations as well
as major power disturbances. Conventional coal-fired or
gas-fuelled generators might take seconds; the battery takes milliseconds.
Not only are its responses technically superior, it has also lowered the cost of
providing these services...In the first quarter of this year,
the cost of FCAS fell by nearly $33 million, or 57 per cent..."
- 11 Sep 18 ABC: There's
a certain Trump-like quality to Australia's discourse on
emissions reductions - these reassurances are at
completely at odds with the Government's own official advice
- 23 Aug 18 SciAm: As
Climate Scientists Speak Out, Sexist Attacks Are on the Rise
- 23 Aug 18 The Conversation: Rising
seas will displace millions of people – and Australia must be
ready - by Jane McAdam and John
Church.
- 21 Aug 18 Space.com: Melting
Permafrost Below Arctic Lakes Is Even More Dangerous to the
Climate, NASA Warns
- 19 Aug 18 New Scientist ($): Meet
the ‘climate kids’ suing the US government over global warming
+ How
women are rallying round the cause of climate injustice.
- 2 Aug 18 The Guardian: Was
this the heatwave that finally ended climate denial?
- 30 Jul 18 NewSci: Climate
change made Europe’s heatwave twice as likely to happen +
Warming
Arctic could be behind heatwave sweeping northern hemisphere.
- 6 Jul 18 UniNSW: [Effects of] Global
warming may be twice what climate models predict.
- 6 Jul 18 The Guardian: Goodbye
to Scott Pruitt, the worst EPA administrator of all time...[but]
Don’t trust Trump to replace him with someone who actually cares
about the environment
- 26 Jun 18 The Guardian: Farmers'
federation lines up against Tony Abbott on national energy
guarantee - Growing number of Liberals and Nationals also
warn against scuttling the policy
- 26 Jun 18 Science: Rising
bedrock may delay
ice sheet collapse [that would raise sea levels by 3
metres]
- 14 Jun 18 BBC: Antarctica
loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years - a three-fold increase since 2012
when the last such assessment was undertaken.
- 8 Jun 18 Space.com: Incredible
NASA Video Crams 20 Years of Earth's Weather Into 2 Minutes.
- 25 May 18 ABC: [Northern] Territory
Generation slashes value by $150m, gets government bailout in
face of renewables threat (so much for free-market
economics!)
- 13 May 18 SMH: Swaths
of native forest near Great Barrier Reef set to be bulldozed
- this proposal to clear land on Cape York Penisular is only
indirectly related to greenhouse gas emissions but likely puts
more pressure on the the GBR.
- 11 May 18 SpaceDaily: Tourism
nearly a tenth of global CO2 emissions.
- 29 Apr 18 J Geography and Natural Disasters: Trends
in Extreme Weather Events since 1900 – An Enduring Conundrum
for Wise Policy Advice ("...strong evidence that the first
half of the 20th century had more
extreme weather than the second half... - thanks John Lewis - Comment: so
fewer extreme events, but are they getting worse?)
- 19 Apr 18 NZ Herald: Scientists
discover new melting process in Antarctica.
- 14 Apr 18 SMH: Coal
has no place in Australia’s energy future by Crispin Hull
(see also this
diagram).
- 14 Apr 18 Japan Times: Former
coal lobbyist who waged campaign to block pollution curbs
confirmed as No. 2 at (US) EPA.
- 14 Apr 18 Washington Post: Heat
waves over the ocean have ballooned and are wreaking havoc on
marine life.
- 14 Apr 18 UNJ: South
Australia‘s new premier has cut access to Tesla batteries for
low income households.
- 3 Apr 18 SciAm: The
Arctic Is Breaking Climate Records, Altering Weather Worldwide.
- 3 Apr 18 The Guardian: COALition
backbenchers unite to lobby for coal under banner of Monash
Forum
- 7 Feb 18 ABC: Ozone
is missing from the atmosphere and scientists don't know why
[but suspect global warming]
- 5 Feb 18 News.Com(!): Millions
displaced if Antarctic ice melts.
- 16 Jan 18 ABC: How
rising sea levels could shrink Australia and spark a coastal
exodus - under global warming the sea level is likely to
rise by 12mm per year by 2081*. During the end of the last
ice age (10,000 years ago) it rose by 14.5mm per year and the shoreline receded by about 20
metres per year. * Prediction by one of the climate
models - see page 1180 of this
IPCC report, which was co-authored by Dr
John Church.
- 7 Jan 18 SMH: 'All
happening very quickly': Tesla battery sends a jolt through
energy markets - Critics have quibbled at the battery's
size ... but this ignores the many benefits – including
supporting the security of the grid – that are only beginning to
be understood. "The battery has been dispatched on multiple
occasions for both energy and Frequency Control Ancillary
Services (FCAS)..." (potentially saving the SA government
$millions)
- 7 Jan 18 Japan Times: Japan
spends scant energy on renewables.
- 7 Jan 18 NewSci ($): China
tackles climate change with world’s largest carbon market.
- 5 Jan 18 Science ($): Declining
oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters - from
warming oceans and nutrient run-off
- 15 Dec 17 NYT: How
Global Warming Fueled Five Extreme Weather Events.
- 15 Dec 17 Inhabit.com: Laser-driven
fusion energy leaves no radioactive waste – and it’s within
reach.
- 22 Nov 17 Phys.org: Global
carbon dioxide emissions projected to rise after three stable
years.
- 22 Nov 17 The Guardian: Al
Gore: 'I tried my best' but Trump can't be educated on climate
change + Coal-fired
plant shifted $1bn offshore while pocketing $117m from
Australian taxpayers.
- 18 Nov 17 NY Dai.y News: NASA
says New York will flood when the ice caps in Greenland melt.
- 11 Oct 17 SMH: Tony
Abbott speech: Allies go to ground and Labor lashes 'loopy'
ex-PM over climate change views + Five
charts that show Tony Abbott is the one who has lost sight of
the science + 'Really
awful': 50-degree days possible for Sydney, Melbourne, as
warming worsens
- 11 Oct 17 ABC: Adani:
Palaszczuk and business groups brush off allegations of
company's corruption, negligence + SBS: 'It's
going to ruin everything': Thousands flock to nationwide
protests to fight Adani coal mine.
- 18 Aug 17 Science ($): Australia
to ax support for long-term ecology sites.
- 15 Aug 17 Gizmodo: Mining
Giant Adani Pollutes The Great Barrier Reef, Fights $12,000
Fine (coal
has many more environmental & health hazards than CO2)
- 14 Jul 17 Japan Times: Japan
looking to lead in exporting renewable energy tech to emerging
economies.
- 30 Jun 17 The Guardian: Melting
and cracking – is Antarctica falling apart? [more likely
natural processes]
- 30 Jun 17 Science: Estimating
economic damage from climate change in the United States -
the poorest third of [USA] counties are projected to experience
damages between 2 and 20% of county income (90% chance) under
business-as-usual emissions
- 23 May 17 ABC: Climate change: Model
predicts Australia to lose iconic sites in new sea-level rise
(Prof John Church, "a
leading authority on sea-level rise caused by global warming" is
now at Uni of NSW after losing
his CSIRO job in 2016)
- 23 May 17 SciAm: Revamped
"Anti-Science" Education Bills in U.S. Find Success.
- 22 May 17 ABC: Adani
indefinitely postpones final investment decision on Carmichael
coal mine (seeking lower or deferred royalties!)
- 22 May 17 NewSci: We
are on track to pass 1.5°C warming in less than 10 years.
- 22 May 17 SMH: 'Fast-moving
clouds': How CS Energy's Kogan Creek Solar Boost project
failed (alledged management incompetent)
- 20 May 17 SciAm: Will
Tesla’s Tiles Finally Give Solar Shingles Their Day in the
Sun? (some interesting stats on solar energy)
- 19 Apr 17 ABC: Abrupt
glacier melt causes Canada river to vanish in four days.
