Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on
Greens say policy belongs with Hollowmen Updated: 12:00, Friday July 23, 2010 Labor’s climate change policy has been described as a farcical stunt straight from the script of television’s political satire The Hollowmen. Prime Minister Julia Gillard outlined the policy on Thursday, pledging $1 billion over 10 years to make the national electricity grid more Continue Reading →
Monckton fails to provide a convincing refutation of Abraham’s criticisms but does throw a great deal of dust into the air
Reponse to John Abraham by Christopher Monckton. Photograph: SPPI
Say what you like about Viscount Monckton, he never fails to entertain. His response to the devastating critique of his claims about climate change by the physicist John Abraham is magnificently bonkers.
To give you a flavour of Monckton’s reasoning, here are some examples of what he cites as evidence of Abraham acting out of malice:
• Abraham pointed out that Monckton “has not written a single peer-reviewed science paper on any topic”;
• Abraham stated that Lord Monckton “presented a lot of data with no citations or no explanation”;
• He pointed out that “if you don’t tell us where it’s from we can’t assess the data”;
• He explained that a graph displayed by Lord Monckton was “almost off by 100%”.
These are all straight statements of fact. It is impossible to see how they could be construed as malicious, unless you regard all criticism of your views and credentials as illegitimate.
Google climate map offers a glimpse of a 4C world Interactive tool layering climate data over Google Earth maps shows the impact of an average global temperature rise of 4C A new interactive Google Earth map was developed using peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other leading impact scientists. Photograph: earth.google.co.uk Continue Reading →
Gillard urged to spell out plan to tackle climate change
The opposition said today that the Prime Minister had no option but to adopt a form of the Coalition’s direct-action policy and Greens leader Bob Brown said the government was “sitting on its hands”.
“I have already said I am holding to the decision that was announced by the Government that we will review in 2012 the nature of the community consensus in Australia about the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme,” Ms Gillard said on the ABC’s Lateline program last night.
Ms Gillard has been recalibrating policy on a range of key issues, including the controversial mining tax and asylum-seekers.
Climate change remains one of the policy priorities she nominated in her first press conference as prime minister.
Worth reading Andrew Macintosh’s dissection of Tim Flannery’s latestsilliness: 12. Flannery on the CPRS: separating fact from FlanneryAssociate director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy AndrewMcintosh writes: CLIMATE CHANGE, CPRS In the Sydney Morning Herald on the weekend, Professor Tim Flanneryattacked the Liberals and the Greens for their positions on the CarbonPollution Continue Reading →
One season of Australian bushfires can cause as much CO2 as the annual emissions of 5 million Australians or 50 million Chinese people
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Flames from a burning house during bushfires in Rockhampton in October last year. As well as catastrophic for humans and wildlife, such fires also have a large carbon footprint. Photograph: EPA/JOHN CASEY
The carbon footprint of the 2009 Australian bushfires: