Environment

Rod Quantock: global warming’s just not funny

Rod Quantock: global warming’s just not funny

Tweet Activist comedian, Rod Quantock, promises you’ll be “apoplectic with fear” (or just plain “scared shitless”) as he takes you with him through the gates of hell into the catastrophic world of runaway global...

 

Nuclear energy isn’t the answer to global warming

Nuclear energy isn’t the answer to global warming

Tweet While nuclear energy has no direct carbon footprint, it is still a contributor to global warming; we know this, because Einstein tells us so. Guy Lane explains. Cooling towers at a nuclear power plant. Nuclear energy produces vast amounts...

 

Selling “green” choices to political conservatives

Selling “green” choices to political conservatives

Tweet Award-winning veteran science journalist, Tim Radford of Climate News Network, reports on new research that shows why the word “environment” is such a turn-off for conservatives. THERE IS EVIDENCE suggesting that political...

 

Watch out resource investors — carbon bubble set to pop

Watch out resource investors — carbon bubble set to pop

Tweet A new report says most fossil fuels must stay in the ground if the world’s to meet its carbon targets — something you probably never heard from the resource companies you invested your super with. Guy Lane reports. Is the fossil...

 

It ain’t easy being Green

It ain’t easy being Green

Tweet The Greens are at the crossroads as a political party — should they focus on the wider concerns of the electorate, or should they stick to environmentalism? Dr Peter Cock says they need to stay green. POLITICAL DISCOURSE in Australia...

 

David Suzuki says wind turbines not the problem

David Suzuki says wind turbines not the problem

Tweet It’s not wind turbines that affect human health and the economy, says Dr David Suzuki, but fossil fuels. Wind power provides clean renewable energy. read more »

 

Heat on deniers as PAGES confirms hockey stick

Heat on deniers as PAGES confirms hockey stick

Tweet Major PAGES 2k Network Paper Confirms the Hockey Stick (via Skeptical Science) PAGES (Past Global Changes) is a scientific network which supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions...

 

Anti-wind farm lobby claims break all laws of physics

Anti-wind farm lobby claims break all laws of physics

Tweet The case of the increasingly vocal lobby groups against wind farms in populated areas is based on the idea that widely accepted scientific principles are wrong. Stephen Luntz busts the myths. ONE OF the first questions science writers...

 

Earth, water and air

Earth, water and air

Tweet Without earth, water and air, what have we? Something soothing and non-satirical from Gee. read more »

 

Class action to end polluter handouts

Class action to end polluter handouts

Tweet It’s not every day that a bunch of school kids challenge Australia’s big polluters about their claim that fossil fuels are good for people and the economy, says Environment Victoria. read more »

 
 
 
 

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