Greenhouse gases and global warming* - Australia's role - from 1997 (mostly shameful!)

* "climate change" is a euphemism introduced by opponents of government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to make the situation sound less threatening. Similarly people who claim that global warming is a hoax are not "skeptics" - skeptics are people who are prepared to change their views in the face of overwhelming evidence. See the links below for the tactics of lobby groups who have a vested interest in maintaining an unsustainable consumption of fossil fuels.

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Alerts

• 22 Oct 11 Scientific American: Different Method, Same Result: Global Warming Is Real - Independent analysis confirms earlier results but aims for greater transparency.
• 14 Oct 11 BBC: Australia parliament passes divisive carbon tax 
• 23 Aug 11 Scientific American: Australia Passes CO2 Offset Laws, Carbon Pricing Next - Opinion: unfortunately masterful scaremongering by media people and some politicians means that Australians do not understand the intentions and effects of a carbon tax. The situation has effectively become a witch-hunt with reptilian intincts aroused and rational decision-making discarded.
• Australian Academy of Sciences: The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers - by Australia's peak science organisation [eminent scientists with no vested interest in the energy industry]
• 11 Dec 10: I have a suggestion for the skeptical politicians. Every developed country that refuses to implement effective climate-change polices should be required to enter into a future contract that requires their nations to pay for the effects of climate change on poorer nations. In other words, if they are that confident that there will be no human-induced climate change (or no serious consequences) then they should be repared to make a commitment to repair some of the damage, if they are proved wrong in coming decades.
• 17 Dec 2007 Daily Telegraph: [Australian Senator] Penny Wong's way is the right way for Bali roadmap. Something Australians can be proud of - at last.
• ...and then in the June 08 budget they scrap a solar panel rebate for most families! Petition: "WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, CALL ON THE [AUSTRALIAN] FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SCRAP THE MEANS TEST ON THE SOLAR PANEL REBATE."
• 13 Aug 09: More shame from the Liberal/National coalition - now in opposition.

Introduction

This page was originally prepared in 1997 to protest the Australian Howard Government's negative stand on greenhouse emissions and the Kyoto Protocol. The position of the Government did not change much during his entire term (climate change was an issue in the 2007 Federal Election).  However, the site has been revamped to be a resource for links on the subject of greenhouse gases and climate change. News items are in chronological order, with most recent items at the top. Apologies that many links no longer work.

There are dozens of articles on this subject appearing every week. The following list is just a personal and somewhat random selection. Check out the links for many more.

Update 27 Nov 2000
Opinion: The Australian Government contributed to the collapse of the climate talks in The Hague. I am sure that the majority of Australians disagree with the stand taken by the Howard Government but it is evident that vested interests have prevailed. This government's apparent disregard for future generations is reprehensible. On the same day that former Environment Minister Robert Hill was scuttling the climate agreement in The Hague the Australian Prime Minister John Howard was touring northern New South Wales viewing the damage from the worst flooding in decades. This flooding is not necessarily linked to global warming but, as with other recent flooding around the globe, shows clearly how sensitive our economy is to climate extremes - extremes that will become greater under the effects of global warming.

23 Sep 01 (Not an item to be proud of) Engineers Australia: Australians are the worst greenhouse gas polluters in the industrialised world.... Update: Sorry URL no longer available - here is an extract:

Australians are the worst greenhouse polluters
Australians are the worst greenhouse gas polluters in the industrialised world, a new analysis by the Australia Institute has concluded. Since 1995, Australia's emissions of greenhouse gases per person rose to 27.6t from 26.7t, while the average for industrialised countries fell to 12.9t from 13.6t, the institute said.
The analysis showed Luxembourg produced 24.2t of greenhouse gases per person, while Canada emitted 21.9t and the US 21.1t.
"Australia's emissions are so high because, while our energy emissions per person are a little below those of the USA, we have high levels of emissions from land clearing and agriculture," the institute said.
"Emissions from electricity generation have grown rapidly in recent years, stimulated by the introduction of national competition policy," it said.
The average for the European Union was 10.3t, with Germany at 11.9t, UK 11.4t, France 8.2t and Italy 9t of greenhouse gases produced per person.
Each Indian was responsible for only about 1t.
The institute is an independent public policy research centre based at the ANU in Canberra.

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News



• 9 Feb 12 NASA: NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth’s Melting Land Ice.
  
• 31 Jan 12 SciAm: Climate Change Has Helped Bring Down Cultures.
  
• 31 Jan 12 BBC: Volcanic origin for Little Ice Age.
  
• 28 Jan 12 Nature: Flooding is the United Kingdom's biggest climate threat - Government report prioritizes consequences of climate change + BBC: First report on UK climate impact.
  
• 26 Jan 12 SciAm: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Decline Despite Political Gridlock - Climate change may have received short shrift in President Obama's State of the Union speech but his administration's policies are creating a more climate-friendly U.S. + The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to Make His Research Clear.
  
• 26 Jan 12 TerraDaily: Warmer summers may bring colder winters.
  
• 18 Jan 12 NewSci: China set to launch first caps on CO2 emissions.
• 25 Dec 11 SciAm: A real sea change - researchers at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco are reporting what many scientists have suspected for a long time but have been thus far not been able to prove convincingly—that the world’s sea level is likely to rise by at least 3 feet in the next 100 years... Whatever happens centuries from now, the immediate future has enough potential for catastrophic change that we can’t just bury our proverbial heads in the sand and hope that we can patch up our beaches or stick our fingers in the dike.
• 15 Dec 11 SciAm: Some Species Face "Move or Die" Scenario Under Climate Change.
• 15 Dec 11 NASA: Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Changes.
• 13 Dec 11 ABC: Success for Australian trial of carbon capture and storage.
• 13 Dec 11 AFP: Canada formally withdraws from Kyoto Protocol
• 11 Dec 11 The Australian: UN climate conference's historic agreement - The world forum also launched a "Green Climate Fund" to help channel up to 100 billion dollars a year in aid to poor, vulnerable countries by 2020, an initiative born under the 2009 Copenhagen Summit.
• 7 Dec 11 BBC: French Alpine glaciers in retreat + Chile glacier record retreat footage released + UN climate talks 'lacking urgency'
• 7 Dec 11 NewSci: No, global warming hasn't stopped - Like a game of scientific whack-a-mole, some arguments against climate change just keep bouncing back - no matter how many times researchers disprove them. One is the long-standing claim that "global warming stopped in 1998", and that since then the Earth has stayed at the same temperature, or even cooled.A new analysis confirms that global warming actually shows no sign of slowing down...
• 26 Nov 11 BBC: CO2 climate sensitivity 'overestimated' - still expect to see "drastic changes" in climate worldwide, but that the risk was a little less imminent [not an excuse to do nothing!] + 'New release' of climate emails - "This appears to be a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change when that science has been vindicated by three separate independent inquiries.."
• 19 Nov 11 NewSci($): A Republican thing - Today, any Republican who wants to be a serious presidential contender has to deny the reality of human-caused climate change.[letter by Chris Mooney]
• 19 Nov 11 Nature: Climate panel says prepare for weird weather - Despite uncertainties, the IPCC warns that climate change will bring more extreme weather.
• 15 Nov 11 NewSci: Huge rise in emissions as world economy de-greens + A chance to blame extreme weather on climate change
• 15 Nov 11 SMH: Green energy pact will fuel trade growth, say leaders + Carbon tax hit small: CSIRO - Households will face smaller cost of living price increases under the carbon tax than they did as a result of other large economic changes such as the introduction of the GST and the mining boom, new modelling shows + Carbon-tax law Abbott proof, PM declares.
• 26 Oct 11 Nature ($): Emission pathways consistent with a 2 °C global temperature limit - Our analysis confirms that if the mechanisms needed to enable an early peak in global emissions followed by steep reductions are not put in place, there is a significant risk that the 2 °C target will not be achieved.
• 26 Oct 11 BBC: China 'won't follow US' on carbon emissions- China's emissions have risen sharply in recent years due to rapid industrialisation, fuelled mainly by coal burning. In terms of national emissions, it has overtaken the US.But because its population is so much bigger, its per-capita emissions are currently much lower - but rising fast.
• 25 Oct 11 NewSci: Climate change: What we do – and don't – know.
• 22 Oct WSJ: The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism - There were good reasons for doubt [?], until now.
• 22 Oct 11 Scientifc American: Different Method, Same Result: Global Warming Is Real - Independent analysis confirms earlier results but aims for greater transparency + Skeptical Research Effort Confirms Global Warming, Again - An independent effort to review temperature data finds strong evidence of climate change, consistent with other scientific results
• 21 Oct 11 BBC: Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study - What came out was a graph remarkably similar to those produced by the world's three most important and established groups, whose work had been decried as unreliable and shoddy in climate sceptic circles...
• 21 Oct 11 Nature: Different method, same result: global warming is real - Independent analysis confirms earlier results but aims for greater transparency.
• 20 Oct 11 BBC: Companies call for tougher climate action - Leaders of nearly 200 major companies around the world have called for tougher action on climate change.
• 20 Oct 11 Nature: Climate action a 'moral responsibility' - Chinese climatologist says the world must work together on global warming.
• 14 Oct 11 Nature: Special issue on the Arctic: After the ice - This January, Canada’s high Arctic basked in an average monthly
  temperature more than 20 degrees Celsius higher than normal; in September, the extent of summer sea ice was so low it may have
  set a new record.
• 14 Oct 11 BBC: Australia parliament passes divisive carbon tax +  Rivers of ice: Vanishing glaciers - Stunning images from high in the Himalayas - showing the extent by which many glaciers have shrunk in the past 80 years or so - have gone on display at the Royal Geographical Society in central London. 
• 14 Oct 11 SMH: EU urges roadmap on climate action.
• 6 Sep 11 BBC: 'Gob-smacking' scale of Petermann Glacier break-up.
• 5 Sep 11 News.com.au!: Climate modelling is improving - experts. "We don't tune these models to get the answer we want. We put the physics in and then the answer pops out - so yes, you can be surprised."
• 3 Sep 11 ABC: Coalition's climate plan will cost double: Treasury - Federal Treasury analysis shows the Opposition's direct action climate change policy would cost twice as much as a carbon tax for the same reduction in emissions.
• 3 Sep 11 BBC: Journal editor resigns over 'problematic' climate paper- "Their aim is to achieve highest scientific standards by carrying out a rigorous peer review that is, as a minimum requirement, supposed to be able to identify fundamental methodological errors or false claims... Unfortunately, as many climate researchers and engaged observers of the climate change debate pointed out in various internet discussion fora, the paper by Spencer and Braswell... is most likely problematic in both aspects and should therefore not have been published...the problem I see with the paper... is not that it declared a minority view (which was later unfortunately much exaggerated by the public media) but that it essentially ignored the scientific arguments of its opponents."
• 27 Aug 11 SciAm: What Is Pseudoscience? + The Human Cost of Energy - Fossil fuels exact the biggest toll in terms of lives lost (on average there are 30,000 premature deaths per year in the USA due to pollution from fossil fuels)
• 23 Aug 11 SciAm: Australia Passes CO2 Offset Laws, Carbon Pricing Next.
• 8 Aug 11 NewSci: Australia's overheated climate debate. Climate-change wrangling in Australia has descended into death threats and extreme insults. The science is being drowned out...
• 31 Jul 11 ABC: British PM praises Gillard's carbon tax! 
• 31 Jul 11 Manly Daily (me): Ozone hole an example of effective world action - not a hoax: It is ironic that Mr Harrison (MD 29/7) has chosen the hole in the ozone layer as an example of a “hoax” that supports his sceptical views about global warming. World governments listened to the scientists and took action to ban CFCs and so averted a global disaster. It will still take many decades for the ozone layer to recover - as Tamanians know from the extreme UV conditions that they now experience. Margaret Thatcher is credited with convincing world leaders to take action on CFCs. She is a qualified chemist (she studied under a Nobel laureate) and understood the case that was being made by scientists. It is a pity that Tony Abbott does not follow the example of his hero. For sound facts about climate change I recommend the Australian Academy of Sciences ( http://science.org.au/policy/climatechange.html ) - not talk-back radio. 
• 28 Jul 11 SMH: Media authority to investigate complaint about [radio personality Alan] Jones comment [about CO2 emissions]
• 6 Jun 11 Herald Sun: Carbon tax to have 'little or no impact' on mining jobs.
• 1 Jun 11 Australian Academy of Sciences: The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers - Based on a series of key questions, this publication aims to address confusion created by contradictory information in the public domain. It sets out to explain the current situation in climate science, including where there is consensus in the scientific community and where uncertainties exist.
• 1 Jun 11 ANU: Beyond 2 degrees Celsius by Andrew Glikson - Implications of NASA/GISS updates for the Earth energy balance, global temperatures, ice melt and sea level rise
• 1 Jun 11 SciAm: Global CO2 Emissions in 2010 Hit Highest Level Ever.
• 1 Jun 11 NewSci: Record carbon emissions mean 2 °C rise ever closer.
• 30 May 11 ABC: Caton defends Blanchett in 'dirty' carbon ad row. Comment: some sections of the media and some politians have launched vicous attacks on the actors who donated their time to these ads. See Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit for the deep flaw in their attacks "Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the argument..." + SMH: I was gutless over climate ads: Dick Smith "I didn't appear on it because I knew that I would be a front page of lies in the Rupert Murdoch press here.." + SMH: Blanchett exposed for the 'crime' of speaking up - "Presumably Blanchett has nothing to gain from a carbon tax. Rinehart had a lot to gain in derailing the mining tax."
• 23 May 11 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Greenhouse gases in the Earth system: setting the agenda to 2030
• 23 May 11 ABC: Time running out for climate action: report - "I don't think we have the luxury anymore of climate denialism. We need to get beyond this fruitless phoney debate in the media..." + SMH: Sea-level rise to hit Sydney worst, warns climate report
  
