Joyce stumbles over climate billions
BARNABY Joyce has stumbled over arithmetic in his first performance as opposition finance spokesman, confusing trillions with billions.
Climate
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.
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.
Global body can’t improve climate
A one-size-fits-all response to environmental issues is pie in the sky, says Caroline Boin.
Don’t trust the weatherman’s forecasts
EXAGGERATION and inaccurate reports serve only to render the climate debate ridiculous, says Christopher Pearson.
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.
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.
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 .
Innovation key to mitigating climate change
LET’S not panic, technological progress will facilitate solutions to the planet’s problems.
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.
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 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.
UN says sorry for glacier error
THE UN’s top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction that Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.
Interim carbon price preferable to political stunt
ADOPT the Garnaut climate proposals.
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