- 19 Apr 17 The Guardian: John
Hewson says $1bn loan to Adani the 'last thing' COALition
should be doing.
- 19 Apr 17 ABC: NASA
images show new crack in Greenland's Petermann Glacier.
- 15 Mar 17 ABC: Turnbull
speaks with Elon Musk about battery technology. + The
Advertiser: Government
wants US tech billionaire Elon Musk to pitch for a piece of
Government’s $150m renewable energy pie.
- 15 Mar 17 SMH: 'They
died of thirst': Extreme conditions wipe out forest over 1000
kilometres + As
Australia scorches, sea ice spread around Antarctica hits a
record low + Victoria
to get its first large-scale solar plants +
- 8 Mar 17 SMH: State
of the Environment report reveals a calamitous trajectory.
- 1 Mar 17 SMH: Antarctic
sea ice 'obliterates' previous minimum record, in remarkable
reverse + Australia's
carbon emissions jump as coal-fired power ramps up.
- 26 Feb 17 ABC: [Coal] Mine
pollution levels in Blue Mountains [wilderness area] could be
some of world's worst, insect species dying out.
- 26 Feb 17 Japan Times (!): Plan
to save Great Barrier Reef has been set back decades,
Australian experts say - With heavy use of coal-fired
power and a relatively small population of 24 million, Australia
is considered one of the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas polluters...
Researchers highlighted that the government’s rescue plan does
not do enough to address climate change, noting that “new coal
mines pose a serious threat” to the reef’s heritage area.
- 19 Feb 17 SMH: Mining
industry tipped millions into pre-election clean coal campaign
[2016] + As
Australia scorches, sea ice spread around Antarctica hits a
record low. "Clean"
coal?
- 18 Feb 17 The Saturday Paper: Malcolm
Turnbull’s switch on power sources.
- 18 Feb 17 Science ($): Demise
of stream rule won't revitalize coal industry.
- 16 Feb 17 SciAm: Climate
Change Has Already Harmed Almost Half of All Mammals.
- 9 Feb 17 ABC: Heatwaves
to be hotter, longer and more frequent, climate change report
says.
- 19 Jan 17 SMH: 'Extreme
year': 2016 declared hottest year on record as climate change
builds on big El Nino.
- 5 Jan 17 ACEEE: 2017
is looking like a good year for energy efficiency as
investments grow.
- 5 Jan 17 SMH: No
'cooking the books': New study confirms global warming hiatus
didn't happen + Science Advances: Assessing
recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface
temperature records + Overlooked
possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation in warming climate "we show that the AMOC collapses 300 years after
the atmospheric CO2 concentration is abruptly doubled from the
1990 level..."
- 4 Jan 17 ABC: Port
Augusta power station ash could be toxic, health effects 'less
than certain', SA Health says (see also Health
risks from coal-fired power stations)
- 3 Jan 17 ScAm: Accepting
the Reality of Climate Change Is Good for Business - The
climate cause has lost an ally in the White House, but the
private sector has ensured that the clean technology revolution
is here to stay
- 18 Dec 16 ABC: Antarctic
research into warm water causing rapid glacial ice melt.
- 16 Dec 16 Science Alert: There's
a giant crater in East Antarctica, and it's very bad news
- Antarctica is more vulnerable than we thought [melting of ice
shelf]
- 10 Nov 16 NewSci: President
Trump means we can’t escape a dangerously warmer world.
- 10 Nov 16 Science ($): Sea
ice shrinks in step with carbon emissions - Every
additional metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) puffed into the
atmosphere appears to cost the Arctic another 3 square meters of
summer sea ice
- 8 Nov 16 The Guardian: Tough
choices for the media when climate science deniers are elected.
- 7 Nov 16 ABC: Climate
scientists feel weight of world on their shoulders - Every
day, these scientists face evidence of climate change. They
explain how they cope with the emotional burden of what they
know.
- 7 Nov 16 Daily Telegraph: Big
changes looming across the world but Australians could be left
behind.
- 12 Oct 16 Business Recorder: Tax
fossil fuels or risk kids' future: US climate scientist -
James Hansen
- 1 Oct 16 The Saturday Paper: China’s
coal price cartel + Political
power struggle after SA’s statewide blackout - As
clean-up began after South Australia’s freak storms, the federal
energy minister seized the opportunity for a debate on
renewables [it was about numerous transmission towers being
damaged in the storm - not South Australia's high
proportion of renewal energy in electricity generation].
- 1 Oct 16 BBC: The
human and animal costs of India's unregulated coal industry.
- 26 Sep 16 CleanTechnica: One
Decade Left To Keep Global Warming Below 1.5°C.
- 26 Sep 16 Gizmodo: Dramatic
Visualizations Show Just How Quickly the Arctic Is Melting.
- 26 Sep 16 The Conversation: The
Great Barrier Reef’s ‘new normal’ is a forlorn sight.
- 3 Sep 16 SMH: China
[Parliament] ratifies Paris climate change agreement ahead of
G20 -
- 16 Aug 16 SMH: Malcolm
Roberts [new One Nation Senator] leaves NASA 'flummoxed' with
Q&A climate claims. Q&A
transcript.
- 12 Aug 16 ABC: Great
Barrier Reef: Cost to save reef tops $8 billion, report finds.
- 7 Aug 16 The Saturday Paper: Dear
Minister Frydenberg...Surely as an experienced and
professional politician you can see the growing body of evidence
from here and around the world that when you try to silence the
voices of the people, the voices get louder...
- 7 Aug 16 Japan Times: Climate
change threatens nation’s agriculture - Dark clouds cast
gloom over future domestic food production as global
temperatures rise
- 5 Aug 16 ABC: Scientists
say damage done by jobs cuts at CSIRO will not be reversed by
Minister's intervention.
- 18 Jun 16 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal:
Major
coastal flooding in southeastern Australia 1860-2012,
associated deaths and weather systems - The Great Cyclone
of 1954 and the Catherine Hill Gale in 1867. If these and other
extreme events were to occur nowadays they would have
catastrophic impacts...
- 18 Jun 16 Science: Sea
ice retreat said to accelerate Greenland melting.
- 19 May 16 ABC: Climate
change could trigger 'tipping point' for East Antarctic Totten
Glacier. Also Washington
Post + Nature ($): Repeated
large-scale retreat and advance of Totten Glacier indicated by
inland bed erosion.
- 16 May 16 SMH:
Confirmed: Southern
hemisphere CO2 level rises above symbolic 400 ppm milestone.
( see also 2013 article 400ppm
history lesson for sceptic amateurs when northern
hemisphere levels first exceeded 400ppm)
- 16 May 16 Brisbane Times: Queensland's
mangrove ecosystem dying in secret - large scale diebacks
of mangrove trees in the Gulf of Carpentaria for months...
- 14 May 16 SMH - more shame on Australia: Global
sea-level expert John Church made to walk the plank by CSIRO
- For John Church, a leading authority on sea-level rise caused
by global warming, there was much that was fitting – and yet
callous – about being sacked at sea.
- 9 May 16 The Saturday Paper: Tasmania's
power crisis - Mismanagement of Tasmania’s once-abundant
hydroelectric resources combined with the driest year on record
see the state on the brink of wintertime power cuts...there is
an ideological antagonism to rooftop solar and wind...a deep
resistance to attracting large-scale investment in renewable
sources of energy to Tasmania.
- 21 Apr 16 ABC: Leading
scientists urge UK newspaper The Times to improve
'sub-standard' climate reporting.
