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You’ve been warned!
I did have a restful Christmas, albeit wrapped in the warmth of Brisbane’s humidity, but in the still of the night reality has a way of breaking through. I’ll begin with the ending of this story, as it were, by […]
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Climate clippings 90
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable for readers to contribute items of interest. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes […]
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Real clothes for the emperor
“When I look at this [CO2] data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet.” Fatih Birol, IEA chief economist That’s one of the favourite quotes […]
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Saving the CEFC
Sophie Vorrath at RenewEconomy reports that both Senators Xenephon and Madigan spoke against the bill to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The Abbott government may not be able to complete their destructive war against renewable energy, even with […]
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Galilee Basin coal: a vision splendid or a kind of madness?
This map gives some idea of the geographic positioning of the vast Galilee Basin, one of the greatest untapped coal reserves in the world. This map locates it in relation to some well-known towns. Last year we were told that […]
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Climate clippings 88
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes climate change. This edition is completely about […]
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Numbers add up to keep Clean Energy Finance
This article from Climate Spectator tells us that shutting down the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will actually cost the government $200 million each year in lost revenues. The article refers to an article (by Laura Tingle) in the AFR. […]
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Climate clippings 86
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes climate change. This edition is mainly about […]
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Toyota’s fuel cell car
Around 16 years ago Toyota unveiled its hybrid electric-gasoline car. Since then it has sold almost six million of them. Now the company is taking a different direction and will start selling cars powered with a hydrogen fuel cell as […]
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Queensland power generation at the crossroads
Giles Parkinson at RenewEconomy tolls the bell for fossil fuel energy producers pretty much on a daily basis. Recently he posted that Energex’ business model was broken, according to its annual report. To explain the set-up, Energex is the state-owned […]
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Will coal be with us forever?
GlencoreXstrata has decided to put on hold for the short to medium-term its mammoth A$6 billion Wandoan project because low coal market prices made it uneconomic. At current price levels, GlencoreXstrata estimates that close to 30% of world seaborne thermal […]