Key messages about the gas-fired recovery “Natural gas” is a fossil fuel (methane) Methane leakage rates can make gas as bad as coal Methane contributes 25% of global heating New gas is not needed, and will not lower prices New gas will not produce...
Category: Opinion
A re-lived night of the bushfires and all that… by Carolyn Ingvarson
“I was, again, shocked” After three riveting shows tonight on the bushfires, I’m still reeling. Four Corners showed us what it felt like to be in the middle of those terrors and just what the people were feeling like. I found myself watching with my hand...
Clean Economy transition increases Australian self sufficiency – op-ed by Sally Newell
What is a major cause of recent wars? What do we have only 28 days supply of? What would reduce regional tensions, increase Australian resilience and increase the average life expectancy of our military age kids? I am betting that the answer isn’t to be found in...
The bad guys are winning on climate change – Age op-ed by Gay Alcorn
Age opinion writer Gay Alcorn has written another excellent piece on climate change today called “Climate change bad guys apply heat to Labor” (14/3/14). Following on from the observations of Climate Change Authority head Bernie Fraser that the good guys...
Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth
A lengthy but rewarding article from The New Scientist about the emotional basis for denialism. Why do people deny climate change? According to the author, “denial is largely a product of the way normal people think. Most denialists are simply ordinary people...
Deniers and ‘debate’
An extract from George Monbiot, relevant to Australia in that he’s on Plimer’s case . . . “Creationists and climate change deniers have this in common: they don’t answer their critics. They make what they say are definitive refutations of the...
August 2009 highlights
How psychology can help the planet stay cool A perennial problem faced by people trying to promote environmental issues is how not to bamboozle people with environmental scare stories, thus bringing about a state of apathy because it’s too late to do anything!...