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The wind-farm on Ovenden Moor near Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. Photo by Rick Harrison.

Green energy alone won’t save the earth – social change is also needed

17 April, 2012

The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar, geothermal or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels will eventually disappear. But will that actually work? A new study by Richard York … Continue reading

Ted Baillieu is the leader of the new ultra-conservative and pro-coal, anti-environment government of Victoria, Australia.

High polluting Victoria, Australia, hell-bent on increasing greenhouse gas pollution

11 April, 2012

The State of Victoria, Australia, is the worst polluting state in Australia which in turn is one of the worst countries in the world for annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However the new ultra-conservative government of Victoria is … Continue reading

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Australian PM Julia Gillard’s appalling record of climate change inaction

8 March, 2012

Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Pro-coal, pro-gas Australian PM Julia Gillard has an appalling record of climate change inaction falsely dressed up as the opposite. The biggest and most outrageous untruth of … Continue reading

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2011: A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come

31 January, 2012

The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation … Continue reading

Analysis by country of fossil fuel burning-based Carbon Debt and Carbon Credit

25 January, 2012

Fossil fuel burning yielding the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major component of man-made global warming. In relation to carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, Net Carbon Debt is equal to the Historical Carbon Debt … Continue reading

Graph on world fossil fuel consumption subsidies in 2010.

Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate

20 January, 2012

We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly … Continue reading

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Obama Keystone statement bodes ill for future of climate

19 January, 2012

If President Obama’s thoroughly embarrassing stumbling-block posture at Durban left any doubt about the softness of his conviction on climate change, the Keystone decision has just nailed the notion. Yes, it’s great that the pipeline is dead, and everyone from … Continue reading

Dozens of environmental activists protested in front of the White House against the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that would transport crude oil from western Canada down through the Midwestern region of the US. Photo Credit: Ben Powless.

US rejects controversial Keystone XL pipeline

19 January, 2012

The US state department has denied a permit for the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline, that once constructed would transport dirty and climate killing tar sands from Canada to the US and other world markets. One of the world’s most … Continue reading

Island Nations can fight Climate Genocide with Carbon Debt & Carbon Credit Analysis

16 December, 2011

At the 2011 Durban Climate Conference the US, with the help of its climate criminal lackeys Australia and Canada, again succeeded in preventing requisite international climate change action. It was reported that Island States had again pleaded with other representatives … Continue reading

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Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol

13 December, 2011

Just hours after returning from COP17 in South Africa, Peter Kent, Canada’s environment minister, announced that the country would use their legal right and become the first country to quit the Kyoto Protocol. Kent claimed that the Kyoto protocol “will … Continue reading

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