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Environment - 2011

The base-load myth

by Mark Diesendorf - 2/05/2011 - 38 comments

Price carbon or face a bleak future

by Mike Pope - 26/05/2011 - 42 comments

Australia's bargain basement Boxing Day special on uranium

by Jim Green - 9/12/2011 - 7 comments

Who is denying what?

by Peter McCloy - 13/06/2011 - 17 comments

Plato rules – OK?

by Peter McCloy - 27/06/2011 - 8 comments

Pricing emissions: Questions for the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee and the Coalition

by Geoff Carmody - 7/07/2011 - 2 comments

A win for Big Bureaucracy

by Adam Creighton - 19/07/2011 - 10 comments

Climate Policy: Is Bjorn Lomborg ‘assuming a can opener’?

by Geoff Carmody - 5/04/2011 - 11 comments

Turkey, Egypt to drill for natural gas in the Mediterranean, threatening Israel's energy dreams

by John Daly - 27/09/2011 - 2 comments

IEA report advises governments to embrace renewables and nuclear

by John Daly - 16/11/2011 - 23 comments

Raising news awareness on driving forces behind failing states

by Brian McGavin - 22/11/2011 - 21 comments

Haven’t pouted, haven’t cried, been good

by John Perkins - 13/12/2011 - 2 comments

Native forest biomass shouldn't be excluded from renewable energy scheme  

by David Pollard - 28/11/2011 - 8 comments

It's time to cut our fertility rate

by Jenny Goldie - 29/12/2011 - 97 comments

What would Santa give a Bogan child for Christmas?

by David Young - 14/12/2011 - 15 comments

India embraces solar power

by John Daly - 20/12/2011 - 5 comments

Climate warriors vindicated in court

by Vivien Langford - 9/03/2011 - 10 comments

Carbon Tax cuts for all

by Adam Creighton - 8/06/2011 - 10 comments

The best of times or the worst of times?

by Sandra Bayley - 1/12/2011 - 8 comments

Just mere squatters on a plantation site

by David Leigh - 14/03/2011 - 13 comments

Climate change, science, the media, and public opinion

by Ted Christie - 23/03/2011 - 36 comments

How puny are you?

by Valerie Yule - 8/04/2011 - 19 comments

Some pepper for Bernard Salt: A Generation Y response to writing and saving the planet

by Fiona Heinrichs - 7/07/2011 - 10 comments

Abbott's direct action plan on carbon is friendless

by Matt Grudnoff - 14/07/2011 - 15 comments

The silver bullet men: Saving the planet with technology

by Chris Harries - 2/08/2011 - 35 comments

Pulp fiction

by David Leigh - 30/05/2011 - 5 comments

Pacific left struggling in UN climate negotiations

by Jayden Holmes - 9/12/2011 - 33 comments

Climate change technology inaccessible for poor nations

by Michael Mazengarb - 9/12/2011 - 5 comments

A seven step recovery plan for Queensland

by Edward Blakely - 21/12/2011

How to fix the broken scientific system

by Peter Ridd - 10/01/2011 - 103 comments

Solar electricity subsidies will pay off in the long run

by Thomas Faunce and James Prest - 13/01/2011 - 6 comments

Calculating the true cost of global climate change

by John Carey - 19/01/2011 - 38 comments

A seven-step recovery plan for Queensland

by Edward Blakely - 21/01/2011 - 3 comments

Snowy Hydro tops up floods with environmental flow

by Jennifer Marohasy - 1/02/2011 - 18 comments

Government subsidies to green groups must end

by Asher Judah - 3/05/2011 - 22 comments

Deification of the NSW’s Planning Act inhibited reform

by John Mant - 16/08/2011

Flood mitigation: so much to do, especially in Queensland

by Chas Keys - 28/01/2011 - 13 comments

In the swim on CO2

by Chris Lehman - 4/05/2011 - 20 comments

Radiation and risk

by Jim Green - 8/04/2011 - 14 comments

The science of reporting climate change

by Brian McNair - 8/04/2011 - 34 comments

The Artic cold a green lining for social networks

by Roger Kalla - 1/11/2011 - 3 comments

Germany faces sticker shock over renewable energy to replace nuclear

by John Daly - 14/11/2011 - 12 comments

Climate refugees

by Mike Pope - 15/11/2011 - 30 comments

Will Australia's emissions policy encourage global action?

