If we’re going to limit global warming to less than 2C, Australia will need to keep more than 90% of its coal reserves in the ground.
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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
Even as the challenges of climate change grow ever more obvious, what remains largely unacknowledged is the crisis in liberal democratic politics that is preventing an effective response.
With increasing human pressure on the environment, how can we save wildlife while lifting people out of poverty? A new manifesto argues for using technology to intensify energy and agriculture.
Climate and weather models have come far in recent decades, and Australia has one of the best.
Backtracking on climate policy would make achievement of a global climate agreement much more difficult, with disastrous results.
Rabbits and hares will flee towards the poles as global warming changes the places they once called home.
Ambitious climate targets, but nature policies leave a lot to be desired.
More evidence that planet Earth has gone through various frozen phases.
The upcoming encyclical from Pope Francis can transform the climate change culture wars in America.
Warmer temperatures can throw off the gender balance in some species. But some fish can adjust their offspring’s gender to compensate, but only if temperatures don’t rise too high.
Depending on what model you use, climate change could make Sydney a little bit warmer, much hotter, wetter, or drier. Which one should we use? When it comes to planning for climate change, it’s important to look at all the possible futures.
Melbourne to Adelaide, Sydney to Brisbane: climate change could move the climate of Australia’s towns and cities, as revealed by a new website.
The United States’ post-2020 climate target raises many questions for this year’s global climate talks, and puts pressure on Australia to raise the stakes.
The US has made its formal submission of climate targets beyond 2020. But Australia continues to twiddle its thumbs.
BP’s Energy Outlook report forecast an increase in fossil fuel use by a third. That would make it difficult to keep warming below 2C.
The Anthropocene, as an epoch of human-driven planetary change, poses huge environmental and political problems. But it could also force us to develop proper ecological and democratic accountability.
A new investigation of satellite records reveals that the Earth is getting greener, despite ongoing deforestation in Indonesia and South America.
Researchers find that ice around Antarctica shrank quickly last decade, raising concerns over this buttress against melting land-based ice and future sea-level rise.
For a long time climate models have forecast increasing rainfall in tropics. Now we know part of the reason: clumpy thunderstorms.
Rather than impose regulations to limit carbon emissions, policies should focus on innovation and systems change through social sciences.
In the lead up to climate meetings in Paris at the end of the year, countries will release draft targets - the framework of a possible global climate deal. Follow our interactive map as we track these targets.
A causal relationship between cyclone behaviour and anthropogenic global warming is a very real possibility. But most climate scientists hesitate to attribute any single event to global warming.
While Australia’s leaders express concern for the people of Vanuatu, the welfare of poor states is a commitment from which Australia is walking away.
The devastation to Vanuatu left in the wake of Cyclone Pam shows small islands in the Pacific need a climate insurance scheme, similar to what has been achieved in the Caribbean.
Florida’s coastal populations and its economy face serious threats from rising sea levels caused by global climate change. The state’s response could set an example for other nations around the world.