Greenhouse gases and global warming* - Australia's role - from 1997 (mostly shameful!)

* "climate change" is a euphemism introduced by opponents of government and corporate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to make the situation sound less threatening than "global warming" or the more accurate "global heating". See the links below for the tactics of lobby groups who have a vested interest in maintaining unsustainable consumption of fossil fuels.

Bushfires, coastal storms & floods are "climate disasters" - calling them "natural disasters" underplays the human contribution to the events!
This letter  published in New Scientist ($) explains the situation:
Weather calamities are climate disasters, Published 21 February 2024
From Michael Paine, Sydney, Australia
Your view on whether the world has already warmed by 1.5°C refers to extreme weather events. The resulting human tragedies are often referred to as “natural disasters” by politicians and the media. But the causes are becoming less and less natural. Let’s start calling them what they are – “climate disasters” (Leader, 10 February).

Contents

• Introduction
• Politics + Draft declaration by young people - Reparation for climate change inaction
• News (from 1997)  + News archive 1997-2010
• Greenhouse Timeline (new)
  
• Links 
• Geothermal ("baseload") power + Gravitricity
  
• Health risks from coal + Fossil fuel susidies.
• Floating solar farms - a good idea for Australia + Snowy 1.5 concept (floating solar instead of more tunnels and concrete)
  
• Green cars news + Green car research (circa 2000) including a proposed method for rating environmental damage of electric vehicles alongside conventional vehicles.  More at ACEEE.
  

Political/Misinformation Alerts from 2007 (latest at top) .

• 15 Dec 24 The Guardian: Energy generators poke holes in Dutton’s nuclear plan as questions over costings pile up + Queensland environment minister stands by ‘scepticism’ about human-induced climate change.
  
• 15 Dec 24 The Conversation:
• Dutton’s nuclear policy would have coal-fired power stations operating for a lot longer
• The Coalition reveals the cost of its nuclear power plan – but the devil is in the missing detail
• 15 Dec 24 ABC: 
• Cunning showmanship as Coalition conflates details to sell its $331b nuclear power plan
• Dutton's nuclear plan a 'heroic', cherrypicked 'recipe for higher energy bills', experts say
• Bass Strait offshore wind zone to now be 30km from coast, smaller in size after community feedback [unsightly!?].
  
• 15 Dec 24 The Saturday Paper: Australia’s Clean Energy Transition Partnership a ‘huge win’ on climate.
  
• 11 Dec 24 ABC: CSIRO reaffirms nuclear power likely to cost [at least] twice as much as renewables + These six charts tell the story of Australia's (slow) progress on climate change
  
• 29 Nov 24 The Guardian: ‘Silent majority’ of Australian farmers found to support renewable energy transition + As Cop29 wraps up and the climate crisis gathers pace, Australia’s dash for gas is confounding 
  
• 23 Nov 24 The Conversation: Albanese government gives firm ‘no’ to joining UK-US agreement to advance nuclear technology.
  
• 12 Nov 24 ABC: BOM and CSIRO State of the Climate report 2024 predicts more extreme weather as warming increases.
  
• 12 Nov 24 The Guardian: The Australians who sounded the climate alarm 55 years ago - Dr Richard Gunn's parliamentary address in 1970 & Prof Harry Bloom's address to a Senate enquiry in 1969 (added to my Global warming timeline) + Dick Smith’s ABC radio rant against renewables overflows with ill-informed claims.
  
• 28 Oct 24 The Conversation: Queensland election signals both major parties accept pumped hydro and the renewable energy transition as inevitable.
  
• 23 Oct 24 The Guardian: Matt Kean lambasts ‘wild fantasy’ of former Coalition colleagues to extend coal power and build nuclear plants + Let’s be clear, Peter Dutton’s energy plan is more focused on coal and gas than it is on nuclear power
  
• 12 Oct 24 The Saturday Paper: The opposition leader’s nuclear bullshit - by John Hewson - an excellent summary of the false and misleading claims
  
• 2 Oct 24 The Guardian: Australia’s ‘immoral’ coalmine decision akin to drowning Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu climate minister declares + Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph.
  
• 30 Sep 24 The Conversation: Dutton’s nuclear plan would mean propping up coal for at least 12 more years – and we don’t know what it would cost.
  
• 26 Sep 24 The Guardian: Labor’s coalmine expansion approvals undermine its credibility on the climate crisis + Stuck on repeat: why Peter Dutton’s ‘greatest hits’ on nuclear power are worse than a broken record
  
• 21 Sep 24 ABC: Nuclear would add hundreds to power bills and leave half of energy needs unmet, reports claim + The Guardian: Coalition’s nuclear plan will add $665 a year to average power bill, report warns.
  
• 19 Sep 24 The Guardian: 
• Australia is a mess. Cop31 is a chance to redefine ourselves from climate laggard to global leader + Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’ (the article refers to "fossil fuel vehicles". In my view this term is much more appropriate than "internal combustion engine" (ICE) as it excludes hydrogen-fuelled vehicles. Also the term ICE plays down the pollution from these engines
  
• South Australia is aiming for 100% renewable energy by 2027. It’s already internationally ‘remarkable’
  
• 5 Sep 24 ABC: Climate Authority warns that to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, Australia must cut emissions by 75pc by 2035 + CCA Review "We need to seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to ensure Australia's rapid and orderly transition as the world transforms to avert the worst impacts of climate change,"
  
• 1 Sep 24 The Conversation: 
• Wondering what to make of warnings about our electricity system? The outlook is improving – but we’re not out of the woods
  
• Talk isn’t enough: Pacific nations say Australia must end new fossil fuel projects
  
• Australia has just been handed a map for getting to net zero. Here’s how it will guide us
  
• 10 Aug 24 The Saturday Paper: Peter Dutton’s nuclear lies by Prof Ian Lowe. Concise analysis of false and misleading claims
  
• 28 Jul 24 Japan Today: Nuclear wildcard reignites Australia's climate wars.
  
• 9 Jul 24 RenewEconomy: UK Labour to double onshore wind, triple solar power, and quadruple offshore wind by 2030 -
  Peter Dutton seizes on UK Labour’s commitment to nuclear. What he didn’t mention is that its wind and solar plans are even more ambitious than Australia’s Labor government.
  
• 4 Jul 24 ABC: CSIRO chief executive says Peter Dutton's comments on energy report 'corrode public trust in science'.
  
• 4 Jul 24 The Guardian: Extravagant maker of schemes: unpicking Barnaby Joyce’s anti-renewables campaign.
  
• 25 Jun 24 The Conversation:
• Big batteries are solving a longstanding problem with solar power in California. Can they do the same for Australia?
• Albanese appoints former NSW Liberal energy minister Matt Kean to chair Climate Change Authority
• No costing, no clear timelines, no easy legal path: deep scepticism over Dutton’s nuclear plan is warranted
• How would a switch to nuclear affect electricity prices for households and industry?
• Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy will do nothing to ease Australians’ hip-pocket pain, now or in the future
• No nuclear veto: if the Coalition isn’t seeking community consent, is that really consultation?
• Extreme wildfires are on the rise globally, powered by the climate crisis
  
• 22 Jun 24 The Saturday Paper ($):
• Peter Dutton’s plan for a nuclear power grab
• ‘What the hell is this?’: Inside the Coalition’s climate division
• Dutton declares Abbott-style climate war
• The courage of a scoundrel
  
• 22 Jun 24 The Guardian:
• Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is an economic disaster that would leave Australians paying more for electricity
• Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal disrupts investment in cheaper renewables. Is that the point?
• Peter Dutton’s flimsy charade is first and foremost a gas plan not a nuclear power plan
• CSIRO stands by nuclear power costings that contradict Coalition claims
• Peter Dutton names seven potential nuclear power station sites but avoids questions on cost
  
• 17 Jun 24 The Saturday Paper: ‘What the hell is this?’: Inside the Coalition’s climate division.
  
• 17 Jun 24 The Guardian: 
• Peter Dutton’s energy policy is a political death wish – and utterly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency - Ian Lowe
• Disastrous, dark shadow, destroys our economy: five climate elders
• Germany’s top climate envoy says ‘this is the critical decade’ after Dutton ditches 2030 target
• Offshore windfarm zone off Illawarra coast given green light
• Farmers who graze sheep under solar panels say it improves productivity
• Coalition to impose ‘cap’ on renewable energy investment, Nationals leader says
  
• Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economy
  
• 19 Mar 24 ABC: Chief scientist backs renewables, calls nuclear power 'expensive'.
  
• 15 Mar 24 The Guardian: CSIRO chief warns against ‘disparaging science’ after Peter Dutton criticises nuclear energy costings.
  
• 14 Mar 24 RenewEconomy: Nuclear slow and expensive, renewables fast and cheap: Bowen slaps down Coalition “fantasy” + How new wind, solar and batteries would keep lights on in NSW heatwave, even without Eraring.
  
• 28 Feb 24 ABC: After a weird summer of floods and heatwaves, scientists explain why weather extremes are 'on steroids' [a comprehensive review of global warming issues - well done Jess Davis]
  
• 27 Feb 24 ABC: Andrew Forrest slams fossil fuel industry and Coalition for nuclear energy 'bulldust' + Watch the entire National Press Club address on iView (registration required, Australian IP addresses only) - every politician should be required to watch this talk that stresses the economic benefits of renewable energy.
• 14 Feb 24 ABC: Veteran economists say a carbon levy would cut emissions, cut inflation and raise billions, but see little prospect of adoption (see also their National Press Club address today) + 19 Feb 24 The Conversation: Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims have proposed a $100 billion-a-year fossil fuel tax – and it’s a debate Australia should embrace. + National Press Club address on iView.
• 8 Nov 23 Climate Council: CODE BLUE: OUR OCEANS IN CRISIS + (Book$): The Carbon Club - includes the negative influence of John Howard!
  
• 23 Oct 23 The Saturday Paper: Government settles climate bond lawsuit + Australia must act now to raise climate targets.(Zali Steggall)
  
• 6 Sep 23 ABC: Australian government acknowledges risk of climate change to bonds after court case
  
• 7 Jul23 ABC: Peter Dutton opting for the nuclear option for Australia's energy future - say no more! Then again... "small modular reactors" would be a terrorist's dream come true - a small explosion would render 100s of square kilometres uninhabitable.
  
• 24 Feb 23 Japan Today: Experts back more robust U.S. estimates of social cost of carbon.
  
• 22 Nov 21 Japan Today (for a limited time):  Australia's climate policies don't match its big talk at COP27 - "Australia, one of the top global exporter of coal and gas, has not committed to ending new projects or halting the expansion of existing ones, and it continues to subsidise fossil fuel development... Canberra did not sign a clean energy transition agreement that calls for an end to all new direct public support for the international fossil-fuel energy sector by year's end, which was supported by peers like Canada, Britain and the United States."
  
• 3 Nov 22 ABC: Greta Thunberg tells Australia to 'wake up and treat the climate emergency like an emergency'.
  
• 27 Sep 22 The Conversation: How to deal with fossil fuel lobbying and its growing influence in Australian politics.
  
• 6 Aug 22 The Saturday Paper ($): The Peter Dutton schtick (a gimmick, comic routine, style of performance) - Sophie Scamps, who won Mackellar, told parliament “people want concrete action on climate change now”
  
• 26 Jul 22 The Conversation: Climate bill makes clear 43% target is ‘minimum commitment’: Bowen
  
• 9 Jun 22 The Guardian: David Littleproud’s coal case study to defend Coalition energy policy is something of a credibility stretch - "Even if Millmerran power station’s [experimental] carbon capture plan succeeds, it will only eliminate 2.1% of emissions. Plus: nuclear still [much] costlier than renewables" + New Scientist: Mini nuclear power stations may produce more waste than large ones.
  
• 2 Jun 22 New Scientist: Australia votes for stronger climate action in 'greenslide' election.
  
• 24 May 22 RenewEconomy: Cannon-Brookes says election shows AGL coal plans untenable, as Forrest lays into Coalition + The political and media establishment ignored climate – but voters didn’t.
  
• 20 May 22 The Guardian: What would following Australia’s ‘leadership’ on the climate crisis actually look like? + Australia’s greenhouse pollution from coal higher per person than any other developed country, data shows.
  
• 20 May 22 The Conversation: Scorched dystopia or liveable planet? Here’s where the climate policies of our political hopefuls will take us.
  
• 6 Apr 22 ABC Fact Check: Scott Morrison says Australia's emissions record is better than the US, NZ, Canada, Japan and many European countries. Is that correct?
  
• 6 Apr 22 The Conversation: The Morrison government’s $50 million gas handout undermines climate targets and does nothing to improve energy security + Poor policy and short-sightedness: how the budget treats climate change and energy in the wake of [climate] disasters + IPCC says the tools to stop catastrophic climate change are in our hands. Here’s how to use them + IPCC finds the world has its best chance yet to slash emissions – if it seizes the opportunity.
  
• 30 Mar 22 The Guardian: Budget papers show Morrison government plans to cut climate spending if it wins election.
  
• 28 Mar 22 The Saturday Paper ($): Taylor’s office spent $1 billion on ‘sham’ carbon projects + Anjali Sharma: An open letter to Scott Morrison (about duty of care)
  
• 24 Mar 22 The Guardian: Australia’s carbon credit scheme ‘largely a sham’, says whistleblower who tried to rein it in.
  
• 22 Mar 22 SMH: UN boss: ‘Madness’ to back fossil fuels as global energy crunch bites  - “A growing number of G20 developed economies have announced meaningful emissions reductions by 2030 – with a handful of holdouts, such as Australia.”
  
• 20 Mar 22 The Saturday Paper ($):
• Angus Taylor’s $3.5 billion carbon blunder [that's another $200 per taxpayer!]
• Morrison’s economic lies - "...successive Coalition governments have not only cut the tax bill for the oil and gas industry but handed them billions in subsidies as well...The fossil fuel industries aren’t the backbone of the Australian economy. While exporting oil and gas and coal is enormously profitable for the foreign companies that dominate those industries, between them they employ only 65,000 of the 13.2 million people who work in Australia. ..."
  
• Grasshopper government - "the burning of the planet is not a problem for the government because the law is insufficiently clear on the subject of responsibility..."
  
• What the river didn’t forget - "The flooding in south-east Queensland is the result of climate change, two La Niña summers and a slow-moving low-pressure system. More than that, it is the result of a failure of collective memory and of governments to act."
• How climate change is impacting health in Australia.
  
• 14 Mar 22 The Guardian: Scott Morrison says closing coal power stations will drive up electricity prices. Is he right? + In Lismore, it’s getting harder to tolerate climate inaction – and Morrison’s cowardly silence spoke volumes.
  
• 23 Feb 22 The Guardian: Australia spending billions on new gas pipelines that may end up worthless stranded assets -  “highlights the Australian government’s unbridled enthusiasm for the gas industry despite the risk of creating stranded assets... the scale of construction in Australia showed the “toxic level of influence” fossil fuel companies had on government."
  
• 21 Feb 22 SolarQuotes: Eraring Power Station Closure “Bitterly Disappointing” – Taylor + The Guardian: The early closure of Australia’s biggest coal plant caught Angus Taylor by surprise – but it shouldn’t have + News Corp claims coal and gas moratorium would be a revenue ‘black hole’. How much would it really cost? + The Conversation: Australia’s largest coal plant will close 7 years early – but there’s still no national plan for coal’s inevitable demise.
• 21 Feb 22 The Guardian: Clean energy companies plea for government ‘not to get in the way’ of renewable shift + Gas-fired power falls to lowest level since 2005 as Coalition pushes ahead with its ‘gas-fired recovery’
  
• 3 Feb 22 The Conversation: The $1 billion Great Barrier Reef funding is nonsensical. Australians, and their natural wonder, deserve so much better + Labor’s plan to green the Kurri Kurri gas power plant makes no sense + New German leader proposes a ‘climate club’ of leading economies that would punish free riders like Australia.
  
• 1 Dec  21 The Guardian: ‘Vandals’: Victoria, Queensland fume over federal climate intervention - The commonwealth has used new powers to cancel states’ participation in global climate action
  
• 14 Nov 21 The Guardian: Scott Morrison’s net zero modelling reveals a slow, lazy and shockingly irresponsible approach to ‘climate action’ + Australia named ‘colossal fossil’ of Cop26 for ‘appalling performance’.
  
• 13 Nov 21 The Guardian: Australia shown to have highest greenhouse gas emissions from coal in world on per capita basis + Cop26 in extra time as leaders warn of the deadly cost of failure + Backed by Climate 200’s $2m war chest, independent challengers circle Coalition seats
  
• 12 Nov 21 The Conversation - Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison has a bingle or two on the campaign trail + Just 1.7% of people in PNG are vaccinated against COVID. Why is resistance so fierce? [possibly relevant to Morrison's attitude to climate change: "Nearly all Papua New Guineans (99.2%) are Christian. And the religious landscape in the country is powerfully influenced by Pentecostal and evangelical churches...Many Christians, especially those believing in the Pentecostal and evangelical traditions, have a strong interest in the end of the world, as this signals the return of Jesus Christ."]
  
• 4 Nov 21 The Conversation: Australia is about to be hit by a carbon tax whether the prime minister likes it or not, except the proceeds will go overseas + Australia’s refusal to sign a global methane pledge exposes flaws in the term ‘net-zero’ + COP26: global deforestation deal will fail if countries like Australia don’t lift their game on land clearing.
  
• 3 Nov 21 The Guardian: Australia considering more than 100 fossil fuel projects that could produce 5% of global industrial emissions - The coal and gas works, if approved, would result in a nearly 30% increase in emissions within Australia
  
• 1 Nov 21 The Conversation: Scott Morrison attends pivotal global climate talks today, bringing a weak plan that leaves Australia exposed - "Governments dropping glossy brochures brimming with political messaging, produced behind closed doors, is not the way to deal with a complex long term national issue..."
  
• 31 Oct 21 The Guardian: Australia has trashed the Paris agreement and exposed itself as the worst kind of climate hypocrite.
  
• 30 Oct 21 The Saturday Paper ($): How the gas lobby captured Morrison’s Glasgow response + How it happened: the Nats and net zero + A steaming pile of nothingness.
  
• 27 Oct 21 The Guardian: Australia’s net zero emissions ‘plan’: the five things you should know - "Scott Morrison’s ‘Australian way’ contains no new emissions reduction policies" + The Coalition’s net zero policy is merely a plan to freeload off the rest of the world
  
• 27 Oct 21 RenewEconomy: “A joke:” Morrison’s net zero plan has net zero detail, and no change to policies.
• 26 Oct 21 The Conversation: Australia’s stumbling, last-minute dash for climate respectability doesn’t negate a decade of abject failure + View from The Hill: Morrison’s net-zero plan is built more on politics than detailed policy ( see this article from Scientific American in 2019: Scrubbing Carbon from the Sky "The U.S. Department of Energy, for instance, has spent huge sums of money on carbon capture projects intended to make “clean coal” power generation a reality. Southern Company abandoned the latest attempt in 2017, switching the Kemper County clean coal plant in Mississippi to natural gas after spending $7.5 billion..."
  
• 21 Oct 21 RenewEconomy: Australia ranked worst amongst international peers for climate action, fossil fuel use.
  
• 19 Oct 21 ABC: Barnaby Joyce's Nationals take aim at Scott Morrison's Liberals in climate change showdown + The Conversation: Joyce says Nationals don’t want bigger 2030 climate target as party room frets about regional protections [Opinion: the National's "case" sounds more like a desperate defence for drug dealer in court - "I needed to do it to maintain my standard of living... If they don't buy it from me they risk a low quality product"!]
  
• 16 Oct 21 ABC: Barnaby Joyce, Nationals and Coalition flayed for Australia's lack of climate change policy by Labor and Independents on Q+A. + SMH: The Queen condemns ‘really irritating’ world leaders for snubbing Glasgow climate talks.
  
• 11 Oct 21 The Saturday Paper ($): Last resort - "Resources Minister Keith Pitt envisages the slush fund he wants in exchange for agreeing to a net-zero target. The price of action on climate change, he has determined, is a $250 billion loan facility to pay out to the mining sector when no one else will."
  
• 4 Oct 21 BBC: Climate change: Stop smoke and mirrors, rich nations told - Greta Thunberg ""We are sick of their blah blah blah and sick of their lies."
  
• 2 Oct 21 The Saturday Paper ($): Biden adviser: ‘I don’t know whether Angus Taylor is an ideologue or an idiot’ + Morrison must tell the truth on climate.
  
• 29 Sep 21 The Guardian: Climate pressure on Scott Morrison grows as NSW promises to cut emissions in half by 2030.
  
• 29 Sep 21 The Conversation: The Nationals signing up to net-zero should be a no-brainer. Instead, they’re holding Australia to ransom.
  
• 28 Sep 21 The Guardian: Coalition inertia on climate undermines Australia’s credibility in region, ex-diplomats warn + Explainer: Barnaby Joyce is right, the UK is in an energy crisis – but is it relevant to Australia? [No - it is partly due to an overreliance on gas!]
• 6 Sep 21 The Conversation: Bushfire survivors just won a crucial case against the NSW environmental watchdog, putting other states on notice.
  
• 11 Aug 21 The Guardian: ‘No place to hide’: pressure on Australia to end support for new fossil fuel projects after IPCC report.
  
• 11 Aug 21 The Conversation: With the release of a terrifying IPCC report, Australia must face its wilful political blindness on climate
  
• 10 Jul 21 The Saturday Paper ($): Frydenberg pushed AGL to sack boss [for closing Liddel coal-fired pwoer station and moving to renewables]
  
• 8 Jul 21The Conversation: Politics with Michelle Grattan: Barnaby Joyce on net zero 2050, a coal-fired power station – and how resources is (sort of) in cabinet.
• 8 Jul 21 The Guardian: Morrison government rejects call to phase out coal power ahead of UN session on Australia’s human rights record.
  
• 7 Jul 21 SBS: Government credit agency gave 80 times more money to fossil fuels than renewables over last 11 years - "up to $1.69 billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry compared to just $20 million for renewable energy projects between 2009 and 2020...'
  
• 20 Jun 21 The Conversation: Acting PM Michael McCormack on net zero 2050 and prospects for a new coal-fired power station.
  
• 15 Jun 21 The Guardian: Michael McCormack says coal here to stay as G7 countries commit to decarbonised power by the 2030s - Coal ‘pays for a lot of barista machines’ for inner-city cafes
• 11 Jun 21 The Guardian: Queensland commits $2bn to boost local renewable energy jobs + Morrison government’s $600m gas power plant at Kurri Kurri not needed and won’t cover costs, analysts say.
• 4 Jun 21 SMH: Mathias Cormann calls for ‘ambitious’ plan to reach net zero emissions [Former Australian finance minister and now OECD secretary-general, Mr Cormann, "was a key contributor to the Abbott government’s removal of Australia’s carbon price"]
  
• 19 May 21 ABC: Federal government will spend $600 million on new Kurri Kurri gas [electricity] plant in the NSW Hunter Valley [comment: this is sickening bloody-mindedness from the federal government in the face of overwhelming economic and scientific advice. Meanwhile a Newcastle Uni initiative aims to solve the issue of storing energy generated by renewables and utilising "retired" coal-fired power stations to meet peak demands but is ignored in the misguided energy "policy"] + The New Daily: Alan Kohler: IEA lays out energy challenge as Australia missteps again.
  
• 17 May 21 The Guardian: ‘They seem to have gone coal mad’: major parties sing as one, but Upper Hunter voters are not so sure.
  
• 11 May 21 ABC: Malcolm Turnbull snubs Nationals, endorses independent candidate in Upper Hunter by-election
  
• 7 Apr 21 The Guardian: Turnbull blames 'rightwing media' for dumping from NSW climate change board + ABC: Malcolm Turnbull dumped from role on NSW government clean energy board after 'media backlash'
  
• 5 Apr 21 The Conversation: Seriously ugly: here’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century.
  
• 11 Mar 21 ABC: Australian exporters could face millions of dollars in European tariffs as EU seeks to punish polluters.
  
• 10 Feb 21 ABC: Scott Morrison faces Nationals threat to 'cross the floor' over 2050 carbon cuts - the Nationals call for agriculture to be exempt from a net-zero target now appears at odds with the National Farmers Federation (NFF), which says agriculture is "too important to leave out"..."NFF chief executive Tony Mahar said the group's clear position was to support reaching net zero by 2050, while ensuring "agriculture is not worse off".
  
