“I wouldn’t hire them to clean my toilet”
The most memorable one-liner of the week surely goes to Runar Birgisson, an Icelandic Marketing manager. Runar feels disillusioned with politicians he helped elect. Many around the world share similar...
View ArticleRudd’s Greenhouse Target: Disaster for our Grandchildren?
As our mainstream politicians and major polluting industries are apt to remind us often, Australia is only a bit player when it comes to global greenhouse emissions. We contribute a relatively small...
View ArticleClean Carbon: Rudd, Lotto and the Improbability Drive
Yesterday Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched a new ‘Clean Coal’ Institute – backed with the injection of an initial $100 million in taxpayer funds. The full title of Mr Rudd’s new initiative...
View ArticleRudd’s $2 Billion Coal Deodorizer
The basic idea behind “Carbon Capture and Storage” is enticing: remove carbon-dioxide emissions when coal is burnt and store them safely – so we can enjoy cheap, abundant fossil-fuel energy with no...
View ArticleGagged and Dudded: Australia’s dismal climate change response
There was muted outrage from the environment movement when Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd did a back flip a few weeks ago on his Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) – a term often used...
View ArticleGod to Blame for BP Oil Disaster?
After two months of helplessly watching a so-far unstoppable torrent of oil gush from a deep-sea oil well in the Caribbean, the American blogosphere is buzzing, to say the least. Plenty of wild ideas...
View ArticleJulia in CoalExportLand
This morning Julia Gillard made her major pre-election address on the subject of climate change. For reasons best known to her advisers, she chose to give the speech in Queensland on a university...
View ArticleDepleted Uranium in Libya: do the Australian Greens even care?
The question of whether Depleted Uranium is being used in Libya has been a sensitive issue from the outset – and an issue raised by alternative media from the onset of NATO bombing. Although DU weapons...
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