• 20 May 11 SciAm ($): "I Stick to Science" - Why Richard A. Muller wouldn't tell House climate skeptics what they wanted to hear.  Muller enraged climate skeptics after testifying before congress that he em- braced the mainstream view that earth is warming as climate models project.
• 18 May 11 NewSci: Quake took out Fukushima cooling system before tsunami.
• 8 May 11 NYT: Al Gore Invents a Showpiece E-Book - Our Choice iPad app.
• 8 May 11 SciAm: U.K. Government: "Climategate" No Reason to Doubt Climate Change.
• 5 May 11 Nature: 2 °C or not 2 °C? That is the climate question "Long-term goals to limit temperature or concentrations have so far failed to produce effective short-term action, because they do not have the urgency to compel governments to put aside their own short-term interests." +  Storm warning.
• 26 Apr 11 NewSci: Warmer oceans release CO2 faster than thought.
• 8 Apr 11 Science ($): The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe + Mekong Hydropower Development  + First Detection of Ozone Hole Recovery Claimed [success of a global agreement to take action - in part, attributed by Carl Sagan to the chemist knowledge of Margaret Thatcher]
• 6 Apr 11 Cosmos Magazine ($): MERCHANTS OF DOUBT - excellent review of the transfer of tobacco industry tactics to the issue of global warming.
• 6 Apr 11 NewSci: Climate change sceptics: just regular folk, in denial - comment: one problem is there are no immediate adverse consequences of denial - the pain is in the long term. Hence my suggestion for a future contract that requires denial nations to pay for the effects of climate change on poorer nations. The sad joke is that the outcrys about the (purported) extra costs of a low carbon economy are not also directed at hikes in oil prices due to wars or natural disasters. 
• 5 Apr 11 SciAm: Clean Tech Rising - China outshines the U.S. as the top investor, while Europe is a close third
• 1 Apr 11 NewSci: Mixed response to climate change on [off] Australia's coasts
• 30 Mar 11 BBC: China tops global clean energy table.
• 17 Feb 11 SciAm: Rising seas threaten 180 U.S. cities by 2100: study.
• 17 Feb 11 NewSci: Blame human emissions for British floods.
• 6 Feb 11 SMH: Sydney heatwave breaks 150-year-old record.
• 27 Jan 11 BBC: Greenland glaciers spring surprise - the icecap may be more resistant to warming than previously thought.
• 11 Jan 11 SciAm ($): Will China Start Carbon Trade? + Casualties of Climate Change: Sea-level Rises Could Displace Tens of Millions
• 7 Jan 11 NewSci ($): Stick to your guns, climate scientists.
• 6 Jan 11 BBC: Last December UK's coldest for 100 years - However, the first analysis released of global temperatures shows 2010 was one of the warmest years on record. The UK's harsh weather was caused by anomalously high air pressure that blocked mild westerly winds and brought cold air south from the Arctic.
• 6 Jan 11 Nature: Why dire climate warnings boost scepticism.
• 6 Jan 11 NewSci ($): Last chance to hold Greenland back from tipping point.
• 24 Dec 10 SciAm: Can Australia Afford Carbon Capture and Storage for Coal?
• 22 Dec 10 SciAm: Will Australia Choose Coal or Climate? Coal exports become a burning economic and environmental issue down under
• 16 Dec 10 SMH: Rising sea levels will swamp parts of Sydney.
• 1 Dec 10 ESA: Venus holds warning for Earth - A mysterious high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide discovered by ESA’s Venus Express has been explained. As well as telling us more about Venus [the original "greenhouse" planet] , it could be a warning against injecting our atmosphere with sulphur droplets to mitigate climate change.
• 1 Dec 10 Nature: Climategate - review of past year.
• 30 Nov 10 Drive: Copenhagen plans highways ... for bikes.
• 30 Nov 10 NewSci: Royal Society paints picture of a world 4 °C warmer.
• 24 Nov 10 SciAm: China says it is world's top greenhouse gas emitter.
• 24 Nov 10 NASA: NASA Study Finds Earth's Lakes are Warming.
• 17 Nov 10 Nature: Measuring the meltdown.
• 1 Nov 10 NewSci: Watch out, deniers about - by Michael Mann
• 20 Sep 10 SMH: Psychology provides insight into why people doubt climate change.
• 15 Sep 10 Beyond Zero Emissions: Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan available now.
• 15 Sep 10 SciAm: Greenhouse Gas Emission Cuts Promise Health Benefits.
• 1 Sep 10 NewSci: Bjørn Lomborg: climate change is a problem after all.
• 5 Aug 10 SciAm: World's first solar power plant that can work at night - How can one use solar energy after the sun sets? Simple: store the sun's heat in molten salts.
• 2 Aug 10 SciAm: Global Warming Is Undeniable - rising humidity; rising sea-surface temperature as well as heat stored in deeper waters; shrinking sea ice, glacier and springtime snow cover; rising temperatures over land and sea; and rising sea levels.
• 31 Jul 10 SciAm: EPA Rejects Challenges on Greenhouse Gas Threat - Evidence proving climate change is a problem remains "robust, voluminous and compelling," says EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
• 29 Jul 10 NewSci: Climategate scientist breaks his silence [Phil Jones]
• 29 Jul 10 Nature: Ocean greenery under warming stress - A century of phytoplankton decline suggests that ocean ecosystems are in peril.
• 23 Jul 10 BBC: UK government axes its sustainability watchdog
• 23 Jul 10 NewSci: Record-breaking heat does not 'prove' global warming - The various measures of average global temperatures, however, do suggest that surface temperatures are the hottest they have been since records began.
• 23 Jul 10 Sciam: The New Normal?: Average Global Temperatures Continue to Rise - 2010 may prove to be the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880
• 20 Jul 10 Nature: Report maps perils of warming.
• 20 Jul 10 SciAm: World simmers in hottest year so far.
• 13 Jul 10 SciAm: Scientists Quantify Global Warming's Threat to Public Health.
• 3 Jul 10 ABC: 'Climategate' scientist cleared by US university.
• 3 Jul 10 Nature: AN EROSION OF TRUST? Many climate researchers worry that scepticism about global warming is on the rise.
• 18 Jun 10 BBC: Ancient climate change 'link' to CO2.
• 5 Jun 10 Nature: Glaciers' wane not all down to humans - Natural climate swings have had a major role in eroding Alpine ice. "Even if greenhouse gases contribute just 50% to glacier retreat, this is anything but negligible."
• 14 May 10 New Scientist: Special Report - Living in Denial - see also Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
• 26 Apr 10 BBC: Indonesia hosts world's biggest Geothermal energy forum.
• 15 Apr 10 BBC: 'No malpractice' by climate unit  + NewSci: Climategate scientists chastised over statistics [but "their conclusions that the planet is warming stands on solid ground"] + Quiet sun puts Europe on ice + SciAm: UK Inquiry Clears Climate Scientists in Email Row.
• 2 Apr 10 NASA: Glaciers and Ice Caps: How Much Do You Know? (needs Flash)
• 1 Apr 10 ABC (Aust): MPs clear Climategate university - An investigation into emails leaked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has largely vindicated the scientists involved... the University of East Anglia needed to be more transparent but it did not behave dishonestly over what became known as the Climategate affair.
• 26 Mar NASA: NASA Study Finds Atlantic 'Conveyor Belt' Not Slowing + NASA's Grace Sees Rapid Spread in Greenland Ice Loss.
• 26 Mar 10 SciAm: Climate Change Imperils the State of the Planet--Will the World Act?
• 24 Mar 10 SciAm: Has Global Warming Slowed? - Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• 18 Mar 10 EPSL: Marine gas hydrates in thin sand layers that soak up microbial methane.
• 19 Feb 10 Clean Energy Council: No house fires caused by solar panels.
• 18 Feb 10 Nature: Setting the climate record straight - A co-chair of the IPCC's beleaguered second working group discusses recent criticisms.
• 16 Feb 10 Nature: 'Climategate' scientist speaks out.
• 15 Feb 10 NewSci: Greenland's glaciers disappearing from the bottom up.
• 13 Feb 10 Nature: Sea-level records challenged - High point 80,000 years ago may hint at flaws in ice-age theory (much higher than previously thought) + SciAm: Sea Caves Reveal Rapid Rise in Ancient Ocean Levels - the record suggests that sea level can rise or fall as fast as two meters a century—nearly 12 times as fast as sea level rise in the past 100 years and indicating the potential for a meter of sea-level rise within one human lifetime.
• 6 Feb 10 SciAm: Defusing the Methane Greenhouse Time Bomb.
• 30 Jan 10 SciAm: Poisoned Shipments: Are Strange, Illicit Sinkings Making the Mediterranean Toxic?  [this reads like the plot from the 1993 Ben Elton TV-movie Stark!]
• 29 Jan 10 Nature: Water vapour could be behind warming slowdown.
• 24 Jan 10 NewSci: Major Antarctic glacier is 'past its tipping point'
• 24 Jan 10 Universe Today: Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures.
• 15 Jan 10 NewSci: Major Antarctic glacier is 'past its tipping point'  - poised to collapse in a catastrophe that could raise global sea levels by 24 centimetres.
• 13 Jan 10 SciAm: Unusual Arctic warmth as north hemisphere shivers - This strange atmospheric pattern is caused by natural variability and not by rising levels of greenhouse gases [but could accelerate Arctic sea ice melting] + What Would Failure to Combat Climate Change Quickly Mean?
• 13 Jan 10 Nature: Missed 2050 climate targets will reduce long-term options - Models suggest that drastic action will be needed in the latter half of the century.
• 13 Jan 10 NewSci: Avoiding dangerous warming by 2100 'barely feasible'
• 9 Jan 10 NewSci: Why Antarctica isn't melting much – yet - "Climate change denialists will use this work as evidence that Antarctica is not warming, despite the authors saying their works show no such thing..."
• 1 Jan 10 SciAm ($): Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering - climate  modelling verified
• 20 Dec 09 NewSci: Copenhagen chaos sets world on track for 3.5 ˚C.
• 18 Dec 09 Nature: Sea level rise may exceed worst expectations.
• 18 Dec 09 NewSci: Will you stand up against climate disaster?  book review: Storms of My Grandchildren: The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity by James Hansen + Battle for climate data approaches tipping point.
• 18 Dec 09 Space.com: Earth's Upper Atmosphere Cooling Dramatically. Not directly linked to lower atmosphere changes.
• 16 Dec 09 NewSci:   50 reasons why global warming isn't natural - A British newspaper today published a list of "100 reasons why global warming is natural". Here we take a quick look at the first 50 of their claims - and debunk each one.
• 16 Dec 09 BBC: Switzerland geologist on trial for 'causing quakes'
• 15 Dec 09 NewSci: Double blow for 'hot rock' geothermal power - "The Department of Energy believes that geothermal energy holds enormous potential to heat our homes and power our economy while decreasing our carbon pollution," [Comment: some areas are too risky to try out this technology]
• 10 Dec 09 Viewpoint: The Glikson - Carter climate change debate (PDF)
• 9 Dec 09 BBC: This decade 'warmest on record'
• 5 Dec 09 NIWA: Glaciers continue to shrink - New Zealand’s glaciers lost significant ice mass again last summer...the mass and volume of New Zealand’s glaciers is sensitive to changing wind and precipitation patterns as well as to temperature. So, for example, the glaciers advanced during most of the 1980s and 1990s when the area experienced about a 15% increase in precipitation, associated with more El Niño events and stronger westerly winds over New Zealand...Despite the sensitivity of New Zealand glaciers to changes in both precipitation and temperature, the volume of ice in the Southern Alps dropped by roughly 50% during the last century.
• 4 Dec 09 NewSCi: James Hansen: Copenhagen climate talks must collapse - yesterday India joined the club of major emitters that will offer to cut greenhouse gas emissions at Copenhagen next week, alongside China, the US and the EU.
• 3 Dec 09 SciAm: Climate change cover-up? You better believe it - rumors of the demise of climate change have been much exaggerated...
• 3 Dec 09 RealClimate.org: CRU Hack: More context. More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to ‘get rid of the MWP’, no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no ‘marching orders’ from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though. Instead, there is a peek into how scientists actually interact and the conflicts show that the community is a far cry from the monolith that is sometimes imagined. People working constructively to improve joint publications; scientists who are friendly and agree on many of the big picture issues, disagreeing at times about details and engaging in ‘robust’ discussions; Scientists expressing frustration at the misrepresentation of their work in politicized arenas and complaining when media reports get it wrong; Scientists resenting the time they have to take out of their research to deal with over-hyped nonsense.
• 2 Dec 09 BBC: Australia opposition vote deals climate law blow  + Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts + EU 'should cut emissions by 30%'
• 2 Dec 09 NewSci: Safety flaws in US next-gen nuclear reactors + Seas could rise 1.4m, warns Antarctic climate review.
• 30 Nov 09 SciAm: Dalai Lama says climate change needs global action.
• 28 Nov 09 SMH: Marine scientists issue call to arms after devastating report.
• 27 Nov 09 ABC: Climate sceptics 'out of step' with voters - "The vast majority of the electorate, which must include some Liberal voters as well, does believe it is happening and some action's required,"
• 27 Nov 09 BBC: Australia carbon emissions law hit by opposition revolt - Australia is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide per capita
• 27 Nov 09 SMH: Turnbull's last stand - MALCOLM TURNBULL has vowed to go down fighting on climate change after a flood of Liberal frontbenchers - including Nick Minchin and Tony Abbott - quit last night in a bid to pressure the Opposition Leader to reverse his support for Labor's emissions trading scheme. [opinion: Congratulations to Malcolm Turnbull for his stand against a shameful revolt from front-bench Liberals. The Liberal Party will have no credibility if it reneges on the ETS deal with the government. Did the climate skeptics assume that the Rudd Government would not agree to concessions or were they hoping to bring about the downfall of Mr Turnbull? How sad that, in an apparent attempt to bolster his leadership ambitions, Tony Abbott appears to be denying an overwhelming scientific and economic case for action on carbon emissions. Even former members of the US military are calling for strong climate action to reduce the risk of an unstable world. As part of the Howard Ministry, Mr Abbott took US intelligence very seriously when Australia committed to a war in Iraq.]
• 27 Nov 09 BBC: China unveils emissions targets ahead of Copenhagen + Past climate anomalies explained
• 26 Nov 09 Online Opinion: Last train to Copenhagen.
• 26 Nov 09 ABC: Climate changing faster than expected: scientists + Why we must act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Chief Scientist Professor Penny Sackett)
• 26 Nov 09 Nature: Storm clouds gather over leaked climate e-mails + NewSci: Hacked archive provides fodder for climate sceptics - scant evidence of data abuse, but does show persistent efforts to suppress work by climate sceptics.
• 24 Nov 09 SMH: D-day looms for Turnbull, ETS - "Family First" Senator Steve Fielding should read David Suzuki's comments about grandchildren.
• 24 Nov 09 NewSci: A final warning from the Arctic - The Greenland ice sheet is five kilometres thick and melting fast...
