World leaders give up on CopenhagenThe Copenhagen climate conference doesn’t start for another 22 days, but world leaders at the APEC summit have already agreed that reaching a legally binding deal on climate change at the conference will be impossible.
Climate change 
Making the most of failure in Copenhagen
Next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen is doomed to failure, says Philip Stephens. But if scientists and world leaders are going to go anyway, there are a few more realistic goals they achieve to at least make it a successful failure.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Great Wall of Rupert
Is Crikey too obsessed with Rupert Murdoch? Plus more climate change debate, US health reform, GM corn and other topics, as seen through the eyes of our readers.
Fake Stephen Fielding: PMS and a One World Government
Fake Stephen Fielding has been following the climate change and Emissions Trading Scheme debate very closely, and is very excited at the prospect of a One World Government.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Lunatics on asylum seekers steal the show
The Tamil asylum seeker issue remained number one despite the best efforts of Nick and Tony’s fruit loop academy, writes Patrick Baume.
“Copenhagen is our date with destiny”
At the opening of the Climate Vulnerable Forum yesterday, President Nasheed of the Maldives delivered an incredible speech, imploring world leaders to commit to real carbon targets at Copenhagen: “We will not sign a global suicide pact.”
The Tea Partiers’ next target: the climate
After kicking up a stink about health-care reform and just in time for Copenhagen, members of America’s Tea Party Movement have zoned in on a new target: Obama’s climate bill.
graph pr0n Carbon emissions: which countries are cleaning up their acts?
GOOD charts the five biggest carbon dioxide emitters in each region of the world, and whether they’ve reduced or increased emissions over the past few years. Spoiler: Australia doesn’t fare well.
Keane: The ETS Chainsaw Massacre
What a difference a few years makes. Ian “Chainsaw” Macfarlane has moved from a climate change denier in the Howard government to a CPRS loving greenie, writes Bernard Keane.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A climate change leadership challenge
Crikey readers weigh in who would be the best leader for climate change in Australia and how important climate change is. Plus, readers clarify a few of our latest tips.
Gorbachev: The battle over climate change is the new Cold War
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has a message for the leaders of today: climate change is your Wall.
Bartlett: Why I’m running as a Greens candidate
Former Australian Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett is standing as a Greens candidate in the seat of Brisbane at the next federal election. Why is he diving back into politics? Well, climate change and affordable housing, for a start.
Cage match: Rudd on climate sceptics — a step forward or pure politics?
Rudd’s a speech about climate change sceptics was clever politics, and statesmanlike to boot, writes Tony Kevin. But Tim Hollo doesn’t agree — in fact, he says Rudd might be the worst kind of climate sceptic.
Rudd and the rentseekers: climate for sale
If the Prime Minister is so angry about the efforts of denialists to derail action on climate change, here’s a suggestion: stop giving them taxpayers’ money.
The real costs of Rudd’s CPRS are just starting to surface
The Government’s climate change policy is incoherent and becoming ever more expensive, writes Sinclair Davidson. No amount of name-calling is going to change the fact that this policy is a lemon and needs to be radically reconsidered.
Are CSIRO scientists being gagged?
Three years ago, the CSIRO found itself in hot water for gagging scientists from commenting on climate change. Today, it looks like the organisation may still be trying to censor scientists’ public comments.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Keane on Telstra
Some Crikey readers don’t agree with Bernard Keane that small investors aren’t concerned about what’s happening with Telstra. Plus, an update on visiting detention centres.
Kohler: How the collapsing US$ will damage Copenhagen
For Australia, an international emissions trading scheme in Copenhagen may prove an economic disaster, thanks to a dropping US dollar a and rising Aussie dollar. It’s happening around the world and it’s making a Copenhagen deal unlikely.
Is Clive James a climate change sceptic because he’s a senile old sucker?
Clive James may have praised the need for scepticism with climate change, but that just proves him as a old sucker, not a sceptic, writes George Monbiot. Do old people think more positively about climate change effects because they are closer to death?
In climate denial: this is not scepticism
We’re losing the battle against climate denialism. Much of the skepticism is fuelled by ideology, but the real driver of denialism is an emotional inability to accept that we’re in serious trouble.
Copenhagen reality check #1: 25% by 2020 isn’t in the ball park
You can bet your house that Copenhagen will not conclude with a 25% mandatory target for all the developed economies. But is that even what we need to do, or is the whole of the Copenhagen process wrapped in an enormous delusion? asks David Spratt.
Copenhagen is coming, lower your expectations
With the Copenhagen climate change conference just five weeks away and national leaders and scientists already disagreeing, it looks like a global plan for climate change and emissions targets is unlikely, writes David Spratt.
Failure or foundations for Copenhagen
We are currently not on track to sign a ratifiable treaty in Copenhagen but that’s not to say we shouldn’t expect key outcomes that will set us on the path to achieve this global treaty in 2010, writes Erwin Jackson.
CCS Institute comes clean on clean coal
In somewhat surprising and welcome candour, the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute’s latest report suggests that there is a low likelihood of CCS being economically viable before 2030 to 2040, writes Michael James.
