Climate change Articles

Business in a Post Carbon Economy

Is business as usual compatible with a post carbon economy? When the taxpayers' bill for reducing emissions arising from business is greater than the economic benefits of such business, is it viable read more...

Climate change: a guide for the perplexed

A firm and ever-growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, read more...

Inconvenient Fallacies; some Greenhouse Truths

Lots of people I know are opting to have their local council come and change all their light bulbs to compact flouro lights (CFLs) in the [mistaken] belief that is somehow going to reduce global war read more...

Nuclear power - Myths about nuclear power

This article is part of a larger piece entitled Nuclear Power, is it really a Greenhouse Solution Myth: Nuclear power is green Reality: If the entire production cycle is considered, then nuclear is read more...

Nuclear Power ... is it really a greenhouse solution?

It kind of crept up on me towards the end of 2005, as it was being slowly introduced into editorials, news items, and page three stories. All of a sudden, it was common knowledge: nuclear power was read more...

Nuclear power versus renewables

Published as part of a larger feature, Nuclear Power - is it really a Greenhouse Solution? The paradoxical economic disadvantages of renewable energy One of the great advantages of renewable energy read more...

Nuclear power - Is Australia to be the World's nuclear dump?

Published as part of a larger article, Nuclear Power - is it really a Greenhouse Solution? Since the 1980s the US has spent some $15 billion on storage facilities deep within the supposedly geologic read more...

Nuclear power - Debunking Nuclear Industry Claims

This article is published as part of Nuclear Power- is it really a Greenhouse Solution? These claims are from the Uranium Information Centre:1 Claim: In all countries using nuclear energy there ar read more...

Study disproves solar and cosmic ray impact on climate change

An international group of scientists writing in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics investigated the hypothesis that a reduction in the amount of cosmic radiation hitting the earth reduces read more...

The Story of Cap and Trade

With what appears to be the hottest year on record closing, and perhaps continuing into next year, and Copenhagen happening as I write, climate change is on everyone's lips. Much discussion has been read more...

Why nuclear power is simply a stupid idea

Some arguments the nuclear lobby cannot lie about, by Mark O’Brien Like Lazarus, the nuclear power spectre keeps reappearing in the ‘conversation’ as the nuclear and the uranium mining industr read more...