A world tariff war driven by Europe and the US over greenhouse gas emissions is likely unless there is a strong global agreement to prevent climate change. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Cost of Carbon Could Create Tariff War
Opinion
From Brussels, Without Money
The money issue, Mr den Blanken said, had overshadowed other elements of the meeting’s final communiqué that environmentalists should applaud – including a commitment to create a global carbon trading market. Read more here. … [Read more...] about From Brussels, Without Money
Need Floor-Price for Carbon?
A shake-up in the way the "boom and bust" carbon markets are working in Europe is being urged ahead of tomorrow's auction of new emission certificates by the UK government. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Need Floor-Price for Carbon?
Victorian Bushfires: The Result of Human Folly
THE catastrophic bushfires in Victoria this year, and the other great fires of recent years in Victoria, New South Wales, the ACT and South Australia are dramatic expressions not just of killing forces unleashed, but of human folly... I am well … [Read more...] about Victorian Bushfires: The Result of Human Folly
A General Morality Model?
'It is interesting to note that the authority of climate science has come to include moral issues so that these scientists can now assert unequivocally that "climate change is the moral issue of our time". Presumably, this too is based on modelling, … [Read more...] about A General Morality Model?
The Ocean Really is Cooling
THERE are 3,000 free-drifting buoys in the world’s ocean; first deployed in the year 2000 they allow continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean. There has though been some difficulty in interpreting the … [Read more...] about The Ocean Really is Cooling
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
