Climate costs trigger broadside on Abbott’s efforts
LATE last week Penny Wong’s department and her office went into overdrive assessing the Coalition’s climate change policy and disseminating it to the media.
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Greens offer interim carbon deal
THE Greens hope the climate change plan they are negotiating with the government could be a circuit breaker.
Media cools on global warming
Climate-change sceptics are being vindicated by scientific scandals that are no longer being ignored
Rudd, Abbott sweat on the verdict from business
VOTERS are watching industry reaction for clues on how to view the rival climate plans.
Look who’s on special
TONY Abbott’s plan to cut carbon emissions would cost $27 billion, not the $10b the Coalition claimed, according to new government advice.
Climate scientist in the clear, for now
THREE allegations of research impropriety against a top climate scientist have been dismissed, but an inquiry will further investigate whether he “deviated from accepted practices”.
Garnaut caught in climate panel mistake
A blunder in the international report on climate change has flowed through to Ross Garnaut’s report and the government’s climate white paper
Democrat support for Obama ETS drops
US President Barack Obama is under intense pressure from leading members of his Democratic Party to scale back climate change legislation.
Libs fend off PM’s climate assault
KEVIN Rudd has seized on an admission by the man tasked to cost Tony Abbott’s rival climate change plan that Australia needs an ETS.
Foreign aid spending safe, Abbott pledges
TONY Abbott has been forced to slap down speculation sparked by Barnaby Joyce that foreign aid and public servant jobs are in the Coalition’s sights.
UN climate head under pressure to quit
THE head of the UN’s climate change body is under pressure to resign.
Don’t count your trees, forests aren’t that green
IN the light of new research, our climate policy should be to focus on adaptation, says Gary Johns.
Coalition plan ‘to lift carbon output 13pc’
KEVIN Rudd has sought to torpedo Tony Abbott’s new climate change policy by saying the plan would drive up carbon emissions by 13 per cent.
Abbott’s compost idea is not so corny
IT wasn’t fear of global warming that prompted farmer Cam McKellar to start producing a humified compost that captures and stores carbon in his soil.
Hot air will fill election year
THE carbon emissions debate has now become a competition of ideas.
Opposing plans compatible
MOST countries plan to use a mix of schemes similar to the Rudd and Abbott climate plans, says Lenore Taylor.
Business split over opposition’s emissions plan
THE business community is divided about the opposition’s plan for emissions reductions, but the political momentum is going the opposition’s way.
Cosgrove slams lack of nuclear plant
FORMER defence force chief Peter Cosgrove has pleaded for Australia to embrace nuclear power.
Pachauri admits damage to UN climate change panel
LONDON: The embattled chief of the UN climate change panel has admitted a mistake in a landmark 2007 report has damaged the body’s credibility.
Joyce stumbles over climate billions
BARNABY Joyce has stumbled over arithmetic in his first performance as opposition finance spokesman, confusing trillions with billions.
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