State of the climate 2020: getting hotter
Here are the key points from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology bi-annual report on the science of climate change, just released, and a neat youtube: Can someone please pass this …
Energy plan maps out a road to nowhere
The Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor, released the government’s “technology-led plan to lower emissions, lower costs and support jobs” this week. However, the plan focuses on areas …
MDB in strife, water audit needed
It is clear that government policy is being made on-the-run, and against the evidence of scientists and its own departmental experts. It is equally clear that our understanding of the …
Read this and be angry!
Professors Don Driscoll, Bob Pressey, Euan Ritchie and Noel Preece have just published in The Conversation, the results of their survey of experts in government, industry and universities which found …
1.5 deg. by 2024
The latest report by the World Meteorological Organisation comes with a serious warning: The limit of 1.5 deg. increase in warming, set in the Paris climate agreement, may be exceeded …
Government incompetence on the environment – EPBC update
Last Thursday, the Federal Auditor-General handed down a damning report into the Referrals, Assessments and Approvals of Controlled Actions under the EPBC Act 1999. Here’s a summary of what was …
Bushfires killed ~445
The Menzies Institute for Medical Research told the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements on 25 May that 3,340 people were admitted to hospital for cardiac and respiratory problems …
He was alright, Jack
Vale Jack Mundey – the unlikely greenie who saved The Rocks, among other heritage icons in Sydney with his green bans. He was more articulate than most and would have …
No easy solutions to the drought
Listening again to the words of Paul Murray (Sky News) on his own podcast in January: I just don’t understand why they just don’t pump all that water from the …
$2m for more phantom water
The Coalition appears to have struck another costly water deal to save the Ramsar-listed Narran Lakes wetlands, this time for ~$2 million. See here for the Guardian story). Three years …