by Geoff Carmody - 16/11/2011 - 8 comments

The prime minister's uranium u-turn

by Jim Green - 16/11/2011 - 11 comments

The golden age

by Jay Lehr - 2/12/2011 - 36 comments

Earthquakes, water pollution and increased greenhouse gas emissions? Fracking - strike number three?

by John Daly - 23/12/2011 - 6 comments

The Queensland floods are not related to anthropogenic global warming

by Cliff Ollier - 17/01/2011 - 47 comments

Above the law: the Olympic Dam mega-mine

by Jim Green and Gavin Mudd - 1/09/2011 - 4 comments

A tax to make the polluter pay

by Andrew Leigh - 7/03/2011 - 17 comments

Collapseology: why this should be shaping Australian public policy

by Fiona Heinrichs - 21/06/2011 - 84 comments

Taxing congestion and getting something for it

by Edward Blakely - 27/06/2011

Carbon tax and other dirty language

by Nicki Roller - 30/09/2011 - 35 comments

Proposed laws to stop illegal logging imports too weak to work

by Reece Turner - 2/05/2011 - 3 comments

Some facts about the Middle-East

by Steven Meyer - 5/05/2011 - 31 comments

Value adding in Australia - the beginning of the end?

by Viv Forbes - 24/05/2011 - 13 comments

Great Barrier Reef ‘research’ – A litany of false claims

by Jennifer Marohasy - 10/10/2011 - 52 comments

The Road to Durban: Australia’s 5% Pledge Tops the EU and USA

by Michael Hitchens - 5/01/2011 - 10 comments

Snowy Hydro derivatives play submerges farmers

by Jennifer Marohasy - 17/02/2011 - 14 comments

Death Ray reminds us of Solar Thermal Solution

by Josh Gould - 22/02/2011 - 7 comments

Climate change, science and cricket

by Michael Rowan - 7/03/2011 - 29 comments

Much more than a 'thought bubble'

by Dick Smith - 20/04/2011 - 165 comments

Wicked problems and how to stop them turning horrid

by Jennifer Sinclair - 17/03/2011 - 46 comments

A fair dinkum carbon tax debate will show why Tony Abbott is no idiot

by Chris Lewis - 28/03/2011 - 107 comments

Preparing for $3+ per litre fuel

by Ben Rose - 14/04/2011 - 32 comments

Carbon price: what about renewable investment?

by Alice Body - 15/04/2011 - 31 comments

Rewriting Easter Island's history

by Mark S. Lawson - 1/08/2011 - 25 comments

The mine that funded an empire

by Tom Clifford - 26/08/2011 - 3 comments

Scientific heresy

by Matt Ridley - 4/11/2011 - 189 comments

It is not the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

by Graham Harris - 24/11/2011 - 17 comments

UN remains only legitimate climate forum

by Ethan Bowering - 28/12/2011 - 31 comments

Boot-strapping on a carbon tax

by Alan Moran - 11/04/2011 - 12 comments

Residents in flood-prone areas must be better prepared, or shifted

by Willem Vervoort - 14/01/2011 - 27 comments

The Garnaut Reviews’ errors and material omissions

by Tim Curtin - 25/03/2011 - 43 comments

A new world religion backed by the United Nations

by Collin Mullane - 9/05/2011 - 102 comments

Are carbon taxes (another) Australian 'magic pudding' policy?

by Geoff Carmody - 13/04/2011 - 19 comments

Chance for uranium diplomacy

by Thom Woodroofe - 15/06/2011 - 3 comments

A further riposte from a flat earther

by Chris Golis - 4/07/2011 - 50 comments

Industrial society is eating us out of house and home

by Evaggelos Vallianatos - 19/07/2011 - 14 comments

Ukraine to cut Gazprom's umbilical cord?

by John Daly - 29/08/2011

Do climate policies have a budget 'black hole'?