• 21 Nov 09 NewSci ($): US bets $150m on renewable energy - $9.1 million to develop a hybrid thermal-mechanical drill system capable of quickly cutting through ultra-hard rock formations deep underground, potentially unlocking vast new stores of geothermal energy...
• 19 Nov 09 Monash Uni (via Nature): World on track for 6 degrees of extra heat.
• 29 Sep 09 BBC: Four degrees of warming 'likely'
• 21 Sep 09 NewSci: Geothermal energy on shaky ground + Polar bears run riot as ice melts + Fair carbon means no carbon for rich countries - "The new analysis is based on the idea that each person on the planet has the right to the same carbon footprint..."
• 12 Sep 09 Science ($): [Huge] Potential for Wind-Generated Electricity in China + Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change
• 12 Sep 09 Nature: France unveils carbon tax
• 7 Sep 09 BBC: Japan vows big climate change cut
• 7 Sep 09 Go Boating August 2009: Doomed Planet (printed copy only) - has a remarkable (bizzare) collection of skeptic arguments against doing something about climate change (see RealClimate.org for responses to these arguments). The editor, Peter Scott, has frequent articles questioning climate change. The  magazine's environmental credentials are beautifully summed up in a regular full-page ad showing a man on the back of a boat swinging a golf club and, presumably, sending golf balls into tropical waters, for sea life to choke on. Most other ads show large wreckreational boats moving at high speed - not the most efficient form of transport!
• 5 Sep 09 NewSci: World's climate could cool first, warm later [if you consider the North Atlantic to be "the World"]
• 4 Sep 09 BBC: Arctic 'warmest in 2,000 years' + NewSci: Has runaway Arctic warming already begun?  + Science: Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling.
• 3 Sep 09 BBC: Australia's warm winter a record.
• 14 Aug 09 BBC: Antarctic glacier 'thinning fast' - "It's like removing a cork from a bottle."
• 13 Aug 09 ABC: Doomed [Australian] emissions bill fuels election talk.
• 28 Jul 09 Universe Today: Declassified Ice Loss Images.
• 3 Jun 09 NewSci: Hot rock power scheme could brew trouble in Eden
• 15 May 09 BBC: Climate 'biggest health threat'  + Ice sheet melt threat reassessed.
• 14 May 09 BBC: 'Gruelling' Arctic mission ends - He believes the ice, which has been a permanent feature for at least 100,000 years, is now so thin that almost all of it will disappear in about a decade...
• 14 May 09 NewSci: The man who discovered greenhouse gases.
• 29 Apr 09 NewSci: [Australian] Geothermal explosion rocks green energy hopes - world-leading research that deserves much greater government support to overcome technical challenges.
• 6 Apr 09 ABC: Wilkins Ice Shelf on verge of collapse.
• 11 Mar 09 NewSci: Earth may be entering climate change danger zone + Sea level rise could bust IPCC estimate.
• 11 Mar 09 BBC: 'More bad news' on climate change + Sea rise 'to exceed projections'
• 25 Feb 09 BBC: Failure hits Nasa's 'CO2 hunter'.
• 19 Feb 09 NewSci: Arctic's personal greenhouse turns up the heat.
• 15 Feb 09 SMH: Climate change could be even worse than predicted, expert warns + BBC: Global warming 'underestimated'.
• 28 Jan 09 NewSci: Melting ice could push penguins to extinction.
• 22 Jan 09 BBC: New evidence on Antarctic warming.
• 13 Jan 09 Nature: Temperature rises threaten global food security.
• 2 Jan 09 Science ($): Calcification Rates Drop in Australian Reefs - A large-scale study in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the rate at which corals absorb calcium from seawater to calcify their hard skeletons has declined precipitously in the past 20 years, slowing coral growth.
• 20 Dec 08 NewSci: Arctic melt 20 years ahead of climate models.
• 18 Dec 08 The Australian: Means test dropped for rebates on solar panels.
• 18 Dec 08 Nature: Rift-valley countries set for geothermal power 
• 16 Dec 08 Nature: Europe agrees emissions deal.
• 16 Dec 08 BBC: Australia sets new climate target.
• 13 Dec 08 BBC: Gore's tough message to leaders.
• 4 Dec 08 Nature: Greenhouse gases hit modern-day highs.
• 24 Nov 08 The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE): Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on Australia's Physical Infrastructure (thanks Sue Lennox)
• 24 Nov 08 SMH: Get paid for solar power on your roof - NSW is the last state to introduce the solar subsidy or feed-in tariff.
• 5 Nov 08 SciAm ($): Geoengineering: How to Cool Earth--At a Price.
• 1 Nov 08 Nature: Antarctica hit by climate change.
• 1 Nov 08 New Scientist: Humans to blame for polar warming + BBC: Polar warming 'caused by humans'
• 22 Oct 08 New Scientist: US elections: Who will avert the energy crisis? + Special report: How our economy is killing the Earth + Do we need to go nuclear to stay green?
• 18 Oct 08 New Scientist: Arctic air temperatures hit record highs
• 13 Oct 08 New Scientist ($): Renewable energy: Will the lights stay on? (plus articles on each form of renewable energy)
• 23 Sep 08 SMH: The coal conundrum - essay by Tim Flannery. Related: summary of health and environmental impacts of coal-fired power stations.
• 16 Sep 08 NewSci ($): What is your dinner doing to the climate?
• 16 Sep 08 ABC: Regulation needed for carbon offset cowboys: Choice.
• 14 Sep 08 NewSci: Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming - Some climate sceptics point to the differing trends at the poles as a sign that worries about climate change are exaggerated, but experts say they can explain the development."What's happening is not unexpected...Climate modellers predicted a long time ago that the Arctic would warm fastest and the Antarctic would be stable for a long time,". See also Climate myths.
• 10 Sep 08 BBC: UK to 'climate-proof' Bangladesh
• 9 Sep 08 SMH: Scientists slam Garnaut climate position - Leading Australian climate scientists have urged the federal government to ignore adviser Ross Garnaut and act more aggressively to counter climate change.
• 6 Sep 08 Nature: The world we avoided - The [1987] Montreal Protocol rescued the ozone layer, but also prevented drastic regional climate changes. 
• 6 Sep 08 BBC: When the wind doesn't blow + Sea level rise by 2100 'below 2m' also NewSci: Sea level rise limited to two metres.
• 6 Sep 08 Herald Sun: Ross Garnaut's nuclear knockout - NUCLEAR power has no place in Australia's scheme to reduce its carbon footprint...recommendation that carbon pricing start at $20 a tonne when emissions trading begins in 2010.
• 2 Sep 08 BBC: Climate 'hockey stick' is revived (was it ever dead?)
• 2 Sep 08 NewSci: Sea level rises could far exceed IPCC estimates.
• 1 Sep 08 Google (Corporate): Google.org invests more than $10 million in breakthrough geothermal energy technology.
• 28 Aug 08 Nature: Cracks spotted in Greenland's glaciers
• 27 Aug 08 WA Today: Who is behind climate change deniers?
• 26 Aug 08 NewSci: Wind turbines make bat lungs explode.
• 9 Aug 08 NewSci: Humans cause climate change, US body accepts...human activity was responsible for the rapid warming of the 20th century.
• 24 Jun 08 IPWA: Responding to Sea Level Rise - 3-5 Aug 08 Coffs Harbour.
• 20 Jun 08 Science ($): High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years.
• 17 Jun 08 NASA: NASA Mission Poised to Help Us Gauge Our Rising Seas.
• 17 Jun 08 Greenpeace: GLOBAL ENERGY [R]EVOLUTION - A SUSTAINABLE WORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK.
• 15 Jun 08 NewSci ($): Ocean seeding fails the acid test + Ocean changes may trigger US megadrought
• 15 Jun 08 Universe Today: Wilkins Ice Shelf Continues Break-up, Even During Winter.
• 14 Jun 08 ABC: Aust scientists call for urgent climate change action. JOINT STATEMENT: On global warming from scientists, politicians and commentators.
• 1 Jun 08 NewSci: Greenland ice lakes drain at speed of Niagara Falls - [comment] As well as the enormous erosional power of water having fallen 1 kilometre, I suspect that the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy (heat) will accelerate the action underneath the ice (but then, maybe not - see comment 189) . See this example of erosion in Luzerne, Switzerland.
• 26 May 08 BBC:  Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice.
• 15 May 08 NewSci: Australian budget tackles environment concerns [at last!]
• 15 May 08 BBC: Ice cores reveal climate secrets - The amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is higher than an any other point in the past 800,000 years.
• 1 May 08 BBC:  Nuclear's CO2 cost 'will climb'.
• 25 Apr 08 NewSci: 'Planetary sunshade' could strip ozone layer by 76% + Arctic currents may be warming the world
• 26 Mar 08 BBC:  Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread' +  Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'
• 25 Feb 08 NewSci ($): Crystal sponges capture carbon emissions
• 25 Feb 08 BBC: Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean.
• 5 Feb 08 Universe Today: Earth's climate will slip past "tipping point" within 100 years.
• 5 Feb 08 BBC: Climate set for 'sudden shifts'.
• 18 Dec 07 BBC: Rising seas 'to beat predictions'
• 17 Dec 07 Daily Telegraph: [Australian Senator] Penny Wong's way is the right way for Bali roadmap.
• 17 Dec 07 BBC: US sets terms for climate talks
• 7 Dec 07 NewSci ($): Solar power: The future's bright + Ancient flood brought Gulf Stream to a halt
• 5 Dec 07 SciAm ($): Making Carbon Markets Work
• 1 Dec 07 NewSci ($): Economics demands action on climate change + When is an expert not an expert? + The bog barons: Indonesia's carbon catastrophe + Drought-hit Australia votes to go green + Editorial: Can we tackle climate change and still be fair?
• 27 Nov 07 SciAm: State of the Science: Beyond the Worst Case Climate Change Scenario + 10 Solutions for Climate Change + Climate Change Impacts +  Clash [debate]: What Will Climate Change Cost Us?
• Earth in Heat: 10 Views of a Warming World 5 hours ago
• 25 Nov 07 SMH: Kevin Rudd claims victory in federal election - although not prominently reported in the papers, one of Mr Rudd's first commitments in his victory speech was to sign the Kyoto Protocol BUT "His Government cannot be certain of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol or scrapping WorkChoices until the second half of next year, as both policies are keenly opposed by the conservatives [who will control the Senate until July 2008]."
• 23 Nov 07 Science ($!): How Urgent Is Climate Change?
• 17 Nov 07 ABC: Global warming could be irreversible: IPCC.
• 16 Nov 07ABC: Liquid coal for cars 'dirtier' than petrol. 
• 15 Nov 07 SMH: Greenhouse gases: proof we [Australians] are up with the worst polluters + Climate change to take just years.
• 14 Nov 07 SciAm ($): Sustainable Developments: Meaningful Goals for Climate Talks + Enough Hot Air Already + Making Carbon Markets Work.
• 7 Nov 07 BBC: [UK] Climate bill's 60% emission cut.
• 5 Nov 07 BBC: Most ready for 'green sacrifices'
• 3 Nov 07 NewSci: Shrinking ice means Greenland is rising fast.
• 29 Oct 07 New Scientist ($): An inconvenient voice- interview with Bjørn Lomborg, author of the The Sceptical Environmentalist", who agrees that climate change "is definitely a problem" but he questions the priorities for addressing the problem..."If we imposed a $2 tax on [carbon] emissions it wouldn't change our economies very much, but it could raise $50 billion for R&D."
• 24 Oct 07 BBC: 'Unexpected growth' in CO2 found.
• 22 Oct 07 ABC: Dr Karl's party vows to 'keep the bastards focused' - prominent scientist running for the Australian Senate.
• 22 Oct 07 Nature Blog: Nine slaps on the wrist for Al Gore - the scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming is now overwhelming
• 13 Oct 07 ABC: Gore 'deeply honoured' by Nobel prize.
• 13 Oct 07 BBC: Gore climate film's 'nine errors' - in this ruling an 'error' seems to be regarded as a statement that is not supported by a large majority of scientists.
• 28 Sep 07 SMH: Climate warning issued to Australia + [Australian Government] Climate strategy a disaster: study.
• 8 Sep 07 Manly Daily: `Corso a waterway' - coastal councils face environmental and economic ruin from climate change and its flow-on effects with Manly set to be one of the worst hit, a new report has found.  [this also confirms confirms vulnerability to tsunami]
• 23 Aug 07 ABC: In conversation - Nigel Calder (climate change skeptic)
• 12 Aug 07ABC Science Show (19/5/07): Energy from hot rocks - an example of the hurdles for innovators.
• 10 Aug 07 NewSci ($): [minor] Global warming and cooling linked to the sunspot cycle.
• 9 Aug 07 Scientific American: ($) The Physical Science behind Climate Change - Why are climatologists so highly confident that human activities are dangerously warming the earth?  + Worse Than Gasoline - Liquid coal would produce roughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline
• 8 Aug 07 Newsweek: The Truth About Denial 
• 5 Aug 07 NewSci: Asia's brown clouds heat the Himalayas - We found that the brown cloud enhanced lower atmospheric solar heating by around 50 per cent + Dirty Power (not online) - toxic emissions from coal-fired power stations.
• 27 Jul 07 NewSci: Huge sea level rises are coming – unless we act now - I find it almost inconceivable that "business as usual" climate change will not result in a rise in sea level measured in metres within a century. Am I the only scientist who thinks so?... It seems to me that scientists downplaying the dangers of climate change fare better when it comes to getting funding... James Hansen heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Last year he made headlines when he spoke out against attempts by the US administration to gag climate scientists.
• 20 Jul 07 NewSci: Melting glaciers will dominate sea-level rise.
• 19 Jul 07 NewSci: Australia announces 'cap and trade' CO2 scheme.
• 18 Jul 07 NewSci ($): Editorial by Australian-of-the-Year Tim Flannery: Australia - not such a lucky country - Australia must ratify the Kyoto protocol and agitate globally for a swift and decisive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Our best theories show that Australia is suffering early and disproportionately from climate change. As one of the two renegade developed nations not to have ratified the treaty (the other is the US), and as the world's worst per capita emitter of CO2, some may say that Australia deserves its fate. If it is to save itself from even more severe climate impacts the country needs to change its ways, and fast + Australia - the continent that ran dry
• 18 Jul 07 SMH: Quake-hit nuclear plant ordered to stay shut. Update BBC: Japan admits greater nuclear leak.
• 14 Jul 07 SciAm ($): Warmer Oceans, Stronger Hurricanes - Evidence is mounting that global warming enhances a cyclone's damaging winds and flooding rains + The Limited Appeal of Nuclear Energy.
• 8 Jun 07 NewSci ($): US loath to give up gas guzzlers + US Southwest could be heading for a megadrought
• 8 Jun 07 ABC: G8 agrees on climate goal of halving emissions by 2050 + Holden pledges move beyond fossil fuel cars
• 5 Jun 07 BBC: China unveils climate change plan + UN warning over global ice loss.
• 2 Jun 07 SA Govt: Energy deal highlights hot rocks potential + ABC: Hot rocks could get a big boost - The Australian Labor Party (ALP) this week pledged to provide A$50 million to help fund companies to drill for geothermal energy if it is elected this year... One reason why drilling rigs are so expensive is because they are also used by the oil and gas industry and the resources boom in Australia has increased demand for the equipment.
• 30 May 07 Universe Today: Snow Melt is on the Rise in Greenland.
• 22 May 07 SMH: Australia's carbon dioxide emissions twice world rate.
• 18 May 07 New Scientist: Antarctic surface thaw 'most significant' in 30 years + Climate change: A guide for the perplexed.
• 6 May 07 Scientific American: Climate Change Is Happening, Effects Will Be Severe, Now What Will It Cost to Fix It?
• 6 May 07 New Scientist: Costs of stabilising global warming 'negligible'.
