The Age National Headlines:
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has refused to speculate on whether his leadership will survive the climate change negotiations. (Read More)
Gristmill:
by Ashley Braun Shucks, we shoulda known!Photo courtesy Andrew Ciscel via Flickr Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous (Read More)
Gristmill:
by Jonathan Hiskes You could make a pretty simple argument that the fate of the world rests with the United States Senate Republicans:1. It takes 60 votes to pass a climate bill in the U.S. Senate (assuming it won’t be done t (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Writer John Harris and Guardian photographer Martin Argles shadowed the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, for 40 hours during his trip to an intergovernmental meeting in Copenhagen ahead of the main conferenc (Read More)
The Guardian:
The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itselfAn academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg w (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argu (Read More)
L.A. Times - Environment:
Dieter Helm of Oxford says climate change policy should focus not on carbon production, but carbon consumption. A tax on carbon-heavy activities places the emphasis where it belongs, he says. (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
For some people, climate change is a tough cause to rally 'round--even those who understand that it's happening and that it's human-caused get distracted by things like eating, working, having sex, watching TV, or watching pe (Read More)
Gristmill:
by Grist The climate problem is incredibly complex. Heck, it’s unfathomably complex to most folks, as it involves chemistry, computer models, economic development, and, of course, the weather.This complexity demands strong, e (Read More)
Gristmill:
by Tom Konrad Energy Self-Reliant States [PDF], a flawed study on local Renewable Energy availability from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ISLR) found that 18 of the 50 states could not meet their electricityneeds with (Read More)
New York Times:
The e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university will undoubtedly raise questions about the actions of some scientists.
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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:
I'll admit, as someone who spends most days looking for leaked documents, the package of stolen emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University is pretty juicy. Anything that provides insight int (Read More)
cop15.dk News:
We already knew that respiratory diseases like asthma and illnesses linked to pests like malaria are increasing due to climate change. US research has added new health problems to the list. (Read More)
cop15.dk News:
Apart from the US, all industrialized countries have given targets for their greenhouse gas emission reductions. This promises a successful conference in Copenhagen next month, according to UN’s top official on climate change (Read More)