Things are rather quiet at the moment as we wait to see wether we get a “Climate Change is Crap” government or “the Greatest Moral Challenge of our time but we haven’t got the guts to upset anyone”. Commentators seem in general optimistic that a hung parliament will help rather than hurt.

Labor always had to [...]

Firstly thanks to oldnick, a commenter at the Guardian website, for this lovely definition.

“CACC – catastrophic anthropogenic climate change has a nice ring to it, though some will just say it’s a pile of shit. I don’t say “global warming” because I don’t think it’s broad enough. I will now start using CACC, as in [...]

This will be the year when the mainstream media started to report on the effects of climate change as if it is real, and without all the caveats they have used so far. Not before time, and not too surprising given the:-

Massive floods in Pakistan affecting more than 12 [...]

First a frightening video from the Environmental Defense Fund (via Climate Progress) showing that we have known about our “Oil Problem” for decades, but somehow never quite got round to doing anything about it. I suspect the fossil fuel industry lobby had and has something to do with that.

There is an increasing gulf [...]

I have just realised that one of my heroes, science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut, suggested in 1990 that one day soon we will all go “belly-up like guppies in a neglected fishbowl.” He suggested an epitaph for our planet “We could have saved it, but we were too darn cheap and lazy.” It seems to [...]

However, in keeping with the current norms, the bad news is considerably worse than the good is good.

Firstly carbon dioxide emissions from the western world fell a record 7% in 2009.

Unfortunately the fall was caused by the recession rather than any deliberate attempt to cut emissions.

Even worse the entire reduction was offset by steep rises [...]

The Gulf Oil Spill has caused a surprising number of calls for fundamental change from a diverse set of commentators, from journalists to politicians, especially in the US, where folks are starting to make the connection that oil is a declining resource mainly produced in places that don’t much like them. The optimists hope they [...]

If you came here looking for good news, I would turn away quietly now. Though, in a strange way the subject of this post is a simple solution to many of our problems. It’s just not that easy to implement.

First however, a few bits of news.

Both the extent (area) and the volume (which is much [...]

I have deliberately delayed commenting for the last few weeks to ensure I could keep at least a semblance of objectivity.

As it turns out yesterday’s 7:30 interview with Tony Abbot frames the issue perfectly.

Kevin Rudd’s extraordinary decision to “delay” the ETS was completely shocking, especially after having ridiculed the opposition’s wish to delay until after [...]

There appears to be a concerted effort by mainstream commentators to counter the recent dissentient surge which is very welcome if somewhat overdue. A number of well reasoned articles are referenced further down the page. First however I have to highlight two videos.

As you probably know I am an avid watcher of Climate Denial Crock [...]