• 30 Apr 07 SpaceDaily: Climate Catastrophes In The Solar System - Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes. In the effort to combat global warming, our neighbours can provide valuable insights into the way climate catastrophes affect planets.
• 25 Apr 07 SMH (public holiday!): Howard undermined on climate -  he CSIRO had told Mr Howard's emissions trading task group last month that most studies agreed developed countries needed to cut emissions by 60 to 90 per cent to avoid "dangerous" climate change.
• 25 Apr 07 CNN: Ford CEO Believes Earth Is Warming Due To Greenhouse Gases.
• 7 Apr 07 (during the Easter break!) ABC: Aust to 'suffer extensively' from climate change + Droughts to worsen as Earth heats up, report warns + Children to bear brunt of global warming: report + BBC: Billions face climate change risk + Climate change around the world (clickable map) + IPCC report: Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability [547KB] + SMH: Barrier Reef 'could be dead in 20 years' - "If we take it seriously and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in the next 30 years, we have chance of saving these ecosystems but this is the last time we have the option to choose." + Yahoo: US acknowledges 'challenge' of climate change.
• 4 Apr 07 BBC: Farewell to a melting glacier - Chacaltaya could be as much as 18,000 years old, but it has lost 80% of its area in the last 20 years.
• 28 Mar 07 SMH: Stern words for Australia - slash emissions now + Climate change: Life on Earth but not as we know it.
• 26 Mar 07 BBC: Al Gore makes global warming plea + Philadelphia Inquirer editorial: Global Warming:Change is in the air in Washington + NYT: Gore Warns Congress of ‘Planetary Emergency’.
• 25 Mar 07 Scientific American: Antarctic melting may be speeding up +  Conservative Climate - Consensus document may understate the climate change problem + Hot Rocks - Geothermal power plants could supply the energy needs of the U.S. thousands of times over...
• 25 Mar 07 New Scientist ($): Climate with care - The article and editorial about David Wasdell's review of the contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contain several wrong statements and false claims (10 March, p 10 and p 5). As coordinating lead authors (CLAs) of this report we wish to correct these.... + Former White House aide defends climate fudge + What's behind the big polar meltdown? + Al Gore rallies US Congress over climate.
• 18 Mar 07 Yahoo: U.S. odd man out in [G8] climate consensus.
• 16 Mar 07 BBC: Winter warmth breaks all records.
• 16 Mar 07 New Scientist: Catalyst could help turn CO2 into fuel + Cheap coal threat to global climate + Fake fights are not helping climate science ($) 
• 16 Mar 07 Science ($): Momentous Changes at the Poles - special issue
• 15 Mar 07 SMH: [Australian Federal Minister] Minchin denies climate change man-made 
• 14 Mar 07 SMH: Scientists have inconvenient news for Gore (but many of the criticisms are based on misquotes and out-of-context comments)
• 13 Mar 07 New Scientist ($): Look, no carbon footprint! - it is often impossible to be sure that money invested in carbon offsetting makes the difference that is claimed for it.
• 10 Mar 07 ABC: EU summit adopts energy-climate strategy.
• 8 Mar 07 NewSci ($): Climate report 'was watered down' - "I was astounded at the alterations that were imposed by government agents during the final stage of review. The evidence of collusional suppression of well-established and world-leading scientific material is overwhelming." + Meridian: Political Corruption of the IPCC Report?
• 1 Mar 07 ABC Science Show: The changing view on climate change.
• 27 Feb 07 ABC: The Denial Machine.
• 23 Feb 07 Geodynamics: Geodynamics acquires Lightning Rig to power hot rocks drilling. Video.
• 22 Feb 07 The Age: Top boffin behind Howard change - AUSTRALIA'S Chief Scientist, Jim Peacock, has emerged as a key player urging Prime Minister John Howard to change his tune on global warming.
  He sent a strongly worded letter to Mr Howard before Christmas, saying Australia had to "drastically reduce the current and future emission load".
• 21 Feb 07 SMH: International group sets plan to curb global warming.
• 11 Feb 07 ABC 7.30 Report: Turnbull, Garrett debate climate change. - "...it's extraordinary that we in Australia have missed ten years, knowing that this problem was real and that we haven't acted upon it."
• 10 Feb 07 ABC: Branson, Gore launch carbon cutting prize.
• 8 Feb 07 ABC Lateline: Tony Jones speaks with Australian of the Year Professor Tim Flannery, on the issue of climate change - "You know what China said two days ago? They're not going to rein in their emissions because the big polluters like the USA and Australia haven't ratified Kyoto, and why should they take up the challenge when we haven't addressed it...There are hot rocks in South Australia that potentially have enough embedded energy in them to run Australia's economy for the best part of a century. They are not being fully exploited yet but the technology to extract that energy and turn it into electricity is relatively straightforward...we need a large investment in both solar-thermal and geothermal technologies, because both have huge potential in this area to produce abundant cheap electricity and they don't have the sort of problem we have with nuclear."
• 7 Feb 07 BBC: Stern assumptions 'implausible'.
• 4 Feb 07 SMH: We've wrecked the weather, Stern says + Sweden shuts down 40% of nuke reactors (Four out of Sweden's 10 nuclear reactors were offline on Saturday because of safety worries...) + PM makes case for nuclear power (again, no mention of geothermal!)
• 2 Feb 07 NewSci: Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind. IPCC Report due soon.
• 2 Feb 07 Guardian: Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study.
• 2 Feb 07 NewSci: Suppressing the science of climate change.
• 2 Feb 07 BBC: Warming 'very likely' human-made.
• 1 Feb 07 ABC: Sydney given 'doomsday' climate change warning - CSIRO: Projecting the cost impact of climate change action - "cutting greenhouse gas emissions through targeted policy action will not adversely affect Australian living standards..." + ECOS magazine (large PDFs): The economic impacts of deep cuts to Australia's greenhouse emissions + The Gore factor - Reviewing the impact of An Inconvenient Truth.
• 30 Jan 07 Sunday Times: Last warning: 10 years to save world.
• 30 Jan 07 BBC: Glaciers melt, climate talks open.
• 30 Jan 07 Geophys. Res. Lett ($): Snowmelt detection over the Greenland ice sheet from SSM/I brightness temperature daily variations - "Long-term results show that snowmelt extent has been increasing at a rate of ∼40,000 Km2 per year for the past 14 years..."
• 29 Jan 07 New Scientist: Hot clean power under our feet - geothermal energy "a conservative estimate of the energy extractable from the hot rocks less than 10 kilometres beneath American soil suggests that this almost completely untapped energy resource could support US energy consumption, at its current clip, for more than two millennia to come..." + MIT: Panel backs 'heat mining' as key U.S. energy source.
• 18 Jan 07 BBC: Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock'.
• 12 Jan 07 New Scientist ($): A bank for wind power - A last we can store vast amounts of wind energy and use it when we need it,
• 11 Jan 07 BBC: Chrysler [CEO] questions climate change.
• 5 Jan 07 BBC: 2007 to be 'warmest on record'.
• 5 Jan 07 New Scientist: Collapse of civilisations linked to monsoon changes.
• 4 Jan 07 Scientific American: Climate change faster in Australia: scientists.
• 2 Jan 07 Real Climate: American Geophysical Union Vs American Association of Petroleum Geologists - discussion of climate change skeptics
• 2 Jan 07 BBC: Huge Arctic ice break discovered.
• 9 Dec 06 SMH: Gore in bid to 'freeze' carbon emissions
• 9 Dec 06 New Scientist (archives): Geothermal power plants could also consume CO2 + It's time to plug into renewable power + Underground power hots up.
• 9 Dec 06 SMH: Rock star of climate change frozen out [Sir Nicholas Stern]
• 7 Dec 06 Science: Global Warming Blues - The web of life in Earth's oceans may rest on a more delicate balance than anyone had imagined...
• 5 Dec 06 CSIRO: The heat is on: the future of energy in Australia - report on the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "Australia has some of the best reserves of hot dry rocks in the world, offering prospects for a plentiful supply of energy..."
• 2 Dec 06 New Scientist: Climate change sceptics lose vital argument + Australian coal mine blocked over climate impact.
• 30 Nov 06 Playfuls: Global Warming Comes Before US Highest Court.
• 22 Nov 06 SMH: Can't have yellow cake and eat it too - "...alternative base load power sources such as geothermal, are being ignored...."
• 21 Nov 06: Uranium mining, Processing and Nuclear energy —  Opportunities for Australia? - government report that makes token references to geothermal energy and ignores it as a potential source of "baseload" electricity (page 127).
• 16 Nov 06 SMH: Greenhouse alternative will fail, says Gore.
• 4 Nov 06 BBC: Greenhouse gases hit record high.
• 2 Nov 06 RealClimate: Ocean Circulation: New evidence (Yes), slowdown (No) - Sometimes journalists are so focused on a particular story that they 'hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest'... in this case the degree of 'noise' implies that no conclusions about trends in North Atlantic currents over recent decades can be supported.
• 30 Oct 06 BBC: Global warming 'threat to growth' - Global warming could cut the world's annual economic output by as much as 20%... at the very best the cost of tackling global warming would be 1% of annual economic output. [the main problem appears to be whose 20% and whose 1%!]
• 29 Oct 06 Safe "nuclear" power with no waste! Tapping into vast reserves of heat from radioactive decay 4km underground - Geodynamics tries luck with hot rocks + South Australian Government + Hot rocks may be future power source + Geodynamics Limited 
• 26 Oct 06 Cosmos Magazine: False dawn of solar power "those who think we can completely rely on them in the future are dreaming" + ENERGY ON THE ROCKS - "Australia is sitting on energy reserves as vast as Saudi Arabia. What's more, they're renewable" + EARTH'S EVIL TWIN - "Venus is a twin sister of Earth - but a runaway greenhouse effect has turned it into a hellish place. Could it happen here..."
• 19 Oct 06 SMH: Don't leave it to the politicians - David Suzuki [has branded John Howard] an international outlaw whose decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change will be seen as a "crime against future generations".
• 10 Oct 06 SciAm: Rising seas could leave millions homeless in Asia 
• 10 Oct 06 CSIRO: Climate change and the risk to water supply 
• 1 Oct 06 SciAm: Impact from the Deep - Strangling heat and gases emanating from the earth and sea, not asteroids, most likely caused several ancient mass extinctions. Could the same killer-greenhouse conditions build once again?  "Most troubling, however, is the question of whether our species has anything to fear from this mechanism in the future: If it happened before, could it happen again? Although estimates of the rates at which carbon dioxide entered the atmosphere during each of the ancient extinctions are still uncertain, the ultimate levels at which the mass deaths took place are known. The so-called thermal extinction at the end of the Paleocene began when atmospheric CO2 was just under 1,000 parts per million (ppm). At the end of the Triassic, CO2 was just above 1,000 ppm. Today with CO2 around 385 ppm, it seems we are still safe. But with atmospheric carbon climbing at an annual rate of 2 ppm and expected to accelerate to 3 ppm, levels could approach 900 ppm by the end of the next century, and conditions that bring about the beginnings of ocean anoxia may be in place..."
• 22 Sep 06 ClimateCrisis.Net: Al Gore's AN INCONVIENIENT TRUTH is a must see film.
• 15 Sep 06 ABC: Arctic ice shrink a sign of greenhouse effect: scientists.
• 6 Sep 06 BBC: Deep ice tells long climate story - Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms.
• 3 Sep 06 ABC: Average daily temperatures continuing to increase: scientist - the scientific consensus is that average daily temperatures will increase by as much as 5.8 degrees over the next century.
• 3 Sep 06 BBC: Top scientist's fears for climate - if the current pace of change continued, a catastrophic sea level rise of 4m (13ft) this century was within the realm of possibility
• 28 Aug 06 ABC: Howard rejects warning on greenhouse emissions - Prime Minister John Howard has dismissed calls for Australia to cut its greenhouse emissions by 60 per cent by 2050 in order to combat the effects of global warming.
• 11 Aug 06 NewSci (subs): Greenland ice cap may be melting at triple speed + Burying CO2 may solve the problem.
• 11 Aug 06 Fleet News: Tax hike for fuel guzzlers backed - [UK] charge no vehicle excise duty for the cleanest cars, but increasing in six £300 bands to a top rate of £1,800. It also calls for a reduction in the 70mph motorway speed limit. See also NSW govt Green Vehicles Guide.
• 17 Jul 06 SciAm: What You Need to Know About Climate Change.
• 14 Jul 06 NewSci: Carbon dioxide's great underground escape in doubt.
• 7 Jul 06 SciAm: The Political Brain - Michael Shermer describes MRI studies of the brain that have revealed how the brain suppresses the rational, reasoning portion of the brain in favour of emotions that reinforce confirmation bias - "whereby we seek and find confirmatory evidence in support of already existing beliefs and ignore or reinterpret disconfirmatory evidence". It seems that  climate change is an emotive issue and that our genetic disposition is working against our interests.
• 7 Jul 06 BBC: Climate change 'real and severe'.
• 4 Jul 06 BBC: Global warming: Crisis for Earth?
• 27 May 06 SciAm: Warming Atmosphere Expands Tropics + The Flipping Point - How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip
• 23 May 06 ABC: Earth-solar cycle spurs greenhouse gases: studies.
• 19 May 06 SMH: Campaign to discredit wind blows to NSW.
• 18 May 06 Nature: Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability.
• 13 May 06 New Scientist: Mikhail Gorbachev: My route to green - "We cannot go on like this!"  - MANIFESTO FOR THE EARTH
• 6 May 06 SMH: Wake up while you can still smell the roses + Electricity sector can slash emissions - Australia's electricity sector could cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030 and still meet growing demand, a new report has found.
• 4 May 06 BBC: 'Clear' human impact on climate - A report funded by the US government finds "clear evidence" of human-induced climate change.
• 3 May 06 ABC: Cut greenhouse emissions for 43c a week - A new report has found that the average Australian could pay as little as 43 cents per week to significantly cut greenhouse emissions.
• 7 Apr 06 WP: Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House.
• 2 Apr 06 SciAm: Climate Model Predicts Greater Melting, Submerged Cities.
• 25 Mar 06 BBC: Sea rise could be 'catastrophic'
• 20 Mar 06 NewSci: The great hockey stick debate (preview) - What counts in science is not a single study, however. It is whether a finding can be replicated by other groups. Here Mann is on a winning streak: upwards of a dozen studies, some using different statistical techniques or different combinations of proxy records (excluding the bristlecone record, for instance), have produced reconstructions more or less similar to the original hockey stick...
• 9 Mar 06 National Geographic: End of Cheap Oil.
• 2 Mar 06 BBC: Consensus grows on climate change.
• 17 Feb 06 TerraDaily: Ancient Climate Studies Suggest Earth On Fast Track To Global Warming.
  
