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.
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Interim carbon price preferable to political stunt
ADOPT the Garnaut climate proposals.
Greens propose $20 billion carbon tax
THE Greens have called on the government to back a two-year, $20 billion interim carbon tax proposal to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
A chance to cut our losses
WE should abandon the costly CPRS and adopt a wait-and-see approach, writes Alan Moran.
Heated moments mar Monckton
CLIMATE change scepticism is healthy but the advocates need to stick to facts all the same.
Abbott sinks forests on farms
TONY Abbott will rule out the use of prime agricultural land for carbon sinks when he announces a new policy on climate change.
Climate science on thin ice
GLACIERGATE could not have come at a worse time for the UN’s peak body on climate.
UN’s blunder on glaciers exposed
THE peak UN body on climate change has been dealt another humiliating blow to its credibility.
China will benefit from warming, at least this century
THERE’S no way the emerging economic giant will agree to a carbon treaty millstone.
A wholesale climate fraud? Not here
A news team has read 1073 of the so-called Climategate emails and reports its findings
Rudd’s taxing climate policy is a liability
THE CPRS has become a weakness after Copenhagen and Abbott must attack it.
Tony Abbott’s address to the Sydney Institute
LIBERAL leaders don’t normally seek to make the environment a political battle ground but my initial policy agenda speech is on the environment.
Spencer ends hunger strike protest
HUNGER striker Peter Spencer has ended his 52 day protest over farmers’ property rights, but will continue his fight “on the ground”.
From Rio to Copenhagen the model was wrong
WE need to go back to the beginning and establish first principles, says Geoff Carmody.
Animals under fire in methane blame game
EMISSIONS from kangaroos are trifling compared with gas from cattle and camels.
Sideline the UN if you want to reduce emissions
THE deal by key global emitters recognised geopolitical reality, says Anthony Giddens.
Sea-level theory cuts no ice
BRITAIN’S Met Office has denounced research from the Copenhagen summit that suggested global warming could raise sea levels by more than 1.8m by 2100.
Beat poverty first, then tackle emissions
THE West was deluding itself that developing countries would accept limits to their growth.
Farmer needs to win lottery to keep going
BILL McClumpha is not a gambling man, but in July he will enter a lottery with very high stakes.
Rudd shouldn’t have tied carbon cuts to Copenhagen
PM should return to the climate policy he espoused in Opposition and lead the world, writes Richard Denniss.
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