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Gambling on a great story

Crikey readers vent their spleens on the gambling industry and Bernard Keane’s fantasy budget.

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Curbing population to cut emissions lazy and damaging

Curbing population growth will reduce Australia’s greenhouse emissions but at a profound economic cost — and it won’t decarbonise our emissions-intensive economy. There’s a more viable solution.

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Want to save the planet? Don’t have any children

Having child increases your carbon emissions by a factor of about six throughout your lifetime, and no amount of cycling, turning off lights or veganism will offset it. Can having children be environmentally sustainable?

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Dirty little secret’s out

Crikey readers weigh in on the link between Australia’s carbon emissions and our immigration policy.

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The Power Index: carbon cutters, Tim Flannery at #6

Plain-spoken and sometimes optimistic, Tim Flannery is trying to teach Australia about climate change — and its solutions. For all his accolades, though, some scientists don’t want him in their club, writes Crikey intern Michelle Slater.

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Climate debate: solar power is just a ‘toy’

Crikey readers vent their spleens on the issues of the day.

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Maxine McKew v Geoff Gallop, more or less

Crikey readers have their say on the issues of the day.

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Emissions trading hangs by a chad in Obama’s fight

The environmental future isn’t a major debate topic during US presidential elections. But perhaps it should be.

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How green are the London Games?

London has put on the greenest Games ever — but problems remain with waste, buses, and journalists leaving the lights on, writes Shaun McCarthy, chair of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012.

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Almost a leadership challenge story

I’ve been watching and waiting for the first Prime Ministerial leadership challenge story of autumn and nearly found it this morning

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Why the secrecy on company emissions?

writes Tristan Edis

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Soil carbon: time to bury the emissions problem

The United Nations has highlighted the depletion of the world’s precious soil resources as one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges, and says that boosting soil carbon will play a critical role in slowing and halting the growth in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The issue of soil erosion, its potential impacts on underground aquifers, […]

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A nasty set of numbers

A collection of sobering take home points from a consortium of climate scientists and economists from around the world — the Global Carbon Project — and their findings for 2010, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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Why companies that worm their way into a carbon tax are winners

The concept of irony just doesn’t do justice to the twists, turns, deceit and rank hypocrisy that has accompanied the long, slow road to the introduction of a price on carbon in Australia, writes Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of Canberra-based think tank The Australia Institute.

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Fear and greed … the real energy challenge

It’s curious to see how left-wing and right-wing politics have fallen on either side of the clean tech divide, particularly in the US and Australia, writes Giles Parkinson.

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Come in Spinner: common and uncommon sense — who’d believe the latter?

Millions of Australians have been listening to, and reading, the predictions of political pundits, economic forecasters, broking firm analysts, experts and others about what might happen in politics and the world.

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Look beyond a carbon price and examine whether your cuts will count

The way in which the CPRS set both a cap above which emissions could not rise and a floor below which emissions could not fall was widely debated, if not widely understood, during 2009 and 2010. But those lessons need to be learnt again, writes Dr Richard Denniss.

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Global warming above 2° so far mitigated by accidental geo-engineering

According to NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Science climate reports, global warming is already committed to a rise above two degrees, writes Dr Andrew Glikson, Earth and paleoclimate science, Australian National University

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How do you halve emissions by 2025? Look to the UK…

The United Kingdom is set to become a world leader on clean energy and climate policy, after announcing an ambitious plan to halve carbon emissions by 2025, reports Amber Jamieson.

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Queensland: the carbon kings

New greenhouse data shows that even with the GFC and some one-off factors holding down emissions, Australia will miss its 5% carbon reduction target by 2020.

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The climate change disconnect

There’s a bizarre disconnection between the climate change debate in Australia and reality, with Australia’s emissions continuing to grow.

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A hot pink climate no laughing matter

Do climate scientists have a sense of humour, asks author David Spratt?

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Cleaner energy: the global power shift

Our politicians have been labouring under beliefs born under a credo of Western pre-eminence, and cheap oil and cheap debt, that has helped fashion our policies towards climate change, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.

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Parkinson: Garnaut’s inconvenient truths

The first three instalments of Professor Ross Garnaut’s update to his Climate Change Review have been a welcome boost to the government’s ability to press its case for a carbon price, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.

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Time for Aussie pride in carbon reduction

As day three of the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico kicks off, Anna Rose takes a stroll through a community garden in Syria, looking at local initiatives for global problems. Yet Australia lags behind with the false “the world isn’t acting, Australia shouldn’t lead” climate change line.

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