- 21 Apr 16 NOAA: For
11th straight month, the globe was record warm - the
highest for the month of March in the 1880-2016 record
- 20 Apr 16 SMH: The
Great Barrier Reef: 93% hit by coral bleaching, surveys
reveal.
- 13 Apr 16 Insurance Journal: RIMS 2016: Sea
Level Rise Will Be Worse and Come Sooner.
- 6 Apr 16 NewSci: Pilot
plant to turn CO2 into house parts and paving stones + Unexpected
Antarctic melt could trigger 2-metre sea level rise
- 5 Apr 16 SMH: Adani's
Carmichael mine is just not going to happen "Clean energy
is competitive ...The only hurdle to overcome is mindset.
There's no technical challenge at all"
- 24 Mar 16 Skynews: Barrier
Reef coral may be 'gone for good' + CNN: Dramatic
images reveal coral bleaching in Great Barrier Reef
- 24 Mar 16 ABC Science: Carbon
emissions rate 'highest in 66 million years'
- 24 Mar 16 SMH: Malcolm
Turnbull's green shift another blow to Tony Abbott
(hooray!)
- 23 Feb 16 EurekaAlert: Mapping
the world for climate sensitivity + Low-carbon
policies could prevent up to 175,000 US deaths by 2030 -
Curbing transport and energy emissions could yield $250 billion
annual health benefit...reducing emissions that cause warming --
many of which also contribute to air pollution -- would benefit
public health here and now
- 1 Feb 16 SMH: Australian
emissions rising towards historical highs and will not peak
before 2030, analysis finds - the projected growth rate
one of the worst in the developed world + Paris
climate limit will see some parts of world warm by 6 degrees:
Nature paper + Carbon
dioxide causing 'intoxication' of ocean fish sooner than
expected.
- 30 Dec 15 NASA:L A
Still-Growing El Niño Set to Bear Down on US.
- 17 Dec 15 NASA: Climate
Change Rapidly Warming World's Lakes.
- 15 Dec 15 The Guardian: Malcolm
Turnbull lifts Abbott ban on government finance for wind power
+ SMH: Heat
turned up on Malcolm Turnbull's domestic climate policies as
world pledges to act + Reuters: How
the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal.
- 1 Dec 15 SciAm: Why
Climate Skeptics Are Wrong + The
Most Important Number in Climate Change - Just how
sensitive is Earth's climate to increasing concentrations of
carbon dioxide?
- 1 Dec 15 NewSci: Paris
climate summit: Hope versus reality at last ditch meeting.
- 1 Dec 15 SMH: Cory
Doctorow: we've lost key decade in climate fight, thanks to
Abbott, Harper.
- 13 Nov 15 Science ($): Climate
warning, 50 years later - continued release of CO2 to the
atmosphere from burning fossil fuels would “almost certainly
cause significant changes” and “could be deleterious from the
point of view of human beings.” (U.S. President's Science
Advisory Committee advice to President Lyndon B. Johnson in
1965)
- 10 Nov 15 NewSci: Carbon
emissions hit new high and temperature rise soars to 1 °C
+ Australia
can go green and have economic growth – if it wants to.
- 10 Nov 15 ABC: World
in 'unchartered territory' after greenhouse gases hit new high
in 2014: United Nations.
- 9 Nov 15 SMH: How
runaway sea level rise could one day swamp the world's biggest
cities + How
climate change influenced Australia's extreme weather in 2014.
- 9 Nov 15 The Guardian: Rising
temperatures could drive 100m into extreme poverty, World Bank
warns.
- 4 Nov 15 ABC: Three
quarters of Australians believe climate change is real.
- 13 Oct 15 NewSci: If
Paris climate change talks fail, there’s always Plan C
(Tim Flannery) - All is not lost if imminent climate talks fail
to strike a deal that puts the world on track to keep warming
below 2˚C + Even
drastic emissions cuts can’t save New Orleans and Miami.
- 13 Oct 15 Japan Times: Even
radical climate action won’t save New Orleans, Miami from
rising sea levels.
- 21 Aug 15 NASA: NASA
Holds Media Opportunities to Discuss Rising Sea Levels + NASA
Study Finds Indian, Pacific Oceans Temporarily Hide Global
Warming "... this shifting pattern of ocean heat accounts
for the slowdown in the global surface temperature trend
observed during the past decade..."
- 12 Aug 15 The Saturday Paper: Filthy
secrets shroud Aust’s emissions reduction plans - Weak
regulation is increasing Australia’s carbon emissions and
allowing dirty power stations to survive + SMH: Abbott
government's 'political' climate target fails three key tests.
- 4 Aug 15 BBC: What
does President Obama's climate change plan do?
- 4 Aug 15 NewSci: Fossil
fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power (see also Possible
health hazards from coal-fired power stations)
- 23 Jul 15 SciAm: Sea
Level Could Rise at Least 6 Meters (list of affected
cities)
- 21 Jul 15 NewSci: Australian
PM bans renewable energy body from investing in wind (more
shame) + My
guidebook aims to slay climate science’s uncertainty problem
+ 33
reasons why we can’t think clearly about climate change +
Latest
numbers show at least 5 metres sea-level rise locked in.
- 21 Jul 15 ABC Science Show of 11 Jul has an interview
with Dr Jeremy Leggett. See his website A Chronicle of The Carbon
War.
- 1 Jun 15 SMH: Australia
points to Direct Action in response to tough UN questions on
climate responsibility.
- 13 May 15 New Scientist: UK's
Conservatives to fight climate change but shun wind power
+ Worst
drought in 1200 years drains America's biggest reservoir +
Apparent
slowing of sea level rise is artefact of satellite data +
Severe
heat costs the Australian economy US$6.2 billion a year
(this amounts to roughly 0.4 per cent of Australia's GDP. That's
greater than the cost for Australia to cut its net carbon
emissions to zero by 2050)
- 13 May 15 ABC: Budget
2015: An assault on Australia's climate programs.
- 8 May 15 SMH: World
headed for an El Nino and it could be a big one, scientists
say + Climate
change a UN-led ruse, says Tony Abbott's business adviser
Maurice Newman + El
Nino: What it could mean for Tony Abbott [that he has bad
advisers?]
- 28 Apr 15 Echo Net: Ten
things we learned… about Abbott’s contempt for climate.
- 24 Apr 15 New Scientist: Australia
has chance to go 100 per cent renewable by 2050 + Sydney
storm erodes sandy beaches, giving a taste of the future
- 20 Apr 15 ABC: China,
Brazil question whether Australia's emissions reduction
targets are ambitious enough.
- 20 Apr 15 SMH:
Call for Pyne's resignation over $4 million funding to climate
contrarian.
- 14 Apr 15: Nature ($): Few
Canadian glaciers left by 2100.
- 13 Mar 15 The Fifth Estate: Scientists’
open letter: Intergenerational Report wrong on climate.
- 16 Feb 15 ABC: Climate
change booklet aims to dispel confusion, misinformation +
Australian Academy of Science: The science of
climate change: Questions and answers.
- 12 Feb 15 9to5 Mac: Apple
announces $850m, 1600-acre solar farm in Monterey to offset
all its CA operations
- 10 Feb 15 SMH: Climate
change drove Australia's record hot year, report finds.
- 10 Feb 15 Sourceable: Australia
to Face Unbearable Heat ‘by 2090 Without Change
- 10 Feb 15 SciAm: Australian
Windfarms Face $13 Billion Wipeout from Political Impasse
- Some 44 Australian windfarm projects, about half
overseas-funded, have been shelved since a new conservative
government said it wanted to cut state support for the industry
a year ago
- 29 Jan 15 LAT: Climate
models don't over-predict warming, study shows.
- 26 Jan 15 NewSci: Shocking
state of world's riskiest nuclear waste site.
