Renewables will overtake coal as long as climate pledges are kept
By Dr Anthony Horton According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) wind, solar and other renewables will overtake coal and become the world’s premier electricity […]
Environment
Calling “Game Over”
“Human-induced climate change is real. The risks of inaction are real and mounting.” So Fairfax editorialised in this week’s papers. The gist of the article […]
Business case for low carbon growth is clear
By Dr Anthony Horton As the climate change clock ticks louder than ever, more and more businesses are becoming part of the climate change solution. […]
USEPA Carbon Regulations to create tens of thousands of jobs
By Dr Anthony Horton On June 9, 2015, a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) stated that The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) […]
Are wind farms noisy?
Are wind farms noisy? Tony Abbott thinks they are. And if Tony Abbott thinks they’re noisy then I imagine that every right-winger in the country […]
Australia on a different course to the rest of the world when it comes to tackling climate change
By Dr Anthony Horton An Australian delegation was questioned for an hour at the latest United Nations climate meeting at Bonn in Germany overnight Australian […]
An open question to all politicians
By Social Rebirth This is an open question to any leader, treasurer or candidate of any political party in the world. Our planet is finite, […]
Please explain
Please explain – coal can take 5.5 years off your life in China and cost $500 billion per year in the US in health costs […]
Renewable energy powering the Internet
By Dr Anthony Horton Few people would deny that the internet plays an increasingly significant part in our daily lives in many ways and contexts. […]
Air pollution – the (sometimes) sweet smelling other elephant in the room in Australia
By Dr Anthony Horton. In the past few weeks the costs associated with poor air quality in India and Europe have been published in terms […]
Everyone Can Benefit From a Green Future – Unless You’re in Australia
By Anthony Horton According to the European Environment State and Outlook report 2015 (SOER) published by the European Environment Agency, green industries in Europe grew by […]
Near Term Extinction – Is Our Ultimate Demise at Hand?
Guy McPherson’s theories on climate change have been creating controversy in both Europe and the US. Is mankind only a decade and a half away […]
Labor framed as the villain again
Over the last couple of days, the Twittersphere has been full of congratulations for Waleed Aly’s The Project segment on the Renewable Energy Target (RET). […]
Investing in women to save the world
Most contemporary estimates for the carrying capacity of the Earth under existing conditions are between 4 billion and 16 billion. In 2013 the human population […]
Fire: what have we learned from the devastation?
Some of the lessons learned from decades of studying major fires have been learned, and then forgotten, in a drive to simplify the message to […]