by Geoff Carmody - 23/03/2011 - 1 comment

All aboard the train

by David Warrilow - 6/04/2011 - 15 comments

The Sun God of Australia's carbon tax

by Tim Curtin - 13/09/2011 - 73 comments

The true meaning of free range

by David Leyonhjelm - 9/11/2011 - 22 comments

Cities are what people do when they are not growing food

by Michael Lardelli - 10/11/2011 - 24 comments

The New Dark Age

by Evaggelos Vallianatos - 14/12/2011 - 22 comments

The elephants in the room, or a direct way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

by Monika Merkes - 27/01/2011 - 38 comments

'They leave the devastation behind them' Newcastle 7

by Vivien Langford - 14/02/2011 - 13 comments

Putting a price on carbon: what’s the best option?

by Geoff Carmody - 22/02/2011 - 14 comments

Doing nothing is preferable to this

by Geoff Carmody - 3/03/2011 - 49 comments

A riposte from a 'Flat Earther'

by Chris Golis - 17/06/2011 - 66 comments

Sustainable food production is possible, but not with 'business as usual'

by Shenggen Fan and Klaus Töpfer - 21/11/2011 - 14 comments

Managing the recovery: podcast

by Edward Blakely - 31/01/2011 - 3 comments

Urban water rights exist...for some

by Greg Cameron - 6/06/2011 - 3 comments

Climate change action needed to address global poverty

by Lena Aahlby - 29/07/2011 - 39 comments

Insurance industry needs to work harder to ensure flood cover for all

by Gerard Brody - 18/08/2011 - 20 comments

High-density housing reflects dense government thinking

by Tony Recsei - 23/08/2011 - 28 comments

Community resilience and the hazards of climate

by William Kininmonth - 5/05/2011 - 68 comments

Garnaut fails to understand the real issues when it comes to electricity

by Brad Page - 6/06/2011 - 8 comments

A challenge to climate sceptics

by Steven Meyer - 15/11/2011 - 153 comments

Cities with stable population outperform fast growing cities

by Dave Gardner - 18/01/2011 - 26 comments

Shed a tier for the blue tier

by David Leigh - 10/03/2011 - 36 comments

The cost of inaction on carbon emissions

by David Leigh - 19/07/2011 - 36 comments

Current global geoengineering

by Andrew Glikson - 9/06/2011 - 47 comments

The fallacy of 'Retreat' for Coastal Zone Management

by Roger Welch - 29/06/2011 - 52 comments

Polar ice melt and sea level rise: earth climate in uncharted territory

by Andrew Glikson - 17/03/2011 - 46 comments

A polluters pal won't last in NSW

by Ramya Krishnan - 25/03/2011 - 13 comments

Environmental crimes as crimes against humanity

by Jocelynne Scutt - 28/04/2011 - 4 comments

www.not-happy-orica.com

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 19/08/2011 - 7 comments

Russia claims new Arctic hydrocarbon finds effectively double nation's reserves

by John Daly - 5/10/2011 - 7 comments

Meat and other animals

by Monika Merkes - 7/12/2011 - 33 comments

Australia going solar: gonna cost ya mate.

by John Daly - 8/12/2011 - 40 comments

NSW in a parallel universe on GM crops

by David Leyonhjelm - 6/07/2011 - 1 comment

Needed: consistent policies for CO2 reduction

by Mike Pope - 6/07/2011 - 12 comments

Emissions indecision déjà vu

by Geoff Carmody - 13/07/2011 - 3 comments

Greens-Government climate policy: inherently contradictory?

by Geoff Carmody - 26/07/2011 - 4 comments

It’s the greening of industry, stupid…

by John Mathews - 26/07/2011 - 7 comments

Australia's corporate blindspots

by Ken Boundy - 3/08/2011 - 2 comments

Finger pointing and farm chemicals

by David Leyonhjelm - 16/08/2011 - 6 comments

Roaming chickens

by David Leyonhjelm - 3/10/2011 - 6 comments

Safeguarding uranium exports to India

by Jim Green - 2/12/2011 - 1 comment

Lets welcome warming!