- 24 Jan 15 Tech Times: Study
Projects Dismal Future for Great Barrier Reef
- 8 Jan 15 SciAm: 2014
Officially Hottest Year on Record + Low
Gas Prices Smooth Path for Carbon Add-On in California -
"Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without
harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which
California excels," [lessons for Australia!]
- 30 Dec 14 SMH: Climate
shift in the Pacific may accelerate global warming.
- 23 Dec 14 SciAm: Coral
Clues Hint at Looming Global Warming Spike - his negative
phase has played a heavy role in driving an approximately
15-year old slowdown in worldwide surface warming. It suggests that a speedup in
warming may follow the next switch to the oscillation’s positive
phase...
- 9 Dec 14 BBC: Australia
worst performer on climate change - report
- 8 Dec 14 NASA: West
Antarctic Melt Rate Has Tripled - comprehensive,
21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has
found that the melt rate of glaciers there has tripled during the last decade.
- 2 Dec 14 BBC: Australia
has hottest spring on record as temperatures soar
- 2 Dec 14 SMH: Julie
Bishop's calls for nuclear power debate welcomed [by
some .... but her knowledge of renewal
baseload power sources is woeful]
- 28 Nov 14 Some irony in the order of headlines for ABC News
this morning >>

- 26 Nov 14 Penguin Books: This
Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate - available
for Kindle
- 23 Nov 14 The Age: Australia
will miss emissions target due to Direct Action, UN says -
the Abbott government's decision to axe the carbon tax is to
blame
- 13 Nov 14 Courier Mail: Bill
Nye chimes in on G20 climate talks - "Everyone hopes that
the other 19 of the G20 will lead the way."
- 13 Nov 14 SMH: Barack
Obama praises 'historic' climate deal as Labor steps up attack
on COALition + FT: Xi
and Obama revive hopes on global warming.
- 28 Sep 14 The Age: Australia
goes missing on climate change.
- 18 Sep 14 SMH: Coastal
inundation threat rises, says Climate Council.
- 10 Sep 14 Nature: Rise
in greenhouse-gas concentrations continues at alarming rate.
- 9 Sep 14 BBC: Greenhouse
gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984.
- 8 Sep 14 BBC: Antarctic
coastal waters 'rising faster'
- 6 Sep 14 The Guardian: The
ten worst environment decisions in Abbott's first year.
- 24 Aug 14 NewSci: Understand
faulty thinking to tackle climate change + Beijing's
coal ban may herald the end of the fuel.
- 21 Aug 14 BBC: Greenland
ice loss doubles from late 2000s.
- 18 Aug 14 Dehli Daily: Chief
scientist cautions Newman [business adviser of Prime Minister
Tony Abbott] on climate change theories
- 9 Aug 14 ABC: Australia
faces unprecedented oversupply of energy, no new energy
generation needed for 10 years: report - Electricity use
in Australia has been falling now for about four years due to
the take-up of rooftop solar systems, greater use of
energy-efficient appliances and the downturn in some
manufacturing industries that use lots of electricity...
- 21 Jul 14 SMH: Climate
models on the mark, Australian-led research finds.
- 15 Jul 14 Yale Environment 360: Human
Activity Has Caused Long-term Drought [in S.W.] Australia,
Model Shows
- 7 Jul 14 NewSci: Global
warming will serve up more pea-soupers + Ice
sheets may have already passed point of no return + Stopping
harmful climate change is surprisingly cheap "...we could
cover a lot of it using the subsidies currently handed to fossil
fuels...government subsidies for fossil fuels are around $500
billion a year – six times more than subsidies for renewables."
- 7 Jul 14 Quartz: An
entire island nation is preparing to evacuate to Fiji before
they sink into the Pacific.
- 18 Jun 14 DelhiDailyNews: Global
warming one of world's greatest challenges - Political
leaders in the UK and China have declared the danger of global
warming to be "one of the greatest challenges facing the
world"...
- 16 Jun 14 SciAm: Obama
Rips Climate Change Deniers in Commencement Speech.
- 11 Jun 14 Business Spectator: Harper
and Abbott: Two fossils fooling no one.
- 10 Jun 14 NewSci: The
US plan to cut emissions: What you need to know (see also
next item)
- 10 Jun 14 SMH: Tony
Abbott missing signs of world's switch to carbon trading,
experts say + Tony
Abbott seeks alliance to thwart President Obama on climate
change policy [This shameful act is reminescent of
John Howard undermining climate talks in 2000]
- 9 Jun 14 SciAm: Global
Warming Plays a Role in Australia's Record Heat - The past
12 months have been the warmest in Australia's recorded history,
where average temperature has warmed by 1.6-degrees F since 1910
- 6 Jun 14 Science ($): Humanity’s
unsustainable environmental footprint.
- 3 Jun 14 SciAm: "Sun
Kinks" in Railways Join the List of Climate Change's Toll
+ Will
New Climate Rules Help or Hurt in U.S. Elections?
- 3 Jun 14 NewSci: The
US plan to cut emissions: What you need to know + Global
warming may quintuple summer downpours in UK.
- 2 Jun 14 SMH: Australia's
past two years the hottest on record, Climate Council says
+ Jane
Goodall asks politicians: Do you really not care about the
future of your great-grandchildren?
- 25 May 14 Mail Online: Does
the solution to global warming lie in Australia? Giant
savannah responsible for massive spike in CO2 absorption in
2011[No!]
- 14 May 14 ABC Science: West
Antarctic ice sheet collapse 'unstoppable' (1.2m sea level
rise. Different to Wilkes Basin)
- 14 May 14 Financial Express: Ocean
winds at their strongest in 1,000 years leave Antarctica
colder, Australia drier.
- 11 May 14 Livescience: Antarctic
Ice 'Cork' Melting Could Lead to Unstoppable Sea Rise -
"... the Wilkes Basin region could, indeed, play a major role in
future sea level rise, contributing as much as 3 to 4 meters
across the world's oceans if even just half of the cork were
unplugged..."
- 1 May 14 SciAm: Pending
CO2 Emissions Rules Get a Boost from Supreme Court Ruling.
- 22 Apr 24 NewSci: How
climate pain is being spun into corporate gain.
- 22 Apr 14 BBC: Study:
US is an oligarchy, not a democracy - economic
elites and organised groups representing business interests have
substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while
average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or
no independent influence.
- 9 Apr 14 NOAA: Arctic
sea ice at fifth lowest annual maximum + Youtube Animation
of Arctic ice disappearing from 1987 to present (Union
of Concerned Scientists blog - "summer sea ice decline
should be front page news")
- 9 Apr 14 NOAA: Global
Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States National
Climate Assessment.
- 3 Apr 14 EPSL: Spontaneous
ice-front retreat caused by disintegration of adjacent ice
shelf in Antarctica - domino-effect ice–shelf retreat
could result in speed-up of ice flow and abrupt sea-level rise.
- 27 Mar 14 SciAm: Why
Global Warming Will Cross a Dangerous Threshold in 2036 by
Michael Mann + Democrats
and Republicans Agree on Climate Change - in each state, a
majority of those polled believe that temperatures are rising
and that human actions are part of the cause...
- 23 Mar 14 The Age: New
IPCC climate report projects significant threats to Australia.
- 18 Mar 14 NewSCi: How
much hotter is the planet going to get?
- 10 Mar 14 BBC: Mysterious
new man-made gases pose threat to ozone layer.
- 4 Mar 14 ABC News: Australia's
climate extremes increasing as carbon dioxide levels continue
to rise, report reveals.
- 27 Feb 14 Geodynamics: Vanuatu
goethermal power project
- 31 Jan 14 PlanetSave: See
63 Years of Climate Change In 15 Seconds [NASA
Animation - orange
is +1C and red is +2C]
- 13 Jan 14 SciAm: Cold
Outside? Forecast Calls for an Uptick in Global Warming
Disbelief.