• 5 Feb 21 ABC: NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean blasts Scott Morrison's 'ridiculous' 2050 emissions stance
  
• 28 Jan 21 The Guardian: Coalition signs Australia up to agreements to price in climate risk + ABC: Labor set for climate change shift with architect of emissions target Mark Butler to go + SMH: Albanese drops Butler from climate in reshuffle restart on emissions [in an attempt to secure some marginal seats in coal electorates]
  
• 13 Jan 21 ABC: Fifty countries, not including Australia, join global coalition at One Planet Summit vowing to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030.
  
• 2 Jan 21 The Guardian: 2020 was dismal in many respects but it was a landmark year for renewables in Australia - "Kean’s ambitious moves, which prepare NSW for the coming wave of coal power station retirements, received almost no pushback from conservative media. Whimpers of protest from federal energy minister Angus Taylor barely registered. (To nobody’s surprise, a recent poll of AFR readers voted Taylor “worst minister” of 2020.)"
  
• 23 Nov 20 RenewEconomy: Matt Kean takes on Angus Taylor: “I’m not on the side of vested interests” + Australia’s carbon twist: Taxing consumers who refuse to burn fossil fuels.
  
• 16 Nov 20 RenewEconomy: Renewables industry rejoices as Australia’s biggest electricity state goes green.
  
• 16 Nov 20 ABC: Labor MP and resources spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon quits Shadow Cabinet.
  
• 9 Nov 20 The New Daily: [Zali] MP wants conscience vote on climate bill + Canberra Times: Bushfire royal commission signals need for Zali Steggall's Climate Act + The Guardian: Climate crisis: more than 100 Australian businesses and organisations support net-zero target - 'Australian Medical Association, Unilever and Atlassian among groups supporting Zali Steggall’s bill in newspaper ads...'
  
• 9 Nov 20 RenewEconomy: It’s Scott Morrison versus the world about his gas-fired fantasy + Labor and Greens slam Taylor’s “unacceptable attack” on CEFC
  
• 9 Nov 20 Northern Beaches Review: [Zali] MP wants conscience vote on climate bill + "I will keep pestering" (see page 6)
  
• 9 Nov 20 ABC: Joe Biden's election as US president will not change Australian climate policy, Scott Morrison says.
  
• 9 Nov 20 The Conversation: 
• Biden says the US will rejoin the Paris climate agreement in 77 days. Then Australia will really feel the heat
  
• Some say neoliberals have destroyed the world, but now they want to save it. Is Scott Morrison listening? "The International Monetary Fund this week delivered a somewhat surprising message. It warned Earth was on course for “potentially catastrophic” damage under climate change, and called for green investment and carbon prices..."
• Tim Flannery: Australia, the climate can’t wait for the next federal election. It’s time to take control.
• A Biden presidency would put pressure on Scott Morrison over climate change
  
• 30 Oct 20 The Guardian:
  
• Centre-right thinktank warns Morrison government of 'grave future for coal exports' 
• Nationals call for ANZ boycott after bank's push for net zero emissions
• Marise Payne declines to welcome adoption of net zero emissions target by Japan and South Korea
• Labor agrees to support new gas projects after public brawl sparked by Joel Fitzgibbon despite...
  
• 2020 likely to be one of warmest years on record despite La Niña
  
• 13 Sep 20 ABC: NAB chief's enlightening answer under questioning by Federal MP Craig Kelly on Australian coal.
  
• 3 Sep 20 The Greens: Stealing from climate to give to the polluters. (see these news items: Government’s push for a gas-fired recovery crumble as Suncorp cuts ties to industry & Hopes of a gas boom fizzle)
• 2 Sep 20 The Guardian: Climate crisis: business, farming and environment leaders unite to warn Australia 'woefully unprepared'.
• 21 May 20 The Conversation: Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem.
  
• 19 May 20 ABC: Australia’s most senior former public servants and scientists reveal their anger about climate policy failure + Four Corners: Climate Wars
  
• 20 Feb 20 News.com: ‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ makers accuse PM Scott Morrison of being ‘woefully dishonest’ on climate change
  
• 20 Feb 20 The Guardian: Anthony Albanese backs Adani coalmine but criticises proposed Collinsville power plant [Labor capitulates!]
• 20 Feb 20 Brisbane Times: Adani gave $200,000 to Coalition weeks after securing approvals.
  
• 15 Jan 20 Australian Academy of Sciences: Statement regarding Australian bushfires + What is climate change?
• 15 Jan 20 Climate Council of Australia: The facts about bushfires and climate change
  
• 13 Jan 20 New Scientist: Australian government report predicted severe wildfires 11 years ago.
  
• 14 Dec 19 ABC: Liberal MPs Matt Kean and Sussan Ley link bushfires to climate change - "...do our bit to abate carbon and reduce the impact of climate change..."
  
• 15 Nov 19 The Conversation: When the firies call him out on climate change, Scott Morrison should listen.
  
• 19 Oct 19 ABC: John Hewson slams Coalition on climate change while business takes lead reducing emissions.
  
• 12 Oct 19 Climate Change Protests Australia -  Lists protests around Australia
  
• 30 Sep 19 ABC: We fact checked Scott Morrison's speech to the United Nations. Here's what we found.
• 28 Sep 19 ABC: ABC: David Attenborough slams Australian PM on climate record
  
• 25 Sep 19 The Conversation: Highly touted UN climate summit failed to deliver - and Scott Morrison failed to show up.
  
• 24 Sep 19 The Guardian: Greta Thunberg condemns world leaders in emotional speech at UN - Comment: Maybe the young generation should declare that if (when) they inherit the effects of rapid global warming in coming decades they will seek compensation from those currently in power - reparation for climate change inaction. Update: Draft "How dare you" declaration - for discussion.
  
• 20 Sep 19 Climate Strike around Australia (e.g Sydney Domain at noon) + The Guardian: 'Going to the streets again': what you need to know about Friday's climate strike + Greta Thunberg to Congress: ‘You’re not trying hard enough. Sorry’ + Perhaps we need to explain climate change to politicians as we would to very small children + The Conversation: The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children - by Tim Flannery
• 18 Sep 19 The Guardian: Josh Frydenberg overruled department to block Lord Howe Island wind turbines [in 2017 - "At the time, [Alan] Jones was regularly railing against windfarm projects..."
  
• 12 Sep 19 ABC: Malcolm Turnbull says renewables plus storage are cheaper than coal and nuclear for new power generation. Is he correct? (note this does not take into account  "frequency control ancillary services" or FCAS  - the SA Telsa  battery is saving costs of more than $100 million per year)
  
• 19 Aug 19 The Guardian: Australia removes climate 'crisis' from Pacific islands draft declaration.
  
• 27 Jul 19 ABC: Have you got climate zombies? We debunk the myths that refuse to die:
• CO2 doesn't cause warming - see also this timeline
  
• It's Milankovitch cycles
• There's been a 5? 10? 20? year pause in warming
• It's a natural cycle, man
• Plants grow better with more CO2 anyway
• It was warmer during the Medieval Warm Period
• But the world's been colder before when CO2 levels were higher
• Climate science is a conspiracy of the 'elites' (or China or ....)
  
• CO2 has historically followed, not caused warming
• Climate scientists are only in it for the money

See also The Conversation: Five climate change science misconceptions – debunked

• 9 Jul 2019 The Guardian [more shame]: Australia's emissions reach the highest on record, driven by electricity sector.
• 6 Jun 19 ABC: Australia's greenhouse gas emissions rise again, according to delayed Federal Government data.
  
• 20 May 19 ABC: Election 2019: What happened to the climate change vote we heard about? [fear and greed!]
  
• 13 May 19: BBC Doco on Youtube: Climate Change - the Facts - with David Attenborough, Michael Mann, James Hansen and many other respected scientists "This is a must watch for everyone who cares about our planet"
  
• 23 Apr 19 SMH: On the road with the two faces of Zali Steggall - documents the misinformation being spread by spooked Abbott supporters and quotes Zali on the costs of transitioning to a low-carbon economy: “the reality is the cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of action. We know renewables do not need subsidies, so I don’t understand why a COALition government which is about small government and competitive forces is promoting a policy that is about subsidies to an industry. The benefit to our economy of transitioning is so much more than the cost of not.”
  
• 9 Feb 19 The Saturday Paper: The Stop Adani Convoy [Feb 2019] by Bob Brown - he uses the term "global heating"
  
• 17 Jan 19 The Conversation: 35 degree days make blackouts more likely, but new power stations won’t help - "Contrary to the impression the politicians and media might give, it’s very unlikely the outage will have been caused by a lack of power supply – whether coal, gas or renewable. So be sceptical when a hot-headed politician tells you the solution is their preferred energy generation technology. Neither a new coal-fired power station nor a giant solar-fed battery will keep the power on if your local network fails."
  
• Dec 18 The Saturday Paper: Inside the economics of Snowy 2.0.
  
• 8 Oct 18 - I am stunned and ashamed! SMH: Former official criticises Angus Taylor over 'extraordinary' coal protection measure - "Energy Minister Angus Taylor is considering indemnifying new coal projects from their future carbon risk as part of the government's plan to underwrite new "reliable" electricity generation." - In my view this amounts to generational vandalism because, in effect, future taxpayers will have to pay for coal-fired power stations to emit more CO2 - the same generations who will be severely affected by unchecked global warming. This goes far beyond the decades of shameful undermining of world efforts to reduce global warming by conservative governments (see the list below)
  
• 10 Oct 18 ABC: Environment Minister rejects top scientists' advice on phasing out coal, after UN's warning
  
• 3 Oct 18 - South Australia's Telsa big battery is exceeding expectations for stabilising the grid and is doing this at much lower cost than conventional (coal/gas) sources - Prime Minister Morrison previously compared it with the Big Banana and other government ministers have also derided it.
  
• 13 Sep 18 ABC: New Zealand's politicians just came up with a good [climate] plan — together
• 11 Sep 18 ABC: There's a certain Trump-like quality to Australia's discourse on emissions reductions - these reassurances are at completely at odds with the Government's own official advice
• 24 Aug 18 - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull dumped by right-wing opponents of emission reduction targets
  
• 18 Aug 18 ABC: Malcolm Turnbull dumps plan to legislate Paris emissions targets - but there is a glimmer of hope - Craig (Coal at all Costs) Kelly :"... The great concern is if you put it in regulation, that gives a future Labor party, a minister, just by a tick of a pen or a stroke of a pen to change the regulation and put the target up higher..." - this was the point made by Ken Baldwin in an article in The Conversation: The renewable energy train is unstoppable. The NEG needs to get on board - "the politically charged emissions reduction target needs to be set not in legislation but by regulation, so that it can easily be used as a dial to tune the level of ambition. Any future government could then ramp up the electricity sector’s emissions target beyond 26%..." + The Conversation: Turnbull dumps emissions legislation to stop rebels crossing the floor. [Update: It now seems any emissions target by regulation is to be dropped!]
  
• 22 Apr 18 ABC: Labor warns Government's National Energy Guarantee will lead to renewables lag
  
• 24 Feb 17 The Saturday Paper ($): Malcolm Turnbull’s switch on power sources - "First, clean coal is not actually very clean ( see this diagram). Even the best available technology was incompatible with meeting Australia’s current greenhouse gas reduction target...During last week’s heatwave, the NSW energy grid came perilously close to disaster. Two of four units at the 45-year-old Liddell coal power station had broken down – again. Then two big gas-fired generators went off. There was not much help coming from the interconnector with Queensland, which had its own heatwave to worry about. Nor much from the Victorian interconnector. Wind, solar and particularly pumped hydroelectric power saved the day. But don’t expect to hear too much about it from the government."
  
• 10 Nov 16 NewSci: President Trump means we can’t escape a dangerously warmer world.
• 27 Aug 16 ABC Science Show: Response to rapidly changing climate - deflect, distract, deny and delay
  
• 13 Aug 16 The Age:  John Church and the rising ocean - Described as the “Don Bradman of sea-level science”, John Church’s sacking from the CSIRO left many observers gobsmacked. Can we – Australia and the rest of the planet – really afford to let him go? .. "Australia has a huge coastline ... few countries could benefit more from an accurate understanding of sea-level rise."
  
• 14 May 16 SMH - more shame for Australia: Global sea-level expert John Church made to walk the plank by CSIRO - For John Church, a leading authority on sea-level rise caused by global warming, there was much that was fitting – and yet callous – about being sacked at sea + Nature: Australian climate job cuts leave hole in Southern Hemisphere research.
  
• 24 Mar 16 SMH: Malcolm Turnbull's green shift another blow to Tony Abbott
• 10 Nov 15 NewSci: Australia can go green and have economic growth – if it wants to - Australia can continue to grow its economy by relying heavily on agriculture and mining, while also slashing emissions and improving the natural environment. But smart government policies will be key...
  
• 6 Aug 15 SMH: Windfarm 'wing nuts': Public health expert takes aim at activists + Adani and Commonwealth Bank part ways, casting further doubt on Carmichael coal project.
  
• 23 Jul 15 SciAm: Sea Level Could Rise at Least 6 Meters  ( with list of affected northern hemisphere cities - see also Sydney , Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Newcastle - from my tsunami awareness page)
  
• 21 Jul 15 NewSci: Australian PM bans renewable energy body from investing in wind (more shame) + The Saturday Paper: Abbott's campaign to kill renewable energy sector.
  
• 16 Feb 15 ABC: Climate change booklet aims to dispel confusion, misinformation + Australian Academy of Science: The science of climate change: Questions and answers.
  
• 9 Dec 14 BBC: Australia worst performer on climate change - report
• 13 Nov 14 SMH: US-China climate deal puts pressure on Tony Abbott
  
• 10 Jun 14 SMH: Tony Abbott missing signs of world's switch to carbon trading, experts say + Tony Abbott seeks alliance to thwart President Obama on climate change policy [This shameful act is reminescent of John Howard undermining climate talks in 2000]
• Sep 2013 - Tony Abbott is elected at Prime Minister of Australia on the mantra that the carbon tax will be abolished... despite... Hottest year [on record for Australia] shows need for carbon tax
  
• 26 Jun 13 SMH: Obama unveils sweeping climate plan - the world does not have time for “a meeting of the flat earth society” before it acts on climate change
  
• 3 Jul 12 ABC: Judge for yourselves on carbon tax, Gillard tells voters + Carbon tax 'economically efficient': Garnaut.  Carbon pricing explained. 
• 27 Apr 12 Scientific American: U.S. Voters Favor Regulating CO2
• 22 Oct 11 Scientific American: Different Method, Same Result: Global Warming Is Real - Independent analysis confirms earlier results but aims for greater transparency.
• 14 Oct 11 BBC: Australia parliament passes divisive carbon tax 
• 23 Aug 11 Scientific American: Australia Passes CO2 Offset Laws, Carbon Pricing Next - Opinion: unfortunately masterful scaremongering by media people and some politicians means that Australians do not understand the intentions and effects of a carbon tax. The situation has effectively become a witch-hunt with reptilian instincts aroused and rational decision-making discarded.
• Australian Academy of Sciences: The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers - by Australia's peak science organisation [eminent scientists with no vested interest in the energy industry]
• 11 Dec 10: I have a suggestion for the skeptical politicians. Every developed country that refuses to implement effective climate-change polices should be required to enter into a future contract that requires their nations to pay for the effects of climate change on poorer nations. In other words, if they are that confident that there will be no human-induced climate change (or no serious consequences) then they should be repared to make a commitment to repair some of the damage, if they are proved wrong in coming decades.
• 13 Aug 09 ABC: Doomed emissions bill fuels election talk -  Australia nearly had an emissions trading scheme. More shame from the Liberal/National COALition - now in opposition.
• 17 Dec 2007 Daily Telegraph: [Australian Senator] Penny Wong's way is the right way for Bali roadmap.

Introduction

This page was originally prepared in 1997 to protest the Australian Howard Government's negative stand on greenhouse emissions and the Kyoto Protocol. The position of the Government did not change much during his entire term (climate change was an issue in the 2007 Federal Election).  However, the site has been revamped to be a resource for links on the subject of greenhouse gases and climate change. News items are in chronological order, with most recent items at the top. Apologies that many links no longer work.

There are dozens of articles on this subject appearing every week. The following list is just a personal and somewhat random selection. Check out the links for many more.

Update 27 Nov 2000
Opinion: The Australian Government contributed to the collapse of the climate talks in The Hague. I am sure that the majority of Australians disagree with the stand taken by the Howard Government but it is evident that vested interests have prevailed. This government's apparent disregard for future generations is reprehensible. On the same day that former Environment Minister Robert Hill was scuttling the climate agreement in The Hague the Australian Prime Minister John Howard was touring northern New South Wales viewing the damage from the worst flooding in decades. This flooding is not necessarily linked to global warming but, as with other recent flooding around the globe, shows clearly how sensitive our economy is to climate extremes - extremes that will become greater under the effects of global warming.

23 Sep 01 (Not an item to be proud of) Engineers Australia: Australians are the worst greenhouse gas polluters in the industrialised world.... Update: Sorry URL no longer available - here is an extract:

Australians are the worst greenhouse polluters
Australians are the worst greenhouse gas polluters in the industrialised world, a new analysis by the Australia Institute has concluded. Since 1995, Australia's emissions of greenhouse gases per person rose to 27.6t from 26.7t, while the average for industrialised countries fell to 12.9t from 13.6t, the institute said.
The analysis showed Luxembourg produced 24.2t of greenhouse gases per person, while Canada emitted 21.9t and the US 21.1t.
"Australia's emissions are so high because, while our energy emissions per person are a little below those of the USA, we have high levels of emissions from land clearing and agriculture," the institute said.
"Emissions from electricity generation have grown rapidly in recent years, stimulated by the introduction of national competition policy," it said.
The average for the European Union was 10.3t, with Germany at 11.9t, UK 11.4t, France 8.2t and Italy 9t of greenhouse gases produced per person.
Each Indian was responsible for only about 1t.
The institute is an independent public policy research centre based at the ANU in Canberra.

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GENERAL NEWS


• 15 Dec 24 ABC: Australia leads (!) the world in arresting climate and environment protesters
  
• 11 Dec 24 New Scientist ($):  Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future.
  
• 11 Dec 24 The Conversation: After 65,000 years caring for this land, First Nations peoples are now key to Australia’s clean energy revolution + Trusted partner to the Pacific, or giant fossil fuel exporter? This week, Australia chose the latter
  
• 11 Dec 24 The Guardian: Your smoke detector may be at risk if solar power is turned off during sunny days to protect the grid, experts say (unlikely with the solar inverters sold in the last 15 years)
  
• 2 Dec  24 The Guardian: New powder that captures carbon could be ‘quantum leap’ for industry (but see the caveats)
  
• 2 Dec24 ABC: Concerns more Australians at risk of heat-related injuries as people do it tough in cost-of-living crisis
  
• 29 Nov 24 The Conversation: Record renewables go into the grid in 2024, generating 45% of electricity in 2025 + Australia’s electricity market is getting a big makeover – and these 3 changes will make it future-proof
  
• 23 Nov 24 New Scientist ($):
• Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ [mainly oil & gas wells] don’t fix them
• Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high
• Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700
  
• 23 Nov 24 ABC: 
• Antarctic researchers warn of possible 'catastrophic' sea level rise within our lifetime in group statement.
• Victorian government unveils plans for SEC Renewable Energy Park solar project in Horsham
• Farmer leases land to wind farm project, but others question environmental impact.
• Australia is awash with solar power. Like flooding rain, experts say we can't store it all.
  
• 23 Nov 24 Japan Today:
• UK government announces ban on new coal mines
• Nearly half of tropical coral species face extinction: report
• Tropical wetlands are releasing a methane bomb, threatening climate plans
• Parts of Great Barrier Reef suffer highest coral mortality on record
  
• 23 Nov 24 The Guardian: The Real Cost of Net Zero fails to live up to its hubris, with viewers paying the price.
  
• 15 Nov 24 New Scientist ($):
• 2024 is set to be the first year that breaches the 1.5°C warming limit
• Any delay in reaching net zero will influence climate for centuries
• Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high
  
• 15 Nov 24 Japan Today: Japanese regulators disqualify reactor under post-Fukushima safety standards.
  
• 15 The Conversation: You will soon be able to power your house with your electric car. Here’s how.
  
• 12 Nov 24 New Scientist ($): 
• What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us about climate change.
• The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point
• Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked
  
• 12 Nov 24 ABC: Magnitude-4.1 earthquake rattles NSW Upper Hunter - possibly associated with a coal mine where a planned explosion apparently took place an hour before the earthquake.
  
• 26 Oct 24 New Scientist: Carbon emissions are now growing faster than before the pandemic + Some wildfires are growing twice as fast as they did two decades ago.
  
• 26 Oct 24 FleetNews (UK): Renewable wind energy slashes ultra-rapid charging costs by 50%.
• 19 Oct 24 New Scientist ($): Once we pass 1.5°C of global warming, there is no going back.
  
• 16 Oct 24 The Guardian: New evidence says gas exports damage the climate even more than coal. It’s time Australia took serious action + They are relics of the Gondwana age but five years after Australia’s black summer these trees are dying + ‘I love the smell of success more than petrol’: investors break with tradition in world-leading climate campaign.
  
• 12 Oct 24 The Guardian: Andrew Forrest says net zero is ‘fantasy’ so his goal is ‘real zero’. What does he mean – and can he achieve it?
  
• 12 Oct 24 The Conversation: Unprecedented peril: disaster lies ahead as we track towards 2.7°C of warming this century.
  
• 12 Oct 24 New Scientist ($): 
• Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an ‘astounding’ rate
• Growing number of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ endangered by climate change
  
• 2 Oct 24 ABC: Australian producers [farmers] divided on wind farms with farmland earmarked for development + Climate change laws appear shelved as WA government draws closer to state election.
  
• 30 Sep 24 New Scientist ($):
  
• People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the [wealthiest] 1 per cent
• Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse
• 30 Sep 24 ABC: UK's last coal-fired power plant officially closes as 'ambitious' energy transition takes hold + Rooftop solar 'juggernaut' risks grid overload as AEMO issues first-ever low-demand warning
  
• 30 Sep 24 The Conversation: Where do we stash the equivalent of 110 Sydney harbour bridges? That’s the conundrum Australia faces as oil and gas rigs close.
• 26 Sep 24 ABC: Largest land-based wind-farm outside China proposed for southern WA.
  
• 26 Sep 24 NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands
  
• 21 Sep 24 New Scientist ($): Weather forecasts could warn about events made worse by climate change + A Declaration on Future Generations could bring the changes we need.
  
• 21 Sep 24 ABC: The rise of solar power and China's staggering EV growth may have pushed global emiss
• ions into decline.
  
• 19 Sep 24 ABC: Tasmania's first State of the Environment report in 15 years warns of 'escalating' challenges.
  
• 13 Sep 24 The Conversation: New plan shows Australia’s hydrogen dream is still alive. But are we betting on the right projects?
  
• 13 Sep 24 The Guardian: Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami  + Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
  
• 11 Sep 24 Solarquotes: Oxford PV Goes Commercial With Perovskite Solar Panels + ABC: 'Indoor solar power' could replace disposable batteries and charger cables with [Perovskite] photovoltaic strips
  
• 1 Sep 24 New Scientist:  Is ultra cheap green hydrogen on the horizon?
  
• 1 Sep 24 The Guardian: Emissions from Australian coal-fired power stations rise as wind and hydro dip + Alarm as Australia records ‘gobsmacking’ hot August temperatures.
• 1 Sep 24 The Saturday Paper: Reef bleaching outpaces Outlook report.
  
• 30 Aug 24 Create: Almost half of Australia’s energy is now generated from renewable sources.
  
• 30 Aug 24 The Conversation: 
• Researchers analysed 1,500 climate policies to find what works. These are the lessons for Australia
•  40°C in August? A climate expert explains why Australia is ridiculously hot right now.
• ‘Humanity is failing’: official report warns our chance to save the Great Barrier Reef is fast closing
  
• 30 Aug 24 ABC: Heatwave brings Australia's winter weather to an abrupt end as climate change up-ends the seasons.
  
• 30 Aug 24 Japan Today: Reactor in central Japan fails to pass post-Fukushima safety review.
  
• 20 Aug 24 New Scientist ($): Best case scenario for climate change is now 1.6°C of warming.
  
• 16 Aug 24 The Guardian: ‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating - The leap in temperatures over the past 13 months has exceeded the global heating forecasts – is this just a blip or a systemic shift?
  
