Month: August 2026

The lag in issues and developments between the US and Australia has been decreasing for some time now. With data centres, we are in step. AI can be, undoubtedly, a …

So, climate scientists say that the evidence indicates that if we keeping doing this, that will happen. Even so, we did keeping doing this and now that has happened. Explain …

John Howard said you don’t fatten the pig on market day. You don’t expect farmers to jump on board to renewables if the companies wanting to do the installations don’t …

For many years now we’ve said there are two industries that never question the reality of climate change. Try to get an insurance company to give you flood cover or …

Our challenge is how to talk realistically about our global predicament without young people wanting to just stay under their doonas in foetal position. https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/aug/24/this-is-not-a-natural-calamity-it-is-being-done-to-us-knowingly ———- Forwarded message ———From: Maelor …

Cutting emissions, supporting renewables and providing least-cost energy can be delivered simultaneously. Pandering to the troglodytes, claiming that wind farms generate ‘infrasound’ and playing the conservatives’ energy games can also …

The price of a good environment is eternal vigilance. I recall foresters hosting a visit to a state forest where we were driven along tree-lined roads. Barely 50 metres into …

We are fortunate to have public intellectuals to inform our policy debates. Disinterested researchers such as Alan Pears do us a great service in his  number-crunching and communicating smart responses …

I fear that Peter Garrett’s crowd-funded public inquiry into AUKUS and David Higginbottom’s article below are examples of ‘too little too late’. What is the use of AUKUS submarines (if …

When emissions increases from mine expansions can be simply offset by buying more carbon credits, you know our climate response isn’t working. Whitehaven shareholders might be immediate losers, but we, …