Month: November 2023

Just four countries, the US, Canada, Australia and Norway, account for half of the planned expansion in oil and gas between now and mid-century. When we’re such a big exporter and the carbon accounting rules mean emissions from these exports don’t count against us, we’re next best thing to a global pariah-state. How optimistic can we be that COP 28, chaired by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber and CEO of the globe’s 11th largest oil and gas producer, will bring change that is meaningful?https://e360.yale.edu/features/fossil-fuel-export-emissions-climate-change

This advice to Dutton’s Liberals will do little to convince the electorate that they have moved on from their confused and confusing mish-mask of climate and energy policies. When article …

Alan Kohler bells the cat on Australia’s ineffective attempts at market measures to mitigation. With new approvals for fossil fuel projects and the recently-announced adaptation measure of resettling Tuvalu’s climate …

The speeches at this ‘global right-wing loser-fest’ are quite something. Never has fact-checking and truth in political advertising been so necessary. With the arrival of ‘alternative facts’, cherry-picking data to …

It’s a creative way of thinking to say that oil and gas isn’t the problem, it’s their emissions, so it’s ok to license more oil and gas projects. We’re facing …

Maelor might be a casualty of the Optus outage as there’s been no Daily Links thus far today. Meanwhile, here’s something to be going on with.  The cabal of political …

The frustrations with the ‘loss and damage’ deal result from positions taken by a relatively benign (the word is ‘relatively’, deliberately chosen over ‘malignant’) US administration. Consider that polls show …

Hey, it’s barely a problem. How could we pass on a thick eye-fillet, medium rare, with a little liquid dribbling down our chins, just to save the planet? Or to …

Same event two consecutive days but .. you have to love Jonathon Green’s turn of phrase apropos Tony Abbott’s musings on the longevity of the ‘climate cult’. “It takes the enclosed comfort of a special kind of intellectual Dutch oven to give any serious credit to a speaker … “. Ah you’d laugh if it wasn’t so terrifyingly serious.https://www.themonthly.com.au/the-politics/jonathan-green/2023/11/02/pouring-fool-fire