Archive for: global warming

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...

 

Climate Commission: Extreme weather threatens Australia

Climate Commission: Extreme weather threatens Australia

Tweet Extreme weather caused by global warming poses a growing risk to Australia’s crop lands, cities and iconic sites, according to a new report, writes Sunanda Creagh from The Conversation. EXTREME WEATHER caused by global warming poses...

 

Global warming and opportunities for the Arts

Global warming and opportunities for the Arts

Tweet Veronica ‘Trilby’ Wentworth-Smyth, the director of the Arts Charity Trust, says a heartfelt goodbye to all the animals soon to go extinct from global warming — as transcribed by Scott Campbell-Smith. (Reproduced from the...

 

Did The Australian misrepresent IPCC chair on global warming?

Did The Australian misrepresent IPCC chair on global warming?

Tweet (via Skeptical Science) Posted on 25 February 2013 by dana1981 As we have discussed many times at Skeptical Science, although the warming of global surface air temperatures has slowed over the past decade due to a preponderance of La...

 

What’s causing Australia’s heat wave?

What’s causing Australia’s heat wave?

Tweet Australia has always had heat waves, but the current one is far from typical. Neil Plummer, Blair Trewin, David Jones, Karl Braganza and Rob Smalley from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology report. (Image courtesy Stephan Peray / Korea...

 

Media control and getting real about climate change

Media control and getting real about climate change

Tweet More often than you would think, major events occur and we are never given a clear and coherent account of why and how, writes veteran journalist Rodney E. Lever. MLK, RFK and JFK – all assassinated. “Global warming is the result...

 

Australia burning: questions for Tony Abbott

Australia burning: questions for Tony Abbott

Tweet What will climate change skeptic Tony Abbott have to say about the record heatwave now ravaging Australia, wonders George Monbiot. I WONDER what Tony Abbott will say about the record heatwave now ravaging his country. The Australian opposition...

 

Temperatures continue up the Escalator

Temperatures continue up the Escalator

Tweet Temperatures Continue Up the Escalator (via Skeptical Science) The Escalator has been one of Skeptical Science’s most popular features since its inception just over one year ago. Over the past year, it has been used in many climate...

 

Climate change denialism, paedophilia and Fairfax Media

Climate change denialism, paedophilia and Fairfax Media

Tweet For publishing the disproven, error-ridden, ravings of John Spooner and other like climate denialists, Fairfax Media should be ashamed, says Doug Evans. WELL, Happy New Year. Welcome to 2013. If the last week is anything to go by, the...

 

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...

 
 
 
 

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