Politicians who cannot accept climate change is humanity’s greatest threat should have no place in the Australian parliament.
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Category: Climate
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Coalition politicians who can’t accept the threat of climate change should resign
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50,000 march to celebrate death of fossil fuel industry at COP30
An estimated 50,000 people took to the streets of Belém do Pará, Brazil, on Saturday to demand a just transition toward a more renewable energy system and egalitarian economy. (more…)
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‘A national humiliation’: Australia at bottom of new renewables ranking
As the Coalition abandons net zero, Andrew Forrest has quietly moved on not just to net zero, but to real zero. (more…)
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Environment: Paris 2015 generated hope, but not enough climate action
Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, staying within the 1.5oC guardrail seems increasingly unlikely, even though there’s plenty of money to do it. Really, it’s legal to chop bits off the Great Barrier Reef and sell them? Microsoft is struggling to meet its promise to become carbon-free. (more…)
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Tackling vehicle emissions – the next big climate task
Reducing transport emissions is fast approaching as the next big issue in Australia’s climate debate. (more…)
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The Global South is drowning in climate debt
As deadly storms rip through the Caribbean, a new United Nations report delivers a sobering warning: the world is failing to prepare for the climate it has already created. (more…)
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Stealing the breath of life
When you suffocate or drown, every fibre of your being cries out for the breath of life, oxygen. It is the body’s ungovernable response to the extinguishing of your flame. (more…)
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The debate about net zero ignores the evidence
Those in the Coalition who are opposed to targeting net zero carbon emissions, argue that it will cost too much. But that claim is false and not supported by the evidence. How can they get away with it? (more…)
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Andrew Forrest says real zero is already the ‘winning business case’ in three key fossil fuel guzzling industries
As the federal Coalition continues its interminable internal debate over whether net zero emissions is even a thing, let alone a thing it can get behind, new reports have found that “real zero” is both technically feasible and economically preferable to its carbon-lite alternative in numerous hard-to-abate sectors. (more…)
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It’s Ley, or virtually certain Liberal self-immolation
People closer to the action than I are suggesting that the end is nigh for Sussan Ley. They may be right; momentum is often all in these matters. (more…)
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Environment: The reformed EPBC Act – will the environment or business have priority?
After six years, reforming the EPBC Act may be reaching a conclusion. Twelve environmental defenders, many Indigenous, are murdered every month. Removing four dams allowed salmon to return to an Oregon river. (more…)
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Abandoning net zero: Farce, fantasy and falsehoods
Australian politics is now descending into a theatre of science-denying absurdity. A mainstream party is now embedded in denial of clear scientific evidence that renewables are the lowest cost option for Australia through to 2050. (more…)
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Death by plastic
“Mummy…Daddy, what are clouds made of?” Almost every parent has fielded the innocent, eager question, perhaps explaining about mist, fog, water vapour, raindrops. Today, if you said that, you’d be wrong. (more…)
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Environment: Six strategies will simultaneously reduce emissions and help communities prepare
Six broad strategies will tackle the root causes of climate change and help groups prepare for the consequences of global warming. Environmentally sustainable aircraft are slow to take off. Local governments can take a lead in promoting biodiversity. (more…)
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Is the Great Barrier Reef collapsing?
It’s the largest living structure on Earth, 3000 individual reefs, 900 islands, 1430 miles, and it may be collapsing. (more…)
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Realism and optimism on energy transition
On the subject of energy decarbonisation, there are moonfaced optimists who insistently claim that net-zero emissions can easily be achieved by 2050, and “realists” like Vaclav Smil and Mark Mills, who warn that a transition away from society’s dependence on hydrocarbons, in Mills’s words, “is not feasible in any meaningful time frame”. (more…)
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China’s FDI, not the BRI, drives a global green transition
Over the past few years, outward Chinese foreign direct investment commitments in green manufacturing have grown rapidly and now dwarf the Marshall Plan in their scale. (more…)
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The problem of climate change denialism
It is one of the great public debates of our time: is climate change happening or not? If it is, is humanity partly responsible? Either way, is it problematic and, if so, should we act? (more…)
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If you go down to the forests today, you’re in for a big surprise (mass deforestation)
Visit many areas of state forest in parts of Victoria and you might get a shock – the forest isn’t there. (more…)
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‘We can do this’: Rio Tinto’s rapid switch to renewables shows path for quick exit from coal
You might be able to imagine the scene: An Australia sporting minister stands up in front of a vast audience to announce that something is simply not possible – it might be running 100 metres in 10 seconds, kicking a drop goal from 50 metres, or a swimming relay team beating a world record. (more…)
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Countering Trump, Pacific Islanders are leading on climate change
The leaders of the Pacific Islands are forging a united front against President Donald Trump’s climate denialism and leading the world in the battle against the climate crisis. (more…)
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Tipping, tipping, tipping… the dominoes fall
Dying reefs, shrinking icesheets, withering forests and collapsing currents are the latest symptoms of an Earth system enduring dangerous trauma, according to the Global Tipping Points Report 2025. (more…)
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Climate change causing oceans to decline at alarming rate
Climate change and human activity are causing the health of the world’s oceans to decline at an alarming rate, the UN has warned. (more…)
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Trump and climate change
Donald Trump does not accept that climate change is a real and significant phenomenon. In fact, he has said those who propound it are perpetrating the “greatest hoax” in the history of the world. (more…)
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Australia’s climate assessment fails on sea-level rise risks and vulnerable communities
Australia’s first climate risk assessment has the stated purpose of guiding adaptation responses to protect people and property in a heating climate, but what happens if the reality is worse than some low-ball projections of future risks? (more…)
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‘Disaster season’: What is that?
Anika Wells, in announcing a meeting with three telco giants to discuss Optus’s Triple Zero emergency call system catastrophe in September, referred to the need for Australians to have confidence in the system before the coming “disaster season”. By that she meant summer. Is there really such a season? (more…)
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World water in crisis
Almost two-thirds of the world’s rivers are in a dire condition, either drying up or supercharged with floodwaters, according to the latest report on the emerging global water crisis by the World Meteorological Organisation. (more…)
