100 months to save the planet
This article provides a sobering overview of the possible - likely - consequence of human-induced global warming: that we will reach a point of irreversable climate change within 100 months.
Crisis in the ocean
We've got problems up here on the land, but there's a catastrophe taking place in the world's oceans. This article reveals the extent of "dead zones" around the world's seas - huge areas that are being starved of oxygen by man-made pollution, suffocating marine life. And this review of two books on overfishing provides a good summary of the devastation we are wreaking on the world's fisheries.
The familiar rhetoric of denial
Climate scepticism recalls the way the tobacco industry aimed to sow doubt about the science linking smoking and illness to maintain their sales. This article in the Sydney Morning Herald explores the link between the oil industry and climate sceptics.
In related coverage, these Herald articles examine the current state of scientific opinion on climate change and looks at the common myths being put about by climate sceptics..
What a way to run a railroad
The danger of a carbon trading scheme is once the government starts giving in to different interest groups and excluding this and that, you start to get all sorts of bizarre results. Such as this one, highlighted by this Australian article, which could see carbon trading encouraging commuters and freight off railways and onto the roads.
Solar Sahara solution
Scientists unveil a scheme that could power the whole of Europe from clean renewable energy generated by giant solar power stations in the north African desert by 2050.
China - the 800lb climate change gorilla
China is due to have another 500-odd coal-fired power stations up and running by 2012. So is there any chance of preventing global warming if China's hunger for fossil fuel power keeps increasing at the current rate. This article from The Age examines China's role in climate change, and finds a few glimmers of hope.