- 10 Jan 14 TerraDaily: Pine
Island Glacier sensitive to climatic variability - the
thinning of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is much more
susceptible to climatic and ocean variability than at first
thought...[less melt from global warming but bery sensitive to
local conditions]
- 5 Jan 14 TGDaily: Global
temperatures to rise at least 4°C by 2100 + Nature ($): Spread
in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective
mixing + Climate
science: Clouds of uncertainty "An evaluation of
atmospheric convective mixing and low-level clouds in climate
models suggests that Earth's climate will warm more than was
thought in response to increasing levels of carbon dioxide." + Water
risk as world warms - First comprehensive global-impact
project shows that water scarcity is a major worry.
- 31 Dec 13 SMH: Tony
Abbott's business adviser says Australia taken 'hostage' by
'climate change madness'
- 31 Dec 13 The Guardian: 2013
climate year in review: 'the heat is on. Now we must act'.
- 17 Dec 13 NewSci: Radioactive
acid spill in Australian national park.
- 13 Dec 13 ESA: Antarctic's
ice loss on the rise - the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is
losing over 150 cubic kilometres of ice each year – considerably
more than when last surveyed...
- 10 Dec 13 NewSci: Is
it time to stop worrying about global warming? [No!]
- 2 Nov 13 USA Today: Obama
creates climate change task force.
- 2 Nov 13 SMH: Bill
Shorten backs scrapping of carbon tax, on condition of
replacement ETS.
- 27 Oct 13 SMH: Climate
debate must stick to the science: professor.
- 17 Oct 13 SMH: Lower
bills won't happen, say experts (after carbon tax is
scrapped by Tony Abbott - note that most Australians received
tax breaks to compensate for the higher electricity prices)
- 14 Oct 2013 SMH: Australia
vulnerable in a warming planet, leaked IPCC report finds -
"more than a quarter of a million Australian homes at risk from
rising sea levels"
- 5 Sep13 SMH: Our
love of driving fuels CO2 emissions.
- 20 Aug 13 SMH: 80cm
sea rise warning.
- 17 Jul 13 SciAm: Oil
Sands May Irrevocably Tar the Climate + (Aug 13 pending) The
Coming Boom in Geothermal Energy + Australia
plans to scrap carbon tax, bring forward ETS scheme.
- 26 Jun 13 SMH: Obama
unveils sweeping climate plan - the world does not have
time for “a meeting of the flat earth society” before it acts on
climate change
- 23 Jun 13 The Age:
Fewer voters want carbon tax axed.
- 20 Jun 13 Journal of Cosmology: Perihelion
precession, polar ice and global warming - This mechanism
represents a supplementary – natural – contribution to climate
change in the present epoch and may even be the dominant
fundamental cause of global warming, although anthropogenic
effects surely play a role too.(thanks Duncan Steel)
- 19 Jun 13 SMH: Ford
takes the greener road.
- 19 Jun 13 NewSci: Up
to half of all birds threatened by climate change.
- 4 Jun 13 NewSci ($): Nuclear
energy: The plutonium problem + A
second chance to save the climate - A fresh look at
temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected
opportunity to stay below the agreed international target of 2
°C of global warming...
- 19 May 13 The Guardian: Climate
research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds -
Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years,
97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic..only 0.7% or
83 of those thousands of academic articles, disputed the
scientific consensus that climate change is the result of human
activity, with the view of the remaining 2.2% unclear.
- 13 May 13 The Guardian: Climate
change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless'
- 13 May 13 Climate Spectator: 400ppm
history lesson for sceptic amateurs.
- 11 May 13 ABC: Carbon
pollution hits highest point in 3 million years.
- 2 May 13 SciAm: Global
CO2 Levels Approach Worrisome Milestone + Decades-Old
Documents Could Speed Discovery of Geothermal Wells
- 2 May 13 Geodynamics: Habanero
1 MW Pilot Plant Successfully Commissioned and has produced Australia’s first
Enhanced
Geothermal Systems (EGS)
generated power.
- 16 Apr 13 ABC: Antarctic
ice melting 10 times faster than 600 years ago.
- 8 Apr 13 NewSci: Climate
modellers vindicated as forecast comes true - "The recent
stalling of warming is certainly real...but rather than
undermining the forecast, the slowdown bolsters it, says Allen.
That's because natural fluctuations caused temperatures to get
ahead of the prediction in the final years of the 20th century,
so when the current hiatus is taken into account, the net result
is the same as the forecast." + Antarctic
ice grows as climate warms.
- 8 Apr 13 SMH: Polar
melt shakes up food chain.
- 3 Apr 13 Geodynamics: 1
MWe Habanero Pilot Plant – Commencement of Commissioning -
Geodynamics Limited is pleased to report that it has reached a
key milestone in the Habanero (geothermal energy) Project,
with the commencement of commissioning activities today at the
1MWe Habanero Pilot Plant.
- 2 Apr 13 BBC: Melt
may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion.
- 20 Mar 13 Brisbane Times: Climate-driven
disasters cost Victorians $4 billion.
- 13 Mar 13 The Japan Times: Toxic
management erodes safety at ‘world’s safest’ nuclear plant -
Echoes of Fukushima at Exelon’s flagship Byron Station in
Illinois
- 13 Mar 13 Science Alert: Climate
change to alter Pacific.
- 1 Mar 13 The Australian(!): Carbon
dioxide and warming lock-step in last Ice Age -
levels of carbon dioxide rose hand-in-hand with warming at
the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that deals a
blow to climate sceptics.
- 23 Feb 13 ABC: Wine
industry leading way on climate adaptation + [Transcript]
Head
of IPCC says most vulnerable countries have already reached
'tipping point'.
- 18 Feb 13 NewSci: Wind
power is now cheaper than coal in some countries - Any
wind farms built now would generate electricity for between A$80
(about US$80) and A$113 per megawatt-hour, whereas new coal
plants would cost A$176/MWh. In Australia, coal's high cost is
partly due to the nation's carbon tax, but new coal power
stations would still cost A$126/MWh even in the absence of the
tax.
- 18 Feb 13 SMH: Costs
soar for reinsurers - another summer of flooding and
extreme weather raised the country's peril profile
- 1 Feb 13 NewSci ($): Midnight
sun: How to get 24-hour solar power + Climate
change blamed for Australia's extreme weather + Is
Obama about to blow his climate credentials? + Get
cirrus in the fight against climate change
- 21 Jan 13 NewSci: Interactive
world map showing warming trends (courtesy of NASA)
- 18 Jan 13 NASA: Study
Finds Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest.
- 18 Jan 13 RENewEconomy: … and
time to get real about climate, say Greens.
- 18 Jan 13 SMH: Black
soot impact on global warming worse than thought: study +
New
high reached during great heatwave.
- 18 Jan 13 ABC: UN
group links heatwave to climate change.
- 18 Jan 13 NewSci: A
climate of cautious prediction.
- 18 Jan 13 The Australian: Country
getting hotter: Climate Commission.
- 18 Jan 13 Reuters: Impact
of climate change hitting home, U.S. report finds.
- 18 Jan 13 Aljazeera: Snow
grinds Tokyo to a halt [I was there and luckily made the
flight to Sydney, where it will reach 39C today]
- 5 Jan 13 Nature: Politics
is biggest factor in climate uncertainty - Delaying action
on emissions will increase costs and reduce chances of limiting
temperature increase.
- 27 Dec 12 NYT: Scientists
Report Faster Warming in Antarctica - the temperature at a
research station in the middle of West Antarctica has warmed by
4.4 degrees Fahrenheit [2.2C] since 1958. That is roughly twice
as much as scientists previously thought and three times the
overall rate of global warming, making central West Antarctica
one of the fastest-warming regions on earth.