by Rafe Champion - 15/12/2011 - 81 comments

A Green religious diatribe

by Alan Anderson - 20/01/2011 - 80 comments

Large balls

by Roger Pielke - 20/01/2011 - 10 comments

Flood management: a 12-point plan for Australia

by Chas Keys - 17/02/2011

Aviation biofuels about to take off

by John Daly - 23/06/2011 - 14 comments

Productivity Commission directed to ignore real emissions issues

by Geoff Carmody - 28/06/2011 - 4 comments

China and rare earths: monopoly for now

by John Daly - 15/08/2011 - 4 comments

Have you seen the Treasurer’s copy?

by Michael Hitchens - 10/06/2011 - 8 comments

Abbott out of step on carbon

by Matt Grudnoff - 27/09/2011 - 29 comments

Hemp: The multi-use crop that might be the answer to climate change

by David Leigh - 13/07/2011 - 10 comments

The price is right

by Andrew Leigh - 13/07/2011 - 53 comments

How our energy future has been fracked

by Dan Denning - 29/07/2011 - 15 comments

Carbon tax nonsense

by Jennifer Marohasy - 6/05/2011 - 64 comments

Don’t listen to shock jocks on carbon

by Bob Carter - 1/06/2011 - 84 comments

Clean energy bill only a beginning

by James Wight - 10/11/2011 - 21 comments

The flood levy - panic and politics do not make for good policy

by Bruce Haigh - 31/01/2011 - 9 comments

Radical tax robs energy industry of certainty

by Michael Hitchens - 8/03/2011 - 17 comments

How politics contributed to the January 2011 Brisbane floods

by Peter Coulson - 24/01/2011 - 17 comments

Media madness: blaming climate confusion on the fourth estate

by Mark S. Lawson - 7/06/2011 - 36 comments

Free-flowing estuary vital to healthy river

by Johnny Kahlbetzer - 8/06/2011 - 5 comments

Live animal export and knee-jerk reactions

by Brian Holden - 11/06/2011 - 45 comments

Oldest rainforest in the world to become a palm oil plantation

by Katja Wiese - 13/06/2011 - 10 comments

Climate change, scepticism and elitism

by Katy Barnett - 4/01/2011 - 24 comments

‘Carbon tax’ rests on scientific theory corrupted by public money

by Alex Stuart - 11/03/2011 - 57 comments

UN money does grow on trees for indigenous forest loggers

by Chris Wright - 9/12/2011 - 5 comments

Nuclear power can save billions

by Martin Nicholson - 15/12/2011 - 14 comments

Red faces over the Immigration Department’s 'Red Book'.

by Mark O'Connor - 11/01/2011 - 119 comments

From her own mouth she is condemned

by Leon Bertrand - 11/03/2011 - 10 comments

Climate change: a warning from the past

by Andrew Glikson - 11/04/2011 - 17 comments

Can we move to a low carbon economy without a carbon price?

by Ben Rose - 1/06/2011 - 30 comments

Garnaut abandons professionalism for politics

by Des Moore - 6/06/2011 - 22 comments

There are too many people in the world

by Everald Compton - 14/06/2011 - 225 comments

Measuring Australia's response to international climate change legislation

by Jo Coghlan - 5/07/2011 - 20 comments

Carbon dioxide tax raises street temperature

by Ben-Peter Terpstra - 31/03/2011 - 31 comments

Queen's decree: Suppression of Carbon (Dioxide) and Bovine Emissions Act 2011

by Michael Kile - 11/07/2011 - 8 comments

Carbon tax a spur for urban renewal

by Patrick Troy - 14/07/2011

Climate change won't be solved with a negative attitude

by Heather Bruer - 15/07/2011 - 36 comments

It's possible to be both right and wrong

by Saul Eslake - 25/07/2011 - 19 comments

Tasmania’s forests: pushing a Greens’ vision onto unwilling locals

by Mark Poynter - 29/08/2011 - 22 comments

Oakey is on sacred ground

by Rodney Crisp - 8/09/2011 - 2 comments

Smog a bigger risk in Japan than nuclear radiation

by Jonathan Hughes - 21/11/2011 - 7 comments

The windmills in our minds

by Max Rheese - 25/11/2011 - 11 comments

Imagine a world without climate models

by Rob Wilby - 25/01/2011 - 20 comments

Gillard's spin on flood levy sucking her into the vortex

by Malcolm Colless - 31/01/2011 - 18 comments

Easter Island earth

by Philip Machanick - 14/02/2011 - 41 comments

Why are we so opposed to mining in the Antarctic?

