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The vast majority of climate scientists agree that rising CO₂ is driving climate change, yet barely 50% of the public agrees. Did scientists get the story wrong? No, as the fossil record makes clear.
A new study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
A key tool for capturing and storing carbon may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
If the climate is in peril, why has the federal government approved a pipeline that will ship close to 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to British Columbia?
By enacting a legislative framework to achieve carbon neutrality, France and the United Kingdom are making a difference in the fight against climate change.
Mexico is a leader in climate change action in the developing world. But renewing its commitment to oil may stymie further progress.
By appealing to the hearts and minds of their white neighbors, Native Americans are carving out common ground. Together, these different groups are building unity through diversity.
The 'thin green line' of resistance against any new infrastructure for shipping oil, gas and coal abroad has won many battles.
The Trump administration plan to expand offshore oil and gas production along US coastlines faces serious roadblocks. But there are smarter ways to pursue 'energy dominance.'
Human civilisation is threatened by long-dead organisms, whether as White Walkers or petrol.
The transport sector is the fastest growing contributor of greenhouse gases. Electric vehicles are a cost-effective solution.
During the Cold War, socialism was portrayed as a gateway drug to communist orthodoxy. The crisis in Venezuela has resurrected tired old tropes about “pinks” and “useful idiots."
The Earth’s past shows the key role of CO₂ on climate for 4.45 billion years, and how human industrial activity has disrupted its cycle at an unprecedented rate over the past 160 years.
Natural gas supplies are growing, but so are other markets for it besides power generation.
In the eastern reaches of Siberia, scientists discovered plants with exceptional cold tolerance that could be the key to sustainable bioenergy production.
Recent pipeline explosions have brought the problem of Mexico's black market for oil into tragic relief.
While countries recognise the urgent need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by favouring greener energies, the ever-increasing demand for electricity has led to rising coal consumption.
There are precedents regarding power generation and ethanol but no nation has ever achieved as comprehensive and dramatic this fast.
The coal, oil and natural gas industries are also connected with human rights violations, public health disasters and environmental devastation.
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Conjoint Academic in Sustainability, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Climate Justice Campaigner with 350Africa.org, PhD in Philosophy (Climate Ethics), University of Washington
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Royal Society Research Professor, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Departmental Visitor, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Research Fellow DECRA, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer & Deputy Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