• 14 Aug 24 ABC: Thousands of doctors sound alarm on health risks linked to fossil fuel pollution
  
• 13 Aug 24 The Conversation: Dug up in Australia, burned around the world – exporting fossil fuels undermines climate targets.+ The Guardian: Australian fossil fuel exports ranked second only to Russia for climate damage with ‘no plan’ for reduction.
  
• 10 Aug BBC: Could Australia become a green hydrogen superpower?
  
• 8 Aug 24 The Guardian: Hottest ocean temperatures in 400 years an ‘existential threat’ to the Great Barrier Reef + Repeating climate denial claims makes them seem more credible, Australian-led study finds + Australians shunning petrol-powered cars for hybrid vehicles as bowser prices rise.
  
• 31 Jul 24 The Conversation: The climate is changing so fast that we haven’t seen how bad extreme weather could get.
  
• 28 Jul 24 ABC: Shark Bay and Ningaloo reefs face increased climate change danger, scientist warns.
  
• 9 Jul 24 The Conversatrion:
• Without a massive grid upgrade, the Coalition’s nuclear plan faces a high-voltage hurdle
• As ocean surfaces acidify, a deep-sea acidic zone is expanding: marine habitats are being squeezed
• We used 1,000 historical photos to reconstruct Antarctic glaciers before a dramatic collapse
• ‘Southerly busters’ are becoming more frequent but less severe as the climate changes
• 9 Jul2 4 ABC: Why the global fossil fuel sharks are circling Australia's gas export industry.
  
• 8 Jul 24 Scientific American: New Supreme Court Decisions Jeopardize Efforts to Curb Pollution and Climate Change
  
• 8 Jul 24 The Guardian: Gas shortfalls for eastern states worse than predicted just months ago, ACCC warns.
  
• 4 Jul 24 New Scientist ($): Solar boom has replaced farmland that could feed millions of people [comment: poorly located or designed solar farms are a concern but the vast majority have little impact on crop growth or livestock - e.g. the latest solar farms in Australia provide shade and weather protection for sheep]
  
• 11 Jun 24 New Scientist ($): Cleaner ship emissions may warm the planet far faster than expected
  
• 11 Jun 24 ABC: What is the Paris Agreement and what does it have to do with Australia's climate targets?
  
• 19 Apr 24 New Scientist ($):
• Five climate megaprojects that might just save the world
• Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fight climate change
• How mass bleaching has pushed the Great Barrier Reef to the brink
  
• 20 Mar 24 New Scientist ($): The world just experienced the hottest February on record.
  
• 20 Mar 24 ABC: WA had its hottest summer ever, but climate change and heat-related health problems barely made the news.
  
• 20 Mar 24 Climate Council: AUSSIE SUMMER WHIPLASH EXPLAINED: CLIMATE CHANGE FUELLING UNPREDICTABLE FIRES, STORMS AND HEAT.
  
• 10 Mar 24 New Scientist ($): Melting of Greenland ice could cause European heat extremes this year.
  
• 9 Mar 24 Japan Today: Global hot streak continues: February, winter, world's oceans all break high temperature marks + Scientists fret as Antarctic sea ice dwindles.
  
• 27 Feb 24 The Guardian:
• Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a row
• Bleaching fears along 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reef
• Natural [Cliimate] disasters could cost NSW $9bn a year by 2060, analysis finds
  
• 21 Feb 24 ABC: 'Staggering' rise of rooftop solar to put all other power generation in the shade, report finds.
  
• 14 Feb 24 The Guardian: Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds.
  
• 14 Feb 24 The Conversation: 
• What would a vehicle efficiency standard for new cars cost – or save – Australian drivers?
• Chris Bowen on fuel efficiency standards and the energy transition.
• 21 Jan 24 The Guardian: NSW can avoid electricity shortages without paying hundreds of millions to keep Eraring open, expert says.
  
• 21 Jan 24 ABC: In the Hunter, all eyes are on the horizon - offshore wind farms
  
• 21 Jan 24 The Conversation: 
• 1 billion people left dangerously exposed to heat stress by gaps in climate monitoring
• How rising sea levels will affect our coastal cities and towns.
• Why electric trucks are our best bet to cut road transport emissions.
  
• 21 Jan 24 BBC: Kashmir's rare snowless winter sets off alarm bells.
• 14 Jan 24 The Conversation: 
• A heatwave in Antarctica totally blew the minds of scientists. They set out to decipher it – and here are the results + The Guardrian: Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’
  
• How 2023’s record heat worsened droughts, floods and bushfires around the world
  
• 14 Jan 24 ABC: 
• Nuclear energy is [way] more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds.
• SA's proposed $425m green hydrogen plant in Tailem Bend promises jobs, energy for future.
• Port of Newcastle blockade climate protesters face court over November 2023 Rising Tide action
  
• 14 Jan 24 Japan Today: 
• Japan gets 'fossil' award again as climate action slammed.
• UK unveils plans for biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years.
  
• 14 Jan 24 The Saturday Paper: The new climate denial.
  
• 14 Jan 24 New Scientist ($):
• Abandoned coal mines could store wind energy
• Much of North America may face electricity shortages starting in 2024
  
• 14 Jan 24 The Guardian: Gina Rinehart says renewable energy could use one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural land. Is she right?
  
• 18 Dec 23 New Scientist ($):
• Why 2023 was almost certainly the hottest year ever recorded
• COP28 deal has loopholes that could weaken its impact on emissions
• Insects thrive on solar farms planted with native flowers
  
• 18 Dec 23 The Conversation:
• Fossil CO₂ emissions hit record high yet again in 2023
• COP28 president is wrong – science clearly shows fossil fuels must go (and fast)
• What happens after net zero? The impacts will play out for decades, with poorest countries still feeling the heat
• Two charts in Australia’s 2023 climate statement show we are way off track for net zero by 2050
• Hard-fought COP28 agreement suggests the days of fossil fuels are numbered – but climate catastrophe is not yet averted
• 18 Dec 23 The Guardian:
• Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn
• Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists
• 18 Dec 23 Japan Today: Japan gets 'fossil' award again as climate action slammed.
  
• 29 Nov 23 The Conversation:
• COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant hosting 2023 climate change summit
• COP28: Earth’s frozen zones are in trouble – we’re already seeing the consequences
• As disasters and heat intensify, can the world meet the urgency of the moment at the COP28 climate talks?
• 21 Nov 23 The Guardian:
  
• From China’s emissions to Australia’s offshore windfarms, things are moving on climate – some even in the right direction.
  
• ‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarm [50 years ago!]
  
• If I was feeling hopeless about the climate, what of the scientists? So I asked them
  
• 17 Nov 23 New Scientist ($):
• Renewable power hopes stay afloat (See Floating Solar)
• COP28 must stick to 1.5°C target to save ice sheets, urge scientists
• Greenland glaciers are receding twice as fast as in the 20th century
• Will global warming continue even after we hit net-zero emissions?
  
• 15 Nov 23 The Conversation: We can still prevent the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet – if we act fast to keep future warming in check.
• 13 Nov 23 ABC: University of Copenhagen study says Greenland's glaciers melting at five times previous rates over the last 20 years + Media Release
  
• 13 Nov 23 Nature Climate Change:
•  Greenland-wide accelerated retreat of peripheral glaciers in the twenty-first century
  
• Tonga eruption increases chance of temporary surface temperature anomaly above 1.5 °C [due to water vapour]
  
• 13 Nov 23 The Guardian: How a false claim about wind turbines killing whales is spinning out of control in coastal Australia.
  
• 11 Nov 23 ABC: Anthony Albanese offers Tuvalu residents the right to resettle in Australia, as climate change 'threatens its existence'
  
• 11 Nov 23 The Conversation: The unsafe Safeguard Mechanism: how carbon credits could blow up Australia’s main climate policy.
• 10 Nov 23 ABC: The world has experienced its hottest 12 months on record, and El Niño is set to drive temperatures higher + Climate Central: October 2023 capped the hottest 12-month span in recorded history.
  
• 10 Nov 23 New Scientist ($):
• Greenland glaciers are receding twice as fast as in the 20th century
• Twin ocean climate anomalies may trigger heat and drought in 2024 [for Australia]
  
• Ocean heat could supply essentially endless clean energy to [tropical] islands
  
• 8 Nov 23 Solarquotes: Sungrow Leads As Market For Giant Batteries Soars.
  
• 21 Oct 23 New Scientist: Massive wind farm powers up.
  
• 5 Oct 23 BBC: Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts
  
• 5 Oct 23 ABC: Analysis finds extending Eraring's lifespan could cost $1.7 billion in damages a year
  
• 5 Oct 23 The Conversation:
• We should use Australia's environment laws to protect our 'living wonders' from new coal and gas projects
• Antarctic sea ice continues its dramatic decline, we need more measurements and much better models to predict its future
  
• 5 Oct 23 New Scientist ($):
• How to reach net zero five times faster
  
• Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold
  
• 14 Sep 23 ABC:
  
• Hidden ocean acidification threatens the Pacific. Now there's a plan to stop 'flying blind'
• Antarctic helicopter mission helps confirm Totten Glacier melting from below due to warm water
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• 14 Sep23 The Guardian: Our environmental laws are failing us in the face of the climate crisis by Tim Flannery
  
• 6 Sep 23 The Saturday Paper ($):
  
• Australia’s greenhouse emissions are still rising
• Make the polluters pay
  
• 6 Sep 23 The Conversation:
• Meeting the long-term climate threat takes more than private investment – 10 ways NZ can be smart and strategic
• ‘Australia is sleepwalking’: a bushfire scientist explains what the Hawaii tragedy means for our flammable continent
• Greenhouse gases are changing air flow over the Pacific Ocean – raising Australia’s risks of extreme weather
• Climate change threatens the rights of children. The UN just outlined the obligations states have to protect them
• 6 Sep 23 The Guardian:
• South-east Australia marine heatwave forecast to be literally off the scale
• Australians urged to prepare for most significant bushfire season since black summer
• Australia’s export of fossil fuels like selling drugs to ‘maintain’ lifestyle, former top fire chief says
  
• 6 Sep 23 New Scientist ($):
• Climate change isn't only hammering species that live in cold places
• How we broke the water cycle and can no longer rely on rain to fall
• 6 Sep 23 ABC:
• Australian government acknowledges risk of climate change to bonds after court case
• Sydney scientists are feeding 'little fat balls' to coral to boost their survival in warming waters
• Raygen opens Chttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2388659-ai-can-spot-early-signs-of-a-tsunami-from-atmospheric-shock-waves/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currentsSahara space rock 4.5 billion years old upends assumptions about the early Solar SystemSahara space rock 4.5 billion years old upends assumptions about the early Solar Systemarwarp solar and thermal power plant project, bolstered by fresh funding
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• 6 Sep 23 Japan Today: Climate poses 'high risk' for Europe's ski resorts + Pacific island sea levels rising faster than global average, WMO says + What is green hydrogen and why is it touted as a clean fuel? 
• 29 Jul 23 The Conversation: Ancient pathogens released from melting ice could wreak havoc on the world, new analysis reveals + Climate litigation is on the rise around the world and Australia is at the head of the pack.
  
• 28 Jul 23 ABC: Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet
  
• 28 Jul 23 NewSci: Carbon tax on luxuries is fairer way to cut emissions, finds analysis + Much of Greenland's ice could melt even if world doesn't get warmer + Is geological hydrogen a green solution to our energy needs?
  
• 28 Jul 23 RenewEconomy: Energy oligopoly turns screws on customers after Liddell exit and renewable pause.
  
• 6 Jul 23 The Conversation: The earth might hold huge stores of natural hydrogen – and prospectors are already scouring South Australia for it.
  
• 6 Jul 23 ABC: We just had the world's hottest day on record, initial data shows — and experts say it's only going to get hotter.
  
• 3 Jul 23 The Conversation: NZ’s geothermal wells offer a cheap way of storing carbon permanently – equivalent to taking 600,000 cars off the road + We need to decarbonise our electricity supply, and quickly – Alan Finkel shows how green energy can be a reality, and bring economic benefits.
  
• 3 Jul 23 Saturday Paper: Climate crisis deepens with El Niño.
  
• 3 Jul 23 ABC: Fiji's beaches and reefs face an uncertain future but this scientist says 'assisted evolution' can keep them alive
  
• 10 Jun 23 Japan Today: Leaders gather in Paris to accelerate wringing more out of every ounce of fuel.
  
• 10 Jun 23 ABC: Carbon dioxide in atmosphere hits new record high as scientists call for 'every effort to slash carbon pollution' + Closure of AGL power station raises hopes for solution to Lake Liddell's brain-eating amoeba problem (another health risk from coal-fired power stations!)
  
• 6 Jun 23 The Conversation: Why 40°C is bearable in a desert but lethal in the tropics
  
• 6 Jun 23 ABC: Time-lapse illustration of the Antarctiv sea ice
  
• 6 Jun 23 The Guardian: Slowing ocean current caused by melting Antarctic ice could have drastic climate impact, study says + Australian banks lending billions to fossil fuel projects despite supporting emissions reductions, analysis suggests
  
• 12 Mar 23 The Conversation: Electricity from thin air: an enzyme from bacteria can extract energy from hydrogen in the atmosphere.
  
• 24 Feb 23 The Conversation: The coal whack-a-mole: getting rid of coal power will make prices fall and demand rise elsewhere + Tanya Plibersek killed off Clive Palmer's coal mine. It's an Australian first – but it may never happen again.
  
• 24 Feb 23 The Guardian: Clive Palmer-owned company withdraws appeal against ruling that coalmine would worsen climate crisis.
  
• 24 Feb 23 Japan Today: Experts back more robust U.S. estimates of social cost of carbon.
• 24 Feb 23 New Scientist: We don't need 'miracle' green technologies to save the planet + Cambridge Books No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
  
• 24 Jan 23 ABC: Wholesale power prices fall on renewable energy output to bring [mild] consumer relief - "...renewable energy output soared to record levels during the period as generation from coal-fired power plants plumbed new lows."
  
• 23 Jan 23 The Conversation: How to maximise savings from your home solar system and slash your power bills 
• 23 Jan 23 ABC:  Sun Cable demise shows renewable energy mega-projects 'really hard'
  
• 13 Jan 23 The Guardian: Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s + Science ($): Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections.
  
• 13 Jan 23 ASBC: Sun Cable collapses after dispute between billionaire investors Andrew Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes.
  
• 7 Jan 23 ABC: Study finds 68 per cent of world's glaciers will disappear by 2100 with 2.7C temperature rise.
  
• 6 Jan 23 New Scientist ($): The green tech that could help Iceland become carbon neutral by 2040.
  
• 22 Dec 22 The Conversation:
• Every Australian will be touched by climate change. So let’s start a national conversation about how we’ll cope
• Global coal use in 2022 is reaching an all-time high, but Australia is bucking the trend
• 18 Dec 22 Researchgate.net: Global warming in the pipeline - by Jim Hansen & others "Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today's GHG forcing alone -- after slow feedbacks operate -- is about 10C."
• 18 Dec 22 The Conversation: Thinking of buying a battery to help power your home? Here’s what you need to know + Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse.
  
• 15 Dec 22 Solarquotes: The Best Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is 93 Million Miles Away. Here’s Why. + ABC: Nuclear fusion 'breakthrough': How scientists achieved it, and what it means for clean energy.
• 15 Dec 22 The Conversation: Australia needs much more solar and wind power, but where are the best sites? We mapped them all + A major ‘fusion breakthrough’ was just officially announced in the US. But what does it actually mean?
  
• 25 Nov 22 ABC: Queensland Land Court rules against Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal mine in landmark ruling.
  
• 22 Nov 22 The Guardian: Australia faces worsening extreme weather events latest BoM and CSIRO climate report finds
  
• 21 Nov 22 The Guardian: A deal on loss and damage, but a blow to 1.5C – what will be Cop27’s legacy?
  
• 21 Nov 22 The Conversation: It’s time to add climate change and net-zero emissions to the RBA’s top 3 economic goals + COP27: one big breakthrough but ultimately an inadequate response to the climate crisis.
  
• 3 Nov 22 ABC: Renewable energy records tumble around the country as rooftop solar power soars.
  
• 28 Oct 22 BBC: Climate change: UN warns key warming threshold slipping from sight.
  
• 24 Oct 22 The Guardian: Law governing Bureau of Meteorology must change to reflect climate crisis, says former chief.
  
• 24 Oct 22 AZO Cleantech: Observations of Supraglacial Lake Drainage at Helheim Glacier.
  
• 21 Oct 22 Science Editorial: Antarctic marine life under pressure.
  
• 6 Oct 22 9to5 Mac (!): BLUETTI highlights powerful home backup and portable power stations with new solar energy solutions.
  
• 6 Oct 22 The Conversation: How to ensure the world’s largest pumped-hydro dam isn’t a disaster for Queensland’s environment
  
• 6 Oct 22 The Guardian: Wave energy machines on Australian south coast would slash renewable energy costs, CSIRO says.
  
• 28 Sep 22 SAE Tech Briefs: Reinventing Offshore Wind Turbines.
  
• 27 Sep 22 UNM: International team of scientists find many coastal cities worldwide vulnerable to sea level rise due to rapid land sinking.
  
• 27 Sep 22 ABC: Climate Council outlines 10 steps to beat government's 43pc emissions reduction target.
  
• 27 Sep 22 The Conversation: Good news – there’s a clean energy gold rush under way. We’ll need it to tackle energy price turbulence and coal’s exodus.
  
• 27 Sep 22 Renew Economy: Terawatts of solar and a million new jobs
  
• 27 Sep 22 The Guardian: Sky and the Australian find ‘no evidence’ of a climate emergency – they weren’t looking hard enough.
  
• 15 Aug 22 Japan Today: Cheaper, changing and crucial: The rise of solar power.
  
• 13 Aug 22 The Conversation: Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world – new research.
  
• 12 Aug 22 ABC: Southern Renewable Energy Zone to be connected to national electricity market - Nail in the coffin for fossil fuels?
  
• 10 Aug 22 The Conversation: Troubling new research shows warm waters rushing towards the world’s biggest ice sheet in Antarctica + Record coral cover doesn’t necessarily mean the Great Barrier Reef is in good health (despite what you may have heard) + New Zealand has launched a plan to prepare for inevitable climate change impacts: 5 areas where the hard work starts now + The US has finally passed a huge climate bill. Australia needs to keep up.
  
• 10 Aug 22 ABC: Fijian islanders forced from their ancestral lands by climate change want polluters to pay + Satellite data shows Antarctic sea ice is at it's lowest July level since monitoring began + Motorists could have saved $5.9bn on fuel if efficiency standards were introduced in 2015, The Australia Institute report finds.
  
• 6 Aug 22 Energy Storage News: NHOA starts installing Western Australia’s biggest BESS.
  
• 6 Aug 22 ABC: A 'graphite battery' in Wodonga will be Australia's first commercial thermal energy storage.
  
• 2 Aug 22 Japan Today: UK sea levels rising quicker than century ago: study + Australia sets sights on clean energy jobs created by 'climate emergency'.
  
• 2 Aug 22 Solarquotes: July Electricity Price Hikes: Up Everywhere But VIC & ACT — Solar Feed-in Tariffs From +41% To -23%.
  
• 26 Jul 22 Japan Today: Most major nations lag in acting on climate-fighting goals.
  
• 26 Jul 22 The Conversation; How not to solve the climate change problem.
  
• 26 Jul 22 RenewEconomy: “Forget nuclear and simplify electrification:” The message from energy experts + ATSE media release
  
• 2 Jul 22 New Scientist ($): Why elite universities like Cambridge must ditch big oil funding.
  
• 2 Jul 22 The Conversation: 4 ways to understand why Australia is so cold right now despite global warming + Why including coal in a new ‘capacity mechanism’ will make Australia’s energy crisis worse + We blew the whistle on Australia’s central climate policy. Here’s what a new federal government probe must fix.
  
• 2 Jul 22 ABC: Snowy Hydro will not produce power until end of the decade, adding more pain to energy market woes + RenewEconomy: Bowen slams Morrison and Taylor for hiding extent of Snowy 2.0 delays.(see my interim Snowy 1.5 suggestion)
  
• 2 Jun 22 ScienceAlert: Acid Oceans Could Drastically Cut Down One of The World's Biggest Oxygen Producers.
  
• 2 Jun 22 INteresting Engineering: An asteroid mining startup will soon launch on a SpaceX rideshare mission.
  
• 2 Jun 22 The Conversation: Expect more power price hikes – a 1970s-style energy shock is on the cards.
  
• 20 May 22 RenewEconomy: It’s time we stopped kidding ourselves that coal is “cheap and reliable”
  
• 20 May 22 ABC: Wholesale power prices soared 141 per cent, year on year, and households should brace for more + Climate change means 1 in 25 homes could become uninsurable by 2030, report warns + Emperor penguin at serious risk of extinction due to climate change
  
• 20 May 22 New Scientist: Great Barrier Reef suffers first mass bleaching under cooling La Niña
  
• 20 May 22 The Conversation:
• In 20 years of studying how ecosystems absorb carbon, here’s why we’re worried about a tipping point of collapse
• Is News Corp following through on its climate change backflip? My analysis of its flood coverage suggests not
• Electricity prices are spiking, ten times as much as normal. Here are some educated guesses as to whyElectricity prices are spiking, ten times as much as normal. Here are some educated guesses as to why
  
• 6 Apr 22 Sydney Uni: Net-Zero Initiative to accelerate decarbonisation agenda.
  
• 28 Mar 22 RenewEconomy: Wind farm ordered to make less noise at night, in unprecedented court ruling.
  
• 28 Mar 22 The Conversation: How a few geothermal plants could solve America’s lithium supply crunch and boost the EV battery industry.
  
• 28 Mar 21 The Guardian: ‘Judge me on my actions’: can Andrew Forrest become Australia’s clean, green hero?
  
• 24 Mar 21 Japan Today: Three decades ago, world was told to 'act now' on climate (see Greenhouse Timeline).
  
• 22 Mar 22 The Guardian: ‘It’s not supposed to be white’: one of the Great Barrier Reef’s healthiest reefs succumbs to bleaching.
  
• 20 Mar 22 ABC: Grid-scale battery 'really exciting' option as AGL Liddell power station site winds down — analysts. [good idea but no sign of support for a Newcastle Uni initiative to generate steam from stored heat]
  
• 20 Mar 22 The Guardian: Sun Cable’s giant Northern Territory solar project gets $210m funding boost.
  
• 14 Mar 22 Japan Today: Amazon nears climate 'tipping point' faster than expected.
• 14 Mar 22 ABC: Wildfires getting worse globally with governments unprepared, UN warns.
  
• 23 Feb 22 The Guardian: Antarctic sea ice falls to lowest level since measurements began in 1979
  
• 3 Feb 22 NewSci: Climate change made the past 7 years the warmest on record.
  
• 26 Jan 22 Australia Day honours recognise those battling COVID-19, bushfires and climate change - Dr John Church recognised
• 26 Jan 22 Japan Today: Japan hopes to lead Asian zero-emissions push: minister + Climate change: Thawing permafrost a triple-threat.
  
• 26 Jan 22 New Scientist: UK energy crisis: Why renewable subsidies will help avoid price shocks.
  
• 26 Jan 22 BBC: Fortescue: Firm owned by Australia's richest man buys Williams F1 battery arm.
  
• 16 Jan 22 The Conversatrion: This WA town just topped 50℃ – a dangerous temperature many Australians will have to get used to.
  
• 10 Jan 22 Japan Today: 'Ocean battery' targets renewable energy dilemma.
  
• 10 Jan 22 SolarQuotes: Coal Uses 100x More Mined Material Than Solar Per kWh Generated
  
• 6 Jan 22 The Guardian: ‘Extreme marine heatwave’: waters off Sydney set to break January temperature records.
  
• 6 Jan 22 ABC: Adani's first Carmichael Mine coal export shipment imminent after years of campaigns against it.
  
• 29 Dec 21 BBC: Climate change: Huge toll of extreme weather disasters in 2021 +
  
• 17 Dec 21 NewSci ($): 2021 in review: Weather records aren’t just broken, they’re smashed + COP26 lays the groundwork for a decade of action - "Current plans by Australia, Brazil and Indonesia are among those rated “highly insufficient” and in line with a 4°C future by independent analysts"
  
• 17 Dec 21 SMH: Wallabies great David Pocock to run for the Senate (on climate action platform)
  
• 17 Dec 21 ABC: Latrobe Valley coal power stations could all close between 2026 and 2032, analysis finds.
  
• 17 Dec 21 Create (Engineers Australia): Rising risk: the danger of doing nothing on climate change
  
• 11 Dec  21 ABC: Bushfires that burn more than a million hectares increasing due to climate change, CSIRO finds.
  
