Australia | Grist

Australia’s Rudd slams the “deniers” and the “gaggle” of “conspiracy theorists” opposing climate action

Obama takes on the anti-scientific delayers 0
Posted 2 days, 5 hours ago
Toward a stalemate in Copenhagen

How industry pressures and competing national agendas dim prospects for a climate treaty 2
Posted 2 weeks ago Global attempts to craft a pivotal new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being stymied by a far-reaching, multinational backlash led by fossil-fuel industries and other heavy carbon emitters, according to a new report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Activists launch climate hunger strike 4
Posted 2 weeks ago Climate activists from around the world will launch a hunger strike on Friday, describing their protest as a "moral reaction to an immoral situation" in the face of environmental catastrophe.
Oil spill a ‘massive’ risk to Australian marine species 3
Posted 4 weeks ago A massive oil and gas leak off Australia's northwest coast was killing seabirds and threatening thousands of marine animals, conservationists warned Friday.
Cap-and-fade for Australia's conservatives

The defeat of Australia’s climate plan is not bad news for cap-and-trade 12
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
It may be tempting to view the Australian Senate's defeat Wednesday of climate change legislation as a portent of things to come as the U.S. Senate prepares to take up a cap-and-trade bill. But the rejection of the Australian legislation reflects the peculiarities of Aussie politics rather than the viability of cap-and-trade.
What’s going down, Down Under? 0
Posted 4 months ago
Are our closest allies -- namely, Australia -- who are ahead of us on addressing global warming in fact reversing their course and having second thoughts? That's the impression conveyed last week in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal by Kimberly Strassel. This argument is as false as the claim that China is doing nothing.
Clear as Rudd

Australia’s real climate on climate change 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
As ACES moves to the U.S. Senate, we can expect to see a series of arguments emerge aimed at international cooperation on this issue. Worries about China are always at the top. We can’t do something about climate change, the opposition opines, because China will do nothing. But we’ve recently seen a new twist on this mantra going in the opposite direction. Our closest allies—namely, Australia—who are ahead of us on addressing global warming are in fact reversing their course and having second thoughts. Or at least that’s the impression conveyed last week in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal by Kimberly Strassel. This argument is as false as the claim that China is doing nothing.
Bill McKibben tells stories from the 350 Movement at the Sydney Ideas Lecture 0
Posted 5 months ago
The Climate Post: The blind press grope the carbon legislation elephant 1
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
The first installment in a regular column from The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, rounding up and analyzing the climate news of the week.
Shai Agassi explains his plan for mass electric cars 1
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
The karma of coal?

Climate change hits Australia with a vengeance 2
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate change-driven drought in Australia is leaving depression, despair, and suicide in its wake. The U.S. doesn't get this. Yet.
What does economic ‘recovery’ mean on an extreme weather planet? 4
Posted 9 months ago
CNN, ABC, WashPost, and AP blow Australian wildfire, drought, heat-wave story 14
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
NWF VP believes we’ll see a cap-and-trade bill this year, and ‘Waltzing Matilda’ isn’t about dancing 6
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in 50
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Outback Hothouse

Study predicts Australia’s Aborigines to suffer most from climate change 0
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
Droughts and desalination in Australia—another amplifying feedback 3
Posted 1 year ago
Melbourne to Be Wild

Electric-car infrastructure coming to Australia 1
Posted 1 year ago
Australia’s Garnaut Report gets usual reactions from usual suspects 8
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
So Fresh and So Clean

More than $6 billion pledged to boost clean-tech in developing countries 2
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago