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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 1
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Want to know what was actually done about climate change at the APEC meeting last week? Don’t ask Paul Kelly, Malcolm Farr or Christian Kerr or you’ll be left with the mistaken impression, writes author of High & Dry Guy Pearse.
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Monday, 3 September 2007 0
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Generation X can add another entry to their 'Reasons I Remain Disaffected' list -- the Climate Institute are today warning that there's a serious risk that delayed action will harm Gen X. They stand to lose up to $1300 in superannuation for each year of retirement, writes Sophie Black.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 0
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'The Sydney Declaration.' Has a nice statesman-like ring to it doesn't it? But the Prime Minister's promised APEC climate change declaration is looking hollower by the day, with many key players dismissing the PM's pronouncements and instead looking ahead to the Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bali this December, writes Sophie Black.
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 0
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The government's climate scepticism was given fresh credence yesterday when a committee report published the views of four government climaet change sceptics. Here are some of their views.
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Monday, 13 August 2007 0
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Long time Howard supporter and federal member for Tangney Dennis Jensen this morning hung out his -- and perhaps his party's -- climate change scepticism for all to see, writes Thomas Hunter.
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 0
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With climate change rewiring everything from global politics to our choice of light globes, there is an emerging market for energy efficient, eco-friendly, green-tinged good and services. Here, Crikey identifies gaps in the marketplace.
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 0
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The Prime Minister’s plan to spend $252 million on rebates for residential solar hot water installations, as announced ealier this week, has been widely seen as a populist policy response. Dr Huigh Saddler, Managing Director of Energy Strategies Pty Ltd, investigates how the money could be better spent.
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Friday, 15 June 2007 0
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Yesterday Senator Milne put forward a motion that included calling "on the Government to reject the recommendation of the Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading that ‘all Australian schemes that set mandatory targets for deployment of particular technologies should be wound up over time, and new ones forestalled’. She wants to know why Labor voted it down, writes Sophie Black.
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Tuesday, 5 June 2007 0
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Former oil, gas and coal industry executive Ian Dunlop says waiting until 2012 for a carbon-emissons trading scheme is too late, but that's only one of the problems with the report by the PM's taskforce.
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Monday, 4 June 2007 0
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In his recently released book, The Assault on Reason, Al Gore pinpoints the rise of television as underpinning the eclipse of reasoned debate in politics. Symbolism and soundbites trump complex arguments. This has no doubt been one of the reasons why the science on climate change took so long to cut through to public awareness.
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Friday, 1 June 2007 0
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President Bush has announced a new climate change strategy -- and given that it's one of engagement rather than foot dragging -- this is nothing to sniff at. But that's not to say that people should abandon their cynicism when it comes to this administration's record on climate change. Allow us to jog your memory.
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 0
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There is no climate change ad campaign, the Prime Minister insists. And it’s public knowledge that almost $53 million has already been set aside for it – so how can it be an issue, his Treasurer demands to know.
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Friday, 25 May 2007 0
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Discussions of the ABC’s proposed screening of the 'Great Climate Change Swindle' documentary have so far neglected a remarkable aspect of the whole affair – the role played by deranged former revolutionaries.
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Friday, 20 April 2007 0
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John Howard has an amazing capacity to be sanguine about long-term weather predictions of world-wide rising temperatures. But yesterday it was a different story when he spoke of the dire circumstances facing the irrigation regions of south-eastern Australia if the short-term prediction of a 50:50 chance of above-or-below-average rainfall over the next month turns out on the below side.
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Thursday, 12 April 2007 0
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Been arguing with a climate change sceptic but get flumoxed by all pesky CO2 level stats? Get caught without your medieval warming cycles graphs? Have a vague idea that your beach house may be underwater by 2080 but not up on rising sea levels lingo?
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 0
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The Australian government's denials about the dangers of climate change are running against the tide. In this case, a tide which stretches back to the late 1800s.
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Tuesday, 3 April 2007 0
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The traditional view when it comes to party politics is that the Government's relationship with business is much cosier than Labor's. But when it comes to climate change action, there seems to be a widending gap between what business wants and what the Government is promising.
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Monday, 12 March 2007 0
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The polls just keep on playing the same tune. This morning it's ACNielsen, which puts the federal ALP in the lead 61% to 39% two-party-preferred. Labor's lead on primaries is 50%-35%, and Kevin Rudd leads John Howard by 14 points (53-39) in the beauty contest for preferred prime minister.
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Monday, 5 March 2007 0
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The "have your cake and eat it" version of climate action was on display in Channel Ten’s "Carbon Test" last night – during the breaks, Bendigo Bank’s ads for offsetting vehicle emissions through tree planting sat comfortably with ads for motor oil and air travel, writes Ian McHugh.
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 0
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Today at Parliament House in Canberra, the Lavoisier Group convenes a meeting of climate change sceptics to launch Nine Facts About Climate Change, a new book by Ray Evans. Here are Evans's nine facts.