• 14 Nov 21 Japan Today: Mitsubishi Shipbuilding to build large-size ammonia carrier fueled by ammonia + Nations strike climate deal with coal compromise.
  
• 13 Nov 21 New Scientist: Current COP26 climate plans would lead to 2.4°C of global warming
  
• 12 Nov 21 RenewEconomy:
• Coal on the chopping block as US and China agree to cooperate on climate action
• NSW formally declares Australia’s first Renewable Energy Zone
• Forrest promises to convert first ship to green ammonia within a year
• Rooftop solar smashes output records in all Australian states
• Cheaper, cleaner, more reliable: The stunning success of South Australia’s renewable transition
• Scott Morrison’s hopeless spin and failure on electric vehicles
  
• 12 Nov 21 ABC: China and US vow to tackle climate change in joint statement at COP26 Glasgow talks.
  
• 7 Nov 21 ABC: 'Not a secret that COP26 is a failure': Greta Thunberg attacks world leaders' inaction (video - time for a "How dare you" declaration)
• 7 Nov 21 Japan Today: Climate negotiators seek to resolve 4 key challenges + Geothermal power plants in Japan quadruple since 2011 nuclear accident (still a very low proportion of all generation for a country with one of the best geothermal resources)
  
• 27 Oct 21 RenewEconomy: First Tesla big battery in NSW ready for testing and trials as “virtual machine”
  
• 21 Oct 21 Nature: The broken $100-billion promise of climate finance — and how to fix it.
  
• 21 Oct 21 RenewEconomy: Rio Tinto plans massive 7GW wind and solar for smelters and iron ore mines+ Stunningly cheap solar to power China’s pivot away from coal.
  
• 11 Oct 21 ABC: Business Council of Australia calls for ambitious short-term carbon emissions reduction target + 'Another nail in the coffin': Indian-owned Australian coal mine suffers big legal reverse + New $1 billion-plus project in Queensland to double world's green hydrogen production capacity.
  
• 11 Oct 21 SMH: Business Council calls for 46-50% emissions reduction by 2030 on path to net zero.
  
• 29 Sep 21 ABC: SA's statewide blackout was five years ago — here's how energy supply has evolved since then.
  
• 28 Sep 21 ABC: The world is hungry for solar panels. Why did we stop making them? [the time of the Howard government]
  
• 28 Sep 21 The Guardian: Sun Cable’s huge solar project in Northern Territory a step closer after support from Indonesia.
  
• 25 Sep 21 ABC: States and territories revolt over federal government's coal power subsidy plan + Massive NT solar farm a step closer as Sun Cable dramatically increases its capacity.
  
• 25 Sep 21 Newsci: Blame fossil fuels, not renewables, for the UK's winter energy crisis + New climate plans fall far short of limiting global warming to 1.5°C
  
• 17 Sep 21 Science: Climate science speaks: “Act now”
  
• 15 Sep 21 The Conversation: A promising new dawn is ours for the taking – so let’s stop counting the coal Australia must leave in the ground
  
• 15 Sep 21 The Guardina: News Corp Australia won’t muzzle commentators as it ramps up climate coverage.
  
• 15 Sep 21 New Scientist: Texas cold crisis early this year linked to melting Arctic sea ice + 58 per cent of oil must stay in the ground to meet 1.5°C climate goal
  
• 15 Sep 21 ABC: Offshore wind farm projects in the pipeline to accelerate new renewable energy sector.
  
• 15 Sep 21 Japan Today: Climate change pushes New Zealand to warmest recorded winter.
  
• 15 Sep 21 Solarquotes: States With The Most Renewables Have The Cheapest Wholesale Electricity.
  
• 6 Sep 21 ABC: Australian Electricity Market Operator predicts stable supply despite closures of coal-fired power stations.
  
• 24 Aug 21 ABC: Greenland rainfall has scientists worried about melting ice caps.
  
• 24 Aug 21 The Conversation: Today’s decisions lock in industry emissions for decades — here’s how to get them right.
  
• 24 Aug 21 Japan Today: Nuclear scientists hail US fusion breakthrough + Watchdog halts Tsuruga nuclear safety assessment after data tampering
  
• 17 Aug 21 ABC: Australia faces international punishment for lagging on climate change action, former UN chief warns.
  
• 14 Aug 21 BBC: Climate change: July world's hottest month ever - US agency.
  
• 14 Aug 21 New Scientist: Earth will hit 1.5°C climate limit within 20 years, says IPCC report.
  
• 14 Aug 21 The Saturday Paper ($): The madness of KingGee George - "Australia’s energy transition away from fossil fuels is among the worst of 24 developed nations..."
  
• 14 Aug 21 The Conversation: Climate repair: three things we must do now to stabilise the planet
  
• 14 Aug 21 Renew Economy:
• Solar export tax: An unhelpful “solution” to a problem that’s already been solved
• Australia’s fossil problem is deep: IPCC shows the danger it presents
• Tomago’s pivot to renewables could spell end for biggest coal generator
• AGL hit by huge losses as it scrambles to catch up with switch from baseload
• Wind and solar projects take “material hit” from ESB and Morrison
  
• 11 Aug 21 Cosmos: Tech alone cannot solve climate crisis + Sixth time’s the charm: new IPCC report shows climate is still changing - IPCC releases sixth major assessment report, and it’s clear that the biggest threat now is delay.
  
• 11 Aug 21 ABC: IPCC scientists' climate change report says rising seas will see Great Barrier Reef islands disappear + Fiji calls on Australia to 'walk the talk' by adopting more ambitious emissions targets.
  
• 11 Aug 21 The Conversation:
• Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down
• Climate change has already hit Australia. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns
• This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know
• IPCC says Earth will reach temperature rise of about 1.5℃ in around a decade. But limiting any global warming is what matters most
  
• 11 Aug 21 Create: Could we engineer an Australian grid that handles 100 per cent renewables by 2025?
  
• 11 Aug 21 BBC: Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'.
  
• 7 Aug 21 SolarQuotes: Jabiru Hybrid Renewable Project Powering Ahead.
  
• 7 Aug 21 The Guardian: Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse.
  
• 7 Aug 21 The Conversation:
• Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than COVID. A mental health crisis is looming.
• 5 things to watch for in the latest IPCC report on climate science
• Wondering if your energy company takes climate change seriously? A new report reveals the answer
  
• 7 Aug 21 New Scientist:
• How a Norwegian island is already living our climate change future
• How to understand world energy use – in 10 graphs
• How we can transform our energy system to achieve net-zero emissions
• How the fossil fuel era ends – and four possibilities for what follows
• We know how to build a green energy future. Now we need to do it
  
• 31 Jul 21 Drive: Victoria’s 300-megawatt Tesla battery catches fire, authorities working to contain blaze. 2 Aug 21 SolarQuotes: Victorian Big Battery Fire Update [it was during commisioning tests]
  
• 31 Jul 21 AFR ($): Origin shocks market with profit warning and writedowns - ""The news comes as the large power generators are backing proposed radical reforms to the electricity market rules that would provide some support for their major coal and gas plants amid an influx of cheap wind and solar power into the grid..."
  
• 31 Jul 21 Science($): Climate panel confronts implausibly hot models.
  
• 29 Jul 21 ABC: ABARES says changing climate is costing every farm, on average, $30,000 every year + NSW coal mine approvals could undo work on net-zero emissions targets, analysis suggests + Australia's lithium miners powering the global electric vehicle charge.
  
• 28 Jul 21 Axios: Australian wildfires had bigger influence on climate than lockdowns: Study.
  
• 27 Jul 21 ABC: Human rights issue or 'green lawfare'? Citizens take to the courts to fight climate change.
  
• 24 Jul 21 The Conversation: Wind turbines off the coast could help Australia become an energy superpower, research finds.
  
• 24 Jul 21 New Scientist: EU's carbon border tax will test appetite for global climate action.
  
• 24 Jul 21 The Guardian: Merkel: Germany has not done enough to hit Paris climate targets.
  
• 9 Jul 21 Science ($): China's ambitious energy transition plans.
  
• 8 Jul 21 BBC: US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming.
  
• 8 Jul 21 BBC: Gravitricity battery generates first power at Edinburgh site.
  
• 7 Jul 21 The Conversation:
• The North American heatwave shows we need to know how climate change will change our weather
• Almost 60 coral species around Lizard Island are ‘missing’ – and a Great Barrier Reef extinction crisis could be next
• Record-breaking temperatures mean we must change the way we talk about the climate emergency
• A tale of two valleys: Latrobe and Hunter regions both have coal stations, but one has far worse mercury pollution - There are many other health consequences from coal-fired power stations.
• 7 Jul 21 SBS: In a critical year for climate justice, these Torres Strait Islanders are leading the fight.
  
• 7 Jul 21 Japan Today: Airlines eye shift to greener fuels with carbon neutrality in sight.
  
• 7 Jul 21 ABC: What the Dandenong Ranges extended power outage teaches us about backup battery power [the Tesla battery did not "die" - it was drained by excessive demand!]
  
• 1 Jul 21 ABC: Hundreds dead as record-breaking heat wave hits Canada and United States.
  
• 29 Jun 21 ScienceAlert: Gigantic Antarctic Lake Suddenly Disappears in Monumental Vanishing Act.
  
• 29 Jun 21 ABC: Santos' $4.7 billion Barossa gas field could produce more CO2 than LNG, report says.
  
• 23 Jun 21 ACEEE: Energy-Saving Infrastructure Investments Could Boost [USA] Jobs by 400,000 for Years.
  
• 22 Jun 21 Solarquotes: Wind & Solar Power Use Far Less Land Than Coal
  
• 15 Jun 21 ABC: How the next 5 years can buy us a decade to solve climate change.
  
• 15 Jun 21 The Conversation: Matt Canavan suggested the cold snap means global warming isn’t real. We bust this and 2 other climate myths + Even without new fossil fuel projects, global warming will still exceed 1.5℃. But renewables might make it possible
• 11 Jun 21 The Conversation: Climate change is making ocean waves more powerful, threatening to erode many coastlines.
  
• 11 Jun 21 ABC: Solar-hydro energy plant to be built on Liddell coal-fired power station site.
  
• 4 Jun 21 NewSci: Climate change to blame for 37 per cent of world’s heat-related deaths.
  
• 24 May 21 The Saturday Paper ($): Government subsidises oil refineries [more than $3 billion to bolster Australia’s oil refining capacity, and a further $600 million to build a gas plant in the Hunter Valley...]
  
• 24 May 21 ABC: G7 agrees to stop financing coal projects by the end of 2021.
  
• 18 May 21 The Guardian: Greenland ice sheet on brink of major tipping point, says study.
  
• 17 May 21 The West Australian: Small window to save reefs, study finds.
  
• 17 May 21 ScienceAlert: Human Impact on Earth Is Shrinking an Entire Layer of The Atmosphere, Scientists Warn.
  
• 11 May 21 The Conversation: Paying Australia’s coal-fired power stations to stay open longer is bad for consumers and the planet.
  
• 11 May 21 ABC: Victoria announces plan to halve carbon emissions by 2030 under net zero by 2050 target + Green hydrogen electrolysers to be built in regional Australia with government backing (to add to natural gas?) + Work underway to repurpose Wallerawang power station into battery and industrial zone.
  
• 11 May 21 The Guardian: ‘I’m not selling’: what happens when an Australian town is consumed by a US coalminer? + Global heating pace risks ‘unstoppable’ sea level rise as Antarctic ice sheet melts.
  
• 4 May 21 Reneweconomy: ‘Tsunami’ of renewables to sweep gas and coal out of market, and drive prices lower.
  
• 5 Apr 21 NewSci: Wildfires could become a big threat in the UK due to climate change + UK switch to hydrogen vehicles would need thousands more wind turbines
  
• 25 Mar 21 ABC: Australians with rooftop solar panels could soon be charged for exporting power into the grid, under proposed changes + SolarQuotes: Adding More Home Solar Power To The Grid: AEMC Draft Determination + RenewEconomy: Modelling: How the proposed rooftop solar tax will affect solar households + Is rooftop solar really causing a network bottleneck?
  
• 25 Mar 21 Solarquotes: Snowy Hydro 2.0: More Expensive Than Battery Storage - a good case for floating solar
  
• 11 Mar 21 SMH: Coal’s retreat as renewables surge is a shock, but not a surprise.
  
• 24 Feb 21 ABC: Renewable energy boom could force coal power to close early, says new report.
  
• 9 Feb 2021 Kindle store: The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet by Michael Mann
  
• 5 Feb 21 ABC: Plans unveiled for world's biggest battery in the Hunter Valley + (from Sep20) Tesla battery in South Australia expanded by 50 per cent, energy minister lauds benefits - "the Tesla battery has saved SA consumers more than $150 million since it was built in 2017..."
  
• 1 Feb 21 SoalrQuotes: SA’s Wholesale Electricity Prices Now Lowest In Nation Thanks To Renewables.
  
• 30 Jan 21 PV Magazine: Major milestone for world’s biggest solar project {NT to Singapore]
  
• 30 Jan 21 Science ($): Trump downplayed the cost of carbon. That's about to change
  
• 28 Jan 21 The Conversation: An unexpected consequence of climate change: heatwaves kill plant pests and save our favourite giant trees.
  
• 28 Jan 21 SBS: Australia could take massive economic hit from climate-fuelled extreme weather, report warns.
  
• 26 Jan 21 SolarQuotes: Tesla Now Supporting Powerwalls For Off Grid Living In Australia.
  
• 24 Jan 21 Penguin Books (pre-order): Small Gases, Big Effect - This Is Climate Change
  
• 24 Jan 21 Japan Times: As climate change push grows, Japanese firms accelerate shift to renewable energy.
  
• 13 Jan 21 Kindle Store: The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet - by Michael Mann
  
• 13 Jan 21 ABC: Largest battery in Australia to be built at ageing NSW coal-fired power plant - see also these articles about
  
• 13 Jan 21 Japan Times: 2020 ties 2016 as hottest year on record + ABC: 2020 equals world's hottest year on record, as factors behind Black Summer become clearer
• 8 Jan 21 ABC: Blistering assessment gives Australia 'just months' to fix nation's energy security.
  
• 8 Jan 21 BoM: Annual climate statement 2020 - Australia's fourth-warmest year on record, with the annual national mean temperature 1.15 °C above average + ABC: Annual Climate Statement 2020 says last year was dominated by fires, floods, droughts and heatwaves - 48.9 degrees Celsius in Penrith Lakes on January 4 last year!
  
• 4 Jan 21 Japan Times: Japan's climate plan: Big on ambition but small in scope
• 2 Jan 21 Science ($): Alaska oil bid alarms scientists.
  
• 29 Dec 20 The Guardian: WA coastline facing marine heatwave in early 2021, CSIRO predicts.
  
• 29 Dec 20 SolarMarket: Real-time Solar Irradiation | BOM Partners With Powerlink - see also SolarQuotes: SOLAR POWER FORECAST TOOL - BETA.
  
• 22 Dec 20 SBS: Joe Biden vows to tackle 'existential threat' of climate change as he introduces his environmental team.
  
• 16 DEc 20 ABC: Former Wallabies captain David Pocock calls for national anthem discussion, action on climate change.
  
• 16 Dec 20 New Scientist: Health impacts of climate change have reached 'worrying' levels.
  
• 16 Dec 20 The Saturday Paper ($): The Liberal minister forcing action on climate change.
  
• 16 Dec 20 The Guardian: Australia's path to net zero emissions is massively behind schedule + China formalises cut to Australian coal imports, state media reports + Silent treatment: how Scott Morrison earned Boris Johnson's climate summit snub.
  
• 16 Dec 20 The Conversation: The Paris Agreement 5 years on: big coal exporters like Australia face a reckoning + Up to 90% of electricity from solar and wind the cheapest option by 2030: CSIRO analysis.
  
• 16 Dec 20 ABC: The vanishing Arctic + Nature Climate ($): The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems
  
• 6 Dec 20 Japan Times: Japan considering emissions trade system for carmakers as it eyes carbon neutrality +
  
• 5 Dec 20 The Conversation; Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, over 120 researchers say.
  
• 5 Dec 20 BBC: 2020 set to be one of the three warmest years on record + PM aims for world-leading UK emissions cuts +
  
• 5 Dec 20 ABC: Tim Flannery warns of adverse climate impacts if South32 coal mine expansion approved + This tropical glacier is rare, revered, and could be gone by next year + Great Barrier Reef outlook worsens to 'critical' as climate change named number one threat to world heritage sites
  
• 5 Dec 20 The Guardian: [in 2017 former federal environment minister] Frydenberg proposed delisting part of wetland to allow Queensland's Toondah Harbour development
  
• 1 Dec 20 RenewEconomy:
• Renewables and batteries, not gas, the best solution to Liddell closure, new report says
• AEMO asks regulator to declare reliability gap for Liddell closure, of just 154MW
• Big batteries are getting bigger and smarter, and doing things fossil fuels can’t do
  
• 1 Dec 20 The Conversation: Australia’s states have been forced to go it alone on renewable energy, but it’s a risky strategy.
  
• 22 Nov 20 The Guardian: 'We'll be left behind': Australia's electric car inertia is getting it nowhere + Caradvice: Victoria will follow South Australia with a per-kilometre usage fee for pure electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
  
• 16 Nov 20 Japan Today: Public money guarantees 'risky' fossil fuel projects: experts.
  
• 16 Nov 20 ScienceAlert: Here's How Microbes Help to Hoard Earth's Greatest Greenhouse Gas Reserves
  
• 16 Nov 20 ABC: BOM and CSIRO State of the Climate 2020 shows Australia is experiencing climate change now.
  
• 16 Nov 20 Phys.org: Ending greenhouse gas emissions may not stop global warming: [controversial] study
  
• 16 Nov 20 The Conversation:
• Carbon pricing works: the largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt
• Vital Signs: a global carbon price could soon be a reality – Australia should prepare
• An Australian man successfully sued his super fund over climate risk. Here’s what that means for your nest egg
  
• 9 Nov 20 The Conversation: ‘The Earth was dying. Killed by the pursuit of money’ — rereading Ben Elton’s Stark as prophecy +
  
• 9 Nov 20 ACEEE: Biden’s Election Offers Opportunity to Cut Energy Emissions and Fight Climate Change.
  
• 2 Nov 20 The Conversation: Labor politicians need not fear: Queenslanders are no more attached to coal than the rest of Australia.
  
• 12 Nov 20 ABC: Australia will lose more than $3 trillion and 880,000 jobs over 50 years if climate change is not addressed, Deloitte says.
  
• 29 Oct 20 SciAm: Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Set to Make Inroads in U.S.
  
• 26 Oct 20 RenewEconomy:
• Danish research shows “almost no birds” die in collisions with wind turbines
• Transgrid to build Australia’s first Tesla Megapack big battery in western Sydney
• Solar and Covid lead change as grid demand, prices and emissions tumble to record lows
• Japan, Australia’s biggest coal and gas customer, to adopt 2050 zero emissions target.- "A shift away from coal has already started in Japan, with the country’s largest power company, JERA, announcing last week that it would move to decommission all of its inefficient coal generators by 2030."
  
• 26 Oct 20 ABC: All of South Australia's power comes from solar panels in world first for major jurisdiction.
  
• 26 Oct 20 The Guardian: Coalition accused of 'ideological wishlisting' after BHP pulls out of multibillion-dollar project.
  
• 24 Oct 20 The Saturday Paper ($): Queensland teenagers launch legal challenge of Adani mine
  
• 24 Oct 20 The Conversation:
• New research: nitrous oxide emissions [mostly from fertilizer] 300 times more powerful than CO₂ are jeopardising Earth’s future
• ‘Backwards’ federal budget: Morrison government never fails to disappoint on climate action
• China just stunned the world with its step-up on climate action – and the implications for Australia may be huge
• People power: everyday Australians are building their own renewables projects, and you can too {Goulburn residents]
  
• ‘Devastating’: The Morrison government cuts uni funding for environment courses by almost 30%
• 24 Oct 20 The Guardian: Humanity has eight years to get climate crisis under control – and Trump's plan won't fix it.
  
• 6 Oct 20 New Scientist ($): A question of degrees - takes a dfig at the Global Warming Policy Foundation
  
• 6 Oct 20 The Guardian: Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – study.
  
• 6 Oct 20 The Conversation: Ardern’s government and climate policy: despite a zero-carbon law, is New Zealand merely a follower rather than a leader?
  
• 28 Sep 20 The Guardian: China's carbon pledge will require complete inversion of existing system + Labor's Joel Fitzgibbon threatens to quit shadow cabinet over emissions target.
  
• 28 Sep 20 New Scientist ($): 'Massive failure': The world has missed all its biodiversity targets
  
• 25 Sep 20 Japan Today: Oil refiners worldwide struggle with weak demand, inventory glut.
  
• 13 Sep 20 SciTechDaily: “Worst-Case Climate Scenario” [is happening] – Ice Sheets in Greenland and Antarctica Loss Rates Rapidly Increasing.
  
• 13 Sep 20 The Conversation: Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5℃ warming limit by 2024, major new report says.
  
• 13 Sep 20 NewSci: Winter ice in the Bering Sea is doomed to disappear within decades.
  
• 13 Sep 20 The Guardian: The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call + Greta Thunberg says Venice documentary shows her real self.
  
• 3 Sep 20 Nature ($): Vulnerability of Antarctica’s ice shelves to meltwater-driven fracture + Crevasse analysis reveals vulnerability of ice shelves to global warming.
  
• 2 Sep 20 LiveScience: Half of Antarctic ice shelves could collapse in a flash, thanks to warming.
  
• 2 Sep 20 The Conversation: Japan is closing its old, dirty power plants – and that’s bad news for Australia’s coal exports + Under Biden, the US would no longer be a climate pariah – and that leaves Scott Morrison exposed.
  
• 2 Sep 20 The New Daily: Government’s push for a gas-fired recovery crumble as Suncorp cuts ties to industry.
  
• 2 Sep 20 The Saturday Paper: ($): Hopes of a gas boom fizzle.
  
• 2 Sep 20 JPL: NASA-led Study Reveals the Causes of Sea Level Rise Since 1900.
  
• 21 Aug 20 The Guardian: Greenland ice sheet lost a record 1m tonnes of ice per minute in 2019 (JPL research)
  
• 20 Aug 20 RenewEconomy: NSW to fund four new big battery projects as it readies to flick switch from coal.
  
• 5 Aug 20 SMH: Yes, Senator, climate change is real: A Liberal MP's open letter to One Nation's Malcolm Roberts.
  
• 3 Aug 20 SciAm: With Fires, Heat and a Cyclone, Arctic Breaks Melting Record +  ($) The False Logic behind Science Denial.
  
• 3 Aug 20 The Conversation: Unwelcome sea change: new research finds coastal flooding may cost up to 20% of global economy by 2100.
• 3 Aug 20 The Guardian: James Murdoch resigns from board of News Corp [objects to global warming denial] + Extra 23 million people could face coastal flooding within 30 years, even with emission cuts, study says + Plan that tackles recession and climate change could create 76,000 Australian jobs, report says +
  
• 30 Jul 20 RenewEconomy:
• Musk says Tesla battery and solar business could be worth more than EVs
• NSW to call for wind, solar and storage proposals for second renewable zone
• Revenue bonanza dries up for big battery storage in second quarter
• Tesla big battery at Hornsdale delivers world record output of 150MW
• Solar farm and big battery approved for Parkes in NSW
  
• 30 Jul 20 The Guardian: In 100 days, the climate emergency may be even more serious. That's why we’re launching this series... [US election]
  
• 30 Jul 20 ABC: Fossil fuel industry levy should pay for bushfire impact, climate action group report says.
  
• 9 Jul 20 The Guardian: Koalas will be driven to extinction before 2050 in NSW, major inquiry finds.
  
• 6 Jul 20 Japan Times: Beginning of the end for megadam projects in China as solar and wind power rise.
  
• 6 Jul 20 Science Alert: There's A Place On Earth Getting Cooler, Not Hotter. A New Study Sheds Light On Why.
  
• 6 Jul 20 The Conversation: Global report gives Australia an A for coronavirus response but a D on climate +
  
• 4 Jun 20 The Guardian: Rapid shift to renewable energy could lead Australia to cheap power and 100,000 jobs.
  
• 21 May 20 SMH: Old friendships alone won't save us from climate change - governments’ continued support for fossil fuels in the face of overwhelming evidence of potentially catastrophic climate change is to recognise “the extent of the depth and reach of fossil fuel incumbency”.
  
