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.
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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.
Report undercuts PM’s reef wipeout
KEVIN Rudd’s insistence that the Great Barrier Reef could be “destroyed beyond recognition” by global warming grates with new science.
Abbott’s cut-through climate plan
TONY Abbott has promised to attack climate change with a $3.2 billion plan that does not cap carbon emissions.
Global body can’t improve climate
A one-size-fits-all response to environmental issues is pie in the sky, says Caroline Boin.
Labours in the ministry of truth
WHEN does Penny Wong sleep?
Action can be ‘riskier than doing nothing’
A LEADING sceptic blames the green movement for Third World starvation.
Don’t trust the weatherman’s forecasts
EXAGGERATION and inaccurate reports serve only to render the climate debate ridiculous, says Christopher Pearson.
US sets 17pc emissions reduction target
THE United States today officially stated a goal to cut carbon emissions by 17 per cent by 2020 off 2005 levels.
Be truthful on climate: science boss
THE impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists, according to the British government’s chief scientific adviser.
Innovation key to mitigating climate change
LET’S not panic, technological progress will facilitate solutions to the planet’s problems.
Axe the tax if you want to go green
IT should be obvious the Rio-Kyoto-Copenhagen road is a dead end, says Bjorn Lomborg.
Wong presses on with 5pc carbon reduction target
THE Rudd government has committed to introducing an emissions trading scheme with a floating carbon market in 2012 .
Wong keeps emissions target at 5pc
AUSTRALIA will not increase its emissions reduction target above five per cent until the world acts on climate change.
Abbott taunts Rudd over carbon tax
TONY Abbott has seized on a push by Professor Ross Garnaut to embrace a new carbon tax to predict a humiliating backdown.
Climate sceptic to ‘prove Rudd wrong’
BRITISH climate sceptic Christopher Monckton has come to Australia to prove Kevin Rudd wrong.
UN caught out again on climate claims
THE UN climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to a rise in natural disasters.
Glaciergate threatens a climate change
THE scientist who found an error in the IPCC report predicts it will be blown out of proportion by global-warming sceptics, says Peter Wilson.
Water charges are set to spiral
HOUSEHOLDS will pay hundreds of dollars extra for water as state governments splash $9 billion of taxpayer funds on energy-guzzling desalination plants.
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