• 17 Feb 06 NASA JPL: Greenland Ice Loss Doubles in Past Decade, Raising Sea Level Faster
• 17 Feb 06 NewSci: Disappearing deltas could spell disaster - Eight million people living on six major river deltas stand to lose everything to rising sea levels, sinking land and storms + Increased CO₂ may cause plant life to raise rivers
• 17 Feb 06 BBC: Greenland ice swells ocean rise + Legal case against US on climate.
  
• 11 Feb 06 TerraDaily: Frozen Methane Chunks Not Responsible For Abrupt Increases In Atmospheric Methane.
  
• 11 Feb 06 BBC: Climate 'warmest for millennium'.
  
• 9 Feb 06 Nature: Volcanoes and climate: Krakatoa's signature persists in the ocean - This huge eruption slowed sea-level rise and ocean warming well into the following century.
  
• 3 Feb 06 Nature: Has NASA's press office gone too far? (climate change censorship?)
  
• 31 Jan 06 ABC: Polar ice sheets could start to melt this century, study warns
• 30 Jan 06 ABC: Claims US gagging climate expert
• 28 Jan 06 BBC: Sea level rise 'is accelerating'
  
• 27 Jan 06 NewSci: 2005 was the warmest year on record.
  
• 27 Jan 06 ABC: [Australian Governor General] G-G calls for action on global warming
• 23 Jan 06 NSW Greenhouse Office: Climate Action Grants for 2006.
  
• 20 Jan 06 TerraDaily: Global Warming - The Blame Is Not With The Plants.
  
• 19 Jan 06 Nature: Low[er] sea level rise projections from mountain glaciers and icecaps under global warming.
  
• 10 Jan 06 SpaceDaily: Delhi Gets First Winter Ice In 70 Years.
  
• 6 Jan 06 Manly Daily: Our shrinking paradise - MANLY beach stands to lose 10m in width in the next 25 years due to global warming, scientists have warned + Tropical diseases warning - RISING global temperatures could introduce insect-borne diseases to NSW, traditionally associated with the sub-tropics.
• 21 Dec 05 NASA: NASA's Grace Finds Greenland Melting Faster.
  
• 16 Dec 05 Daily Telegraph: Climate, storms 'hit extremes' in 2005
• 16 Dec 05 BBC: 2005 warmest ever year in north.
  
• 9 Dec 05 BBC: Last-minute climate deals reached - Ministers at Montreal's climate change conference agree to long-term talks on measures to cut gas emissions.
• 8 Dec 05 ABC: Aust's greenhouse gas output rising Australia continues to increase its output of greenhouse gas emissions with the energy sector the biggest polluter.
• 7 Dec 05 GPC (abs): The recent warming of permafrost in Alaska.
  
• 1 Dec 05 BBC: Ocean changes to cool Europe - Changes to ocean currents in the Atlantic may bring colder weather to Europe within a few decades, scientists say.
• 29 Nov 05 Telegraph: Reef could be dead in 50yrs: expert
• 25 Nov 05 BBC: Greenhouse gases at historic high - Ice probes from the Antarctic show greenhouse gas levels much higher than at any time in half a million years. Science: Late Pleistocene Air - The results confirm that the modern atmosphere is highly anomalous and reinforce the view that greenhouse gases and climate are intimately related.
  
• 24 Nov 05 Catalyst: Real Oil Crisis...Fifty percent of the people in the audience put up their hand saying that they believe we’re at peak oil and these are practicing petroleum industry professionals.
• 14 Nov 05 ABC: Warming up - Australia is on track to record its hottest year since official records began.
• 3 Nov 05 ABC: Volcanoes lower sea level - Volcanic eruptions can mask some of the effects of climate change by lowering sea levels...
  
• 28 Oct 05 BBC: Climate study shows Europe risks.
  
• 19 Oct 05 NewSci: Antarctic glaciers calving faster into the ocean
• 18 Oct 05 NG: No Winter by 2105? Study Offers Grim U.S. Forecast
• 7 Oct 05 BBC: Animals 'hit by global warming'.
• 7 Oct 05 NewSci: Climate doesn't swing to the rhythm of the sun (subs) + Satellite to provide new test of global warming threat
  
• 22 Sep 05 ABC: Report predicts global warming's deadly impact - A new report forecasts that within 100 years 15,000 Australians could die each year from heat-related illness if greenhouse gas emissions are not dramatically reduced.
• 12 Aug 05 ABC: Key claims against global warming melt away -  Three new research papers debunk earlier research that showed the planet was not warming up...one satellite used to collect the data was not properly calibrated.
  
• 12 Aug 05 NewSci: Climate warning as Siberia melts - The world's largest frozen peat bog - a million square kilometres -
  is melting, according to Russian researchers just back from the area
  
• 6 Aug 05 PhysOrg.com: Antarctic losing ice at historic pace
• 30 Jul 05 Universe Today: Super Climate Simulation Models Oceans, Ice, Land and Atmosphere
• 29 Jul 05 Nature: Amazon basin blues.
  
• 29 Jul 05 BBC: EU pushes binding climate deal - The European Union says it will push for legally binding global restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.
  
• 28 Jul 05 SMH: Australia looks beyond Kyoto with new pact - A new pact between Australia, the US, India, China and South Korea aims to develop technology to reduce damaging greenhouse gas emissions..."The secret pact's five member countries include four of the world's biggest coal producers..."
  
• 26 Jun 05 SMH: 'Too late to save fragile ecosystems' (from effects of global warming) + 6-degree rise in temperatures forecast
• 25 Jul 05 Science: Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior by Paul R. Ehrlich and Donald Kennedy
  
• 17 Jul 05 ABC: Tasmanian coral reef 'proof of global warming'
• 11 Jul 05 BBC: Stalagmite fuels climate debate + Sir Edmund urges climate care
• 9 Jul 05 BBC:  G8 calls for new climate dialogue. Govt release.
  
• 9 Jul 05 Universe Today: Seas are Rising Faster than Ever
• 8 Jul 05 BBC: G8 prepares climate change statement
• 8 Jul 05 Science: Penetration of Human-Induced Warming into the World's Oceans.
  
• 1 Jul 05 Nature: Energy:  China's burning ambition.
  
• 1 Jul 05 NewSci: Clearing smoke may trigger global warming rise
• 14 Jun 05 BBC: Volcanoes curb wetland emissions.
  
• 10 Jun 05 NewSci: Global warming is a 'clear and increasing threat' + Melting permafrost pulls plug on Arctic lakes.
  
• 8 Jun 05 BBC: World scientists urge CO2 action.
  
• 5 Jun 05 ABC (Aust) : Planet destruction shown in UN atlas + UN: “One Planet Many People” Atlas Launched to Mark World Environment Day 2005. Purchase book.
  
• 5 Jun 05 SciAm (payment reqd!): Doubt Is Their Product - To fight off government regulation, industry groups sometimes manufacture uncertainty about solid scientific findings
• 2 Jun 05 ABC: Global warming to boost world hunger, UN
• 1 Jun 05 CANA: Campaign for greener electricity generation in New South Wales.
  
• 27 May 05 BBC: Industry chiefs' environment plea - Britain's leading industrialists write to the prime minister demanding long-term policies to combat climate change.
  
• 11 May 05 SciAm: Earth Holding On to Sun's Heat, Study Suggests.
  
• 2 May 05 ABC: Australia swelters through April - Australia has just experienced its warmest April on record.
• 29 Apr 05 SpaceDaily: Greenhouse Effect Confirmed By New NASA Ocean Study.
  
• 24 Apr 05 BBC: Antarctic glaciers show retreat .
  
• 6 Apr 05 SpaceDaily: Canada, giant car makers sign global warming pact
• 1 Apr 05 BBC: Carbon dioxide continues its rise.
• 30 Mar 05 Live Science: Soot Could Hasten Melting of Arctic Ice.
  
• 30 Mar 05 SciAm: Climate Models Reveal Inevitability of Global Warming.
  
• 18 Mar 05 Science: Climate's Point of No Return + Thermal Inertia and Climate
• 18 Mar 05 Apocalypse No: Assessing Catastrophic Climate Change - (PDF) Proceedings of the Scientific Alliance Conference, Royal Institution, 27 January 2005.
  
• 14 Mar 05 BBC: Himalayan glaciers 'melting fast'
• 14 Mar 05 Yahoo: EU Ministers Want Tough Post-Kyoto Emissions Target + Australian Scientists Prove Less Trees, Less Rain
• 6 Mar 05 Science (regn): Extracting a Climate Signal from 169 Glacier Records - graphs show dramatic receding of glaciers over a century.
  
• 25 Feb 05 SpaceDaily: Science Advances Detection And Attribution Of Climate Change + Global Warming Led To Atmospheric Hydrogen Sulfide And Permian Extinction.
• 25 Feb 05 NewSci: Hydroelectric power's dirty secret - in 1990 the greenhouse effect of emissions from the Curuá-Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more than three-and-a-half times what would have been produced by generating the same amount of electricity from oil.
  
• 23 Feb 05 SciAm: Behind the Hockey Stick.
• 23 Feb 05 Realclimate.org - new website that responds to critics of climate change theory.
  
• 21 Feb 05 BBC; Greenhouse gases 'warm oceans'
• 21 Feb 05 Fleet News: ‘Green label’ push to companies - All 42 car brands in the UK have signed up to the voluntary display of the colour-coded environment label in showrooms. DfT: DARLING UNVEILS CLEANER VEHICLE LABELLING SCHEME (with sample label)
• 21 Feb 05 ABC: Claim global warming threatens Australia's water supply - One prediction is that by the year 2080 Australia will only have 50 per cent of the surface water that it has at the moment...
  
• 20 Feb 05 SpaceDaily: Researchers Find Clear Evidence Of Human-Produced Warming In World's Oceans
• 17 Feb 05 (Kyoto ratified - despite US and Australia): Global warming pictures &  photos by Gary Braasch
• 11 Feb 05 Science (regn): Millennium's Hottest Decade Retains Its Title, for Now.
  
• 5 Feb 05 : International symposium on the stabilisation of greenhouse gases - Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, UK
  Report of the Steering Committee, 3 Feb 2005
  
• 4 Feb 05 NewSci: Antarctic ice sheet is an 'awakened giant'.
  
• 4 Feb 05 [UK] Daily Telegraph: Capturing carbon may be answer to global warming.
• 4 Feb 05 BBC: Scientists' grim climate report
• 3 Feb 05 BBC: Antarctic's ice 'melting faster' + Africans 'worst-hit by warming'
• 1 Feb 05 BBC: Scientists assess climate dangers.
  
• 1 Feb 05 LiveScience: Global Warming May Kill Polar Bears, Scientists Say + Billion Dollar Weather Disasters.
  
• 30 Jan 05 Natuurwetenschap & Techniek: KYOTO PROTOCOL BASED ON FLAWED STATISTICS (but see the Science report of 11 Feb 05 that claims the data that the critics worked on was flawed)
  
• 29 Jan 05 Science: Panel Urges Unified Action, Sets 2{degrees} Target + Climate Modelers See Scorching Future as a Real Possibility.
• 29 Jan 05 The Guardian: Climate change impact disputed.
  
• 29 Jan 05 LiveScience: Study Ranks Countries by Environmental Sustainability
• 28 Jan 05 BBC: Science sceptics meet on climate.
  
• 27 Jan 05 Yahoo: Chirac proposes international tax to fight AIDS - French President Jacques Chirac called for an "experimental" international tax to help fund the war against AIDS, suggesting it could be raised via a levy on airline tickets, some fuels or financial transactions.
• 27 Jan 05 ABC: British researchers predict hot times ahead - Scientists in Britain researching the effects of global warming say average temperatures could rise far higher than previously predicted + BBC: Alarm at new climate warning
• 27 Jan 05 Nature: Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases.
  