• 21 May 20 The Guardian: Angus Taylor's 'tech, not taxes' approach is likely to create more problems than it solves.
  
• 19 May 20 The Conversation: Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it + Be worried when fossil fuel lobbyists support current environmental laws.
  
• 19 May 20 ScienceDaily: How climate killed corals - Multiple factors joined forces to devastate the Great Barrier Reef in 2016
  
• 19 May 20 Japan Times: Mexico cites coronavirus as reason to reduce renewable energy - "...a champion of the state-owned oil industry who dislikes renewables and private-sector energy projects..."
  
• 18 May 20 The Saturday Paper ($): Damning denial
  
• 18 May 20m The Conversation: Just how hot will it get this century? Latest climate models suggest it could be worse than we thought.
  
• 12 May 20 NewSci: Climate change has already made parts of the world too hot for humans.
  
• 7 May 20 The Conversation: 3 times Michael Moore’s film Planet of the Humans gets the facts wrong (and 3 times it gets them right + ARENA: 75% renewable NEM possible by 2025: AEMO - " The Australian Energy Market Operator has laid out an action plan to prepare the National Electricity Market for a high share of renewable energy generation..."
  
• 7 May 20 RenewEconomy: Massive Pilbara wind and solar export hub gets environmental green light.
  
• 7 May 20 New Scientist: It’s impossible to predict if crucial Antarctic glacier will collapse.
  
• 5 May 20 The Conversation: Aren’t we in a drought? The Australian black coal industry uses enough water for over 5 million people.
  
• 27 Apr 20 One step off the grid: NSW paves way for more – and bigger – rooftop solar systems.(not requiring local council approval)
  
• 23 Apr 20 ABC: Science denial among the greatest risks to humanity, new 'call to arms' report finds + CHF: Call to Action on Global Catastrophic Risks.
  
• 20 Apr 20 New Scientist: US megadrought is being made more intense by effects of climate change.
  
• 8 Apr 20 ACEEE: States step up climate efforts by requiring utilities to increase energy efficiency + Applied Energy ($): Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070.
  
• 7 Apr 20 The Conversation: We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy (worst bleaching on record) + Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics + Sorry to disappoint climate deniers, but coronavirus makes the low-carbon transition more urgent.
  
• 27 Mar 20 The Guardian: Great Barrier Reef suffers third mass coral bleaching event in five years.
  
• 27 Mar 20 The Conversation: A rare natural phenomenon brings severe drought to Australia. Climate change is making it more common.
  
• 27 Mar 20 Renew Economy: Acciona to build huge 1GW wind farm in Queensland after landing CleanCo deal (but where is the battery that was required in the tender process?)
  
• 27 Mar 20 ABC: Study supports case linking coal mining and poor air quality in nearby towns ( see this diagram)
• 19 Mar 20 ABC: Adani executive Lucas Dow talks up bigger coal mine in leaked video at LNP fundraising event.
  
• 15 Mar 20 LiveSceince: Ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland increased sixfold in the last 30 years.
  
• 13 Mar 20 New Scientist: Turn your home into a power plant + Solar Quotes: Virtual Power Plant Comparison Table.
  
• 11 Mar 20 The Conversation: It’s official: the last five years were the warmest ever recorded.
  
• 11 Mar 20 CNN: The young conservatives who believe Greta Thunberg and want to bring Republicans with them.
  
• 11 Mar 20 ABC: Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching event linked to 'anthropogenic climate change'.
  
• 11 Mar 20 RenewEconomy: Global fossil fuel subsidies reach $5.2 trillion, and $29 billion in Australia (IMF report takes into account health and some climate change effects) + 2014 ABC: Australian coal, oil and gas companies receive $4b in subsidies: report.
  
• 11 Mar 20 The Guardian: Climate emergency: global action is ‘way off track’ says UN head.
  
• 5 Mar 20 ABC: Greta Thunberg says EU is 'pretending' to tackle climate change crisis.
  
• 3 Mar 20 CNN: Half of the world's beaches could disappear by the end of the century, study finds
  
• 3 Mar 20 Nature: Climate lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet + Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion + Disappearing beaches +  Knitting while Australia burns.
  
• 28 Feb 20 LiveScience: See record-high temperatures strip Antarctica of huge amounts of ice.
  
• 28 Feb 20 The Conversation: The last ice age tells us why we need to care about a 2℃ change in temperature.
  
• 23 Feb 20 ABC: Why Germans all agree on shutting down the coal industry.
  
• 23 Feb 20 The Guardian: Great Barrier Reef could face 'most extensive coral bleaching ever', scientists say + JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race
  - Leaked report for world’s major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on unsustainable trajectory
  
• 20 Feb 20 Renew Energy: Tesla big battery at Hornsdale gets big jump in revenues, more to come - "French renewable energy developer Neoen says revenues at its Tesla big battery at the Hornsdale Power Reserve enjoyed a 56 per cent jump in revenues in the last quarter of 2019, primarily due to a jump in the value of frequency and ancillary services...But those earnings may be dwarfed by the first quarter revenue, given that the effective “islanding” of the South Australia grid caused by storms that tore down the main link to Victoria has seen a surge in FCAS requirements and prices over the two weeks that the state was islanded." + Cannon-Brookes teams with Tesla, 5B to fund solar and batteries for fire victims.
  
• 28 Jan 20 ABC: The [dire] future of coal has already been decided in boardrooms around the globe + Bureau of Meteorology chart shows how temperatures have soared in Australia over the past century.
  
• 23 Jan 20 ABC: Australian bushfire photos from the air show scale of carnage and destruction - good news that the Sunnataram Forest Monastery near Bundanoon was saved.
  
• 18 Jan 20 ABC: Mark McVeigh is taking on REST super on climate change and has the world watching - Mr McVeigh has alleged that REST has failed to protect his retirement savings from the financial devastation that will flow from climate change...
  
• 18 Jan 20 New Scientist: Antarctica's doomsday glacier is melting. Can we save it in time?
  
• 13 Jan 20 The Conversation: Bushfires, bots and arson claims: Australia flung in the global disinformation spotlight - In late November, some Twitter accounts began using #ArsonEmergency to counter evidence that climate change is linked to the severity of the bushfire crisis + Bushfires won’t change climate policy overnight. But Morrison can shift the Coalition without losing face.
  
• 9 Jan 20 ABC: BOM review shows 2019 was a year of weather extremes -  Australia's average maximum daytime temperatures really sizzled — last year was 2.09 degrees Celsius above the 1961-to-1990 average, smashing the previous record by half a degree...
  
• 9 Jan 20 Space.com: Australia's Deadly Wildfires in Photos: The View from Space [has heatwave info]
  
• 7 Jan 20 The Conversation: Listen to your people Scott Morrison: the bushfires demand a climate policy reboot + The bushfires are horrendous, but expect cyclones, floods and heatwaves too.
  
• 7 Jan 20 SBS: How a climate change study from 12 years ago warned of this horror bushfire season.
  
• 7 Jan 20 SMH: Never again should we hesitate: the climate emergency is here.
  
• 3 Jan 20 SMH: Just 2 per cent of Britain's power now comes from coal. In Australia, it's more like three quarters.
  
• 2 Jan 20 The Guardian: 2019 was Australia's hottest year on record – 1.5C above average temperature.
  
• 2 Jan 20 Japan Today: 12 dead, several missing as Australia counts cost of devastating bushfires.
  
• 2 Jan 20 !0 Daily: We Are A Burning Nation Led By Cowards.
  
• 2 Jan 20 Gizmodo: NASA Satellite Images Show The Terrifying Reality Of Climate Change.
  
• 28 Dc 19 The Guardian: Home affairs warned Australian government of growing climate disaster risk after May election.
  
• 28 Dec 19 Japan Times: In New Jersey, a slow-motion evacuation from climate change.
  
• 28 NewSci: Greenland lost almost 4 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years.
  
• 28 Dec 19 Science: Australia's vulnerable species hit hard by fires.
  
• 28 Dec 19 The Conversation: Attention United Nations: don’t be fooled by Australia’s latest report on the Great Barrier Reef + Nine things you love that are being wrecked by climate change +
  
• 28 Dec 19 ABC: Climate change slashes more than $1 billion from farm production value over past 20 years
  
• 16 Dec 19 The Guardian: The UN climate talks are over for another year – was anything achieved?
  
• 14 BBC: Climate change: COP25 island nation in 'fight to death'
  
• 14 Dec 19 Renew Energy: [Australian] Electricity prices set to plummet as strong wind and solar investment kicks in [despite the absence of government policy]
  
• 14 Dec 19 Japan Times: Climate change threatens food supplies if growing regions are hit simultaneously with extreme weather.
  
• 14 Dec 19 Japan Today: Youth urge adults to stop 'acting like children' on climate change
  
• 14 Dec 19 The Conversation: Greenland has lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice since 1992.
  
• 14 Dec 19 New Scientist: How we predicted [?] global warming and Arctic ice melt – 40 years ago + Scientists issue wake-up call on dangerous loss of oxygen from oceans +
  
• 6 Dec 19 ABC: Greta Thunberg's La Vagabonde voyage let an Aussie family meet the girl behind a climate movement.
  
• 6 Dec 19 The Guardian: Climate models have accurately predicted global heating, study finds - Findings confirm reliability of projections of temperature changes over last 50 years
  
• 4 Dec 19 ABC: Climate change displacing one person every two seconds, Oxfam report says + Greta Thunberg an 'energised … angry kid' ready for climate summit after three-week voyage.
  
• 3 Dec 19 The Guardian: Australia endures its driest and second-hottest spring on record - Climate records were broken across the country as the spring of 2019 was dominated by drought and bushfires
  
• 1 Dec 19 SpaceDaily: US says will 'protect its interests' at climate conference - but "Nancy Pelosi will lead a 15-member congressional delegation to "reaffirm the commitment of the American people to combating the climate crisis."
  
• 30 Nov 19 Japan Times: Japan's promotion of coal-fired power plants spurred U.N. to reject Abe's request to address September climate summit.
  
• 30 Nov 19 ABC: Student climate change protesters take to the streets across the country
  
• 29 Nov 19 Science [editorial]: An even bigger climate problem.
  
• 29 Nov 19 SBS: 'Our house is on fire': EU Parliament declares climate emergency.
  
• 29 Nov 19 NewSci: We may be closer than we thought to Earth's dangerous tipping points.
• 28 Nov 19 ABC: Marine heatwaves threatening oyster industry and affecting Great Barrier Reef, scientists warn.
  
• 28 Nov 19 Renew Economy: Finkel’s national hydrogen strategy gets green light, but could be lifeline for coal.
  
• 28 Nov 19 Japan Today: Renewables could cut power generation health impact by 80%.
  
• 28 Nov 19 Japan Times: Climate impacts 'to cost world $7.9 trillion' by 2050, analysis shows.
  
• 20 Nov 19 The Conversation: Climate explained: why coastal floods are becoming more frequent as seas rise - For every ten centimetres of sea level rise, the chances of a 100-year coastal flood increase three-fold + New report shows the world is awash with fossil fuels. It’s time to cut off supply.
  
• 20 Nov 19 ABC: South Australia's giant Tesla battery output and storage set to increase by 50 per cent. But no mention of the current system resulting in  FCAS savings of more than $100 million per year.
  
• 15 Nov 19 New Scientist: Emperor penguins could go extinct by 2100 if we fail on climate change.
  
• 13 Nov 19 The Guardian: The National Farmers' Federation’s drought strategy is like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic - "policies that are fundamentally flawed because they are grounded in ideology before evidence, particularly in relation to climate. The proof of this is borne out when the NFF sees climate protesters as a greater threat to agriculture than climate change..."
  
• 13 Nov 19 ABC: Fire, climate change and prescribed burning: What do the experts have to say?  "a soon-to-be published study on fires in Queensland last year found that the temperatures associated with the blazes were four times more likely because of climate change..."
  
• 12 Nov 19 The Conversation: Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze.
  
• 12 Nov 19 ABC: Regional mayors criticise politicians for failing to link climate change and deadly bushfires.
  
• 6 Nov 19 ABC: Climate emergency declared by 11,000 scientists worldwide who warn of 'catastrophic threat' to humanity.
  
• 6 Nov 19 The Conversation: Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it
  
• 4 Nov 19 The Conversation: Friday essay: thinking like a planet - environmental crisis and the humanities + The science of drought is complex but the message on climate change is clear + Australia’s hidden opportunity to cut carbon emissions, and make money in the process
  
• 4 Nov 19 ABC: Wind farm rejection leaves clean energy advocates baffled + UN chief Antonio Guterres warns Asia to quit 'addiction' to coal as climate change threatens region.
  
• 4 Nov 19 NewSci: Up to 630 million people could be threatened by rising seas + Climate change may see one in four US steel bridges collapse by 2040
  
• 29 The Conversation: Low carbon economy can spur Australian “manufacturing boom”: Albanese [but with "firm support for coal"!]
  
• 29 Oct 19 ABC: The rich-listers funding[Australian] politicians who back climate action
  
• 28 Oct 19 ScAm Nov19 issue ($): Global Warming Is Not Part of Natural Climate Variability "98% of the planet has warmed at once..."  + Warming Will Cost Rich and Poor Countries Alike "Canada—which some economists say could benefit from warming because of expanded agriculture—would lose 13 percent [of its GDP" + New Elevation Measure Shows Climate Change Could Quickly Swamp the Mekong Delta.
  
• 28 Oct 19 NewSci: Extreme snow stopped plants and animals breeding in parts of Greenland - "As the Arctic warms and the sea ice shrinks more each summer, the atmosphere there gets moister, meaning more snow can fall when conditions are right..." + How deadly disease outbreaks could worsen as the climate changes.
  
• 28 Oct 19 The Guardian: SUVs second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal,
  
• 28 Oct 19 The Conversation: Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don’t want to rock the boat + Politicians must mine the divide between coal lobbies and energy companies.
  
• 28 Oct 19 SBS: Australia's carbon emissions set to peak next year as wind and solar energy soars.
  
• 28 Oct 19 ABC: Angus Taylor repeats misleading claim on carbon emissions yet again
  
• 23 Oct 19 The Conversation: Climate explained: how volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce.
  
• 22 Oct 19 The Guardian: Clive Palmer company reapplies for mine four times size of Adani's Carmichael
  
• 22 Oct 19 ABC: The climate is apparently not getting 'worse' because some places, like Canada, will benefit [spin from a senior bureacrat - see SciAm Nov19 above]] + John Hewson slams Coalition on climate change while business takes lead reducing emissions [reality from a former Liberal politician]
  
• 17 Oct 19 NewSci ($): Extinction Rebellion protests should be embraced, not banned
  
• 12 Oct 19 The Conversation: We thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research shows we were wrong.
• 12 Oct 19 NASA/JPL: Celebrating a Mission That Changed How We Use Radar [to observe climate change]
  
• 3 Oct 19 The Conversation: If warming exceeds 2°C, Antarctica’s melting ice sheets could [would likely!] raise seas 20 metres in coming centuries  + Not convinced on the need for urgent climate action? Here’s what happens to our planet between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming.
  
• 3 Oct 19 The Guardian: From Qatar to Vietnam, global heating is making the workplace deadly for millions + 'Things are getting unstable': global heating and the rise of rockfalls in Swiss Alps.
  
• 1 Oct 19 New Scientist: Mining of world's largest untapped coal reserves ramps up [Not Adani - it's in Botswana!]
  
• 1 Oct 19 ABC: Perth notches hottest September on record, driest in 42 years as weather warms up + ACT has '100 per cent renewable' electricity from today. But what does that mean?
  
• 1 Oct 19 Nature: How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth — in pictures
  
• 30 Sep 19 Japan Today: [Iki] City in Nagasaki Pref declares climate emergency, 1st in country to do so.
  
• 30 Sep 19 ABC: We fact checked Scott Morrison's speech to the United Nations. Here's what we found.
  
• 30 Sep 19 The Conversation: ‘We will never forgive you’: youth is not wasted on the young who fight for climate justice.
  
• 28 Sep 19 (a busy week!):
• The Conversation: Highly touted UN climate summit failed to deliver - and Scott Morrison failed to show up
  
• The Saturday Paper ($): The week Australia failed on climate change
• NewSci: How climate change is melting France’s largest glacier + Greta Thunberg: You have stolen my childhood with your empty words
• ABC: Climate change 'hitting harder and sooner' than forecast, warn scientists ahead of UN meeting + David Attenborough slams Australian PM on climate record
  
• 21 Sep 19 The Guardian: Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest.
• 19 Sep 19 NewSci: School strikes are changing the world, says UN climate science advisor.
  
• 19 Sep 19 ACEEE: US Government Takes Sledgehammer to Clean Car Rules - "[Trump] administration is revoking California’s waiver to set stricter vehicle emissions standards that more than a dozen other states have adopted..." + Energy efficiency can slash emissions and get US halfway to climate goals.
  
• 16 Sep 19 2019 The Conversation: Five climate change science misconceptions – debunked "The latest estimate is that the world’s five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about US$200m each year on lobbying to control, delay or block binding climate-motivated policy..." + Australia to attend climate summit empty-handed despite UN pleas to ‘come with a plan.
  
• 16 Sep 19 The Saturday Paper ($): Warming to prayer
  
• 16 Sep 19 Nature: ‘Ecological grief’ grips scientists witnessing Great Barrier Reef’s decline + Arctic sea ice is at a near-record low — but that’s just one of the north’s problems.
  
• 16 Sep 19 Create: Electric cars could offer more than just transport – like serving as easy energy storage.
  
• 13 Sep 19 Time: These Charts Show How High Sea Levels Will Rise if Antarctica's Ice Continues to Melt.
  
• 12 Sep 19 Japan Today: (European) Car makers near CO2 cliff-edge in electrification race
• 12 Sep 19 The Conversation: The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. There are a whopping 45 reasons why + Climate change is bringing a new world of bushfires.
  
• 10 Sep 19 ABC: Climate change survey shows Australians want action on emissions, but are divided on nuclear
  
• 9 Sep 19 BBC: Greenland's ice faces melting 'death sentence'.
  
• 9 Sep 19 The Conversation: The air above Antarctica is suddenly getting warmer – here’s what it means for Australia + Australia has met its renewable energy target. But don’t pop the champagne + Clean, green machines: the truth about electric vehicle emissions.
  
• 9 Sep 19 Bank Australia: When it comes to climate change, there’s power in community.
  
• 5 Sep 19 SciAm: Earth’s Orbital Shifts May Have Triggered Ancient Global Warming - orbital forcing is [not] playing a role in anthropogenic climate change but expect global heating deniers to try to use this in their repertoire!
  
• 4 Sep 19 The Conversation: Nice try Mr Taylor, but Australia’s gas exports don’t help solve climate change.
  
• 2 Sep 19 ABC: Nuclear power not the answer as renewables continue to boom in Australia, report finds.
  
• 26 Aug 19 SciAm: Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change.
  
• 19 Aug 19 The Conversation: Adani beware: coal is on the road to becoming completely uninsurable.
  
• 19 Aug 19 SciAm: And Now, the Really Big [US] Coal Plants Begin to Close.
  
• 19 Aug 19 ABC: Australia must listen to its Pacific neighbours on climate crisis.
  
• 19 Aug 19 BBC: Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly.
  
• 19 Aug 19 New Scientist: Hottest day records set across Europe this year will soon be broken.
  
• 2 Aug 19 Science: Time's up, CO2 -  "Forty years ago this summer, a small group of atmospheric and ocean scientists met in Woods Hole, Massachusetts..."
  
• 2 Aug New Scientist: The UK is now using AI to predict solar power and lower energy bills + Today's global warming is unparalleled in the past 2000 years.
  
• 2 Aug 19 The Conversation: 2℃ of global warming would put pressure on Melbourne’s water supply.
  
• 2 Aug 19 The Guardian: Revealed: Johnson ally’s firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network. - "...campaigns in support of coal power, tobacco, and against cyclists."
• 26 Jul19 The Guardian: Climate fears as the UK has second hottest day on record + All-time temperature records tumble again as heatwave sears Europe.
  
• 26 Jul 19 ABC: Arctic Circle burns as heatwaves plague Europe and the US +
  
• 26 Jul 19 SciAm: Magnet and Neuron Model Also Predicts Arctic Sea Ice Melt.
  
• 26 Jul 19 The Conversation: Extreme weather caused by climate change has damaged 45% of Australia’s coastal habitat.
  
• 25 Jul 19 The Conversation: 2,000 years of records show it’s getting hotter, faster + BBC: Current warming 'unparalleled' in 2,000 years + Europe heatwave: Records tumble in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
  
• 25 Jul19 Reuters: [US] Senators to unveil carbon tax bill to generate $2.5 trillion in 10 years.
  
• 24 Jul 19 SciAm August magazine ($): Special Report: Future of the Arctic
  
• 24 Jul 19 SBS: Iceland to open a memorial for the first of its glaciers lost to climate change.
  
• 19 Jul 19 The Guardian: Deputy PM Michael McCormack accused of disputing evidence of global heating.
  
• 16 Jul 19 ABC: Adani demands names of CSIRO scientists reviewing groundwater plans (comment: a sinister development)
  
• 14 July 19 Japan Today: King coal rules for power utilities in Japan + Japan Times: Environmentalist Kenro Taura talks about why he thinks Japan is a laggard in the fight against climate change.
  
• 9 Jul 2019 The Guardian: [more shame]: Australia's emissions reach the highest on record, driven by electricity sector.
• 5 Jul 19 Japan Times: Several deaths reported as Europe's continuing heat wave brings record-breaking temperatures + Warming to slash equivalent of 80 million jobs by 2030, U.N. warns.
  
• 5 Jul 19 NewSci: UK commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 + Spy satellite images reveal Himalaya glacier ice losses have doubled + We need to shut power plants early to stay under 1.5°C warming + Antarctic sea ice is declining dramatically and we don’t know why [not necessarily global warming] + Climate change made Europe's heatwave at least five times more likely.
  
• 5 Jun 19 The Guardian: Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted + Photograph lays bare reality of melting Greenland sea ice + 5 Jul 19 Gizmodo: Study Warns We Could Melt The Entire Greenland Ice Sheet If We Don't Change Course.
  
• 5 Jul 19 The Conversation: Everything you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact and jobs to its possible future +
  
• 7 Jun 19 Science: How fast will the Antarctic ice sheet retreat? There is no longer any serious scientific doubt that the retreat of glaciers in Antarctica will eventually cause several meters of sea level rise, unless the emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gas is reduced substantially. + Rising methane: A new climate challenge
  
• 4 Jun 19 The Conversation: Explaining Adani: why would a billionaire persist with a mine that will probably lose money?: By 2030, with the project still in its relatively early stages, most developed countries will have stopped using coal-fired power...Major banks in Japan and Singapore have withdrawn from funding new coal projects, following the lead of the global banks based in Europe and the US...
  
• 1 Jun 19 The Guardian: Scotland faces climate 'apocalypse' without action to cut emissions.
  
• 31 May 19 Science: A call to climate action.
  
• 23 May 19 National Geographic: As the climate crisis worsens, cities turn to parks.
  
• 23 May 19 SciAm: Turn Methane into CO2 to Reduce Warming, Experts Propose.
  
• 23 May 19 NewSci: Sea level rise could hit 2 metres by 2100 - much worse than feared.
  
• 17 May 19 The Guardian: ‘Extraordinary thinning’ of ice sheets revealed deep inside Antarctica.
  
• 16 May 19 Space.com: Bill Nye Brings Out the F-Bombs and a Blowtorch to Talk Climate Change.
  
• 10 May 19 Science ($): Why coal ash and tailings dam disasters occur.
  
• 10 May 19 ABC: Britain records first coal-free week since the Victorian era + Rocky Hill open cut coal mine 'dead in the water' after Gloucester Resources abandons appeal option + Climate change could slash $571b from property values, study warns.
  
• 10 May 19 The Guardian: New Zealand introduces bill for zero carbon emissions by 2050.
  
• 6 Apr 19 SciAm: Climate Preparation Report Released by Panel Previously Disbanded by Trump.
  
• 5 Apr 19 LiveScience: Humans Have Caused the Most Dramatic Climate Change in 3 Million Years.
  
• 5 Apr 19 The Guardian: ‘It’s no longer free to pollute’: Canada imposes carbon tax on four provinces.
  
• 5 Apr 19 ABC: Victorian coal plants producing highest mercury pollution in the country, report shows ( see this diagram)
• 25 Mar 19 NewSci: The compelling tale of how climate change denial came to grip the US.
  
