The frog is well and truly in the pot and the water is getting steadily hotter. If we want to stop it from coming to the boil we have to act now. It’s Time, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Ross Garnaut
Garnaut: the questions
The neglect of comparing the conditions of the biosphere under the respective scenarios constitutes a major omission, writes Dr Andrew Glikson.
Climate Change 2: Enviro groups need to talk dollars and cents
Suddenly we’re back talking economics, not the consequences for economic growth of unchecked climate change and the net economic benefits of addressing it, writes Bernard Keane.
The methane time bomb and the Wall St meltdown
People need leaders who will place the life and future of humans and other species ahead of the three-years election cycle, writes Dr Andrew Glikson.
Rudd to destroy the Great Barrier Reef? Bring it on!
I am in a no-lose position. Regardless of whether there is global warming, whether it is caused by man-made emissions, the truth is that nothing can or will be done about it, writes Peter Faris.
A target of 550 ppm CO2 is a recipe for disaster
Garnauts Final Reports Fateful Decisions and the uncharted brave new world of 550 ppm CO2 and + 3 degrees Celsius, Dr Andrew Glikson explains.
Garnaut focuses on stuff that might work
For Garnaut, the case for addressing climate change remains a conservative, economically cautious one, writes Bernard Keane.
Dismal logic: Garnaut at a glance
Ross Garnaut’s final report warns that Australia faces an even grimmer climate change future than previously estimated, writes Bernard Keane.
Garnaut, treasury and the high cost of complacency
The Government needs to switch at least some of its attention to the problems of implementing and paying for an adaptation strategy, writes Bernard Keane.
NASA chief climate scientist’s letter to Rudd: Stop building coal-fired plants
On the 27 March, 2008, Professor James Hansen, NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Science chief climate scientist and arguably one of the world’s most eminent authorities on climate change, sent a letter to Kevin Rudd, writes Andrew Glikson.
The Garnaut target: no time for a quitters strategy
Australia should not quit protecting future generations from dangerous global climate impacts, writes John Connor.
Garnaut’s scary glimpse into China
Last Friday Garnaut delivered the good news about China’s efforts to suppress its fossil fuel emissions. Problem is, it’s also bad news, writes Simon Grose.
Mungo: Give it a go Garnaut
We are now the worst per capita polluter on the planet, and gold medal winners tend to be noticed, wrties Mungo MacCallum.
Garnaut bows to the insanity of growth fetishism
The Garnaut report demonstrates the insane power of our obsession with economic growth, writes Clive Hamilton.
Flannery: Garnaut has made a good first step
Speaking exclusively to Crikey, Tim Flannery has solid praise for the emissions targets set today by Ross Garnaut, but says the game could change drastically in as little as five years from now.
Crikey Says: Crikey says
Today Ross Garnaut has reduced expectations of Australian climate change action to a point below which anyone other than Andrew Bolt and a handful of suddenly sweating penguins could object.
Hamilton: Garnaut’s report barely conceals his despair
In the end, Garnaut invests his hopes in the public, writes Clive Hamilton.
VIDEO: Ross Garnaut delivers Australia’s emmission target statement
Ross “Mr 10%” Garnaut has delivered Australia’s long awaited emmission target. See the video of his statement here.
Garnaut’s target so low, the sea level will rise above it in a year
In Garnaut’s view Australia is too late to avoid “substantial impacts” which will, as he said in his dry economist’s tone, require “major adaptation”, writes Bernard Keane.
Crunch time on carbon credibility
The Garnaut target is out of whack with the global climate realpolitik, writes John Connor.
Garnaut target falls desperately short
Ross Garnaut’s Supplementary Draft Report to be released on Friday will propose a carbon reduction trajectory based on a 0-15% reduction on 2000 emission levels by 2020, according to sources close to the review, reports Bernard Keane.
Video: A grilling on the Ross Garnaut roadshow
Australia’s cimate change guru is getting a grilling on the road.
Mungo: We need Kevin to be a climate hero
Will Kevin Rudd have the courage to do what is necessary on climate? Mungo MacCallum has his doubts.
Kohler: Garnaut — the beadle and the dietary
Ross Garnaut’s draft review on climate change achieved more than just caring the crap out of everyone, writes Business Spectator’s Alan Kohler.
What Australians really think about climate change
If Richard Farmer’s reality check is anything to go by, people aren’t losing sleep over the Garnaut report, writes Sophie Black.