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Thursday, 8 February 2007 0
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In politics there is never ‘a’ reality. There is only ‘the’. Confusing, then, that there always seems to be more than one. With respect to Australia’s climate change response, two in particular appear to stand out, writes Ian McHugh.
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Friday, 2 February 2007 0
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Six years and a quantum leap in global concern have passed since the release of the previous report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Today the first part of its forth assessment report (AR4) is released in Paris. And it's a report that has been eagerly awaited. For many it represents one of the most authoritative opinions on the hot issue of climate change.
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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 0
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It's been more than half a lifetime since global warming first crossed my radar. I have my Catholic upbringing to thank for furnishing my imagination with such a macabrely vivid mental picture of Armageddon, and as the eighties drew to a close, I became convinced that its secular equivalent was just topping the horizon, writes climate change correspondent Ian McHugh.
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Wednesday, 6 December 2006 0
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Today, the people John Howard has referred to as 'part of the psyche of this country' have spoken out -- the National Farmers Federation have announced that their peak policy making body has "made a unanimous decision to join with the Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change in calling for early action on climate change."
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Tuesday, 14 November 2006 0
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John Howard knows he’s got some political catching up to do on climate change. He must also know the old Hardball rule "don’t get even, get ahead".
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Tuesday, 14 November 2006 0
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Green groups and climate change experts aren't shouting down Howard’s carbon trading conversation. It’s a step in the right direction, they’re saying. It’s the beginning of a U-turn, others state. But that’s the positive, public line. What are they saying in private?
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Tuesday, 7 November 2006 0
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Today's Sydney Morning Herald lead story beats up an AC Nielsen poll to scream "We'll pay to beat climate crisis: voters." So what does that mean for the introduction of a carbon tax?
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Thursday, 2 November 2006 0
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The Stern report, in the UK at least, has gained general public acceptance. The skeptics and the hedgers now look desperate, but that seems to have redoubled their energy.
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 0
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To follow is the next instalment in the Crikey list of concerned climate CEOs, thanks to the generous help of our very concerned readers.
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Monday, 30 October 2006 0
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One of Crikey’s core philosophies has always been the more the merrier. So let’s start another list. Let’s start a list of who turns a quid from climate change – or who has an interest in doing a Chicken Little.
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Monday, 30 October 2006 0
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Here’s a little question for you all to ponder. Are people using climate change as a platform for a wider political agenda? The answer – naturally – is of course. And it’s throwing up some wonderful ironies.
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Friday, 27 October 2006 0
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John Howard told Four Corners recently "we have a lot of reservations about carbon taxes because carbon taxes are going to impose huge costs on the Australian economy." But Crikey has managed to put together a rather long list of business leaders who seem to disagree with the PM.
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Wednesday, 25 October 2006 0
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This morning the Treasurer trumpeted economically viable, technological solutions to the climate change problem -- but is he full of hot air?
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Tuesday, 17 October 2006 0
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If you suddenly lose faith in your stance on climate change and don’t have a Plan B, what do you do? Why, you go nuclear.
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Monday, 16 October 2006 0
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Travelling not only contributes to causing the problem; it also makes you – if you just keep your eyes open – acutely aware of how severe the problem is and that abrupt changes in the earth’s climate have happened before, says Lonely Planet's Tony Wheeler.
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Thursday, 5 October 2006 0
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PM John Howard has claimed that addressing climate change to the extent that the UK has done is not in the national interest. But as the drought bites, he might be forced to change his tune.
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Thursday, 5 October 2006 1
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Jeff Severinghaus, Professor of Geosciences at the University of California, San Diego, argues that Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt misrepresented his research and perpetrated a “gross distortion of scientific findings.”
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 0
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The media is all over this whole climate change thing. But do they risk blowing it out of the water with hyperbole?
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Friday, 22 September 2006 0
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John Howard is facing a looming political crisis over climate change -- and it won't be long before his government gets with the program.
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 0
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An announcement from the Bush administration signalling a profound departure from its past climate policy may be days away.
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 0
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Surely it's only a matter of time before someone sends up the spin doctors who peddle climate change scepticism – though it's doubtful that Hollywood's archest screenwriters could write anything to rival the ad campaign produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (a body funded in part by Exxon).
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Wednesday, 6 September 2006 0
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James Murdoch has staked his colours to the mast when it comes to global warming, and they're a deep shade of green compared to dad. And now the Daily Tele toes the new News Ltd line.
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Tuesday, 5 September 2006 0
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There can never be "proof" of human-induced climate change and we shouldn’t look to science to provide it. But there are two possibilities: either climate change is human-induced or it isn’t.
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Tuesday, 13 June 2006 0
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Monday, 29 May 2006 0
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Friday, 19 May 2006 0
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 0
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Friday, 20 January 2006 0
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Friday, 13 January 2006 0
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