by Roger Chao - 30/11/2011 - 2 comments

The problem with sustainability

by Jim Gall - 16/09/2011 - 23 comments

Malthus and the three card trick

by Mark O'Connor - 21/11/2011 - 43 comments

Cheap and abundant energy is on hand

by Matt Ridley - 9/05/2011 - 43 comments

Satellites should answer the central question of climate

by Alex Stuart - 7/02/2011 - 14 comments

World one poor harvest away from chaos

by Lester Brown - 23/02/2011 - 25 comments

The shift in state of the atmosphere

by Andrew Glikson - 11/02/2011 - 40 comments

Cardinal Pell's climate 'hot air'

by Tim Stephens - 23/05/2011 - 28 comments

Challenging Time for Ag Economists

by John Quiggin - 8/02/2011 - 10 comments

Reflections on climate change, and the quality of Australian economists

by Saul Eslake - 7/07/2011 - 24 comments

Tasmania: When 'Green' philanthropy becomes a wrecking ball

by Mark Poynter - 21/07/2011 - 43 comments

The carbon devil in the detail on urban density

by Jago Dodson - 24/11/2011 - 3 comments

Germany’s unlikely champion of a radical green energy path

by Christian Schwägerl - 2/06/2011 - 11 comments

Climate Commission needs to re-think forest carbon

by Mark Poynter - 27/06/2011 - 9 comments

Lights off: Part III

by Kellie Tranter - 13/01/2011 - 15 comments

Threat of mercury poisoning rises with gold mining boom

by Shefa Siegel - 25/01/2011 - 3 comments

Brisbane - the flood we had to have

by Ian Cordery - 21/01/2011 - 5 comments

Global Warming Danger: Catastrophic?

by Geoff Davies - 8/02/2011 - 41 comments

Desperately seeking 'Mind Bombs'

by Michael Kile - 9/02/2011 - 23 comments

Yes, we could have bananas - if only the Government would let us

by Saul Eslake - 16/02/2011 - 18 comments

The crumbling edifice of the IPCC

by Max Rheese - 11/11/2011 - 17 comments

The sweet spot’s sour underbelly

by Ted Trainer - 1/12/2011 - 5 comments

We should stop running away from radiation

by Wade Allison - 7/04/2011 - 32 comments

Giving Green the red light

by Ben Heard - 12/04/2011 - 32 comments

Garnaut’s Updates – even more political

by Des Moore - 7/02/2011 - 9 comments

Effects of a carbon price - debunking four myths

by Ben Rose - 28/04/2011 - 22 comments

Hanging on to the energy dreams

by Martin Nicholson - 9/05/2011 - 8 comments

Australia's natural absorption of CO2 exceeds its man-made emissions

by Alex Stuart - 15/07/2011 - 79 comments

Unproven technologies a poor power option

by Martin Nicholson - 1/08/2011 - 50 comments

Waging a green jihad on suburban homes

by Ross Elliott - 29/08/2011 - 11 comments

Flotation device for premier's sinking party

by Scott Prasser - 20/01/2011 - 9 comments

The public narrative on a carbon price

by Joel Dignam - 10/05/2011 - 18 comments

More to climate policy than the carbon price

by Leigh Ewbank - 12/05/2011 - 22 comments

Bernard Salt abandons his Baby Boomer theory

by Mark O'Connor - 16/06/2011 - 54 comments

Should Santa reward or punish agriculture and regional Australia this Christmas?

by Mick Keogh - 20/12/2011 - 3 comments

The temperature trend is not as simple as Garnaut makes out

by Tom Quirk - 14/06/2011 - 29 comments

Health and economics will unravel wind power

by Max Rheese - 5/07/2011 - 23 comments

The deluge was totally predictable, so why weren't we warned?

by Keith Kennelly - 14/01/2011 - 15 comments

In January, it got wetter ...

