Australian Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd unveiled his ministerial team on Thursday, naming four women and a former rock star to the centre-left cabinet, and making close collaborator Julia Gillard his deputy.
Penny Wong becomes Australia’s first Asian-born minister. Taking on the new [...]
LABOR’S exceptional victory is built on its core promises, and tackling climate change is one of them. Kevin Rudd has promised that one of his first acts in government will be to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. This will come as a welcome relief to [...]
Courier Mail, November 22nd
HERE is a chance for you to experience one of the planet’s most spellbinding natural spectacles. Within a few days, in the reefs around the Keppels, off Rockhampton and in the Capricorn Cays of the southern Great Barrier Reef, the annual spawning of coral is expected to take [...]
Developed countries must ‘show some spine’ on climate change
ABC News, 19th November
Some 2,500 scientists worked on the IPCC’s findings. The UN believes the worst case scenarios of global warming could be avoided if there were sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The economic cost it argues, is minimal compared with [...]
IPCC report shows Australian targets a sham
By Chris McGrath, Brisbane barrister and Climate Project presenter
Malcolm Turnbull and Peter Garrett both claim vindication on climate change from the synthesis report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Both are wrong.
Labor has a policy of [...]
The Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released overnight in Valencia, Spain. If there is one thing that you are going to read from the IPCC, then it should be this document.
This is the final phase of the 4th Assessment report. The SPM draws together the [...]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is one of the most rigorous scientific processes of modern times. In the synthesis report released today in Valencia, Spain, it has reasserts the undeniable evidence that the earth is warming rapidly due the rise of anthropogenic generated greenhouse gases such [...]
One of the students in my lab, Josh Meisel (a Fulbright scholar from Stanford University) was interviewed recently by the Brisbane newspaper The Courier Mail about the recent rebuilding following the devastating fire at Heron Island research station earlier this year (see photographs). Construction is [...]
“Australians named worst emitters”
BBC News, 14th November 2007
A study of the world’s power stations has shown the extent to which developed countries produce more carbon dioxide per head than emerging economies. Australians were found to be the world’s worst polluters per capita, producing five times as much carbon from generating [...]
A colleague of mine, Dr John Bruno forwarded me a very well written article from BBC news on the top 10 of climate skepticism (link). Also on BBC News recently: responses to a climate change questionnaire sent to the 61 “accredited experts in climate and related scientific discipline” (of [...]
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