Given all the debunking we have done here on CS of the biased reporting on climate change and coral reef health coming from another Murdoch-owned rag, AKA The Australian, e.g., see here, here, here, and here, this isn’t surprising. And people continue to say that the publics misperceptions about climate change [...]
The National Council For Science and the Environment runs a big conference every year in Washington DC. This years theme is “Our Changing Oceans” and it is shaping up to be one of the most important ocean conservation conferences ever.
Some of the major speakers include:
Dr. Carl Safina, President, Blue Ocean Institute
[...]
A nice op-ed in yesterdays LA Times by Tony Haymet and Andrew Dickson who are professors at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, in La Jolla:
The oceans’ SOS The planet’s great communal resource provides protein sources and oxygen and is used for transportation, recreation and inspiration. It’s time to put it at the [...]
ABC Unleashed, by IAN DUNLOP
Greg Combet’s speech to the ANU Crawford School Forum on November 30, 2010 encapsulates everything that is wrong with climate change policy in Australia.
The rhetoric is all there – acceptance of the science, intergenerational equity, the need for decisive action and an early carbon price and so [...]
By North America correspondent Lisa Millar, wires
After an all-night session of the UN climate talks in Cancun, countries have reached a deal that commits all major economies to greenhouse gas cuts.
For the first time the pledges by developing and developed nations to cut pollution have been brought under a UN agreement, despite vigorous [...]
Amidst the rubble of international and Australian climate change policies a remarkable expansion of the Australian resources sector continues.
A new mega-mine, the Carmichael Coal Mine, is now proposed in Queensland, Australia, by a subsidiary of the Indian-based Adani Group. It will produce around 60 million tonnes of thermal coal for 150 [...]
The term Blue Carbon seems to be gaining traction outside of the world of science and environmental economics. Or – at the very least – its gaining traction in Cancun.
Here’s a piece in the the Guardian by Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Bob Ward was interviewed by Robyn Williams on The Science Show earlier this year, which was also [...]
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