- 20 Dec 12 SciAm: The
Mind’s Compartments Create Conflicting Beliefs - may
motivate procapitalists to believe that any attempt to curtail
industrial pollution by way of the threat of global warming must
be a liberal hoax...
- 18 Dec 12 NewSci: Doha
summit launches climate damage aid - take it further -
those nations that refuse to cut back emissions should pay
more.
- 17 Dec 12 SciAm: Leaked
Report Confirms Human-Induced Climate Change - The world
is on track for warming of at least 2 degrees Celsius, according
to a leaked draft of the next IPCC report
- 15 Dec 12 New Scientist: Leaked
IPCC report reaffirms dangerous climate change +
Another year wasted by climate negotiators.
- 15 Dec 12 The Independent: Bid
to heap blame on sunspots for climate change has backfired.
- 4 Dec 12 SMH: Records
tumble in November heatwave, bureau says
- 4 Dec 12 New Scientist: Projections
of sea level rise are vast underestimates + Arctic
permafrost is melting faster than predicted + Animals
are already dissolving in Southern Ocean.
- 19 Nov 12 The Age: Degrees
of devastation: major report warns of drastically hotter
planet.
- 16 Nov 12 ABC Catalyst TV show: Taking
Our Temperature - In 60 years, we've lost a third of our
total snow
cover,...Overall, averaging maximums and minimums, our
nation's core temperature has gone up 0.9 of a degree...the
sea-surface temperatures around Australia. And what we've seen
is about a degree of warming over the last century...Sea
temperatures here off Tasmania have risen an astounding 2.28
degrees. ...the biggest heatwave to hit Australia's waters ever.
It began just north of Ningaloo
Reef, hitting it heartbreakingly with the force of a
pot of boiling oil...In some places, up to 80% of what was there
before [coral reef ecosystem] is now no longer there...Gone,
dead, yeah. Covered in algae....the total sea-level rise since
1841is about 17 centimetres...
- 16 Nov 12 RenewEconomy: Geodynamics
blows some steam at Habanero - successful production of
steam from hot rocks deep underground.
- 8 Nov 12 Nature: Melting
in the Andes: Goodbye glaciers - Researchers are racing to
determine how shrinking glaciers in the Andes will affect the
water supply of millions of people.
- 4 Sep 12 NewSci: Hot
enough for you? - "... a steady warming trend that has
been no slower in the past decade than it was in the previous
two - and which, incidentally, agrees with what is predicted by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change." + ($) Arctic
ice low heralds end of 3-million-year cover.
- 31 Jul 12 SMH: How
I saw past the hot air on climate "Last year, after an
intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I
concluded that global warming was real and that previous
estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a
step further: humans are almost entirely the cause..."
- 30 Jul 12 SMH: Climate
results turn sceptic: 'let the evidence change our minds'
- "likely that essentially all of this increase results from the
human emission of greenhouse gases..."
- 28 Jul 12 SciAm: Deny
This: Contested Himalayan Glaciers Really Are Melting, and
Doing So at a Rapid Pace–Kind of Like Climate Change "82
glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau are retreating, 15 glaciers have
dwindled in mass, and 7,090 glaciers have shrunk in size..." + Evidence
for Climate Extremes and Costs Finally Gets Local.
- 26 Jul 12 SciAm($): Scientists
Trek to Collapsing Glaciers to Assess Antarctica’s Meltdown
and Sea-Level Rise - "2007 IPCC estimates of 18 to 59
centimeters of sea-level rise by 2100 do not account for any of
these ice shelf effects. The estimates “actually send the wrong
message,” Rignot says. “They’re probably off by a factor of two
to three.” By 2100, he says, “you could easily see a meter of
sea-level rise.” An analysis published in 2009 by Martin Vermeer
of the Helsinki University of Technology places the estimate
between 75 and 190 centimeters..."
- 26 Jul 12 BBC: Antarctic:
Grand Canyon-sized rift 'speeding ice melt'.
- 25 Jul 12 The Age: Waves
could power Melbourne by 2050: CSIRO.
- 25 Jul 12 NASA JPL: Satellites
see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt - For several
days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a
larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite
observations...
- 16 Jul 12 Nature: Tibetan
glaciers shrinking rapidly.
- 3 Jul 12 ABC: More
global action required to address carbon emissions -
interview with Professor Tim Flannery + Carbon
tax 'economically efficient': Garnaut.
- 30 Jun 12 SciAm: Electricity
Generation 'Burning' Rivers of Drought-Scorched Southeast -
Of the various modes of power production, hydropower has the
biggest water footprint...
- 27 Jun 12 SciAm: North
Carolina Sea Level Rises Despite Senators. Haven't they
heard of King
Canute?
- 27 Jun 12 ABC: Study
suggests how to win over 'deniers'.
- 27 Jun 12 SciAm: Court
Upholds EPA's Greenhouse Gas Rules - An appeals court on
Tuesday upheld the first-ever U.S. proposed regulations
governing heat-trapping greenhouse gases, handing a setback to
major industries like coal-burning utilities and a victory to
the Obama administration and environmental groups.
- 25 Jun 12 NewSci: Sea-level
rise accelerates faster on US east coast.
- 19 Jun 12 ABC Science: Greenhouse
gases largely to blame for warming oceans: scientists
+ Carbon
pricing explained.
- 19 Jun 12 EPSL: Calibrated
prediction of Pine Island Glacier retreat during the 21st and
22nd centuries with a coupled flowline model + Timing
and origin of recent regional ice-mass loss in Greenland.
- 5 May 12 BBC: Data
sheds light on speed of Greenland's glaciers - the ice
rivers may be contributing significantly less to sea-level rise
than had been thought...There is the caveat that this 10-year
time series is too short to really understand long-term
behaviour
- 27 Apr 12 SciAm: U.S.
Voters Favor Regulating CO2 - Three out of four U.S.
voters favor regulating carbon dioxide as a greenhouse-gas
pollutant, and a majority think global warming should be a
priority for the president and Congress. Comment: this is the
intention of the Australian
Clean Energy Initiative.
- 27 Apr 12 BBC: Green
energy 'cheap within years', says 'passionate' [conservative
UK] PM + World's
glaciers 'out of balance'.
- 27 Apr 12 Catalyst: Tree
Deaths - right across the globe, there are reports of
trees dying in mass numbers [from global warming]
- 18 Apr 12 SMH: Australian
economy leads the [developed] world ... and can afford to
take a leading role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- 16 Apr 12 ABC: Himalayan
region bucks glacier melt trend: study - "... it does not
detract in any way from the evidence for overall global
warming.."
- 7 Apr 12 Universe Today: 1981
Climate Change Predictions Were Eerily Accurate.
- 14 Mar 12 SMH: Carbon
emissions hit a new record "Australian researchers were
able to identify the ''fingerprint'' of the carbon dioxide
particles in the atmosphere, by testing the isotopes in CO2
particles, and confirm that the
increase came from fossil fuels burnt in power stations and
cars..."Multiple
lines of evidence show that global warming continues
and that human activities are mainly responsible" + ABC: The
rising tide of climate change.
- 13 Mar 12 ABC: Prize-winning
ozone scientist dies - Sherwood Rowland, 84 was one of
three people awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work
explaining how chlorofluorocarbons - or CFCs - could destroy the
ozone layer...The paper they published in the journal Nature in
1974 was met with scorn and derision, even among scientists.
- 12 Mar 12 SciAm: Greenland
Ice Melt Seen at Lower Temperatures.
- 12 Mar 12 Nature: Retreating
ice leaves glacial species on the rocks - Creatures that
rely on melt water are threatened by climate change...many of
the world’s glaciers are undoubtedly in retreat. One study
estimates that tropical glaciers in Mexico and South America
have already retreated by some 30% since the mid-1980s. Another
analysis suggests that the majority of the world’s smaller
glaciers will disappear by 2100.