• 22 Mar 19 The Guardian: Climate change could make insurance too expensive for most people + Mount Everest: melting glaciers exposing bodies of climbers.
  
• 9 Feb 19 ABC: Green waste-to-energy power plant could solve power reliability in regions.
  
• 9 Feb 19 The Conversation: Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk [from global warming]
  
• 8 Feb 18 The Guardian:  Court rules out Hunter Valley coalmine on climate change grounds - Judge rejects Rocky Hill mine near Gloucester, NSW, because of its impact on the town and ‘dire consequences’ of increasing emissions!
  
• 7 Feb 19 ABC: UN warns world on track to breach 3C rise by 2100; last year was fourth warmest on record.
  
• 6 Feb 19 ABC: Himalayas to lose one-third of glaciers by 2100 even if Paris climate goals are met.
  
• 25 Jan 19 The Guardian: David Attenborough tells Davos: ‘The Garden of Eden is no more’ - Human activity has created a new era yet climate change can be stopped, says naturalist + Greenland's ice melting faster than scientists previously thought: study - pace of ice loss has increased four-fold since 2003
  
• 25 Jan 19 Japan Times: Scientists warn of climate 'time bomb' for world's groundwater.
  
• 18 Jan 19 Eurekalert: Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago
  
• 13 Jan 19 SciAm ($): Scrubbing Carbon from the Sky - 'Southern Company abandoned [its attempt to make "clean coal"] in 2017, switching the Kemper County clean coal plant to natural gas after spending $7.5 billion.'
  
• 11 Jan 19 The Guardian: Warming oceans likely to raise sea levels 30cm by end of century – study + Science: How fast are the oceans warming?
  
• 8 Jan 19 World Economic Forum: What just happened? 5 themes from the COP24 climate talks in Poland + ABC: COP24 sees Australia walk climate tightrope amid 'Paris Rulebook' deadlock + NewSci: Katowice climate talks are making headlines for the wrong reasons + Seven steps to save the planet: How to take on climate change and win.
  
• 8 Jan 19 The Guardian: UK power stations' electricity output lowest since 199 + Pacific nations under climate threat urge Australia to abandon coal within 12 years.
  
• 8 Jan 19 NewSci: A New Year vow for our leaders? Start taking climate change seriously.
• 8 Jan 19 BBC: Cars and coal help drive 'strong' CO2 rise in 2018
  
• 3 Jan 19 SciAm: The Next Climate Frontier: Predicting a Complex Domino Effect.
  
• 27 Dec 18 ABC: Australia projected to miss emissions reduction target set out in Paris Agreement.
  
• 7 Dec 18 ABC: Renewables heading for 80 per cent of electricity market by 2030, putting pressure on future funding: report + Greenland's ice sheet melting rate is accelerating, scientists confirm + Renewable energy reduces power prices by more than cost of subsidies, study finds.
  
• 29 Nov 18 Create: Summer blackouts on the horizon and no energy policy in sight.
  
• 29 Nov 18 West Australian: Julie Bishop wants Federal Government to support Labor and back National Energy Guarantee. + ABC: Crossbench joins Julie Bishop and Labor in renewed push for energy agreement.
  
• 29 Nov 18 Japan Today: Scientists weigh up stratospheric sunlight barrier to curb warming.
  
• 29 Nov 18 BBC: Climate change: Report warns of growing impact on US life + Trump: Climate change scientists have 'political agenda' + Climate change: Warming gas concentrations at new record high.
  
• 29 Nov 18 SMH: Labor announces $15 billion to 'turbo charge' renewables sector + ABC: Labor's energy policy is savvy – now is it scare proof? 
  
• 23 Nov 18 NewSci: Environmentalists must embrace nuclear power to stem climate change - The Union of Concerned Scientists has overturned its longstanding opposition to nuclear power [that is, existing plants without saftey issues]...
  
• 22 Nov 18 SciAm: The Biggest Story of the Century Needs More Coverage.
  
• 22 Nov 18 ABC: Power bill pressures vs emissions vs reliability: Behind the new election battleground + How China's push for cleaner air is pushing up Australian power prices + Lack of network planning threatens Australia's renewable electricity future, expert warns.
• 22 Nov 18 NewSci: The race to green domestic heating and prevent climate catastrophe + Stockholm Environment Institute: Swedish heat energy system – new tensions and lock-ins after a successful transition.
  
• 13 Nov 18 ABC: Renewables overtaking fossil fuels in new power generation: International Energy Agency
  
• 29 Oct 18 NewSci: Banning straws isn’t enough. We must get serious about climate change.
  
• 22 Oct 18 SMH: 'Rallying cry': Mining giant BHP renews calls for carbon price.
  
• 19 Oct 18 NewSci: Bill Gates leads global call to accept realities of a warming planet.
  
• 10 Oct 18 ABC: 'You can't keep arguing this is just a cycle': Farmers struggling to manage impacts of climate change.
  
• 8 Oct 18 The Guardian: How the UN climate panel got to 1.5C threshold – timeline - Five reports and an agreement: the IPCC has been raising the climate alarm for 30 years + IPCC: Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C
  approved by governments.
  
• 3 Oct 18 ABC: Tesla battery proves a leading source of dispatchable power, AEMO says - "AEMO's data shows that it can dispatch power far more rapidly and precisely than conventional thermal power stations and more swiftly and accurately than the market operator thought possible — while also pushing down prices...the speed, precision and agility of the battery is unprecedented in dealing with these regular, small frequency variations as well as major power disturbances. Conventional coal-fired or gas-fuelled generators might take seconds; the battery takes milliseconds. Not only are its responses technically superior, it has also lowered the cost of providing these services...In the first quarter of this year, the cost of FCAS fell by nearly $33 million, or 57 per cent..."
  
• 11 Sep 18 ABC: There's a certain Trump-like quality to Australia's discourse on emissions reductions - these reassurances are at completely at odds with the Government's own official advice
  
• 23 Aug 18 SciAm: As Climate Scientists Speak Out, Sexist Attacks Are on the Rise
  
• 23 Aug 18 The Conversation: Rising seas will displace millions of people – and Australia must be ready - by Jane McAdam and John Church.
  
• 21 Aug 18 Space.com: Melting Permafrost Below Arctic Lakes Is Even More Dangerous to the Climate, NASA Warns
  
• 19 Aug 18 New Scientist ($): Meet the ‘climate kids’ suing the US government over global warming + How women are rallying round the cause of climate injustice.
  
• 2 Aug 18 The Guardian: Was this the heatwave that finally ended climate denial?
  
• 30 Jul 18 NewSci: Climate change made Europe’s heatwave twice as likely to happen + Warming Arctic could be behind heatwave sweeping northern hemisphere.
  
• 6 Jul 18 UniNSW: [Effects of] Global warming may be twice what climate models predict.
  
• 6  Jul 18 The Guardian: Goodbye to Scott Pruitt, the worst EPA administrator of all time...[but]  Don’t trust Trump to replace him with someone who actually cares about the environment
  
• 26 Jun 18 The Guardian: Farmers' federation lines up against Tony Abbott on national energy guarantee - Growing number of Liberals and Nationals also warn against scuttling the policy
  
• 26 Jun 18 Science: Rising bedrock may delay ice sheet collapse [that would raise sea levels by 3 metres]
  
• 14 Jun 18 BBC: Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years - a three-fold increase since 2012 when the last such assessment was undertaken.
  
• 8 Jun 18 Space.com: Incredible NASA Video Crams 20 Years of Earth's Weather Into 2 Minutes.
  
• 25 May 18 ABC: [Northern] Territory Generation slashes value by $150m, gets government bailout in face of renewables threat (so much for free-market economics!)
  
• 13 May 18 SMH: Swaths of native forest near Great Barrier Reef set to be bulldozed - this proposal to clear land on Cape York Penisular is only indirectly related to greenhouse gas emissions but likely puts more pressure on the the GBR.
  
• 11 May 18 SpaceDaily: Tourism nearly a tenth of global CO2 emissions.
  
• 29 Apr 18 J Geography and Natural Disasters: Trends in Extreme Weather Events since 1900 – An Enduring Conundrum for Wise Policy Advice ("...strong evidence that the first half of the 20th century had more extreme weather than the second half... - thanks John Lewis - Comment: so fewer extreme events, but are they getting worse?)
  
• 19 Apr 18 NZ Herald: Scientists discover new melting process in Antarctica.
  
• 14 Apr 18 SMH: Coal has no place in Australia’s energy future by Crispin Hull (see also this diagram).
  
• 14 Apr 18 Japan Times: Former coal lobbyist who waged campaign to block pollution curbs confirmed as No. 2 at (US) EPA.
  
• 14 Apr 18 Washington Post: Heat waves over the ocean have ballooned and are wreaking havoc on marine life.
  
• 14 Apr 18 UNJ: South Australia‘s new premier has cut access to Tesla batteries for low income households.
  
• 3 Apr 18 SciAm: The Arctic Is Breaking Climate Records, Altering Weather Worldwide.
  
• 3 Apr 18 The Guardian: COALition backbenchers unite to lobby for coal under banner of Monash Forum
  
• 7 Feb 18 ABC: Ozone is missing from the atmosphere and scientists don't know why [but suspect global warming]
  
• 5 Feb 18 News.Com(!): Millions displaced if Antarctic ice melts.
  
• 16 Jan 18 ABC: How rising sea levels could shrink Australia and spark a coastal exodus - under global warming the sea level is likely to rise by 12mm per year by  2081*. During the end of the last ice age (10,000 years ago) it rose by 14.5mm per year and the shoreline receded by about 20 metres per year. * Prediction by one of the climate models - see page 1180 of this IPCC report, which was co-authored by Dr John Church.
  
• 7 Jan 18 SMH: 'All happening very quickly': Tesla battery sends a jolt through energy markets - Critics have quibbled at the battery's size ... but this ignores the many benefits – including supporting the security of the grid – that are only beginning to be understood. "The battery has been dispatched on multiple occasions for both energy and Frequency Control Ancillary Services (FCAS)..." (potentially saving the SA government $millions)
  
• 7 Jan 18 Japan Times: Japan spends scant energy on renewables.
• 7 Jan 18 NewSci ($): China tackles climate change with world’s largest carbon market.
  
• 5 Jan 18 Science ($): Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters - from warming oceans and nutrient run-off
  
• 15 Dec 17 NYT: How Global Warming Fueled Five Extreme Weather Events.
  
• 15 Dec 17 Inhabit.com: Laser-driven fusion energy leaves no radioactive waste – and it’s within reach.
  
• 22 Nov 17 Phys.org: Global carbon dioxide emissions projected to rise after three stable years.
  
• 22 Nov 17 The Guardian: Al Gore: 'I tried my best' but Trump can't be educated on climate change + Coal-fired plant shifted $1bn offshore while pocketing $117m from Australian taxpayers.
  
• 18 Nov 17 NY Dai.y News: NASA says New York will flood when the ice caps in Greenland melt.
  
• 11 Oct 17 SMH: Tony Abbott speech: Allies go to ground and Labor lashes 'loopy' ex-PM over climate change views + Five charts that show Tony Abbott is the one who has lost sight of the science + 'Really awful': 50-degree days possible for Sydney, Melbourne, as warming worsens
• 11 Oct 17 ABC: Adani: Palaszczuk and business groups brush off allegations of company's corruption, negligence + SBS: 'It's going to ruin everything': Thousands flock to nationwide protests to fight Adani coal mine.
  
• 18 Aug 17 Science ($): Australia to ax support for long-term ecology sites.
  
• 15 Aug 17 Gizmodo: Mining Giant Adani Pollutes The Great Barrier Reef, Fights $12,000 Fine (coal has many more environmental & health hazards than CO2)
  
• 14 Jul 17 Japan Times: Japan looking to lead in exporting renewable energy tech to emerging economies.
  
• 30 Jun 17 The Guardian: Melting and cracking – is Antarctica falling apart? [more likely natural processes]
  
• 30 Jun 17 Science: Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States - the poorest third of [USA] counties are projected to experience damages between 2 and 20% of county income (90% chance) under business-as-usual emissions
  
• 23 May 17 ABC: Climate change: Model predicts Australia to lose iconic sites in new sea-level rise (Prof John Church, "a leading authority on sea-level rise caused by global warming" is now at Uni of NSW after losing his CSIRO job in 2016)
  
• 23 May 17 SciAm: Revamped "Anti-Science" Education Bills in U.S. Find Success.
  
• 22 May 17 ABC: Adani indefinitely postpones final investment decision on Carmichael coal mine (seeking lower or deferred royalties!)
  
• 22 May 17 NewSci: We are on track to pass 1.5°C warming in less than 10 years.
  
• 22 May 17 SMH: 'Fast-moving clouds': How CS Energy's Kogan Creek Solar Boost project failed (alledged management incompetent)
  
• 20 May 17 SciAm: Will Tesla’s Tiles Finally Give Solar Shingles Their Day in the Sun? (some interesting stats on solar energy)
  
• 19 Apr 17 ABC: Abrupt glacier melt causes Canada river to vanish in four days.
  
• 19 Apr 17 The Guardian: John Hewson says $1bn loan to Adani the 'last thing' COALition should be doing.
• 19 Apr 17 ABC: NASA images show new crack in Greenland's Petermann Glacier.
  
• 15 Mar 17 ABC: Turnbull speaks with Elon Musk about battery technology. + The Advertiser: Government wants US tech billionaire Elon Musk to pitch for a piece of Government’s $150m renewable energy pie.
  
• 15 Mar 17 SMH: 'They died of thirst': Extreme conditions wipe out forest over 1000 kilometres + As Australia scorches, sea ice spread around Antarctica hits a record low + Victoria to get its first large-scale solar plants +
  
• 8 Mar 17 SMH: State of the Environment report reveals a calamitous trajectory.
  
• 1 Mar 17 SMH: Antarctic sea ice 'obliterates' previous minimum record, in remarkable reverse + Australia's carbon emissions jump as coal-fired power ramps up.
  
• 26 Feb 17 ABC: [Coal] Mine pollution levels in Blue Mountains [wilderness area] could be some of world's worst, insect species dying out.
• 26 Feb 17 Japan Times (!): Plan to save Great Barrier Reef has been set back decades, Australian experts say - With heavy use of coal-fired power and a relatively small population of 24 million, Australia is considered one of the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas polluters... Researchers highlighted that the government’s rescue plan does not do enough to address climate change, noting that “new coal mines pose a serious threat” to the reef’s heritage area.
  
• 19 Feb 17 SMH: Mining industry tipped millions into pre-election clean coal campaign [2016] + As Australia scorches, sea ice spread around Antarctica hits a record low. "Clean" coal?
  
• 18 Feb 17 The Saturday Paper: Malcolm Turnbull’s switch on power sources.
  
• 18 Feb 17 Science ($): Demise of stream rule won't revitalize coal industry.
  
• 16 Feb 17 SciAm: Climate Change Has Already Harmed Almost Half of All Mammals.
  
• 9 Feb 17 ABC: Heatwaves to be hotter, longer and more frequent, climate change report says.
  
• 19 Jan 17 SMH:  'Extreme year': 2016 declared hottest year on record as climate change builds on big El Nino.
  
• 5 Jan 17 ACEEE: 2017 is looking like a good year for energy efficiency as investments grow.
  
• 5 Jan 17 SMH: No 'cooking the books': New study confirms global warming hiatus didn't happen + Science Advances: Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records + Overlooked possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in warming climate "we show that the AMOC collapses 300 years after the atmospheric CO2 concentration is abruptly doubled from the 1990 level..."
  
• 4 Jan 17 ABC: Port Augusta power station ash could be toxic, health effects 'less than certain', SA Health says (see also Health risks from coal-fired power stations)
  
• 3 Jan 17 ScAm: Accepting the Reality of Climate Change Is Good for Business - The climate cause has lost an ally in the White House, but the private sector has ensured that the clean technology revolution is here to stay
  
• 18 Dec 16 ABC: Antarctic research into warm water causing rapid glacial ice melt.
  
• 16 Dec 16 Science Alert: There's a giant crater in East Antarctica, and it's very bad news - Antarctica is more vulnerable than we thought [melting of ice shelf]
  
• 10 Nov 16 NewSci: President Trump means we can’t escape a dangerously warmer world.
  
• 10 Nov 16 Science ($): Sea ice shrinks in step with carbon emissions - Every additional metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) puffed into the atmosphere appears to cost the Arctic another 3 square meters of summer sea ice
  
• 8 Nov 16 The Guardian: Tough choices for the media when climate science deniers are elected.
  
• 7 Nov 16 ABC: Climate scientists feel weight of world on their shoulders - Every day, these scientists face evidence of climate change. They explain how they cope with the emotional burden of what they know.
  
• 7 Nov 16 Daily Telegraph: Big changes looming across the world but Australians could be left behind.
  
• 12 Oct 16 Business Recorder: Tax fossil fuels or risk kids' future: US climate scientist - James Hansen
  
• 1 Oct 16 The Saturday Paper: China’s coal price cartel + Political power struggle after SA’s statewide blackout  - As clean-up began after South Australia’s freak storms, the federal energy minister seized the opportunity for a debate on renewables [it was about numerous transmission towers being damaged in the storm - not  South Australia's high proportion of renewal energy in electricity generation].
  
• 1 Oct 16 BBC: The human and animal costs of India's unregulated coal industry.
  
• 26 Sep 16 CleanTechnica: One Decade Left To Keep Global Warming Below 1.5°C.
• 26 Sep 16 Gizmodo: Dramatic Visualizations Show Just How Quickly the Arctic Is Melting.
• 26 Sep 16 The Conversation: The Great Barrier Reef’s ‘new normal’ is a forlorn sight.
  
• 3 Sep 16 SMH: China [Parliament] ratifies Paris climate change agreement ahead of G20 -
  
• 16 Aug 16 SMH: Malcolm Roberts [new One Nation Senator] leaves NASA 'flummoxed' with Q&A climate claims. Q&A transcript.
  
• 12 Aug 16 ABC: Great Barrier Reef: Cost to save reef tops $8 billion, report finds.
  
• 7 Aug 16 The Saturday Paper: Dear Minister Frydenberg...Surely as an experienced and professional politician you can see the growing body of evidence from here and around the world that when you try to silence the voices of the people, the voices get louder...
  
• 7 Aug 16 Japan Times: Climate change threatens nation’s agriculture - Dark clouds cast gloom over future domestic food production as global temperatures rise
  
• 5 Aug 16 ABC: Scientists say damage done by jobs cuts at CSIRO will not be reversed by Minister's intervention.
  
• 18 Jun 16 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal: Major coastal flooding in southeastern Australia 1860-2012, associated deaths and weather systems - The Great Cyclone of 1954 and the Catherine Hill Gale in 1867. If these and other extreme events were to occur nowadays they would have catastrophic impacts...
  
• 18 Jun 16 Science: Sea ice retreat said to accelerate Greenland melting.
  
• 19 May 16 ABC: Climate change could trigger 'tipping point' for East Antarctic Totten Glacier. Also Washington Post + Nature ($): Repeated large-scale retreat and advance of Totten Glacier indicated by inland bed erosion.
  
• 16 May 16 SMH: Confirmed: Southern hemisphere CO2 level rises above symbolic 400 ppm milestone. ( see also 2013 article 400ppm history lesson for sceptic amateurs when northern hemisphere levels first exceeded 400ppm)
• 16 May 16 Brisbane Times: Queensland's mangrove ecosystem dying in secret - large scale diebacks of mangrove trees in the Gulf of Carpentaria for months...
  
• 14 May 16 SMH - more shame on Australia: Global sea-level expert John Church made to walk the plank by CSIRO - For John Church, a leading authority on sea-level rise caused by global warming, there was much that was fitting – and yet callous – about being sacked at sea.
  
• 9 May 16 The Saturday Paper: Tasmania's power crisis - Mismanagement of Tasmania’s once-abundant hydroelectric resources combined with the driest year on record see the state on the brink of wintertime power cuts...there is an ideological antagonism to rooftop solar and wind...a deep resistance to attracting large-scale investment in renewable sources of energy to Tasmania.
  
• 21 Apr 16 ABC: Leading scientists urge UK newspaper The Times to improve 'sub-standard' climate reporting.
  
• 21 Apr 16 NOAA: For 11th straight month, the globe was record warm - the highest for the month of March in the 1880-2016 record
  
• 20 Apr 16 SMH: The Great Barrier Reef: 93% hit by coral bleaching, surveys reveal.
  
• 13 Apr 16 Insurance Journal: RIMS 2016: Sea Level Rise Will Be Worse and Come Sooner.
  
• 6 Apr 16 NewSci: Pilot plant to turn CO2 into house parts and paving stones + Unexpected Antarctic melt could trigger 2-metre sea level rise
  
• 5 Apr 16 SMH: Adani's Carmichael mine is just not going to happen "Clean energy is competitive ...The only hurdle to overcome is mindset. There's no technical challenge at all"
  
• 24 Mar 16 Skynews: Barrier Reef coral may be 'gone for good' + CNN: Dramatic images reveal coral bleaching in Great Barrier Reef
  
• 24 Mar 16 ABC Science: Carbon emissions rate 'highest in 66 million years'
• 24 Mar 16 SMH: Malcolm Turnbull's green shift another blow to Tony Abbott (hooray!)
  
• 23 Feb 16 EurekaAlert:  Mapping the world for climate sensitivity +  Low-carbon policies could prevent up to 175,000 US deaths by 2030 - Curbing transport and energy emissions could yield $250 billion annual health benefit...reducing emissions that cause warming -- many of which also contribute to air pollution -- would benefit public health here and now
  
• 1 Feb 16 SMH: Australian emissions rising towards historical highs and will not peak before 2030, analysis finds - the projected growth rate one of the worst in the developed world + Paris climate limit will see some parts of world warm by 6 degrees: Nature paper + Carbon dioxide causing 'intoxication' of ocean fish sooner than expected.
  
• 30 Dec 15 NASA:L A Still-Growing El Niño Set to Bear Down on US.
  
• 17 Dec 15 NASA: Climate Change Rapidly Warming World's Lakes.
  
• 15 Dec 15 The Guardian: Malcolm Turnbull lifts Abbott ban on government finance for wind power + SMH: Heat turned up on Malcolm Turnbull's domestic climate policies as world pledges to act + Reuters: How the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal.
  
• 1 Dec 15 SciAm: Why Climate Skeptics Are Wrong + The Most Important Number in Climate Change - Just how sensitive is Earth's climate to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide?
  
• 1 Dec 15 NewSci: Paris climate summit: Hope versus reality at last ditch meeting.
  
• 1 Dec 15 SMH: Cory Doctorow: we've lost key decade in climate fight, thanks to Abbott, Harper.
  
• 13 Nov 15 Science ($): Climate warning, 50 years later - continued release of CO2 to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels would “almost certainly cause significant changes” and “could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings.” (U.S. President's Science Advisory Committee advice to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965)
  
• 10 Nov 15 NewSci: Carbon emissions hit new high and temperature rise soars to 1 °C + Australia can go green and have economic growth – if it wants to.
  
• 10 Nov 15 ABC: World in 'unchartered territory' after greenhouse gases hit new high in 2014: United Nations.
  
• 9 Nov 15 SMH: How runaway sea level rise could one day swamp the world's biggest cities + How climate change influenced Australia's extreme weather in 2014.
• 9 Nov 15 The Guardian: Rising temperatures could drive 100m into extreme poverty, World Bank warns.
  
• 4 Nov 15 ABC: Three quarters of Australians believe climate change is real.
  
• 13 Oct 15 NewSci: If Paris climate change talks fail, there’s always Plan C (Tim Flannery) - All is not lost if imminent climate talks fail to strike a deal that puts the world on track to keep warming below 2˚C + Even drastic emissions cuts can’t save New Orleans and Miami.
  
• 13 Oct 15 Japan Times: Even radical climate action won’t save New Orleans, Miami from rising sea levels.
  
• 21 Aug 15 NASA: NASA Holds Media Opportunities to Discuss Rising Sea Levels + NASA Study Finds Indian, Pacific Oceans Temporarily Hide Global Warming "... this shifting pattern of ocean heat accounts for the slowdown in the global surface temperature trend observed during the past decade..."
  
• 12 Aug 15 The Saturday Paper: Filthy secrets shroud Aust’s emissions reduction plans - Weak regulation is increasing Australia’s carbon emissions and allowing dirty power stations to survive + SMH: Abbott government's 'political' climate target fails three key tests.
  
