The conversation we don’t have but desperately need
By Sean Hurley We need to have a conversation about economics. Not the prototypical economic conversation; there’s no need to discuss regulation, interest, inflation, derivatives, […]
Environment
At what date do you wish to see a dystopian world, or your children or grandchildren dead?
By Keith Antonysen Lately, when there is discussion of climate change there are two conversations going on; one pushing the need for reliable energy sources, and […]
“Not something we would wish our children to face”
By Keith Antonysen Below is a copy of an email sent I to a senior worker (Alistair Webster, Director of Policy) from Mr Shorten’s office, […]
A Fragmented Review of Climate Change
By Keith Antonysen Munich Re which underwrites insurance companies has indicated that 2017’s high costs for climate change are the “new normal”. It could be regarded as […]
Warring on Plastic: David Attenborough, Britain and Environmental Missions
Few documentaries have had quite this impact, so much so that it has ushered in the unfortunate combination of war and plastic, two terms that […]
A Matter of Fifty Degrees: Climate Change in Australia
A country baked to the core, its citizens roasted, an electricity grid battered to its limits. Capital cities trapping scorching heat, toasting its citizens and […]
Protesting Against Adani: The National Day of Action
Melbourne. “Be careful, you might get run over.” So squawks an administrator from the local RMIT University as she dashes towards Princess Park, Melbourne. The […]
Resting Sea Shepherd: A Pause in the Whale War Saga
What a colourful run this outfit has had. Branded in 2013 by Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit […]
August 15, 2017: the most important day in the future
They say we can’t predict the future, but I’m damn sure we can do a lot to control the course of it. When we look […]
Contrarian views on temperature have melted away
By Keith Antonysen It should not have been necessary to write about increasing global temperature; but, with Trump as leader of the US there appears […]
The window of life
Climate change is one of the hottest topics (pardon the pun) when it comes to discussion on this site but we haven’t published many new […]
Book Review: Surviving the 21st Century
Surviving the 21st Century Humanity’s Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them is Julian Cribb’s latest book. I was halfway through Chapter Two […]
Let’s talk about Energy Subsidies
By Peter McCarthy On March 13 2017, there was an opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review entitled Wind and Solar can only win on […]
Climate change, power and coal
By 2353NM You may have noticed it’s been a bit hot lately. In fact, if you were born after 1985, you have never experienced a […]
Abrupt Climate Change: there’s strength in the science
By Keith Antonysen Various contrarian opinions are based on the fundamental premise of anthropogenic climate change in relation to how light interacts with radiated infrared. […]