Energy
More than the market needed to stop the world warming

To keep global warming to below 2 degrees centigrade by 2100, much more mitigation efforts than ...  
Super-typhoon Haiyan dominates tearful opening to UN climate change talks

Super-typhoon Haiyan has cast a dark shadow over the emotional opening of the latest round of UN ...  
Rupert Murdoch — oil man

Rupert Murdoch as a media mogul — and this is not strictly true. Murdoch is also an oil man.  
Climate leaves corporate Australia snoozing

Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network Though Australia is considered one of the countries most ...  
Nuclear power: The Doomsday Machine

The nuclear industry believes it will help stave off the threat of climate change, but a new book ...  
Wind turbine syndrome: Farm hosts show no ill effects

Documentary on farmers who host wind turbines shows, writes Professor Simon Chapman, if wind ...  
Frack first, repent at leisure

There is mounting evidence, writes Alex Kirby from the Climate News Network, that exploiting shale ...  
Australia's retreat on nuclear non-proliferation

This week marked the anniversaries of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Australia's ...  
The Labor Party's climate change policy failure

  Labor’s climate change policies commit Australia to being part of the problem rather than ...  
Fukushima and the nuclear industry's fight against fear

Now that the Fukushima meltdown has faded from public consciousness, says Noel Wauchope, the ...  
The King of all battles: wind farm vs golf course vs shearwater

The nation's biggest wind farm development on King Island is being threatened by golf course ...  
King Island's collateral damage from anti-wind forces

Part-time King Island resident, David Looker, despairs of what he calls “collateral damage” as ...  
Rod Quantock: global warming's just not funny

Activist comedian, Rod Quantock, promises you'll be "apoplectic with fear" (or just plain "scared ...  
Nuclear energy isn't the answer to global warming

While nuclear energy has no direct carbon footprint, it is still a contributor to global warming; ...  
David Suzuki says wind turbines not the problem

It's not wind turbines that affect human health and the economy, says Dr David Suzuki, but fossil ...  
Anti-wind farm lobby claims break all laws of physics

The case of the increasingly vocal lobby groups against wind farms in populated areas is based on ...  
Renewables can do 24-hour base load anywhere, anytime

The University of NSW has exploded the myth that renewables can't do 24-hour base load. Dr Mark ...