• 4 Aug 15 BBC: What does President Obama's climate change plan do?
• 4 Aug 15 NewSci: Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power (see also Possible health hazards from coal-fired power stations)
  
• 23 Jul 15 SciAm: Sea Level Could Rise at Least 6 Meters  (list of affected cities)
  
• 21 Jul 15 NewSci: Australian PM bans renewable energy body from investing in wind (more shame) + My guidebook aims to slay climate science’s uncertainty problem + 33 reasons why we can’t think clearly about climate change + Latest numbers show at least 5 metres sea-level rise locked in.
  
• 21 Jul 15 ABC Science Show of 11 Jul has an interview with Dr Jeremy Leggett. See his website A Chronicle of The Carbon War.
  
• 1 Jun 15 SMH: Australia points to Direct Action in response to tough UN questions on climate responsibility.
  
• 13 May 15 New Scientist: UK's Conservatives to fight climate change but shun wind power + Worst drought in 1200 years drains America's biggest reservoir + Apparent slowing of sea level rise is artefact of satellite data + Severe heat costs the Australian economy US$6.2 billion a year (this amounts to roughly 0.4 per cent of Australia's GDP. That's greater than the cost for Australia to cut its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050)
  
• 13 May 15 ABC: Budget 2015: An assault on Australia's climate programs.
  
• 8 May 15 SMH: World headed for an El Nino and it could be a big one, scientists say + Climate change a UN-led ruse, says Tony Abbott's business adviser Maurice Newman + El Nino: What it could mean for Tony Abbott [that he has bad advisers?]
  
• 28 Apr 15 Echo Net: Ten things we learned… about Abbott’s contempt for climate.
  
• 24 Apr 15 New Scientist: Australia has chance to go 100 per cent renewable by 2050 + Sydney storm erodes sandy beaches, giving a taste of the future
  
• 20 Apr 15 ABC: China, Brazil question whether Australia's emissions reduction targets are ambitious enough.
  
• 20 Apr 15 SMH: Call for Pyne's resignation over $4 million funding to climate contrarian.
  
• 14 Apr 15: Nature ($): Few Canadian glaciers left by 2100.
  
• 13 Mar 15 The Fifth Estate: Scientists’ open letter: Intergenerational Report wrong on climate.
  
• 16 Feb 15 ABC: Climate change booklet aims to dispel confusion, misinformation + Australian Academy of Science: The science of climate change: Questions and answers.
• 12 Feb 15 9to5 Mac: Apple announces $850m, 1600-acre solar farm in Monterey to offset all its CA operations
  
• 10 Feb 15 SMH: Climate change drove Australia's record hot year, report finds.
  
• 10 Feb 15 Sourceable: Australia to Face Unbearable Heat ‘by 2090 Without Change
  
• 10 Feb 15 SciAm: Australian Windfarms Face $13 Billion Wipeout from Political Impasse - Some 44 Australian windfarm projects, about half overseas-funded, have been shelved since a new conservative government said it wanted to cut state support for the industry a year ago
  
• 29 Jan 15 LAT: Climate models don't over-predict warming, study shows.
  
• 26 Jan 15 NewSci: Shocking state of world's riskiest nuclear waste site.
  
• 24 Jan 15 Tech Times: Study Projects Dismal Future for Great Barrier Reef
  
• 8 Jan 15 SciAm: 2014 Officially Hottest Year on Record +  Low Gas Prices Smooth Path for Carbon Add-On in California - "Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels," [lessons for Australia!]
  
• 30 Dec 14 SMH: Climate shift in the Pacific may accelerate global warming.
  
• 23 Dec 14 SciAm: Coral Clues Hint at Looming Global Warming Spike - his negative phase has played a heavy role in driving an approximately 15-year old slowdown in worldwide surface warming. It suggests that a speedup in warming may follow the next switch to the oscillation’s positive phase...
  
• 9 Dec 14 BBC: Australia worst performer on climate change - report
  
• 8 Dec 14 NASA: West Antarctic Melt Rate Has Tripled -  comprehensive, 21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has found that the melt rate of glaciers there has tripled during the last decade.
  
• 2 Dec 14 BBC: Australia has hottest spring on record as temperatures soar
• 2 Dec 14 SMH: Julie Bishop's calls for nuclear power debate welcomed  [by some .... but her knowledge of renewal baseload power sources is woeful]
  
• 28 Nov 14 Some irony in the order of headlines for ABC News this morning >>
  
• 26 Nov 14 Penguin Books: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate - available for Kindle
• 23 Nov 14 The Age: Australia will miss emissions target due to Direct Action, UN says - the Abbott government's decision to axe the carbon tax is to blame
  
• 13 Nov 14 Courier Mail: Bill Nye chimes in on G20 climate talks - "Everyone hopes that the other 19 of the G20 will lead the way."
  
• 13 Nov 14 SMH: Barack Obama praises 'historic' climate deal as Labor steps up attack on COALition + FT: Xi and Obama revive hopes on global warming.
  
• 28 Sep 14 The Age: Australia goes missing on climate change.
  
• 18 Sep 14 SMH: Coastal inundation threat rises, says Climate Council.
  
• 10 Sep 14 Nature: Rise in greenhouse-gas concentrations continues at alarming rate.
  
• 9 Sep 14 BBC: Greenhouse gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984.
  
• 8 Sep 14 BBC: Antarctic coastal waters 'rising faster'
  
• 6 Sep 14 The Guardian: The ten worst environment decisions in Abbott's first year.
  
• 24 Aug 14 NewSci: Understand faulty thinking to tackle climate change + Beijing's coal ban may herald the end of the fuel.
  
• 21 Aug 14 BBC: Greenland ice loss doubles from late 2000s.
  
• 18 Aug 14 Dehli Daily: Chief scientist cautions Newman [business adviser of Prime Minister Tony Abbott] on climate change theories
  
• 9 Aug 14 ABC: Australia faces unprecedented oversupply of energy, no new energy generation needed for 10 years: report - Electricity use in Australia has been falling now for about four years due to the take-up of rooftop solar systems, greater use of energy-efficient appliances and the downturn in some manufacturing industries that use lots of electricity...
  
• 21 Jul 14 SMH: Climate models on the mark, Australian-led research finds.
  
• 15 Jul 14 Yale Environment 360: Human Activity Has Caused Long-term Drought [in S.W.] Australia, Model Shows
  
• 7 Jul 14 NewSci: Global warming will serve up more pea-soupers + Ice sheets may have already passed point of no return + Stopping harmful climate change is surprisingly cheap "...we could cover a lot of it using the subsidies currently handed to fossil fuels...government subsidies for fossil fuels are around $500 billion a year – six times more than subsidies for renewables."
• 7 Jul 14 Quartz: An entire island nation is preparing to evacuate to Fiji before they sink into the Pacific.
  
• 18 Jun 14 DelhiDailyNews: Global warming one of world's greatest challenges - Political leaders in the UK and China have declared the danger of global warming to be "one of the greatest challenges facing the world"...
  
• 16 Jun 14 SciAm: Obama Rips Climate Change Deniers in Commencement Speech.
  
• 11 Jun 14 Business Spectator: Harper and Abbott: Two fossils fooling no one.
  
• 10 Jun 14 NewSci: The US plan to cut emissions: What you need to know (see also next item)
  
• 10 Jun 14 SMH: Tony Abbott missing signs of world's switch to carbon trading, experts say + Tony Abbott seeks alliance to thwart President Obama on climate change policy [This shameful act is reminescent of John Howard undermining climate talks in 2000]
  
• 9 Jun 14 SciAm:  Global Warming Plays a Role in Australia's Record Heat - The past 12 months have been the warmest in Australia's recorded history, where average temperature has warmed by 1.6-degrees F since 1910
  
• 6 Jun 14 Science ($): Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint.
  
• 3 Jun 14 SciAm: "Sun Kinks" in Railways Join the List of Climate Change's Toll + Will New Climate Rules Help or Hurt in U.S. Elections?
  
• 3 Jun 14 NewSci: The US plan to cut emissions: What you need to know + Global warming may quintuple summer downpours in UK.
  
• 2 Jun 14 SMH: Australia's past two years the hottest on record, Climate Council says + Jane Goodall asks politicians: Do you really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren?
  
• 25 May 14 Mail Online: Does the solution to global warming lie in Australia? Giant savannah responsible for massive spike in CO2 absorption in 2011[No!]
  
• 14 May 14 ABC Science: West Antarctic ice sheet collapse 'unstoppable' (1.2m sea level rise. Different to Wilkes Basin)
  
• 14 May 14 Financial Express: Ocean winds at their strongest in 1,000 years leave Antarctica colder, Australia drier.
  
• 11 May 14 Livescience: Antarctic Ice 'Cork' Melting Could Lead to Unstoppable Sea Rise - "... the Wilkes Basin region could, indeed, play a major role in future sea level rise, contributing as much as 3 to 4 meters across the world's oceans if even just half of the cork were unplugged..."
  
• 1 May 14 SciAm: Pending CO2 Emissions Rules Get a Boost from Supreme Court Ruling.
  
• 22 Apr 24 NewSci: How climate pain is being spun into corporate gain.
  
• 22 Apr 14 BBC: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy -  economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
• 9 Apr 14 NOAA: Arctic sea ice at fifth lowest annual maximum + Youtube Animation of Arctic ice disappearing from 1987 to present (Union of Concerned Scientists blog - "summer sea ice decline should be front page news")
  
• 9 Apr 14 NOAA: Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment.
  
• 3 Apr 14 EPSL: Spontaneous ice-front retreat caused by disintegration of adjacent ice shelf in Antarctica - domino-effect ice–shelf retreat could result in speed-up of ice flow and abrupt sea-level rise.
  
• 27 Mar 14 SciAm: Why Global Warming Will Cross a Dangerous Threshold in 2036 by Michael Mann + Democrats and Republicans Agree on Climate Change - in each state, a majority of those polled believe that temperatures are rising and that human actions are part of the cause...
  
• 23 Mar 14 The Age: New IPCC climate report projects significant threats to Australia.
  
• 18 Mar 14 NewSCi: How much hotter is the planet going to get?
  
• 10 Mar 14 BBC: Mysterious new man-made gases pose threat to ozone layer.
  
• 4 Mar 14 ABC News: Australia's climate extremes increasing as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, report reveals.
  
• 27 Feb 14 Geodynamics: Vanuatu goethermal power project
  
• 31 Jan 14 PlanetSave: See 63 Years of Climate Change In 15 Seconds [NASA Animation - orange is +1C and red is +2C]
  
• 13 Jan 14 SciAm: Cold Outside? Forecast Calls for an Uptick in Global Warming Disbelief.
  
• 10 Jan 14 TerraDaily: Pine Island Glacier sensitive to climatic variability - the thinning of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is much more susceptible to climatic and ocean variability than at first thought...[less melt from global warming but bery sensitive to local conditions]
  
• 5 Jan 14 TGDaily: Global temperatures to rise at least 4°C by 2100 + Nature ($): Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing + Climate science: Clouds of uncertainty "An evaluation of atmospheric convective mixing and low-level clouds in climate models suggests that Earth's climate will warm more than was thought in response to increasing levels of carbon dioxide." + Water risk as world warms - First comprehensive global-impact project shows that water scarcity is a major worry.
• 31 Dec 13 SMH: Tony Abbott's business adviser says Australia taken 'hostage' by 'climate change madness'
• 31 Dec 13 The Guardian: 2013 climate year in review: 'the heat is on. Now we must act'.
  
• 17 Dec 13 NewSci: Radioactive acid spill in Australian national park.
  
• 13 Dec 13 ESA: Antarctic's ice loss on the rise - the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing over 150 cubic kilometres of ice each year – considerably more than when last surveyed...
  
• 10 Dec 13 NewSci: Is it time to stop worrying about global warming? [No!]
  
• 2 Nov 13 USA Today: Obama creates climate change task force.
  
• 2 Nov 13 SMH: Bill Shorten backs scrapping of carbon tax, on condition of replacement ETS.
  
• 27 Oct 13 SMH: Climate debate must stick to the science: professor.
  
• 17 Oct 13 SMH: Lower bills won't happen, say experts (after carbon tax is scrapped by Tony Abbott - note that most Australians received tax breaks to compensate for the higher electricity prices)
  
• 14 Oct 2013 SMH: Australia vulnerable in a warming planet, leaked IPCC report finds -  "more than a quarter of a million Australian homes at risk from rising sea levels"
  
• 5 Sep13 SMH: Our love of driving fuels CO2 emissions.
• 20 Aug 13 SMH: 80cm sea rise warning.
  
• 17 Jul 13 SciAm: Oil Sands May Irrevocably Tar the Climate + (Aug 13 pending) The Coming Boom in Geothermal Energy + Australia plans to scrap carbon tax, bring forward ETS scheme.
  
• 26 Jun 13 SMH: Obama unveils sweeping climate plan - the world does not have time for “a meeting of the flat earth society” before it acts on climate change
• 23 Jun 13 The Age: Fewer voters want carbon tax axed.
  
• 20 Jun 13 Journal of Cosmology: Perihelion precession, polar ice and global warming - This mechanism represents a supplementary – natural – contribution to climate change in the present epoch and may even be the dominant fundamental cause of global warming, although anthropogenic effects surely play a role too.(thanks Duncan Steel)
• 19 Jun 13 SMH: Ford takes the greener road.
  
• 19 Jun 13 NewSci: Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change.
  
• 4 Jun 13 NewSci ($): Nuclear energy: The plutonium problem +  A second chance to save the climate  - A fresh look at temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected opportunity to stay below the agreed international target of 2 °C of global warming...
  
• 19 May 13 The Guardian: Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds - Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic..only 0.7% or 83 of those thousands of academic articles, disputed the scientific consensus that climate change is the result of human activity, with the view of the remaining 2.2% unclear.
  
• 13 May 13 The Guardian: Climate change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless'
  
• 13 May 13 Climate Spectator: 400ppm history lesson for sceptic amateurs.
  
• 11 May 13 ABC: Carbon pollution hits highest point in 3 million years.
  
• 2 May 13 SciAm: Global CO2 Levels Approach Worrisome Milestone + Decades-Old Documents Could Speed Discovery of Geothermal Wells
• 2 May 13 Geodynamics: Habanero 1 MW Pilot Plant Successfully Commissioned and has produced Australia’s first Enhanced
  Geothermal Systems (EGS) generated power.
  
• 16 Apr 13 ABC: Antarctic ice melting 10 times faster than 600 years ago.
  
• 8 Apr 13 NewSci: Climate modellers vindicated as forecast comes true - "The recent stalling of warming is certainly real...but rather than undermining the forecast, the slowdown bolsters it, says Allen. That's because natural fluctuations caused temperatures to get ahead of the prediction in the final years of the 20th century, so when the current hiatus is taken into account, the net result is the same as the forecast." + Antarctic ice grows as climate warms.
  
• 8 Apr 13 SMH: Polar melt shakes up food chain.
  
• 3 Apr 13 Geodynamics: 1 MWe Habanero Pilot Plant – Commencement of Commissioning - Geodynamics Limited is pleased to report that it has reached a key milestone in the Habanero (geothermal energy)  Project, with the commencement of commissioning activities today at the 1MWe Habanero Pilot Plant.
  
• 2 Apr 13 BBC: Melt may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion.
  
• 20 Mar 13 Brisbane Times: Climate-driven disasters cost Victorians $4 billion.
  
• 13 Mar 13 The Japan Times: Toxic management erodes safety at ‘world’s safest’ nuclear plant - Echoes of Fukushima at Exelon’s flagship Byron Station in Illinois
• 13 Mar 13 Science Alert: Climate change to alter Pacific.
  
• 1 Mar 13 The Australian(!): Carbon dioxide and warming lock-step in last Ice Age - levels of carbon dioxide rose hand-in-hand with warming at the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that deals a blow to climate sceptics.
  
• 23 Feb 13 ABC: Wine industry leading way on climate adaptation + [Transcript] Head of IPCC says most vulnerable countries have already reached 'tipping point'.
  
• 18 Feb 13 NewSci: Wind power is now cheaper than coal in some countries - Any wind farms built now would generate electricity for between A$80 (about US$80) and A$113 per megawatt-hour, whereas new coal plants would cost A$176/MWh. In Australia, coal's high cost is partly due to the nation's carbon tax, but new coal power stations would still cost A$126/MWh even in the absence of the tax.
• 18 Feb 13 SMH: Costs soar for reinsurers - another summer of flooding and extreme weather raised the country's peril profile
  
• 1 Feb 13 NewSci ($): Midnight sun: How to get 24-hour solar power + Climate change blamed for Australia's extreme weather + Is Obama about to blow his climate credentials? + Get cirrus in the fight against climate change
  
• 21 Jan 13 NewSci: Interactive world map showing warming trends (courtesy of NASA)
  
• 18 Jan 13 NASA: Study Finds Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest.
• 18 Jan 13 RENewEconomy: … and time to get real about climate, say Greens.
• 18 Jan 13 SMH: Black soot impact on global warming worse than thought: study + New high reached during great heatwave.
  
• 18 Jan 13 ABC: UN group links heatwave to climate change.
• 18 Jan 13 NewSci: A climate of cautious prediction.
• 18 Jan 13 The Australian: Country getting hotter: Climate Commission.
• 18 Jan 13 Reuters: Impact of climate change hitting home, U.S. report finds.
• 18 Jan 13 Aljazeera: Snow grinds Tokyo to a halt [I was there and luckily made the flight to Sydney, where it will reach 39C today]
  
• 5 Jan 13 Nature: Politics is biggest factor in climate uncertainty - Delaying action on emissions will increase costs and reduce chances of limiting temperature increase.
  
• 27 Dec 12 NYT: Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica - the temperature at a research station in the middle of West Antarctica has warmed by 4.4 degrees Fahrenheit [2.2C] since 1958. That is roughly twice as much as scientists previously thought and three times the overall rate of global warming, making central West Antarctica one of the fastest-warming regions on earth.
  
• 20 Dec 12 SciAm: The Mind’s Compartments Create Conflicting Beliefs - may motivate procapitalists to believe that any attempt to curtail industrial pollution by way of the threat of global warming must be a liberal hoax...
  
• 18 Dec 12 NewSci: Doha summit launches climate damage aid - take it further - those nations that refuse to cut back emissions should pay more.
  
• 17 Dec 12 SciAm:  Leaked Report Confirms Human-Induced Climate Change - The world is on track for warming of at least 2 degrees Celsius, according to a leaked draft of the next IPCC report
  
• 15 Dec 12 New Scientist: Leaked IPCC report reaffirms dangerous climate change + Another year wasted by climate negotiators.
  
• 15 Dec 12 The Independent: Bid to heap blame on sunspots for climate change has backfired.
  
• 4 Dec 12 SMH: Records tumble in November heatwave, bureau says
  
• 4 Dec 12 New Scientist: Projections of sea level rise are vast underestimates + Arctic permafrost is melting faster than predicted + Animals are already dissolving in Southern Ocean.
  
• 19 Nov 12 The Age: Degrees of devastation: major report warns of drastically hotter planet.
  
• 16 Nov 12 ABC Catalyst TV show: Taking Our Temperature - In 60 years, we've lost a third of our total snow cover,...Overall, averaging maximums and minimums, our nation's core temperature has gone up 0.9 of a degree...the sea-surface temperatures around Australia. And what we've seen is about a degree of warming over the last century...Sea temperatures here off Tasmania have risen an astounding 2.28 degrees. ...the biggest heatwave to hit Australia's waters ever. It began just north of Ningaloo Reef, hitting it heartbreakingly with the force of a pot of boiling oil...In some places, up to 80% of what was there before [coral reef ecosystem] is now no longer there...Gone, dead, yeah. Covered in algae....the total sea-level rise since 1841is about 17 centimetres...
  
• 16 Nov 12 RenewEconomy: Geodynamics blows some steam at Habanero - successful production of steam from hot rocks deep underground.
  
• 8 Nov 12 Nature: Melting in the Andes: Goodbye glaciers - Researchers are racing to determine how shrinking glaciers in the Andes will affect the water supply of millions of people.
  
• 4 Sep 12 NewSci: Hot enough for you? - "... a steady warming trend that has been no slower in the past decade than it was in the previous two - and which, incidentally, agrees with what is predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change." + ($) Arctic ice low heralds end of 3-million-year cover.
  
• 31 Jul 12 SMH: How I saw past the hot air on climate "Last year, after an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that previous estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: humans are almost entirely the cause..."
  
• 30 Jul 12 SMH: Climate results turn sceptic: 'let the evidence change our minds' - "likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases..."
  
• 28 Jul 12 SciAm: Deny This: Contested Himalayan Glaciers Really Are Melting, and Doing So at a Rapid Pace–Kind of Like Climate Change "82 glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau are retreating, 15 glaciers have dwindled in mass, and 7,090 glaciers have shrunk in size..." + Evidence for Climate Extremes and Costs Finally Gets Local.
  
• 26 Jul 12 SciAm($): Scientists Trek to Collapsing Glaciers to Assess Antarctica’s Meltdown and Sea-Level Rise - "2007 IPCC estimates of 18 to 59 centimeters of sea-level rise by 2100 do not account for any of these ice shelf effects. The estimates “actually send the wrong message,” Rignot says. “They’re probably off by a factor of two to three.” By 2100, he says, “you could easily see a meter of sea-level rise.” An analysis published in 2009 by Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology places the estimate between 75 and 190 centimeters..."
  
• 26 Jul 12 BBC: Antarctic: Grand Canyon-sized rift 'speeding ice melt'.
  
• 25 Jul 12 The Age: Waves could power Melbourne by 2050: CSIRO.
  
• 25 Jul 12 NASA JPL: Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt - For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations...
  
• 16 Jul 12 Nature: Tibetan glaciers shrinking rapidly.
  
• 3 Jul 12 ABC: More global action required to address carbon emissions - interview with Professor Tim Flannery + Carbon tax 'economically efficient': Garnaut.
  
• 30 Jun 12 SciAm: Electricity Generation 'Burning' Rivers of Drought-Scorched Southeast - Of the various modes of power production, hydropower has the biggest water footprint...
  
• 27 Jun 12 SciAm: North Carolina Sea Level Rises Despite Senators. Haven't they heard of King Canute?
  
• 27 Jun 12 ABC: Study suggests how to win over 'deniers'.
  
• 27 Jun 12 SciAm: Court Upholds EPA's Greenhouse Gas Rules - An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever U.S. proposed regulations governing heat-trapping greenhouse gases, handing a setback to major industries like coal-burning utilities and a victory to the Obama administration and environmental groups.
  
• 25 Jun 12 NewSci: Sea-level rise accelerates faster on US east coast.
  
• 19 Jun 12 ABC Science: Greenhouse gases largely to blame for warming oceans: scientists +  Carbon pricing explained.
  
• 19 Jun 12 EPSL: Calibrated prediction of Pine Island Glacier retreat during the 21st and 22nd centuries with a coupled flowline model  + Timing and origin of recent regional ice-mass loss in Greenland.
  
• 5 May 12 BBC: Data sheds light on speed of Greenland's glaciers - the ice rivers may be contributing significantly less to sea-level rise than had been thought...There is the caveat that this 10-year time series is too short to really understand long-term behaviour
  
• 27 Apr 12 SciAm: U.S. Voters Favor Regulating CO2 - Three out of four U.S. voters favor regulating carbon dioxide as a greenhouse-gas pollutant, and a majority think global warming should be a priority for the president and Congress. Comment: this is the intention of the Australian Clean Energy Initiative.
  
• 27 Apr 12 BBC: Green energy 'cheap within years', says 'passionate' [conservative UK] PM + World's glaciers 'out of balance'.
  
• 27 Apr 12 Catalyst: Tree Deaths - right across the globe, there are reports of trees dying in mass numbers [from global warming]
  
• 18 Apr 12 SMH: Australian economy leads the [developed] world ... and can afford to take a leading role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  
• 16 Apr 12 ABC: Himalayan region bucks glacier melt trend: study - "... it does not detract in any way from the evidence for overall global warming.."
  
• 7 Apr 12 Universe Today: 1981 Climate Change Predictions Were Eerily Accurate.
  
• 14 Mar 12 SMH: Carbon emissions hit a new record "Australian researchers were able to identify the ''fingerprint'' of the carbon dioxide particles in the atmosphere, by testing the isotopes in CO2 particles, and confirm that the increase came from fossil fuels burnt in power stations and cars..."Multiple lines of evidence show that global warming continues and that human activities are mainly responsible" + ABC: The rising tide of climate change.
  