- 1 Mar 12 SciAm($): Hit
Them with the Hockey Stick - interview with Michael Mann
(following copyright Scientific American)
- There’s a veritable hockey league now of reconstructions
like ours that shows the same basic pattern.
- if the climate change deniers thought they had found an area
of the science that they could discredit by trying to go after
a single scientist—me—I think they’ve been in for a
disappointment.
- The fact that climate change deniers needed to resort to
criminal activity [stolen emails] to try to discredit our
science ...
There was a concerted campaign to use these stolen e-mails to
manufacture an echo chamber of climate change denial
propaganda in the lead up to the Copenhagen summit. There was
an attempt to use misrepresentations, false allegations,
smears based on these out-of-context e-mails to have
scientists fired...At one point, an influential Republican
legislator in the state of Pennsylvania threatened to withhold
funding for Penn State if the university didn’t take some sort
of action against me because of the purported improprieties.
- We’ve lost three years to do something about climate change,
and that’s a huge opportunity cost. Each year we wait, it gets
that much more difficult to stabilize carbon dioxide
concentrations below levels that might very well be dan-
gerous. I think that [Climategate] was a crime against
humanity. It’s a crime against the planet.
- Changes have been taking place faster than the models
projected. With respect to sea-level rise, with respect to
temper- ature changes, with respect to carbon emissions, and
in just about every case, the changes have occurred either at
the upper end of the projections or even above the range of
the projections. Arctic sea ice might be the most pro- found
example, where the observed de- cline in summer Arctic sea ice
is way outside the projected range. The great irony is that
the climate scientists, if anything, have been too cautious
and too conservative.
- 23 Feb 12 NASA: NASA
Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting Lower - A
consistent reduction in cloud height would allow Earth to cool
to space more efficiently, reducing the surface temperature of
the planet and potentially slowing the effects of global
warming.
- 23 Feb 12 SciAm: "Hockey
Stick" Scientist Cross-Checks Critics: A Q&A with Michael
E. Mann.
- 9 Feb 12 NASA: NASA
Mission Takes Stock of Earth’s Melting Land Ice.
- 31 Jan 12 SciAm: Climate
Change Has Helped Bring Down Cultures.
- 31 Jan 12 BBC: Volcanic
origin for Little Ice Age.
- 28 Jan 12 Nature: Flooding
is the United Kingdom's biggest climate threat -
Government report prioritizes consequences of climate change +
BBC: First
report on UK climate impact.
- 26 Jan 12 SciAm: U.S.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Decline Despite Political Gridlock
- Climate change may have received short shrift in President
Obama's State of the Union speech but his administration's
policies are creating a more climate-friendly U.S. + The
Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to Make His Research
Clear.
- 26 Jan 12 TerraDaily: Warmer
summers may bring colder winters.
- 18 Jan 12 NewSci: China
set to launch first caps on CO2 emissions.
- 25 Dec 11 SciAm: A
real sea change - researchers at the American Geophysical
Union annual meeting in San Francisco are reporting what many
scientists have suspected for a long time but have been thus far
not been able to prove convincingly—that the world’s sea level
is likely to rise by at least 3 feet in the next 100 years...
Whatever happens centuries from now, the immediate future has
enough potential for catastrophic change that we can’t just bury
our proverbial heads in the sand and hope that we can patch up
our beaches or stick our fingers in the dike.
- 15 Dec 11 SciAm: Some
Species Face "Move or Die" Scenario Under Climate Change.
- 15 Dec 11 NASA: Climate
Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Changes.
- 13 Dec 11 ABC:
Success for Australian trial of carbon capture and storage.
- 13 Dec 11 AFP: Canada
formally withdraws from Kyoto Protocol
- 11 Dec 11 The Australian: UN
climate conference's historic agreement - The world forum
also launched a "Green Climate Fund" to help channel up to 100
billion dollars a year in aid to poor, vulnerable countries by
2020, an initiative born under the 2009 Copenhagen Summit.
- 7 Dec 11 BBC: French
Alpine glaciers in retreat + Chile
glacier record retreat footage released + UN
climate talks 'lacking urgency'
- 7 Dec 11 NewSci: No,
global warming hasn't stopped - Like a game of scientific
whack-a-mole, some arguments against climate change just keep
bouncing back - no matter how many times researchers
disprove them. One is the long-standing claim that "global
warming stopped in 1998", and that since then the Earth has
stayed at the same temperature, or even cooled.A new analysis
confirms that global warming actually shows no sign of slowing
down...
- 26 Nov 11 BBC:
CO2 climate sensitivity 'overestimated' - still expect to
see "drastic changes" in climate worldwide, but that the risk
was a little less imminent [not an excuse to do nothing!] + 'New release'
of climate emails - "This appears to be a carefully-timed
attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate
change when that science has been vindicated by three separate
independent inquiries.."
- 19 Nov 11 NewSci($): A
Republican thing - Today, any Republican who wants to
be a serious presidential contender has to deny the reality of
human-caused climate change.[letter by Chris Mooney]
- 19 Nov 11 Nature: Climate
panel says prepare for weird weather - Despite
uncertainties, the IPCC warns that climate change will bring
more extreme weather.
- 15 Nov 11 NewSci: Huge
rise in emissions as world economy de-greens + A
chance to blame extreme weather on climate change
- 15 Nov 11 SMH: Green
energy pact will fuel trade growth, say leaders + Carbon
tax hit small: CSIRO - Households will face smaller
cost of living price increases under the carbon tax than they
did as a result of other large economic changes such as the
introduction of the GST and the mining boom, new modelling
shows + Carbon-tax
law Abbott proof, PM declares.
- 26 Oct 11 Nature ($): Emission
pathways consistent with a 2 °C global temperature limit -
Our analysis confirms that if the mechanisms needed to enable an
early peak in global emissions followed by steep reductions are
not put in place, there is a significant risk that the 2 °C
target will not be achieved.
- 26 Oct 11 BBC: China
'won't follow US' on carbon emissions- China's emissions
have risen sharply in recent years due to rapid
industrialisation, fuelled mainly by coal burning. In terms of
national emissions, it has overtaken the US.But because its
population is so much bigger, its per-capita emissions are
currently much lower - but rising fast.
- 25 Oct 11 NewSci: Climate
change: What we do – and don't – know.
- 22 Oct WSJ:
The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism - There were
good reasons for doubt [?], until now.
- 22 Oct 11 Scientifc American: Different
Method, Same Result: Global Warming Is Real - Independent
analysis confirms earlier results but aims for greater
transparency + Skeptical
Research Effort Confirms Global Warming, Again - An
independent effort to review temperature data finds strong
evidence of climate change, consistent with other scientific
results
- 21 Oct 11 BBC: Global
warming 'confirmed' by independent study - What came out
was a graph remarkably similar to those produced by the world's
three most important and established groups, whose work had been
decried as unreliable and shoddy in climate sceptic circles...
- 21 Oct 11 Nature: Different
method, same result: global warming is real -
Independent analysis confirms earlier results but aims for
greater transparency.
- 20 Oct 11 BBC: Companies
call for tougher climate action - Leaders of nearly 200
major companies around the world have called for tougher action
on climate change.
- 20 Oct 11 Nature: Climate
action a 'moral responsibility' - Chinese climatologist
says the world must work together on global warming.
- 14 Oct 11 Nature: Special
issue on the Arctic: After the ice - This January,
Canada’s high Arctic basked in an average monthly
temperature more than 20 degrees Celsius higher than normal; in
September, the extent of summer sea ice was so low it may have
set a new record.
