Carbon pricing works in the long term
RATIONAL climate change policy is essentially about finding the least economically disruptive and fairest possible way to ensure our way of life.
Climate
Minister slams critics of UN climate panel
THE science of global warming is definite, Penny Wong insists
Garnaut slams Abott’s ‘Soviet’ climate plan
ROSS Garnaut has compared Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s direction action policy on climate to Soviet Union central planning.
Families line up to sue over insulation
THE Rudd government is facing a legal storm over the bungled insulation scheme linked to at least four deaths.
Climategate the tip of the iceberg
A litany of climate climate science flaws can’t be ignored and highlight the need for an open review and evolutionary policies
IPCC ‘must investigate report bias’
IF the IPCC report errors had been innocent mistakes some would have understated the climate change impact, according to its former chairman.
UN climate panel under strain
THE UN climate panel faces a new challenge, with scientists casting doubt on its claim that temperatures are rising because of human pollution.
Scientists ‘need PR spin’
CLIMATE change scientists are losing a “PR war” waged by sceptics and need professional help with spin to convince the public about the threat of global warming.
World wide web of doubt
The internet is allowing climate change sceptics to gain traction, writes Christopher Pearson
The ‘great moral challenge’ leaves people cold
Global warming won’t again be the winner for the government that it was in 2007
Green loan fiasco tarnishes Rudd’s moral authority
Don’t expect talk about the moral challenge of climate change from the PM any time soon
Carbon price too low, argue British MPs
THE only large-scale “pollution trading” system in the world, run by the European Union, is failing to deliver green energy investment and will not succeed without a radical hike in the price imposed on polluters, British MPs say.
Coalition ready to back an ETS, but not until 2020
THE Coalition could support an emissions trading scheme after 2020 if the world goes in that direction, opposition climate change spokesman Greg Hunt has admitted.
Scientists say IPCC should be overhauled or scrapped
A Wikipedia-style process could reflect scientific opinion more accurately
CSIRO caught in storm over water
THE CSIRO has rejected claims its scientists broke protocol and endorsed an election policy on the controversial use of recycled water for drinking.
Barnett still keen to farm the north
WEST Australian Premier Colin Barnett has rejected the northern Australia development report, saying he will push on with the region’s development.
North report ‘ignores facts’
A SCIENTIST says reality is overlooked in the taskforce’s judgment.
Insulation program suspended after deaths
PETER Garrett is under pressure to offer free safety checks for 37,000 houses with potentially deadly foil insulation in the wake of four deaths.
Climate doubters outweigh rest
PUBLIC confidence in the science of climate change is diminishing.
ETS public servants to remain
MORE than 150 public servants given the task of running the Rudd government’s planned emissions trading scheme will stay on the job.
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