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No need to be afraid of a tax on carbon. The most significant policy issue in the deal struck between the Australian Greens and the Australian Labor Party was that of climate policy. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. Opinion, 4 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Scientists defend UN climate panel probe. The country's leading climate researchers have endorsed the findings of an independent investigation into the IPCC, the United Nations global warming body, which found that its scientific findings were sound but that its structures needed to change and become more transparent. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 1 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Victoria takes leading steps on climate change. As environmentalists, our job is to look at the coming climate crisis and demand action commensurate to the problem we all face. We are painfully aware of the need for deeper cuts in greenhouse pollution. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. Opinion, 1 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Coal crackdown will not reduce emissions. Labor's promised emissions standards for new coal electricity generators would not cut greenhouse gas emissions from any of the 12 coal power plants proposed in Australia, an analysis of the carbon profiles of each project shows. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 31 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Wind farms feel the heat from small-scale solar. Wind farm investment is suffering from a ''bust'' due to complex policy changes and uncertainty over government responses to climate change, says Infigen Energy. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 31 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Solar bonus generates a mega-load of energy. The NSW Government's solar bonus scheme, which pays householders for the electricity they generate from their rooftop panels, has proved so popular it has reached a 50-megawatt milestone 18 months before expected. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 28 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Fiddling while the earth burns. Nearly every decade from the 1970s has been declared a decade of reckoning, the time when we must deal decisively with looming national and global environmental crises. And as each decade passes, we postpone the deadline another 10 years. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. Opinion, 27 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Kingmaker MPs call for climate action. Most of the kingmaker crossbench MPs who will decide who forms government have called for more action on climate change, sending the winds of change through Canberra's climate policy. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, Australian Associated Press. 25 August 2010.
Declining trees spell gloom for planet. Less rainfall and rising global temperatures are damaging one of the world's best guardians against climate change: trees. A global study shows that the amount of carbon dioxide being soaked up by the world's forests in the past decade has declined, reversing a 20-year trend. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 25 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Revolution of the thinking voter turns politics green. This sudden need for policy flexibility in response to unexpected circumstances could be good news for those silly sausages who worry about saving the planet. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. Opinion, 25 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Labor's climate enemies within. Will Michael O'Connor, powerful forestry division secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, block an effective Australian response to climate change? Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. Opinion, 21 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Guidelines could kill off coastal building. Thousands of NSW coastal development sites may never be built on under new government guidelines directing councils to limit construction on beachfront and lakeside land under threat from rising sea levels. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 20 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Scientists say global warming is undeniable. The world will be hotter by 2100 than at any time in the past few million years if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, the Australian Academy of Science warns in a new report. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 17 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Teams set off on global 'zero emissions' race. Two drivers, three wheels, $350 and zero carbon emissions. That's how Australian father-and-son team Nick and Jason Jones hope to circle the globe in their custom built electric vehicle. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 17 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Abbott still doubts planet is getting hotter. Tony Abbott has restated his sceptical views on climate change, and suggested the world may be getting cooler, as the Australian Academy of Science released a new report warning of the future impact of global warming. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 17 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Fewer turn out to let off steam over global warming. More than 40,000 turned up in 2006, but just 10,000 people participated in the Walk Against Warming, an annual march through the city to protest against government inaction on climate change. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 16 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Techno meets eco at the Jetsons. The modern family living in the NSW home of the future has halved its energy consumption. Clare Joyce, Michael Adams and their daughter Ava, 4, have a home fitted out with the most efficient heating, airconditioning and domestic appliances, some of them not yet on sale. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 15 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Coalition to redirect $400m from clean coal projects. A Coalition government would strip $400 million from the carbon capture program and redirect the funds to revitalise small-cap minerals explorers and clean coal technologies, Tony Abbott has announced. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 14 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Climate change will cost us all. You don't have to be Lord Stern to see how the costs of climate change are already compounding and spiralling, out of control. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. Opinion, 14 August 2010. [Registration Required]
How to be fully renewable in 10 years. Australia could switch completely to renewable energy within a decade by building a dozen vast, new solar power stations and about 6500 wind turbines, according to a major new study. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 13 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Huge rise in sea levels if global warming ignored. Sea levels could rise by up to seven metres if greenhouse gas emissions were not scaled back, a panel of leading geoscientists has told the US Congress. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 12 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Weather blocker: Jet stream stops and causes disasters. The devastating Russian heatwave and Pakistan floods are caused by one unusual weather pattern - the static jet stream, meteorologists say. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 12 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Plans yet to come on new NSW coal power plant greenhouse emissions. Modelling on how the state government would compensate for the estimated 22 million tonnes of greenhouse gases generated by the proposed two new coal-fired power stations is yet to be undertaken. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 10 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Only global body can sideline saboteurs. The variety of bodies which now deal with global environmental issues are symptomatic of displacement, bureaucracy, disunity, an inability to communicate with the rest of society, and a failure to articulate an overall vision for the environment. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. Opinion, 10 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Don't unleash climate sceptics, warn Greens. Greens Senate candidate Lee Rhiannon is invoking the increasing possibility of an Abbott-led government to urge NSW voters to send her to Canberra. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 9 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Climate change whips up floods, fire and ice. Climate change has been blamed for floods that have killed thousands and left millions homeless from Pakistan to North Korea, fires and a heatwave in Russia, and a severe tropical storm threatening Bermuda. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 8 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Is sugar cane the solution to the oil crisis? Holden is about to release a Commodore that runs on up to 85 per cent ethanol. But will consumers buy it? Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 8 August 2010. [Registration Required]
How to dismantle an environmental dinosaur – cheaply. They're almost there. Victoria's coal-fired power generators have been pushing for a climate bailout for years, and both sides of politics now seem happy to oblige. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. Opinion, 8 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Temperatures soaring to new highs. NSW had its hottest year last year and Australia its second warmest after 2005, according to the most comprehensive international report into global warming assembled. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 31 July 2010. [Registration Required]
BP oil spill to drive up electric car sales. Nissan says the recent BP oil disaster could work in the favour of car companies marketing electric vehicles. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 31 July 2010. [Registration Required]
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