• 24 Jan 05 Nature: Disaster conference - the United States is doggedly trying to get seven references to climate change withdrawn from an official UN document on disaster mitigation, calling it a "distraction" from overall goals. Other bodies - many of them - say that climate change is having a definite role in exacerbating natural disasters and so needs to be in the document. With pride on the line, debates between the United States, backed by Canada and Australia, and the EU-led forces, will likely go on into the night, creating bureaucratic bitterness as they go.
  
• 24 Jan 05 SMH: Global warming reaching point of no return: report
• 19 Jan 05 SciAm: Climate Change Desiccating the Planet, Researchers Conclude - The portion of our planet affected by serious drought has doubled in the last three decades, researchers report. Study results indicate that the fraction of global land characterized as "very dry" has increased from10 to 15 percent in the 1970s to nearly 30 percent in 2002.
• 29 Dec 04 BBC: Earth's permafrost starts to squelch
• 24 Dec 04 NewSci: Post-Kyoto climate negotiations look troubled.
  
• 22 Dec 04 BBC:  Europe 'can reach Kyoto target'.
  
• 22 Dec 04 Livescience.com: How Global Warming Can Chill the Planet + Scientists Warn of Global Warming Threat + Surprising Side Effects of Global Warming
• 19 Dec 04 BBC: Compromise seals climate meeting
• 16 Dec 04 BBC: Rising claims - Insurers join calls to stop 'experimenting' with the environment
• 16 Dec 04 SpaceDaily: Climate change threatens China food production.
  
• 15 Dec 04 ABC; [Australian] Govt wants to slow global warming The Federal Government says it is interested in slowing global warming, even though it has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
• 9 Dec 04 BBC: US rejects climate policy attacks.
  
• 6 Dec 04 BBC: Talks look for new climate effort
• 6 Dec 04 Nature: Human activity implicated in Europe's 2003 heat wave
• 6 Dec 04 ABC: Aust on target to meet greenhouse targets + SMH: Greenhouse gas: Australia won't sign Kyoto deal
• 5 Dec 04 Science (summary):  The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.
  
• 3 Dec 04 NASA: NASA Study Links Wind and Current Changes to Indian Ocean Warming
• 2 Dec 04 BBC: Emissions double heatwave risk + Nature (abstract):  Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003.
  
• 2 Dec 04 LAT: Record Cold Chills Southern California.
  
• 22 Nov 04 PointCarbon: Canada aims for Kyoto champion status
• 19 Nov 04 BBC: Start date set for Kyoto treaty - The Kyoto Protocol on climate change will become a legally-binding treaty on 16 February, the UN announces.
• 19 Nov 04 NewSci: Sunspot activity impacts on crop success.
  
• 18 Nov 04 SpaceDaily: In vino veritas: wine harvest yields truth on climate shifts
• 18 Nov 04 BBC: Climate change 'ruining' Everest
• 15 Nov 04 SMH: Living in an oven - Climate change will stretch fire and rescue services within decades as parts
   of NSW face 35 degree-plus temperatures for 100 days every year.
  
• 12 Nov 04 SpaceDaily: China Facing Increasing Pressure To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 11 Nov 04 BBC: Himalaya glaciers melt unnoticed
  
• 7 Nov 04 BBC: Antarctic food web under threat
• 5 Nov 04 NewSci: Arctic warming at twice global rate - Global warming in the region is in full swing, says the most
  comprehensive report yet, and the melting ice will have major impacts
  
• 4 Nov 04 BBC:  Climate gas cuts 'are affordable'
• 3 Nov 04 ABC: CO2 emissions will melt Arctic this century: report
• 3 Nov 04 AGU Annual Meeting: Climate Change sessions.
  
• 28 Oct 04 Sceince: An Effective Approach to Climate Change (subs)
  
• 28 Oct 04 Space.com: NASA Scientist: Bush Stifles Global Warming Evidence - The Bush administration is trying to stifle scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed + Sunspot Activity at 8,000-Year High
• 28 Oct 04 NewSci: Sunspots more active than for 8000 years - The Sun has been more energetic in the last 70 years than it has for the previous 8000 - but it is not to blame for recent global warming
  
• 27 Oct 04 Nature: Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years - ...the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.
  
• 27 Oct 04 Nature: Fuel-efficient cars enough to curb US greenhouse gases
• 26 Oct 04 SpaceDaily:  Greenhouse Gases Are The Most Threatening Weapons Of Mass Destruction. + Climate Drought Problems In The West
• 23 Oct 04 ABC: Russia ratifies Kyoto Protocol
• 22 Oct 04 ABC: Australia 'living beyond its means'
• 20 Oct 04 SpaceDaily: Coalition Warns About Human Cost Of Climate Change + Three Swept Away As Most Powerful Typhoon On Record Pounds Japan + France and Australia Resume Southern Ocean Carbon Dioxide Research
• 16 Oct 04 MIT: Global Warming Bombshell - A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics (CCNet).
  
• 15 Oct 04 Science (abstract):  To Hedge or Not Against an Uncertain Climate Future?
  
• 12 Oct 04 SMH: Scientist finds huge jump in global warming gas
• 10 Oct 04 Engineers Australia: Politicians made aware of engineers' views on greenhouse gas - Engineers Australia national president Doug Jones has called on federal politicians to take note of a recent survey of engineers that found most believe renewable energy and ratifying the Kyoto Protocol are the best options for managing greenhouse gas emissions (unfortunately it looks like the re-elected John Howard is not interested)
  
• 8 Oct 04 EurekaAlert: Study shows potential for Antarctic climate change
• 24 Sep 04 NewSci: Antarctic glaciers slipping faster into the sea + Global warming to devastate Europe first + Burp vaccine [for cattle] cuts greenhouse gas emissions
• 24 Sep 04 Science (abstract):  Accelerated Sea-Level Rise from West Antarctica -  local glaciers are discharging about 250 cubic km per year of ice to the ocean, almost 60% more than is accumulated within their catchment basins, and sufficient to raise sea level by more than 0.2 mm per year.
  
• 22 Sep 04 NASA: Glaciers Surge When Ice Shelf Breaks up - "If anyone was waiting to find out whether Antarctica would respond quickly to climate warming, I think the answer is yes,"
• 13 Sep 04 BBC: UK party leaders target climate.
  
• 11 Sep 04 Science (abstract): Climate Impact on Plankton Ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic.
  
• 8 Sep 04 SMH: Deluges and drought risk grows as state sweats + Climate change a deadly threat, Rio Tinto executive admits
• 8 Sep 04 BoM: Sydney's winter highest on record for daytime temperatures + Bureau figures reveal driest winter on record for parts of Queensland
• 7 Sep 04 SMH: By 2070 we'll be hotter, drier and thirstier + Carbon dioxide emissions could double in 50 years, says report + Why the Kyoto Protocol is essential to Australia's future (extracts from a talk by NSW Premier Bob Carr)
  
• 30 Aug 04 NYT: U.S. Report Turns Focus to Greenhouse Gases - In a striking shift in the way the Bush administration has portrayed the science of climate change, a new report to Congress focuses on federal research indicating that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are the only likely explanation for global warming over the last three decades.
• 19 Aug 04 Yahoo: Europe Is Warned of Changing Climate
  
• 19 Aug 04 Nature:  Impact of climate change on marine pelagic phenology and trophic mismatch (abs)
  
• 13 Aug 04 BBC: Heat waves set to become 'brutal' - Heat waves over the course of the 21st Century will be more intense, more frequent and longer lasting, US experts report in Science.
  
• 10 Aug 04 NewSci: Smart glass blocks infrared when heat is on - A chemical transition triggered by rising temperature blocks the sun's warmth, while letting light through.
  
• 3 Aug 04 BBC: Britons unsure of climate costs
• 28 Jul 04 NYT: Catching Up to the Cost of Global Warming (regn required)
• 28 Jul 04 NewSci: US states sue over global warming
  
• 16 Jul 04 AAAS: Climate experts urge immediate action to offset impact of global warming.
  
• 7 Jun 04 SpaceDaily: Britain's Blair to keep up pressure on US over Kyoto
• 28 Jun 04 Science Now: Rice Yields May Suffer as Earth Warms
• 19 Jun 04 SMH: Australia tops greenhouse pollution index
• 16 Jun 04 SMH: Coal remains king in solar age + Energy plan deflates hopes of green firms + Fuel tax on big trucks scrapped + Renewable energy crumb laced with poison - after starving renewable energy research of funds for years the Australian government tries to look green with a token handout. There is nothing to address the present tax incentives for heavy, high-consumption passenger vehicles.
  
• 4 Jun 04 BBC: World 'appeasing' climate threat - A distinguished British scientist says only a catastrophe will goad us into tackling the threat of climate change.
  
• 20 May 04 Nature: Global dimming' may stop the Earth overheating.
  
• 12 May 04 Yahoo: Wetter World Counters Greenhouse Gases -[Australian] Scientists - BUT complex feedback systems are very difficult to predict -see the CSIRO paper.
  
• 26 Mar 04 BBC: Ozone agreement faces challenge + Fishing relief for Barrier Reef- The Great Barrier Reef, situated off Queensland state in north-east Australia, injects an estimated A$1.5bn ($975m) into the economy each year through tourism and fishing. It is Australia's number one tourist destination, attracting a million visitors a year. - and it is under grave danger from global warming.
  
• 26 Mar 04 NewSci: Greenhouse gas level hits record high.
  
• 24 Mar 04 SpaceDaily:  The costs of climate change.
  
• 20 Mar 04 SciAm: Forces behind Devastating 'Dust Bowl' Drought Explained
• 14 Mar 04 NYT: G.E. Signals a Growing Interest in Solar
• 10 Mar 04 ABC: Audit reveals [Australian] greenhouse [spending] target shortfall [of $750 million! - this stinks of ineptitude or, more likely, polictical interference]
  
• 10 Mar 04 SpaceDaily: Climate Has History Of Fast Changes + Scientist Muzzled Over Global Warming.
  
• 7 Mar 04 BBC: 2003 [European] summer  hottest in 500 years
  
• 4 Mar 04 SpaceDaily: David Suzuki slams Australia over attitude to global warming.
  
• 27 Feb 04 NewSci: Great Barrier Reef to be decimated by 2050.
  
• Recommended reading 26 Feb 04 SciAm: Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb - payment required for full article!
  
• 22 Feb 04 BBC: Australia reef's days 'numbered'
  
• 22 Feb 04 UQ: UQ develops world-leading technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
• 18 Feb 04 SpaceDaily: Global Warming To Squeeze Western Mountains Dry By 2050 + Pacific Nation's Annual Swamping Revives Global Warming Debate
  
• 16 Feb 04 SMH: Climate change puts reefs in hot water
• 14 Feb 04 ABC: Australia 'awarded ' environmental booby prize - Australia has been awarded the first booby prize for environmental protection by the conservation group Greenpeace... Greenpeace said Australia was trying to "water down and undermine the whole program" to protect the diversity of life on earth from the ravages of human development.
• 14 Feb 04 Greenpeace: Where has all the ice gone? - The icefields in Patagonia are suffering from the fastest glacial retreat on Earth... + Impacts of climate change on glaciers around the world
• 3 Feb 04 BBC: Earth 'shook off' ancient warming
• 24 Jan 04 BBC: No cosmic ray climate effects - Human activities rather than cosmic rays are the main cause of global warming, scientists say.
• 21 Jan 04 SciAm: Climate Model Predicts More Long Hot Summers + Nature: The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves.
• 12 Jan 04 SMH: Greenhouse gas scheme gets the axe - The Australian Greenhouse Office is no more! (see its last major publication on 11 Dec, below)
  Australia has abandoned a major international measure aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions (more shame for Australians)
• 11 Jan 04 NewSci: Global warming threatens millions of species
  Climate change will mean one in four land animals and plants are on their way to extinction by 2050, predicts a major new study
• 11 Jan 04 BBC: Global warming 'biggest threat' - Climate change is a far greater threat to the world than terrorism, the government's chief scientific adviser says.
• 18 Dec 03 ABC Science Show: CSIRO & GREENHOUSE - reply to critics
  
• 12 Dec 03 SMH: WHO says climate change killing 150,000 a year + Climate warning on threat to India's coast
• 11 Dec 03 ABC: Govt accused of inaction on climate change - Australian Greenhouse Office: Climate change - An Australian Guide to the Science and Potential Impacts.
• 11 Dec 03 SMH: Australia and others urged to ratify Kyoto + Global warming could submerge three large Indian cities
  
• 5 Dec 03 NewSci: Global warming threatens ski resorts - Hundreds of ski resorts will go bust as rising temperatures push the
  snowline up to higher altitudes, warns a new report.
• 16 Nov 03 BBC: Global warming 'detected' in the US - from Science: Detection of a Human Influence on North American Climate.
  
• 6 Nov 03 Scoop: Record loss of ozone over Antarctica this year + Clue to climate change in Antarctic ice
• 6 Nov 03 SciAm: Climate Change Linked to Improved Vintages
• 8 Sep 03 Canberra Times: How climate change threatens that dream life on the coast - see link to CSIRO report. More droughts, water shortages, electricity black outs, no snow: how will climate change affect us?
• 29 Aug 03 NASA: SATELLITES MEASURE RISING SEAS - ...sea levels have been rising an average of 2.8 millimetres a year since observations began in 1992. Whether rising sea levels are caused by human impact or a natural cycle still isn't clear...
• 16 Aug 03 SpaceDaily: Global Warming Not Man-Made.
• 15 Aug 03 BBC: Coral nears the crisis point - the link between coral bleaching and increased climate change, "considered dubious by many reef researchers only 10 to 20 years ago, is now incontrovertible".
• 14 Aug 03 Nature: Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa. (abstract) Warming of surface waters and declining fish catches in Lake Tanganyika have been linked to global climate change. The impact of global warming on natural ecosystems may be starting to affect local economies.+ Climate-driven changes to the atmospheric CO2 sink in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean.
• 25 Jun 03 SciAm: CLAIM OF NONHUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING SPARKS DEBATE.
  
• 20 Jun 03 SMH: Global warming 'threatens Earth with mass extinction'.
  
• 17 Jun 03 AIMS: Wet tropics carbon sink? Are the wet tropics really a sink for carbon?
  