- 14 Oct 11 BBC: Australia
parliament passes divisive carbon tax + Rivers
of ice: Vanishing glaciers - Stunning images from high in
the Himalayas - showing the extent by which many glaciers have
shrunk in the past 80 years or so - have gone on display at the
Royal Geographical Society in central London.
- 14 Oct 11 SMH: EU
urges roadmap on climate action.
- 6 Sep 11 BBC:
'Gob-smacking' scale of Petermann Glacier break-up.
- 5 Sep 11 News.com.au!: Climate
modelling is improving - experts. "We don't tune these
models to get the answer we want. We put the physics in and then
the answer pops out - so yes, you can be surprised."
- 3 Sep 11 ABC: COALition's
climate plan will cost double: Treasury - Federal Treasury
analysis shows the Opposition's direct action climate change
policy would cost twice as much as a carbon tax for the same
reduction in emissions.
- 3 Sep 11 BBC: Journal
editor resigns over 'problematic' climate paper- "Their
aim is to achieve highest scientific standards by carrying out a
rigorous peer review that is, as a minimum requirement, supposed
to be able to identify fundamental methodological errors or
false claims... Unfortunately, as many climate researchers and
engaged observers of the climate change debate pointed out in
various internet discussion fora, the paper by Spencer and
Braswell... is most likely problematic in both aspects and
should therefore not have been published...the problem I see
with the paper... is not that it declared a minority view (which
was later unfortunately much exaggerated by the public media)
but that it essentially ignored the scientific arguments of
its opponents."
- 27 Aug 11 SciAm: What
Is Pseudoscience? + The
Human Cost of Energy - Fossil fuels exact the biggest toll
in terms of lives lost (on average there are 30,000 premature
deaths per year in the USA due to pollution from fossil fuels)
- 23 Aug 11 SciAm: Australia
Passes CO2 Offset Laws, Carbon Pricing Next.
- 8 Aug 11 NewSci: Australia's
overheated climate debate. Climate-change wrangling in
Australia has descended into death threats and extreme insults.
The science is being drowned out...
- 31 Jul 11 ABC: British
PM praises Gillard's carbon tax!
- 31 Jul 11 Manly Daily (me): Ozone
hole an example of effective world action - not a hoax: It
is ironic that Mr Harrison (MD 29/7) has chosen the hole in
the ozone layer as an example of a “hoax” that supports his
sceptical views about global warming. World governments
listened to the scientists and took action to ban CFCs and so
averted a global disaster. It will still take many decades for
the ozone layer to recover - as Tamanians know from the
extreme UV conditions that they now experience. Margaret
Thatcher is credited with convincing world leaders to take
action on CFCs. She is a qualified chemist (she studied under
a Nobel laureate) and understood the case that was being made
by scientists. It is a pity that Tony Abbott does not follow
the example of his hero. For sound facts about climate change
I recommend the Australian Academy of Sciences (
http://science.org.au/policy/climatechange.html ) - not
talk-back radio.
- 28 Jul 11 SMH: Media
authority to investigate complaint about [radio personality
Alan] Jones comment [about CO2 emissions]
- 6 Jun 11 Herald Sun: Carbon
tax to have 'little or no impact' on mining jobs.
- 1 Jun 11 Australian Academy of Sciences: The
Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers - Based
on a series of key questions, this publication aims to address
confusion created by contradictory information in the public
domain. It sets out to explain the current situation in climate
science, including where there is consensus in the scientific
community and where uncertainties exist.
- 1 Jun 11 ANU: Beyond
2 degrees Celsius by Andrew Glikson - Implications of
NASA/GISS updates for the Earth energy balance, global
temperatures, ice melt and sea level rise
- 1 Jun 11 SciAm: Global
CO2 Emissions in 2010 Hit Highest Level Ever.
- 1 Jun 11 NewSci: Record
carbon emissions mean 2 °C rise ever closer.
- 30 May 11 ABC: Caton
defends Blanchett in 'dirty' carbon ad row. Comment: some
sections of the media and some politians have launched vicous
attacks on the actors who donated their time to these ads. See Carl
Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit for the deep flaw in their
attacks "Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the
argument..." + SMH: I
was gutless over climate ads: Dick Smith "I didn't appear
on it because I knew that I would be a front page of lies
in the Rupert Murdoch press here.." + SMH: Blanchett
exposed for the 'crime' of speaking up - "Presumably
Blanchett has nothing to gain from a carbon tax. Rinehart had a
lot to gain in derailing the mining tax."
- 23 May 11 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Greenhouse
gases in the Earth system: setting the agenda to 2030
- 23 May 11 ABC: Time
running out for climate action: report - "I don't think we
have the luxury anymore of climate denialism. We need to get
beyond this fruitless phoney debate in the media..." + SMH: Sea-level
rise to hit Sydney worst, warns climate report
- 20 May 11 SciAm ($): "I
Stick to Science" - Why Richard A. Muller wouldn't tell
House climate skeptics what they wanted to hear. Muller
enraged climate skeptics after testifying before congress that
he em- braced the mainstream view that earth is warming as
climate models project.
- 18 May 11 NewSci: Quake
took out Fukushima cooling system before tsunami.
- 8 May 11 NYT: Al
Gore Invents a Showpiece E-Book - Our
Choice iPad app.
- 8 May 11 SciAm: U.K.
Government: "Climategate" No Reason to Doubt Climate Change.
- 5 May 11 Nature: 2
°C or not 2 °C? That is the climate question "Long-term
goals to limit temperature or concentrations have so far failed
to produce effective short-term action, because they do not have
the urgency to compel governments to put aside their own
short-term interests." + Storm
warning.
- 26 Apr 11 NewSci: Warmer
oceans release CO2 faster than thought.
- 8 Apr 11 Science ($): The
Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of
Europe + Mekong
Hydropower Development + First
Detection of Ozone Hole Recovery Claimed [success of a
global agreement to take action - in part, attributed by Carl Sagan
to the chemist knowledge of Margaret Thatcher]
- 6 Apr 11 Cosmos Magazine Issue 38 ($): MERCHANTS
OF DOUBT - excellent review of the transfer of tobacco
industry tactics to the issue of global warming. See also this Wikipedia
page
- 6 Apr 11 NewSci: Climate
change sceptics: just regular folk, in denial - comment:
one problem is there are no immediate adverse consequences of
denial - the pain is in the long term. Hence my suggestion for a
future contract that requires denial nations to pay for the
effects of climate change on poorer nations. The sad joke is
that the outcrys about the (purported) extra costs of a low
carbon economy are not also directed at hikes in oil prices due
to wars or natural disasters.
- 5 Apr 11 SciAm: Clean
Tech Rising - China outshines the U.S. as the top
investor, while Europe is a close third
- 1 Apr 11 NewSci: Mixed
response to climate change on [off] Australia's coasts
- 30 Mar 11 BBC: China
tops global clean energy table.
- 17 Feb 11 SciAm: Rising
seas threaten 180 U.S. cities by 2100: study.
- 17 Feb 11 NewSci: Blame
human emissions for British floods.
- 6 Feb 11 SMH: Sydney
heatwave breaks 150-year-old record.
- 27 Jan 11 BBC: Greenland
glaciers spring surprise - the icecap may be more
resistant to warming than previously thought.
- 11 Jan 11 SciAm ($): Will
China Start Carbon Trade? + Casualties
of Climate Change: Sea-level Rises Could Displace Tens of
Millions
- 7 Jan 11 NewSci ($): Stick
to your guns, climate scientists.
- 6 Jan 11 BBC: Last
December UK's coldest for 100 years - However, the first
analysis released of global temperatures shows 2010 was one of
the warmest years on record. The UK's harsh weather was caused
by anomalously high air pressure that blocked mild westerly
winds and brought cold air south from the Arctic.
- 6 Jan 11 Nature: Why
dire climate warnings boost scepticism.