Politicians should be wary of business leaders - such as BHP CEO Marius Kloppers - urging action on issues like climate change.
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Crikey Says: Climate debate is back with a bang
Suddenly, serious action on climate change is forcing its way onto the political agenda.
Taking stock of climate change — what now?
Greg Combet’s arrival as Climate Change Minister provides the opportunity to rethink where we go from here, given Labor has so badly botched the issue in its first term.
Carbon to take economy’s breath away by 2015
, writes Phil Preston, the principal of Seacliff Consulting
Cross party consensus on climate change, it IS possible
The recommendations of the Climate Change committee will have pervasive impact. So it is appropriate to seek cross-party consensus, writes the University of Tasmania’s Professor Ian Marsh.
Pearse: Greens should let this government fall and learn
The Labor Party might ultimately agree to brave a carbon levy, but you can bet it will be one that is as polluter friendly as its CPRS, writes Guy Pearse.
Electorate send a message on climate change
The Australian electorate have chosen wisely by not choosing at all. The delivery of a hung parliament presents, for the first time in living memory, an opportunity to deal with the substantive policy issues that have been ignored in this campaign. This is something the three conservative independents, Bob Katter, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, […]
Crikey Says: Australia’s second climate change election?
How can a hung parliament succeed in pursing any meaningful action on the issue when a newly elected Rudd government with an unprecedented mandate failed so spectacularly?
At least Abbott’s honest about willful refusal to buy into global warming
The party rhetoric on climate change hides a bipartisan policy of protecting the economic interests of polluters, which is why climate change has been almost entirely absent from the major parties’ campaigns.
The extreme weather around the world proving climate change
This year is shaping up as the warmest in the instrumental record, with record temperatures in Russia, Pakistan, Japan and Beijing, writes earth and paleo-climate scientist Dr Andrew Glikson.
Political snippets: The China syndrome
If there is one lesson to be learned from a study of capitalism, it is that competition eventually finds a way of breaking through.
We thought we could put away the Pollute-o-Meter. We were wrong
After the 2007 election as we packed away the placards and the posters I thought one thing we’d be done with for sure was our Pollute-o-Meter, writes John Connor of The Climate Institute. I was wrong.
Crikey Says: Howard was a hippy
Last night’s episode of Q&A devoted a fair chunk of air time to the most extensive debate on climate change policy that we’ve been treated to so far in this election.
Hang on, the Citizen’s Assembly might just work
I find it hard to see how anything but good can come from Gillard’s Citizen’s Assembly experiment, writes Nicholas Gruen.
Australia’s nearest glaciers now a rocky outcrop
The rapidly vanishing glaciers of West Papua have made a rocky tower called Sumantri the second highest peak in Indonesia. Nearby Ngga Pulu has lost its glacial cap and its highest peak status.
How air-conditioning changed the world
Air-conditioning is one powerful invention. Its use feeds its future use, thanks to the emissions it produces. And air-conditioning is to blame for the rise of conservative politics in the US. Seriously.
Gillard doesn’t get climate change
Julia Gillard doesn’t get climate change, and those hoping the Labor Government will make a marked policy shift will once more face disappointment.
Memo to Obama: “climate change” isn’t a dirty word
Barack Obama’s Trojan Horse — trying to smuggle climate change action in amongst economic issues — is just diluting his climate message, says environmentalists. But maybe it will help convince the sceptics, says David Roberts.
Geoengineering does not remove the need to decarbonise
Bio-sequestration has enormous potential in the form of iron seeding of oceans and charcoal in soils.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Deconstructing the RSPT campaign
Crikey readers weigh in on the ongoing RSPT debate. which apparently abounds in misinformation. Plus, the global warming debate continues…
Political snippets: Labor in trouble? Balderdash and bunkum
Labor will end up winning the mining tax battle and with it the election war too. And no inflationary signs yet, the power of a smooth American accent and other political news.
Political snippets: Abbott’s team playing the man
The opposition is attacking Treasury secretary Ken Henry as being a Labor gun for hire. Are they playing the man or the ball? Plus, evidence of a warming world and other political snippets.
Crikey Says: Testing Rudd’s realities
Rudd cited two “realities” that he says have derailed the government’s proposed ETS. One being the slow progress on global action. Let’s take a turn around the globe, shall we?
Time to bust some myths about renewable energy
While climate change deniers and their arguments and tactics have come under scrutiny, renewable energy deniers have so far escaped, writes Mark Diesendorf.
Crikey Says: Climate change, brought to you by dumb and dumber
Earth Hour was never much more than a branding exercise concocted by a major ad agency to make corporations look good. We get that. But does it have to be a reds vs. greens issue?
