Mark O'Briens 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...

Cancun and the case for a carbon tax

Stories are eminating from the 2010 Cancun talks that a carbon tax is being talked about seriously. For a change. One of the major flaws with Kyoto accord was that it pegged nations’ allowed gre 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...

The case for a Carbon tax

The media is full of terror about the potential impacts of a carbon tax, a tax that is being fought just as hard by the mining lobby as the mining tax was. 'It will put miners out of business', 'it 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...