Changing climates
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It is the Great Barrier Reef that has drawn out the biggest campaign fight on climate.
As voters confront the physics of the floods, climate change becomes depoliticised.
It is looking ever-more likely that climate change is to be placed way down the order of business – at least for the major parties.
Companies in the fossil fuel business are coming up with ways to green their image - including sponsoring the Paris climate summit.
There is excitement for many at the Paris summit at the arrival of someone Naomi Klein called this week the grandfather of climate science. James Hansen, who is credited with sounding the first alarm on…
The first day of the Paris climate summit was a little different to past summits. For a start, the hosts decided to bring the leaders in as an opener rather than at the end. At first glance this decision…
Just over 100 years before the Paris climate summit, the Eiffel Tower was the site of modern globalisation’s defining moment. On July 1, 1913, the first wireless transmission of a time signal integrated…
With so much build-up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris, the pressure not to fail is as great as it has ever been. This conference of parties (COP) follows the…
In a recent piece for The Guardian, environmental journalist and activist George Monbiot lamented the poor state of environmental journalism globally. He points to the massive conflagration now occurring…
Bjorn Lomborg’s bid to find an Australian home has come to an abrupt end. The Turnbull government has withdrawn the promised A$4 million in funding that the former Abbott government committed to Lomborg’s…