Climate & Climate Change

IT came direct from Kevin Rudd's mouth: the Labor Party cannot commit to ratify a post-2012 second Kyoto period unless Australia's conditions are met. Having spent 10 years of worship at the symbolic altar of Kyoto, Labor is suddenly selling a very … [Read more...] about News Round Up of Labor’s Shifting Kyoto Position

Professor James Lovelock gave a public lecture hosted by the UK Royal Society on Monday 29th October. Lovelock said, "Any economic downturn or planned cut back in fossil fuel use, which lessened the aerosol density, would intensify the heating. If … [Read more...] about Lovelock: Damned If We Do, Damned If We Don’t

MOST farmers believe climate change is a natural phenomenon and not man-made, senior delegates to a farmers' conference said today. NSW Farmers Association (NFA) executive councillors Howard Crozier and Ian McClintock's comments were applauded by … [Read more...] about Drought and Climate Change ‘Not Linked’

An extensive plan to save Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been announced by Prime Minister John Howard's main rival in the forthcoming elections. He announced the A$200m (£90m, US$185.5m) plan while on a glass-bottomed boat tour of the reef in … [Read more...] about Kevin Rudd to ‘Save’ Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

I was interested to hear Australia's shadow Environment Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, on ABC Radio National yesterday explain that should Labor win government, Australia would sign up to a post Kyoto agreement even if China and the US did not … [Read more...] about John Howard, not Malcolm Turnbull, Explains Greenhouse Policy

Details of a strengthened, more effective and more transparent Bill to help tackle climate change have today been set out by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn. Mr Benn said that the Government would amend its draft Climate Change Bill, following a … [Read more...] about UK Sets Out Climate Change Bill