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The Climate Movement: Australia’s Patrons of Climate Change Activism
The climate movement split over Kevin Rudd's CPRS, but a wide range of groups has endorsed Gillard's carbon price. Guy Pearse asks why, investigating common funding sources of diverse groups in the climate movement.
Coal seam gas — dirtier than coal, worse than shale
Saturday, June 4, 2011
By Renfrey Clarke
In the land of desperate excuses, coal seam gas is king. The new boom industry of the Queensland and New South Wales hinterlands contaminates ground and surface waters, while taking rich farmland out of food production.
But at least, its promoters argue, coal seam gas (CSG) is a weak hitter among sources of greenhouse pollution. When burnt in modern power plants, the story goes, CSG can be as much as 70% “cleaner” than coal.
New research: natural gas will cook the planet
Sunday, April 3, 2011
By Renfrey Clarke
If there were an Olympics for climate amorality, Australia’s capitalists would be hauling in the medals.
Just consider this quote from Queensland coal baron Clive Palmer in the December 15 Australian: “The Galilee Basin overall has got 100 billion tonnes of thermal coal, so it’s a great reservoir for Queensland in the future, so you’d be crazy not to develop it.”
And it’s not just coal, but any greenhouse-polluting fuel that can be can be dug or drilled from the landscape or seabed. Take Australia’s natural gas industry, poised now for a vast expansion.
Extreme floods are just the beginning
If a city drowns beneath a once-in-a-hundred-years flood, that's weather. Such things have happened in the past.
But when hundred-year floods start happening every few decades, that's no longer just weather. The dice have become loaded for different outcomes. Climate — that is, the average of weather — is changing.
So let's get down to the question everyone's asking. Were this summer's floods the result of climate change?
Friends of the Earth: Cancun Deal Merely Prevents Collapse; Leaves Kyoto on Life Support
Statement by Friends of the Earth International: “The agreement reached here is wholly inadequate and could lead to catastrophic climate change.”
Indigenous Environmental Network condemns Cancun agreement
Statement by the Indigenous Environmental Network
Cancún Betrayal: UNFCCC Unmasked as WTO of the Sky
Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis Will Come From Grassroots Movements
'Climate capitalism' won at Cancun - everyone else loses: Patrick Bond
By Patrick Bond, Cancun, Mexico
Oxfam statement on Cancun agreement
Last minute agreement sees climate fund established and progress to global deal: Oxfam
Bolivia condemns Cancun agreement
December 11, 2010 (Cancun, Mexico) – The Plurinational State of Bolivia believes that the Cancun text is a hollow and false victory that was imposed without consensus, and its cost will be measured in human lives. History will judge harshly.
Friends of the Earth demands at Cancun
Friends of the Earth International is calling for a strong and just climate agreement in Cancun. Such an agreement will only be achieved if the following demands are met:
