By Michael Parker, The Conversation
22 August 2013: Regardless of economic strength or level of development, countries with substantial fossil fuel resources are almost certain to be heavy carbon polluters – a phenomenon dubbed the “carbon curse”.
A study by Oxford University academics Joerg Friedrichs and Oliver Inderwildi published in the journal Energy Policy suggests.
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Category Archives: Greenhouse gases
By Andrew Campbell, Charles Darwin University; Andrew Blakers, and Stuart Blanch, Charles Darwin University
Northern futures, northern voices: It seems everyone has ideas about how Australia’s north could be better, but most of those ideas come from the south. In this six-part weekly series, developed by the Northern Research Futures Collaborative Research.
Beyond Zero Emissions is proud to announce the launch of a new Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Byron Bay.
- Melbourne: Thursday, 8 August, 6:30PM at The Spot Basement Theatre, Melbourne University, 198 Berkely St Carlton. Read more
Research was published this week showing the financial cost of methane being released from Earth’s permafrosts. But the risks go beyond financial – Earth’s history shows that releasing these stores could set off a series of events with calamitous consequences.
The sediments and bottom water beneath the world’s shallow oceans and lakes.
By Jenny Riesz and Roger Dargaville, University of Melbourne
Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism has been vilified by the Federal Opposition and certain members of the business community, but it is a key part of Australia’s response to climate change. So one year on, where does it stand?
Far from being “absolutely catastrophic” and.
On Tuesday 25 June 2013, at Georgetown University, US President Obama announced a ground-breaking plan to combat climate change.
The plan included three themes: executive action, a pledge to take international leadership, and a call to action for Americans to help combat climate change.
Read the new plan.
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By Hamish McCallum, Griffith University
Most of us understand the world by using common sense and intuition. To a large extent, this means assuming that most things behave in a roughly linear way: small changes in inputs lead to small changes in outputs, and if increasing an input variable leads to an increase in response,.
A new study published today suggests that the short-term warming due to increasing greenhouse gases may be less than previously feared. However, when we look at the bigger picture, we still find that climate change is an issue that demands our attention.
The new work by Alexander Otto of Oxford University.
By Roger Dargaville, University of Melbourne
To avoid 2 degrees of climate change, global carbon emissions will need to be reduced by at least 50% by 2050. For developed countries such as Australia with higher carbon emissions this will mean cuts closer to 80%: it essentially implies decarbonising the stationary energy sector in Australia..
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The Guardian's Damian Carrington says much of the Australia's coal reserves will be worthless if world's governments fulfil pledge to cap emissions, warns a new report as part of the Unburnable Carbon Project.
The report is authored by John Connor, one of the new report's authors and CEO of The.
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