Archive for: Environment

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...

 

David Bradbury on Idinthakarai’s anti-nuclear front line

David Bradbury on Idinthakarai’s anti-nuclear front line

Tweet Award winning Australian filmmaker, David Bradbury, describes in chilling detail his visit to the epicentre of the Kudankulam anti-nuclear struggle in India – the beautiful seaside town of Idinthakarai. Villagers protesting at Idinthakarai I...

 

More hot wind from The Australian’s Graham Lloyd

More hot wind from The Australian’s Graham Lloyd

Tweet Another anti-wind power article in The Australian has led scientists to denounce the paper’s continuing use of junk science to discredit renewables, says Cam Walker. GRAHAM LLOYD, The Australian’s environment editor, has fallen foul...

 

Getting down and dirty on CSG in NSW

Getting down and dirty on CSG in NSW

Tweet The revolving door culture of self-interest on both sides of NSW politics, means it is difficult to distinguish between government, lobbyists and the CSG industry. Another eye-opening Sandi Keane investigation. Eddie Obeid and Chris Hartcher:...

 

To the extreme with “Hard” Cory Bernardi

To the extreme with “Hard” Cory Bernardi

Tweet When it comes to having the policy ideas and opinions to get you to the top in the modern Liberal Party, says Peter Wicks, no one does it better than Cory Bernardi. THIS WEEK, the Liberal Party showed its true colours, as South Australia’s...

 

Tragic market failure

Tragic market failure

Tweet The 2DayFM prank call tragedy, and world’s failure to combat climate change, are obvious examples of depressing market failures, says Victoria Rollison. ON SATURDAY, I woke up to the news that 2DayFM prank phone call victim, Jacintha...

 

Geo-engineering and mad scientists

Geo-engineering and mad scientists

Tweet Is the scientific push for geo-engineering likely to fix the world’s problems — or make them much, worse? Dr Binoy Kampmark seems less than optimistic. ARE WE DOOMED as a species? Seems likely, as we look at the new desperate...

 

Paul Ryan: the fossil fuel lobby candidate

Paul Ryan: the fossil fuel lobby candidate

Tweet Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate is a climate change denying conspiracy theorist and in the pocket of the Koch Brothers. Brad Johnson from ThinkProgress reports. MITT ROMNEY’S vice-presidential pick, Rep. Paul Ryan...

 

Carbon tax won’t harm economic growth

Carbon tax won’t harm economic growth

Tweet Research by Prof Philip Adams, Janine Dixon and Prof Peter Dixon shows that the carbon tax will have virtually no negative impact on Australia’s economic growth. CUTTING greenhouse gas emissions is like buying an insurance policy:...

 

Tony Abbott cannot escape the international climate change

Tony Abbott cannot escape the international climate change

Tweet “International developments suggest Australia will need far-reaching climate policies no matter which party forms government in the next decade,” writes Daniel Bray from La Trobe University. WHAT’S in a name? Well, like...

 
 
 
 

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