• 28 May 03 Nature: Feedback could warm climate fast.
  
• 16 May 03 Nature: GLOBAL WARMING'S LOCAL CROP IMPACTS FORECAST
  
• 16 May 03 CNN: Warming may double Australia deaths.
  
• 9 May 03 BBC: UK 'will make bigger greenhouse cuts'.
• 8 May 03 EPA of NSW: Clean Cars for NSW - green car rating system with tax incentives. Covers greenhouse and health emissions.
  
• 17 Apr 03 SpaceDaily: Fifty Arctic Lakes Show Dramatic Effects Of Climate Warming.
  
• 10 Apr 03 New Sci: Rising rivers set to wreck Bangladesh
  
• 8 Apr 03 BBC: UK beats greenhouse gas targets.
• 20 Mar 03 ABC: Russia set to sign Kyoto Protocol.
• 12 Mar 03 SciAm, March 2003: Data Points: Too Early Spring (not yet online) - has results of a meta-analysis of species migration that clearly shows a trend to global warming. Derived from Nature, 2 Jan 03.
• 12 Mar 03 BBC: Greenland cools as world warms.
• 28 Feb 03 ABC: GREENHOUSE CALCULATOR - Planet Slayer

How big a greenhouse pig are you? Use our greenhouse calculator to find out when you should have died so you don't use more than your fair share of the planet!
• 15 Feb 03 ESA: Greenhouse effects... also on other planets.
• 12 Feb 03 BBC: Greenhouse gases 'at record levels'.
• 11 Feb 03 BBC: Top scientists back nuclear power.
• 7 Feb 03 Age: [Rolling] Stones go green.
• 4 Feb 03 SciAm: Litigation becomes a tool against global warming.
• 4 Feb 03 Nature: Drought due to warmer tropical oceans. - The drought that gripped the United States, southern Europe and Southwest Asia between 1998 and 2002 was linked to ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans...Most climate scientists agree that the warming of the western Pacific is probably due to the increase in greenhouse-gas emissions in the past 50 years, and that the trend is likely to continue.
• 22 Jan 03 SpaceDaily: Long-Lost Records Confirm Rising Sea Level - "Our observations are consistent with the lower end of estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change..."
• 19 Jan 03 Nature: More heat, less light on Lomborg - A Danish committee has picked an appropriate target and misfired. + Cooling a continent - The effect of greenhouse gases on climate is underscored by modelling work showing that formation of the Antarctic ice sheet, 34 million years ago, occurred largely because of a fall in atmospheric CO2 concentration.
• 10 Jan 03 BBC: Polar bear 'extinct within 100 years'.
• 10 Jan 03 SpaceDaily: Danish Committee Cites Lomborg For Scientific Dishonesty (check CCNet for a brief response from Lomborg (9th Jan?). Also this SciAm article). Update 11 Jan : Lomborg Releases Defense Brief (SpaceDaily).
• 10 Jan 03 SpaceDaily: Global Warming Being Felt On Plants And Animals Worldwide
• 9 Jan 0 3 SciAm: Life on Earth Is Feeling the Heat.
• 6 Jan 03 BBC: Australia plans world's tallest tower ... a solar tower - in the middle of the outback [works by convection rather than solar panels]
• 6 Jan 03 Nature (login needed): Global warming: Fingerprint of climate change  ...there have been significant range shifts averaging 6.1 km per decade towards the poles, and that spring has advanced by 2.3 days per decade... A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural  systems + Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants.
• 18 Dec 02 New Sci: Canada ratifies Kyoto Protocol.
• 18 Dec 02 SpaceDaily: Prepare To Be Surprised By Future Climate Changes

World Takes Battering As Global Temperatures Rise Again 2002
Two-Thirds Of World Coral Reefs At Risk Says Report
Canada Finalizes Ratification Process For Kyoto
• 5 Dec 02 New Scientist: Arctic to lose all summer ice by 2100.
• 20 Nov 02 Environment Business Australia: The business case for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol [by Australia] - thanks Engineers Australia.
• 16 Sep 02 BBC: UK faces 'global warming disaster'.
• 16 Sep 02 SpaceDaily: Extreme cold over South Pole reveals global warming models are wrong + Drought could signal more ominous shift in Australian weather + Catholic bishops urge Australian government to ratify Kyoto.
• 22 Aug 02 Spacedaily: China Set To Ratify Kyoto Climate Treaty: Official.
• 11 Aug 02 IEAust: Australians top greenhouse gas emissions [again!] - Australia's level of emissions per person is 35% higher than that of the world's largest total polluter, the USA.
• 4 Jul 02 Nature: Shake-up for climate models.(CC)
• 24 Jun 02 BBC: Climate 'future  health threat'.
• 19 Jun 02 SpaceDaily: Fighting Global Warming Would Barely Dent The World's Economy. - meeting the terms of the Kyoto Protocol would mean industrialised countries "get 20 per cent richer by June 2010 rather than in January 2010".
• 8 Jun 02 New Scientist: Warming speeds ice sheet flow in weeks.
• 5 Jun 02 SpaceDaily: Australia under pressure to back Kyoto pact.
• 5 Jun 02 BBC: Japan ratifies Kyoto pact + Humans cause global warming, US admits.
• 5 Jun 02 Auto.com: Bush- Global climate report is bureaucratic hot air.  "I do not support the Kyoto treaty," said Bush, a former Texas oilman..The [EPA] document said that "."greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing global mean surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise."  Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will increase 43 percent between 2000 and 2020, the report said.
• 4 Jun 02 Yahoo: US Govt. Report Blames Humans for Global Warming - The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will increase significantly over the next two decades due mostly to human activities, but again rejected an international treaty to slow global warming.
• 4 Jun 02 SciAm: Rising Temperatures Tied to Flowers' Earlier Bloom.
• 2 Jun 02 ABC: WA's carbon trading plans under Kyoto pressure.
• 1 Jun 02 SpaceDaily: EU Ratifications Bring Kyoto Protocol Closer To Reality + Japan's Parliament Votes To Ratify Kyoto Climate Pact.
• 31 May 02 NSF: NEW CLIMATE STUDY CHALLENGES THINKING ON LARGE-SCALE, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE.
• 7 May 02 SciAm: Stronger Polar Winds May Be Cause of Antarctica's Mixed Climate Message.
• 29 Apr 02 The Age: UN warns of rising global-warming threat.
• 22 Apr 02 SpaceDaily: Gore hammers Bush's environmental, energy policies - this administration has consistently sold out America's future in return for short-term political gain
• 20 Apr 02 New Scientist: Massive coral bleaching strikes Great Barrier Reef - "global warming is a key underlying factor" + Flood disaster threatens Himalayas [glaciers melting due to global warming]
• 20 Apr 02: Skepticism toward The Skeptical Environmentalist - see the numerous links.
• 3 Apr 02 BBC: Emissions trading launches in UK.
• 1 Apr 02 SMH: Pollution trade-off plan for park land.
• 22 Feb 02 Nature: Link between climate and malaria broken - Africa's malaria resurgence isn't down to global warming.
• 20 Feb 02 CSIRO: Global climate shift linked to greenhouse - New evidence is emerging that greenhouse gases may have tipped the world into a changed climate pattern, say CSIRO researchers.
• 5 Feb 02 ABC: Govt must sign on to Kyoto: report.
• 5 Feb 02 SpaceDaily: The Cloudy Nature Of Climate Change + Canada to ratify Kyoto protocol this year: deputy (leaving USA and Australia as the pariah nations) + Finland tops the world on environment - Columbia Uni press release and RANKINGS (Australia is 13th out of 142 - surprisingly good given the poor Greenhouse performance)
• 4 Feb 02 Nature: More floods to come. Extreme winter rainfall will become five times more likely over parts of northern Europe within the next 50 to 100 years
• 29 Jan 02 ABC: Global warming to impact on Kakadu
• 25 Jan 02 BBC: Antarctic lakes show climate effects - more evidence of extreme changes in the Antarctic Peninsula region, which has warmed up faster than almost anywhere on Earth - an increase of 2.5 degrees C in the last 50 years.
• 18 Jan 02 BBC: Ice 'thickens' in West Antarctica - ...the research only covered a relatively small area, over a short period of time and it was possible that what they were detecting was a minor fluctuation. He pointed out that there were other areas in West Antarctica where the ice was thinning significantly.
• 18 Jan 02 NSF:  PONDERING A CLIMATE CONUNDRUM IN ANTARCTICA - Unique, distinct cooling trend discovered on Earth's southernmost continent.
• 5 Jan 02 Scientific American: January Issue (paper only) Misleading Math about the Earth ESSAYS BY STEPHEN SCHNEIDER, JOHN P. HOLDREN, JOHN BONGAARTS AND THOMAS LOVEJOY -  The book The Skeptical Environmentalist uses statistics to dismiss warnings about peril for the planet. But the science suggests that it's the author who is out of touch with the facts. Includes GLOBAL WARMING: NEGLECTING THE COMPLEXITIES (see Item 4) by Stephen Schneider.
• 29 Dec 01 BBC: Low probability of ice collapse - one in twenty chance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsing in the next 200 years, resulting in sea levels rising by several metres. Excuse me, but for such a high consequence event, this does not seem to be a "low probability".
• 14 Dec 01 Nature: Abrupt climate change likely - Abrupt changes in global climate, common in the past, will become more so in future, thanks to man's impact on the environment.
• 14 Dec 01 SpaceDaily: Study Shows Early Signals Of Climate Change In Earth's Cold Regions + Strategies To Mitigate Global Warming May Impact Biosphere.
• 14 Dec 01 BBC: Blair warned on carbon cuts - The UK will probably have to make large cuts in carbon emissions by 2100.
• 14 Nov 01 BBC: Marrakech nudges climate treaty onwards.
• 14 Nov 01: Unfortunately the Howard government has been returned to power in Australia after diverting the attention of the electorate away from environmental and economic issues (by picking on refugee boatpeople!). The Labor Opposition promised to ratify the Kyoto Protocol if it had been elected.
• 5 Nov 01 SMH: Japan coughs up, Australia splutters  Japan has drawn up plans to ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate control, leaving the United States and its main backer, Australia, further isolated in the debate over measures to combat global warming.
• 5 Nov 01 Nature: Melt down.
• 30 Oct 01 BBC: Climate roadshow rumbles on.
• 27 Oct 01 Nature: Warm favourite - The smart money is on global warming.
• 19 Oct 01 BBC: Antarctic cores reveal ice history - the oceans went up and down by between 50 and 65 metres, as the main ice sheet on the eastern side of the White Continent advanced and retreated in a climate that was 3-4 degrees warmer than today. Consider this earlier item: researchers calculated a 90 percent chance that the planet will warm by 1.0 to 2.5 degrees C by the 2040s. Shouldn't that ring the alarm bells?
• 16 Oct 01 SciAm: Sequestering Excess CO2 in the Seas Presents Problems.
• 23 Sep 01 Engineers Australia: Australians are the worst greenhouse gas polluters in the industrialised world...
• 20 Sep 01 SciAm: Antarctic Ozone Hole Gapes Again.
• 20 Sep 01 Nature: Probabilities will help us plan for climate change -  Without estimates, engineers and planners will have to delay decisions or take a gamble. (subscribers only)
• 13 Sep 01 Scientific American: Climate of Uncertainty - THE UNKNOWNS IN GLOBAL WARMING RESEARCH DON'T HAVE TO BE SHOWSTOPPERS.
• 6 Sep 01 BBC: Satellites show greening planet Two decades of satellite data show vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere has become lusher, and the summers longer.NASA site.
• 24 Aug 01 Nature: Peat feels the heat -  Global warming speeds wetlands carbon leaching
• 22 Aug 01 Nature: Kyoto begins at home.
• 17 Aug 01 BBC: Greenhouse curbs 'benefit health' - emission cuts could eliminate more than 60,000 premature deaths in four cities across the Americas by 2020. Science abstract (regn needed).
• 3 Aug 01 Engineers Australia: Australia's largest wind farm opened + Australians are energy hungry* (News) + Insurers sweat over global warming (by Sharon Bedder) - Red Cross "International aid will not be able to keep up with global warming..", "if nothing is done to stop global warming, economic losses form extreme weather will be larger than the global GDP by 2065". * "betwen 1990 and 1998 Australia's net greenhouse gas emissions rose by just under 17%". ABS report,
• 28 Jul 01 (US) National Science Foundation:  GLOBAL 4 TO 7 DEGREE TEMPERATURE RISE LIKELY BY 2100.
• 28 Jul 01 SMH: Australia's backflip has Kyoto in chaos. Possible update ABC: Environmentalists relieved Kyoto agreement not weakened.
• 28 Jul 01: Just returned from a European holiday. During a visit to the Mt Titlis in Switzerland we were told that the magnificant glacier (along with many others in the Alps) was retreating at about 1 metre  per decade, due probably to the effects of global warming.
• 25 Jul 01 SMH: Australia must offer the world more than hot air (opinion)
• 24 Jul 01 BBC: Compromise saves climate treaty. The Bonn climate conference reaches an historic agreement - without the US - clearing the way for the world to act on global warming. +
• 24 Jul 01: ABC: West pledges billions to fight greenhouse - a very good outcome for Australia in terms of carbon sinks... + Climate predictions hotting up.
• 12 Jun 01 National Science Foundation: Climate Change Affecting Even Remote Arctic Environment.
• 8 Jun 01 BBC: Scientists warn Bush on global warming.
• 8 Jun 01 ABC: Forcing C02 underground "unsustainable"
• 31 May 01 BBC: Arctic 'getting greener'.
• 27 May 01: Faith-Based Reasoning - Scientific American June 2001. In one case [global warming], the president invokes uncertainty; in the other [missile defence], he ignores it. In both, he has come down against the scientific consensus.
• 18 May 01 BBC: Science academies back Kyoto.
• 17 May 01 ABC: OECD ministers pledge to work together to tackle climate change. Australia's Environment Minister Robert Hill says he is pessimistic about its future...
• 8 May 01 SMH: Hotter days ahead as global warming hits water supply -  The CSIRO has dramatically increased its projections of the extent of global warming, suggesting average Australian temperatures could rise as much as six degrees by 2070. CSIRO press release and reports.
• 4 May 01 BBC: Arctic's big melt challenged.
• 15 Apr 01 ABC: European greens accuse Australia of selling out on Kyoto Protocol.
• 13 Apr 01 BBC: Ocean study points finger at mankind.
• 9 Apr 01 New Scientist: Combined effort -  The UN's top climatologists reject the US President's claim that scientists are divided over global warming .
• 5 Apr 01 Nature: Frogs feel the heat -  "If there is a link between the two [global warming and amphibian declines]… there is clearly a need for a rapid transition to cleaner energy sources if we are to avoid staggering losses of biodiversity."
• 30 Mar 01 BBC: German concern over US climate policy + US facing climate isolation + Bush takes heat on global warming. New Scientist Heat is on. SMH: US dumps greenhouse treaty. Would President Bush have received those few hundred extra votes in Florida if he had been honest about his intentions to undermine the Kyoto Protocol?  Yahoo: Bush Looks Beyond Alaska Refuge for Energy  - ...his plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to energy exploration, President Bush said on Thursday he was determined to combat an ``energy crisis'' by seeking new supplies...
• 29 Mar 01 BBC: US blow to Kyoto hopes. Also Ancient tree rings give climate clues.
• 28 Mar 01 SMH: Env. Minister says Australia will meet emissions target - Australia was well on the way to meeting its international commitment to limit greenhouse emissions to eight per cent by 2010, federal Environment Minister Robert Hill said today...
• 28 Mar 01 ABC: Program puts $26 million towards producing cleaner power.
• 15 Mar 01 Auto.com: Bush decides against CO2 rules. Bush is telling Congress he will not regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
• 7 Mar 01 SMH: AMP halts land clearing and lures green investors - an ethical investment fund ... projects that do not include mining, nuclear power, greenhouse pollution or other activities "detrimental to the environment".
• 5 Mar 01 BBC: G8 progress on climate change.
• 22 Feb 01 Nature (subs): Climate change offers bleak future.
• 21 Feb 01 SpaceDaily: Uncertainty of Rapid Climate Change More Crucial than Ice Ages and Climate change threatens water, agriculture, public health: UN report.
• 14 Feb 01 BBC: Europe blamed for climate 'stalemate'.
• 9 Feb 01 SpaceDaily: Lake Titicaca Study Sheds New Light On Global Climate Change
• 8 Feb 01 Space.com: U.N. Warns Global Warming Is Melting Arctic Soil.
• 7 Feb 01 SMH: The heat is on, Mr President. What will you do?
• 6 Feb 01 ABC: Sea levels predicted to rise dramatically
• 5 Feb 01 BBC: UN's early warnings of climate disasters (not necessarily greenhouse-related).
• 1 Feb 01 SpaceDaily: Climate Change Has Impacted Civilizations For Millennia.
• 1 Feb 01 Science (Regn): It's Official: Humans Are Behind Most of Global Warming ( Jan 26 2001: 566-567)
• 30 Jan 01 Space.com: Fuel Cells May Redistribute Power.
• 26 Jan 2001 Nature (Registration required): Assessment ups the ante on climate change - Global warming is liable to become an even more acute problem than anticipated, according to the new assessment of  the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
• 24 Jan 2001 SpaceDaily: Earth May Have Cooled 10 Degrees Over Past 3 Million Years. The discovery, announced in the American journal, Science, adds weight to the theory that climate change played a significant part in the evolution of early humans.
• 22 Jan 2001 BBC: Climate change outstrips forecasts - Global warming is happening faster than previously predicted, say leading climatologists.
• 20 Jan 2001 Scientific American: Extreme Weather Costs - not necessarily greenhouse related but a good indicator of our sensitivity to climate change. US annual total around 11.4 billion dollars!
• 18 Jan 2001 Space.com: Meltdown: Satellites Show Accelerated Polar Ice Threat - Vast sheets of ice on the warming fringes of Antarctica may be on the verge of collapse and could eventually release rivers of ice that would cause sea levels worldwide to rise more rapidly than expected, according to new study of satellite images released Tuesday.
• 17 Jan 2001 EurekaAlert: The eastern U.S. keeps its cool while the world warms - warming oceans produce more cloud over the US.
• 17 Jan 2001 SpaceDaily: EU downbeat on renewed climate talks and Computer Models Generate Extreme Climate Events.
• 15 Jan 2001 BBC: New fears for planet's welfare.
• 18 Dec 2000 BBC: Climate 'threat' to US water.
• 14 Dec 2000 BBC: Climate model shows dual cause.
• 9 Dec 2000 BBC: Effort to rescue climate deal fails.
• 9 Dec 2000 Uni Ottawa: More than hot air: Geologist offers a new view of greenhouse gases.
• 8 Dec 2000 BBC: Fossils nag at carbon's climate role.
• 29 Nov 2000 SMH: It's time to get our greenhouse in order - After the failure of The Hague summit, Australia should stop looking for more loopholes and get on with cutting its gas emissions, Prof Ian Lowe writes.
• 29 Nov 2000 SpaceDaily: 140 Years Of Global Climate Data. Also BBC.
• 27 Nov 2000 SMH: Australia helped US at climate talks: Hill - Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill today admitted that Australia had helped the United States argue for a   sticking point which helped collapse the world climate change talks in The Hague.
• 27 Nov 2000 BBC: Dismay at climate summit failure.
• 21 Nov 2000 BBC: US attacked over global warming.
• 18 Nov 2000 BBC:UK 'worldbeater' at saving climate.
• 16 Nov 2000 CCNet: The Cambridge Conference email network has started a special section on Climate Change.
• 16 Nov 2000 Scientific American: Planting trees won't save climate.
• 15 Nov 2000 Spacedaily: Climate talks start to warnings of the risk of failure.
• 14 Nov 2000 BBC: Climate talks search for progress.
• 13 Nov 2000 BBC: Clinton's climate change warning.
• 12 Nov 2000 Space.com: Scientific Debate on Global Warming Heats Up.
• 10 Nov 2000 WWF/Greenpeace: Kyoto Protocol could accelerate forest destruction. The United States, Japan, Australia and Canada want to avoid domestic efforts to control their rapidly growing carbon emissions from energy  use by counting forest carbon storage and so claim to be meeting their Kyoto targets. Furthermore, the Protocol contains a perverse incentive in allowing countries to claim a carbon credit for planting trees but not incur a carbon debit for deforestation...the destruction of native forest in the Tamar Valley in the Australian state of Tasmania, and its replacement by fast-growing eucalyptus plantations intended for carbon credits...
• 10 Nov 2000 Nature: Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate modeland Offset of the potential carbon sink from boreal forestation by decreases in surface albedo.
• 9 Nov 2000 New Scientist: A searing future - While the rich stay rich, the poor get hotter
• 8 Nov 2000 ABC News: Report shows Aust has highest gas emissions in world. Australia's attempts to meet its Kyoto greenhouse gas targets have been slammed by a Senate committee. The environment committee's report on global warming says Australia has the highest emissions per capita in the    world and is already well over the target set in Kyoto in 1997. It says that is despite having received a much more  generous deal than other developed nations. Labor's environment spokesman and committee member, Nick Bolkus, says the committee's recommendations are a blueprint for lowering emissions substantially."They are extensive, they go to domestic and international  action, they go to Australia needing to restore a leadership role on this issue and they go to Australia introducing domestically effective programs," he said.
• 8 Nov 2000: The damning Senate report is available at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/gobalwarm/index.htm
• 8 Nov 2000 the AGO annual report has just been released.
• 8 Nov 2000 SpaceDaily: European policy developments - Australia could take a lesson!
• 14 Sep 2000 Nature: 'Termination of global warmth at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary through productivity feedback', . The authors note that a biological activity in the ocean may have brought a period of greenhouse warming (55 million years ago) to an end in 'only' 60,000 years. They note similarities with today's trends but are cautious about a similar recovery.
• 7 Sep 2000 BBC article.
• 3 Sep 2000 SpaceDaily: 150-year Global Ice Record Reveals Major Warming Trend.
• 4 May 2000 The Times: Oceans at  hottest for  3,000 years.
• 4 May 2000 New Scientist: Don't blame the Sun.
• ~May 2000 BBC: Global warming 'a reality'.
• ~May 2000 NSF: TALE OF THE ICE, REVEALED
• April 2000 Scientific American: "The Heat is On"
• Apr 2000 SciAm: The Heat is On - Skeptics, beware. One of the sturdiest pillars of the argument against global warming has crumbled  under the weight of some 10 million newly compiled   measurements of ocean temperature
• 24 Nov 97 Sydney Morning Herald: How the climate sceptics got to Howard
• 20 Nov 97 Nature: several articles, one of which concludes that: "Balancing the costs of early action against the potentially higher costs of more rapid and forced later action, they show that early attention to the carbon-emitting potential of new and replacement energy investments will minimize the risk to environmental and economic systems..."
• 4 Sep 97 Nature:"Abrupt mid-twentieth-century decline in Antarctic sea-ice extent from whaling records" by W K de la Mare - an analysis of whaling records showing a substantial reduction in the area of Antarctic sea ice during winter.
• May 1997 Scientific American: "The Coming Climate"
• March 1997 Scientific American: "The Rising Seas"