by Andrew Gunn - 21/01/2011 - 7 comments

We ignore a deadly invader at our peril

by Julian Cribb - 24/02/2011 - 6 comments

Japan's nuclear emergency a warning to Australia and the world

by David Noonan - 16/03/2011 - 14 comments

Markets for change: when anti-logging activism morphs into extortion

by Mark Poynter - 20/05/2011 - 8 comments

What is going on at Fukushima?

by Tom Quirk - 6/04/2011 - 38 comments

GetUp! and ENGO supporters being betrayed by deceitful campaigning

by Mark Poynter - 14/07/2011 - 16 comments

GM crops and foods: promises, profits and politics

by Bob Phelps - 1/08/2011 - 8 comments

The case for re-naming the human race

by Julian Cribb - 22/08/2011 - 133 comments

Dispatch from the climate front

by Heather Bruer - 1/12/2011 - 11 comments

Nuclear power and the fuel cycle

by Tom Quirk - 8/12/2011 - 16 comments

From Father Christmas to the governing class

by Christopher Monckton - 9/12/2011 - 70 comments

'I matter!' - Kids against Climate Change.

by Michael Kile - 30/12/2011 - 101 comments

Urban living: the shrinking fringe

by Stephen Smith - 23/11/2011 - 5 comments

Why the world can't rely on renewable energy if we want to remain affluent

by Ted Trainer - 20/05/2011 - 34 comments

Southern Queensland floods - again

by Yvonne Perkins - 17/01/2011

2010 not 'warmest year ever' - close but no banana

by John McLean - 24/01/2011 - 37 comments

Small island mentality

by Sophie Trevitt - 29/11/2011 - 21 comments

Is Australia in a ‘sweet spot?'

by Gavan McFadzean - 2/12/2011 - 31 comments

The answer to Tasmania's wicked forestry problems isn't simple

by Simon Grove - 18/03/2011 - 10 comments

Climate of discontent

by Des Moore - 21/04/2011 - 53 comments

Our relentless war on resilience

by Jane O'Sullivan - 2/05/2011 - 7 comments

Banana-nomics

by Ross Elliott - 3/08/2011 - 1 comment

No sweetening the salty tale of water privatisation

by Acacia Rose - 25/11/2011 - 13 comments

The carbon tax debate on Twitter

by Arjenne Plaizier - 16/12/2011 - 9 comments

Children need to stay safe in disasters

by Suzanne Dvorak - 13/05/2011 - 19 comments

Liberals making Labor look good

by Mike Carey - 25/05/2011 - 15 comments

Into the swamps of the current system, or a clear view of where to go?

by John Mant - 22/12/2011 - 1 comment

A continent to cry for

by Brian Holden - 7/01/2011 - 9 comments

Big climate cycle means wet decades

by Mark S. Lawson - 4/02/2011 - 63 comments

Shipping pollution is not a solution

by Chris Lewis - 28/06/2011 - 49 comments

Wind power: not always there when you need it

by Mark S. Lawson - 18/07/2011 - 56 comments

An Act of Negligence

by Sophie Trevitt - 24/01/2011 - 50 comments

Saying 'Yes' to what?

by Sophie Trevitt - 15/06/2011 - 26 comments

Time for Abbott to play the nuclear power card

by Malcolm Colless - 6/07/2011 - 21 comments

Tasmania's forests: GetUp! and the media versus a Legislative Council Inquiry

by Mark Poynter - 6/07/2011 - 63 comments

Round one – a price on carbon

by Sophie Trevitt - 15/03/2011 - 29 comments

Why is nobody talking about safe nuclear power?

by Julian Cribb - 4/05/2011 - 15 comments

Carbon chatter everywhere and not a drop of commonsense

by Everald Compton - 18/05/2011 - 32 comments

COP17: Durban delusions

by Michael Kile - 12/12/2011 - 49 comments

Acting on climate change is in Australia’s national interest

by Clancy Moore - 30/11/2011 - 55 comments

Sharing is as easy as crossing the street

by Liz Shield - 10/08/2011

Floods and storms: we ain’t seen nothing yet

by Julian Cribb - 10/02/2011 - 50 comments

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