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Climate change can't be stopped, but we will adapt
Julia Gillard is half-right. The world is acting on climate change. But not acting to stop it - to adapt to it. In the 1920s, an average of 240...
The costs of climate of confusion
A reason for voter disquiet about Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax announcement is there are so many unanswered questions about how the...
Energy price increases: hiding behind treasury's Pollyanna forecasts
Lane Crockett of wind farm builder Pacific Hydro accuses "groups such as the IPA" of blaming "a soft target like (the Renewable Energy Target) RET...
Meeting CO2 targets via carbon price will hurt
It's astonishing that Ross Garnaut takes himself so seriously in the face of collapsing support in Australia and elsewhere for a carbon tax and...
Australia's Carbon Warning for Obama
President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency is fighting a rear-guard action to accomplish via regulation what voters rejected via Congress:...
Carbon Bob: Can he fix it?
I mean, take environmental progressive Bob. Bob's a model citizen and busy man trying to save the world from the hundreds of big bad carbon...
Adapt to survive
The Labor party once made great fun of John Howard's distinction between core and non-core promises. Julia Gillard has now added to that taxonomy:...
Consumers and business will feel the pain of emissions tax
Ostensibly, the opposition and the government have similar policy goals regarding Australia's 2020 emissions of carbon dioxide. Both have said that...
Artificial markets: miles behind the real deal
The Federal Government and its faithful Opposition are falling over each other to say their own climate policy is market friendly. On Lateline last...
Dirty little lie on carbon tax
The government has announced its carbon tax will commence in July 2012. Consumers and taxpayers should be very concerned about this new tax. The...