Links

Sites that have information about global warming

• Climate Action Network Australia
  
• NSW Greenhouse Office.
• Green Automotive News.
• TerraDaily.
• Eureka Search.
• The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability (1997) - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
• Yahoo.
• Global Warming Central (enlightened win-win energy policies).
• CSIRO Climate Impact Group - scenarios on the effects of global warming
• Australian ABC TV Climate page + Greenhouse FAQs
• Journal Environmental Science & Technology
• UNSW Global Warming  / Greenhouse Effect Links.
• Australian Greenhouse Office : The National Greenhouse Gas Inventory - Methodology
• APPEA oil industry & greenhouse.
• FIA (motoring organisations) - Environment policy
• UK Government - Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
• Total Environment Centre NSW.
• Terra Institute.
• Washington Post Climate Change links
• World Wildlife Fund Global Warming.
• Greenpeace.
• Impacts of climate change on glaciers around the world
• Climate change
• Bibliography of threatened species in Australia.
• Science Policy Research Centre - Griffith University.
• Global Climate Change - Tri-College University
• Sustainable Living - Australia
• Global Energy Transition - A Cyber Research Resource
• UK Government "hot topics" page with many more links.
• NASA Langley Research Center Interactive Modeling Project for Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport (IMPACT)
• NOAA Climate TimeLine Information Tool
• World News: Global Warming.
• Prof Andy Pitman at Macquarie Uni in Sydney (Lead author of Chapter 8 of the 2001 IPCC report).
  
• AGU: Solar Variability and its Effects on Climate
• New Scientist Climate Change page + Climate change: A guide for the perplexed.
• RealClimate.org - new website (Dec 04) that responds to critics of climate change theory.
• ClimateCrisis.Net - Al Gore's AN INCONVIENIENT TRUTH is a must see film.
• Energetics - "supporting our business community to effectively manage their energy and related challenges."
• Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) is one of the world's leading collaborative research organisations focused on carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and geological storage (geosequestration).
• Zero Your Carbon.
• Climate Change Coalition - Australian political party. Exposes common myths.
• Carbon Reduction Institute - Our mission is to create and initiate greenhouse gas reduction strategies and to drive business and individuals to do the same.  Carbon Neutral Business Certification Program.
• World Glacier Monitoring Service
• Manly Warringah Climate Action Group
• Possible health hazards from coal-fired power stations
• Beyond Zero Emissions is an independent, not-for-profit organisation
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Greenhouse gases in the Earth system: setting the agenda to 2030 (May 2011)
• Australian National University (ANU) Climate Change Reports
• Australian Academy of Sciences: The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers


For a succinct description of the problem of global warming read chapter 11 of Carl Sagan's last book "Billions and Billions" and chapter 4 of Cosmos - "Heaven and Hell" (extract) that was written in 1980. See also Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit - particularly before you click on the following links!

Sites that question the global warming predictions (or human contribution)

• CO2 Science
• Greening Earth Society
• Global Climate Coalition.
• Heartland Institute.
• Lavoisier Group.
• Wikipedia article on Robert M. Carter.

18 Oct 08 Opinion: Would these same organisation claim that the current stock market turmoil is cyclic and that there is no reason for government intervention?

Articles that tend to question the motives of the organisations in the above list!

• Sharon Beder, University of Wollongong
• Examining the role of think tanks by , Engineers Australia, November 1999.
• 'The decline of the Global Climate Coalition', Engineers Australia, November 2000.
• ' Emissions Trading', Engineers Australia, August 1999
• 'Creating a green image without addressing the main problems', Engineers Australia, June 2000
• Corporate Hijacking of the Greenhouse Debate, The Ecologist, March/April 1999.
• Greenpeace - Climate change and politics.
• RealClimate.org - website (Dec 04) that responds to critics of climate change theory.
• Jun 05 SciAm (payment reqd!): Doubt Is Their Product - To fight off government regulation, industry groups sometimes manufacture uncertainty about solid scientific findings
• Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: Bad Science, Bad Fiction - Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" novel that is bizarrely being used by climate change skeptics.
• Feb 07 ABC: The Denial Machine.
• Common arguments by climate sceptics, Logical Science
• Media Watch: Bolt's Minority View - "Only [a] few abstracts explicitly reject or doubt the AGW (anthropogenic global warming) consensus which is why I have publicly withdrawn this point of my critique." - Email from Benny Peiser to Media Watch...and when we pressed him to provide the names of the articles, he eventually conceded - there was only one.
• CLIMATE OF DENIAL - CLIMATE CHANGE SCEPTICISM AND THE PRICE OF THE EARTH by Andrew Glikson (PDF) + A RESPONSE TO THE “GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE” .
• New Scientist ($): Big brains payrolled by Big Tobacco
• WA Today: Who is behind climate change deniers?
• NewSci:   50 reasons why global warming isn't natural - A British newspaper today published a list of "100 reasons why global warming is natural". Here we take a quick look at the first 50 of their claims - and debunk each one.
• 1 Nov 10 NewSci: Watch out, deniers about - by Michael Mann
• 6 Apr 11 Cosmos Magazine ($): MERCHANTS OF DOUBT - excellent review of the transfer of tobacco industry tactics to the issue of global warming.
• The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism



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