• 13 Mar 12 ABC: Prize-winning ozone scientist dies - Sherwood Rowland, 84 was one of three people awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work explaining how chlorofluorocarbons - or CFCs - could destroy the ozone layer...The paper they published in the journal Nature in 1974 was met with scorn and derision, even among scientists.
  
• 12 Mar 12 SciAm: Greenland Ice Melt Seen at Lower Temperatures.
  
• 12 Mar 12 Nature: Retreating ice leaves glacial species on the rocks - Creatures that rely on melt water are threatened by climate change...many of the world’s glaciers are undoubtedly in retreat. One study estimates that tropical glaciers in Mexico and South America have already retreated by some 30% since the mid-1980s. Another analysis suggests that the majority of the world’s smaller glaciers will disappear by 2100.
  
• 1 Mar 12 SciAm($): Hit Them with the Hockey Stick - interview with Michael Mann (following  copyright Scientific American)
  
• There’s a veritable hockey league now of reconstructions like ours that shows the same basic pattern.
• if the climate change deniers thought they had found an area of the science that they could discredit by trying to go after a single scientist—me—I think they’ve been in for a disappointment.
• The fact that climate change deniers needed to resort to criminal activity [stolen emails] to try to discredit our science ...
  There was a concerted campaign to use these stolen e-mails to manufacture an echo chamber of climate change denial propaganda in the lead up to the Copenhagen summit. There was an attempt to use misrepresentations, false allegations, smears based on these out-of-context e-mails to have scientists fired...At one point, an influential Republican legislator in the state of Pennsylvania threatened to withhold funding for Penn State if the university didn’t take some sort of action against me because of the purported improprieties.
• We’ve lost three years to do something about climate change, and that’s a huge opportunity cost. Each year we wait, it gets that much more difficult to stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations below levels that might very well be dan- gerous. I think that [Climategate] was a crime against humanity. It’s a crime against the planet.
• Changes have been taking place faster than the models projected. With respect to sea-level rise, with respect to temper- ature changes, with respect to carbon emissions, and in just about every case, the changes have occurred either at the upper end of the projections or even above the range of the projections. Arctic sea ice might be the most pro- found example, where the observed de- cline in summer Arctic sea ice is way outside the projected range. The great irony is that the climate scientists, if anything, have been too cautious and too conservative.
  
• 23 Feb 12 NASA: NASA Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting Lower - A consistent reduction in cloud height would allow Earth to cool to space more efficiently, reducing the surface temperature of the planet and potentially slowing the effects of global warming.
  
• 23 Feb 12 SciAm: "Hockey Stick" Scientist Cross-Checks Critics: A Q&A with Michael E. Mann.
  
• 9 Feb 12 NASA: NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth’s Melting Land Ice.
  
• 31 Jan 12 SciAm: Climate Change Has Helped Bring Down Cultures.
  
• 31 Jan 12 BBC: Volcanic origin for Little Ice Age.
  
• 28 Jan 12 Nature: Flooding is the United Kingdom's biggest climate threat - Government report prioritizes consequences of climate change + BBC: First report on UK climate impact.
  
• 26 Jan 12 SciAm: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Decline Despite Political Gridlock - Climate change may have received short shrift in President Obama's State of the Union speech but his administration's policies are creating a more climate-friendly U.S. + The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to Make His Research Clear.
  
• 26 Jan 12 TerraDaily: Warmer summers may bring colder winters.
  
• 18 Jan 12 NewSci: China set to launch first caps on CO2 emissions.
• 25 Dec 11 SciAm: A real sea change - researchers at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco are reporting what many scientists have suspected for a long time but have been thus far not been able to prove convincingly—that the world’s sea level is likely to rise by at least 3 feet in the next 100 years... Whatever happens centuries from now, the immediate future has enough potential for catastrophic change that we can’t just bury our proverbial heads in the sand and hope that we can patch up our beaches or stick our fingers in the dike.
• 15 Dec 11 SciAm: Some Species Face "Move or Die" Scenario Under Climate Change.
• 15 Dec 11 NASA: Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Changes.
• 13 Dec 11 ABC: Success for Australian trial of carbon capture and storage.
• 13 Dec 11 AFP: Canada formally withdraws from Kyoto Protocol
• 11 Dec 11 The Australian: UN climate conference's historic agreement - The world forum also launched a "Green Climate Fund" to help channel up to 100 billion dollars a year in aid to poor, vulnerable countries by 2020, an initiative born under the 2009 Copenhagen Summit.
• 7 Dec 11 BBC: French Alpine glaciers in retreat + Chile glacier record retreat footage released + UN climate talks 'lacking urgency'
• 7 Dec 11 NewSci: No, global warming hasn't stopped - Like a game of scientific whack-a-mole, some arguments against climate change just keep bouncing back - no matter how many times researchers disprove them. One is the long-standing claim that "global warming stopped in 1998", and that since then the Earth has stayed at the same temperature, or even cooled.A new analysis confirms that global warming actually shows no sign of slowing down...
• 26 Nov 11 BBC: CO2 climate sensitivity 'overestimated' - still expect to see "drastic changes" in climate worldwide, but that the risk was a little less imminent [not an excuse to do nothing!] + 'New release' of climate emails - "This appears to be a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change when that science has been vindicated by three separate independent inquiries.."
• 19 Nov 11 NewSci($): A Republican thing - Today, any Republican who wants to be a serious presidential contender has to deny the reality of human-caused climate change.[letter by Chris Mooney]
• 19 Nov 11 Nature: Climate panel says prepare for weird weather - Despite uncertainties, the IPCC warns that climate change will bring more extreme weather.
• 15 Nov 11 NewSci: Huge rise in emissions as world economy de-greens + A chance to blame extreme weather on climate change
• 15 Nov 11 SMH: Green energy pact will fuel trade growth, say leaders + Carbon tax hit small: CSIRO - Households will face smaller cost of living price increases under the carbon tax than they did as a result of other large economic changes such as the introduction of the GST and the mining boom, new modelling shows + Carbon-tax law Abbott proof, PM declares.
• 26 Oct 11 Nature ($): Emission pathways consistent with a 2 °C global temperature limit - Our analysis confirms that if the mechanisms needed to enable an early peak in global emissions followed by steep reductions are not put in place, there is a significant risk that the 2 °C target will not be achieved.
• 26 Oct 11 BBC: China 'won't follow US' on carbon emissions- China's emissions have risen sharply in recent years due to rapid industrialisation, fuelled mainly by coal burning. In terms of national emissions, it has overtaken the US.But because its population is so much bigger, its per-capita emissions are currently much lower - but rising fast.
• 25 Oct 11 NewSci: Climate change: What we do – and don't – know.
• 22 Oct WSJ: The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism - There were good reasons for doubt [?], until now.
• 22 Oct 11 Scientifc American: Different Method, Same Result: Global Warming Is Real - Independent analysis confirms earlier results but aims for greater transparency + Skeptical Research Effort Confirms Global Warming, Again - An independent effort to review temperature data finds strong evidence of climate change, consistent with other scientific results
• 21 Oct 11 BBC: Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study - What came out was a graph remarkably similar to those produced by the world's three most important and established groups, whose work had been decried as unreliable and shoddy in climate sceptic circles...
• 21 Oct 11 Nature: Different method, same result: global warming is real - Independent analysis confirms earlier results but aims for greater transparency.
• 20 Oct 11 BBC: Companies call for tougher climate action - Leaders of nearly 200 major companies around the world have called for tougher action on climate change.
• 20 Oct 11 Nature: Climate action a 'moral responsibility' - Chinese climatologist says the world must work together on global warming.
• 14 Oct 11 Nature: Special issue on the Arctic: After the ice - This January, Canada’s high Arctic basked in an average monthly
  temperature more than 20 degrees Celsius higher than normal; in September, the extent of summer sea ice was so low it may have
  set a new record.
• 14 Oct 11 BBC: Australia parliament passes divisive carbon tax +  Rivers of ice: Vanishing glaciers - Stunning images from high in the Himalayas - showing the extent by which many glaciers have shrunk in the past 80 years or so - have gone on display at the Royal Geographical Society in central London. 
• 14 Oct 11 SMH: EU urges roadmap on climate action.
• 6 Sep 11 BBC: 'Gob-smacking' scale of Petermann Glacier break-up.
• 5 Sep 11 News.com.au!: Climate modelling is improving - experts. "We don't tune these models to get the answer we want. We put the physics in and then the answer pops out - so yes, you can be surprised."
• 3 Sep 11 ABC: COALition's climate plan will cost double: Treasury - Federal Treasury analysis shows the Opposition's direct action climate change policy would cost twice as much as a carbon tax for the same reduction in emissions.
• 3 Sep 11 BBC: Journal editor resigns over 'problematic' climate paper- "Their aim is to achieve highest scientific standards by carrying out a rigorous peer review that is, as a minimum requirement, supposed to be able to identify fundamental methodological errors or false claims... Unfortunately, as many climate researchers and engaged observers of the climate change debate pointed out in various internet discussion fora, the paper by Spencer and Braswell... is most likely problematic in both aspects and should therefore not have been published...the problem I see with the paper... is not that it declared a minority view (which was later unfortunately much exaggerated by the public media) but that it essentially ignored the scientific arguments of its opponents."
• 27 Aug 11 SciAm: What Is Pseudoscience? + The Human Cost of Energy - Fossil fuels exact the biggest toll in terms of lives lost (on average there are 30,000 premature deaths per year in the USA due to pollution from fossil fuels)
• 23 Aug 11 SciAm: Australia Passes CO2 Offset Laws, Carbon Pricing Next.
• 8 Aug 11 NewSci: Australia's overheated climate debate. Climate-change wrangling in Australia has descended into death threats and extreme insults. The science is being drowned out...
• 31 Jul 11 ABC: British PM praises Gillard's carbon tax! 
• 31 Jul 11 Manly Daily (me): Ozone hole an example of effective world action - not a hoax: It is ironic that Mr Harrison (MD 29/7) has chosen the hole in the ozone layer as an example of a “hoax” that supports his sceptical views about global warming. World governments listened to the scientists and took action to ban CFCs and so averted a global disaster. It will still take many decades for the ozone layer to recover - as Tamanians know from the extreme UV conditions that they now experience. Margaret Thatcher is credited with convincing world leaders to take action on CFCs. She is a qualified chemist (she studied under a Nobel laureate) and understood the case that was being made by scientists. It is a pity that Tony Abbott does not follow the example of his hero. For sound facts about climate change I recommend the Australian Academy of Sciences ( http://science.org.au/policy/climatechange.html ) - not talk-back radio. 
• 28 Jul 11 SMH: Media authority to investigate complaint about [radio personality Alan] Jones comment [about CO2 emissions]
• 6 Jun 11 Herald Sun: Carbon tax to have 'little or no impact' on mining jobs.
• 1 Jun 11 Australian Academy of Sciences: The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers - Based on a series of key questions, this publication aims to address confusion created by contradictory information in the public domain. It sets out to explain the current situation in climate science, including where there is consensus in the scientific community and where uncertainties exist.
• 1 Jun 11 ANU: Beyond 2 degrees Celsius by Andrew Glikson - Implications of NASA/GISS updates for the Earth energy balance, global temperatures, ice melt and sea level rise
• 1 Jun 11 SciAm: Global CO2 Emissions in 2010 Hit Highest Level Ever.
• 1 Jun 11 NewSci: Record carbon emissions mean 2 °C rise ever closer.
• 30 May 11 ABC: Caton defends Blanchett in 'dirty' carbon ad row. Comment: some sections of the media and some politians have launched vicous attacks on the actors who donated their time to these ads. See Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit for the deep flaw in their attacks "Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the argument..." + SMH: I was gutless over climate ads: Dick Smith "I didn't appear on it because I knew that I would be a front page of lies in the Rupert Murdoch press here.." + SMH: Blanchett exposed for the 'crime' of speaking up - "Presumably Blanchett has nothing to gain from a carbon tax. Rinehart had a lot to gain in derailing the mining tax."
• 23 May 11 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Greenhouse gases in the Earth system: setting the agenda to 2030
• 23 May 11 ABC: Time running out for climate action: report - "I don't think we have the luxury anymore of climate denialism. We need to get beyond this fruitless phoney debate in the media..." + SMH: Sea-level rise to hit Sydney worst, warns climate report
  
• 20 May 11 SciAm ($): "I Stick to Science" - Why Richard A. Muller wouldn't tell House climate skeptics what they wanted to hear.  Muller enraged climate skeptics after testifying before congress that he em- braced the mainstream view that earth is warming as climate models project.
• 18 May 11 NewSci: Quake took out Fukushima cooling system before tsunami.
• 8 May 11 NYT: Al Gore Invents a Showpiece E-Book - Our Choice iPad app.
• 8 May 11 SciAm: U.K. Government: "Climategate" No Reason to Doubt Climate Change.
• 5 May 11 Nature: 2 °C or not 2 °C? That is the climate question "Long-term goals to limit temperature or concentrations have so far failed to produce effective short-term action, because they do not have the urgency to compel governments to put aside their own short-term interests." +  Storm warning.
• 26 Apr 11 NewSci: Warmer oceans release CO2 faster than thought.
• 8 Apr 11 Science ($): The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe + Mekong Hydropower Development  + First Detection of Ozone Hole Recovery Claimed [success of a global agreement to take action - in part, attributed by Carl Sagan to the chemist knowledge of Margaret Thatcher]
• 6 Apr 11 Cosmos Magazine Issue 38 ($): MERCHANTS OF DOUBT - excellent review of the transfer of tobacco industry tactics to the issue of global warming. See also this Wikipedia page
  
• 6 Apr 11 NewSci: Climate change sceptics: just regular folk, in denial - comment: one problem is there are no immediate adverse consequences of denial - the pain is in the long term. Hence my suggestion for a future contract that requires denial nations to pay for the effects of climate change on poorer nations. The sad joke is that the outcrys about the (purported) extra costs of a low carbon economy are not also directed at hikes in oil prices due to wars or natural disasters. 
• 5 Apr 11 SciAm: Clean Tech Rising - China outshines the U.S. as the top investor, while Europe is a close third
• 1 Apr 11 NewSci: Mixed response to climate change on [off] Australia's coasts
• 30 Mar 11 BBC: China tops global clean energy table.
• 17 Feb 11 SciAm: Rising seas threaten 180 U.S. cities by 2100: study.
• 17 Feb 11 NewSci: Blame human emissions for British floods.
• 6 Feb 11 SMH: Sydney heatwave breaks 150-year-old record.
• 27 Jan 11 BBC: Greenland glaciers spring surprise - the icecap may be more resistant to warming than previously thought.
• 11 Jan 11 SciAm ($): Will China Start Carbon Trade? + Casualties of Climate Change: Sea-level Rises Could Displace Tens of Millions
• 7 Jan 11 NewSci ($): Stick to your guns, climate scientists.
• 6 Jan 11 BBC: Last December UK's coldest for 100 years - However, the first analysis released of global temperatures shows 2010 was one of the warmest years on record. The UK's harsh weather was caused by anomalously high air pressure that blocked mild westerly winds and brought cold air south from the Arctic.
• 6 Jan 11 Nature: Why dire climate warnings boost scepticism.
• 6 Jan 11 NewSci ($): Last chance to
• News archive 1997-2010
• 24 Nov 97 Sydney Morning Herald: How the climate sceptics got to Howard [No longer available but see this account of the issue: Global Warming and Climate Change: what Australia knew and buried ] - see also this  record of other immoral policies by Liberal Prime Ministers.
  
• 20 Nov 97 Nature: several articles, one of which concludes that: "Balancing the costs of early action against the potentially higher costs of more rapid and forced later action, they show that early attention to the carbon-emitting potential of new and replacement energy investments will minimize the risk to environmental and economic systems..."
• 4 Sep 97 Nature:"Abrupt mid-twentieth-century decline in Antarctic sea-ice extent from whaling records" by W K de la Mare - an analysis of whaling records showing a substantial reduction in the area of Antarctic sea ice during winter.
• May 1997 Scientific American: "The Coming Climate"
• March 1997 Scientific American: "The Rising Seas"

Links

Health risks from coal

Pollution from coal-fired power stations and other health/safety risks from coal:


Health risks from coal-fired power stations - diagram prepared in 2011 when I learned that Oecusse in Timor Leste had been proposed as a site for a second-hand Chinese power station, despite the region having no coal and no reliable water supply.

• Out Of The Ashes II – The Coal Ash Threat In NSW
• 60 Million Tonnes Of Toxic Coal Ash At Lake Macquarie
• Coal-Fired Electricity Generation In Australia : Toxic And Terminal
• NSW Inquiry Tackles Coal Ash Issue - "100 tonnes of harmful heavy metals leach into NSW waterways every year"
• Not coal but similar problems: The story of Rum Jungle: a Cold War-era uranium mine that’s spewed acid into the environment for decades.
• 15 Sep 21 ABC: One man killed, two taken to hospital after collapse at Gregory coal mine in central Queensland.
• 14 Jan 24 New Scientist ($): Coal pollution still a big killer in the US.
• 12 Nov 24 ABC: Magnitude-4.1 earthquake [under an open-cut coal mine] rattles NSW Upper Hunter - The image shows the extent of the open-cut and the "ash dam" (containing toxic materials) of the nearby Liddell power station. It is bizarre that the National Party is complaining about the farmland taken up by wind farms and solar farms when coal mining and coal-fired power stations devastate large areas.

Sites that have information about global warming

• Union of Concerned Scientists: Global Warming
  
• The Guardian: Covering Climate Now.
  
• Climate Action Network Australia
  
• NSW Greenhouse Office.
• Green Automotive News.
• TerraDaily.
• Eureka Search.
• The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability (1997) - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
• Yahoo.
• Global Warming Central (enlightened win-win energy policies).
• CSIRO Climate Impact Group - scenarios on the effects of global warming
• Australian ABC TV Climate page + Greenhouse FAQs
• Journal Environmental Science & Technology
• UNSW Global Warming  / Greenhouse Effect Links.
• Australian Greenhouse Office : The National Greenhouse Gas Inventory - Methodology
• APPEA oil industry & greenhouse.
• FIA (motoring organisations) - Environment policy
• UK Government - Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
• Total Environment Centre NSW.
• Terra Institute.
• Washington Post Climate Change links
• World Wildlife Fund Global Warming.
• Greenpeace.
• Impacts of climate change on glaciers around the world
• Climate change
• Bibliography of threatened species in Australia.
• Science Policy Research Centre - Griffith University.
• Global Climate Change - Tri-College University
• Sustainable Living - Australia
• Global Energy Transition - A Cyber Research Resource
• UK Government "hot topics" page with many more links.
• NASA Langley Research Center Interactive Modeling Project for Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport (IMPACT)
• NOAA Climate TimeLine Information Tool
• World News: Global Warming.
• Prof Andy Pitman at Macquarie Uni in Sydney (Lead author of Chapter 8 of the 2001 IPCC report).
  
• AGU: Solar Variability and its Effects on Climate
• New Scientist Climate Change page + Climate change: A guide for the perplexed.
• RealClimate.org - new website (Dec 04) that responds to critics of climate change theory.
• ClimateCrisis.Net - Al Gore's AN INCONVIENIENT TRUTH is a must see film.
• Energetics - "supporting our business community to effectively manage their energy and related challenges."
• Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) is one of the world's leading collaborative research organisations focused on carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and geological storage (geosequestration).
• Zero Your Carbon.
• Climate Change Coalition - Australian political party. Exposes common myths.
• Carbon Reduction Institute - Our mission is to create and initiate greenhouse gas reduction strategies and to drive business and individuals to do the same.  Carbon Neutral Business Certification Program.
• World Glacier Monitoring Service
• Manly Warringah Climate Action Group
• Possible health hazards from coal-fired power stations
• Beyond Zero Emissions is an independent, not-for-profit organisation
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Greenhouse gases in the Earth system: setting the agenda to 2030 (May 2011)
• Australian National University (ANU) Climate Change Reports
• Australian Academy of Sciences: The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers
• USA Today: Impacts of Climate Change.
• Australian climate change policy: a chronology - prepared by the Australian Parliamentary Library
• International Energy Agency - monitors government subsidies to fossil fuel and renewable sectors. 2nd Report to G20 "direct subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by artificially lowering end-user prices for fossil fuels amounted to $312 billion in 2009. In addition, a number of mechanisms can be identified, also in advanced economies, which effectively support fossil- fuel production or consumption, such as tax expenditures, under-priced access to scarce resources under government control (e.g. land) and the transfer of risks to governments (e.g. via concessional loans or guarantees)...". Fossil fuel susidies.
  
• Dr Jeremy Leggett. See his website A Chronicle of The Carbon War.
• UK Met Office Multi-model decadal forecast (air temperature and precipitation chnages)
• Coastal Risk Australia - Predicted Coastal Flooding Resulting from Climate Change
• Nature Climate Change (Journal)
• IMF: Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Remain Large: An Update Based on Country-Level Estimate.
• Solar Quotes: Virtual Power Plant Comparison Table.
• Feb 2021 Kindle store: The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet by Michael Mann
• Emergency Leaders for Climate Action - an Australian group of former chiefs of emergency services
• Climate Central - Climate Central communicates climate change science, effects, and solutions to the public and decision-makers
  


For a succinct description of the problem of global warming read chapter 11 of Carl Sagan's last book "Billions and Billions" and chapter 4 of Cosmos - "Heaven and Hell" (extract) that was written in 1980. See also Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit - particularly before you click on the following links!

Sites that question the global warming predictions (or human contribution)

• Global Warming Policy Foundation
  
• CO2 Science
• Greening Earth Society
• Global Climate Coalition.
• Heartland Institute.
• Lavoisier Group.
• Wikipedia article on Robert M. Carter.

18 Oct 08 Opinion: Would these same organisation claim that the current stock market turmoil is cyclic and that there is no reason for government intervention?

Articles that tend to question the motives of the organisations in the above list!

• 2019 - The Conversation: Five climate change science misconceptions – debunked "The latest estimate is that the world’s five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about US$200m each year on lobbying to control, delay or block binding climate-motivated policy..."
• Sharon Beder, University of Wollongong
• Examining the role of think tanks by , Engineers Australia, November 1999.
• 'The decline of the Global Climate Coalition', Engineers Australia, November 2000.
• ' Emissions Trading', Engineers Australia, August 1999
• 'Creating a green image without addressing the main problems', Engineers Australia, June 2000
• Corporate Hijacking of the Greenhouse Debate, The Ecologist, March/April 1999.
• Greenpeace - Climate change and politics.
• RealClimate.org - website (Dec 04) that responds to critics of climate change theory.
• Jun 05 SciAm (payment reqd!): Doubt Is Their Product - To fight off government regulation, industry groups sometimes manufacture uncertainty about solid scientific findings
• Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: Bad Science, Bad Fiction - Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" novel that is bizarrely being used by climate change skeptics.
• Feb 07 ABC: The Denial Machine.
• Common arguments by climate sceptics, Logical Science
• Media Watch: Bolt's Minority View - "Only [a] few abstracts explicitly reject or doubt the AGW (anthropogenic global warming) consensus which is why I have publicly withdrawn this point of my critique." - Email from Benny Peiser to Media Watch...and when we pressed him to provide the names of the articles, he eventually conceded - there was only one.
• CLIMATE OF DENIAL - CLIMATE CHANGE SCEPTICISM AND THE PRICE OF THE EARTH by Andrew Glikson (PDF) + A RESPONSE TO THE “GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE” .
• New Scientist ($): Big brains payrolled by Big Tobacco
• WA Today: Who is behind climate change deniers?
• NewSci:   50 reasons why global warming isn't natural - A British newspaper today published a list of "100 reasons why global warming is natural". Here we take a quick look at the first 50 of their claims - and debunk each one.
• 1 Nov 10 NewSci: Watch out, deniers about - by Michael Mann
• 6 Apr 11 Cosmos Magazine ($): MERCHANTS OF DOUBT - excellent review of the transfer of tobacco industry tactics to the issue of global warming.
• The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism
• 27 Jun 12 ABC: Study suggests how to win over 'deniers'.
• Doubting Australia: The roots of Australia’s climate denial - Notes prepared by Australian climate organisations seeking action on climate change May 2010
  
• 26 Nov 14 Penguin Books: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate - available for Kindle
• ANU: Global Warming and Climate Change: what Australia knew and buried
• PUS: Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: Sceptics, scientists and politics.
• April 2020 Commission for the Human Future - An Australian body committed to promoting solutions to threats facing humanity and the Planet.
   
  
  



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