“When you stare out over the wave of Weather of Mass Destruction we are unleashing, who looks crazy – the protesters, or the people who have yet to join them?” Originally published in the UK Independent, by Johann Hari Thank God man-made global warming was proven to be a hoax. Just imagine what the world [...]

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Two excellent articles in today’s Age describe the increase in natural disasters caused by global warming, and the economic cost of last year’s bushfires.The calamities are upon us as the world warms THEY are the extreme weather events that climate scientists have been warning about – the simultaneous catastrophes of flooding in Pakistan, wildfires in [...]

Yesterday Julia Gillard announced some of the Labor Party’s climate policies. Debate amongst the YCAN team has centred on whether these are the worst policies ever, or the second worst. The Labor Party cannot even pretend to care about climate change now. These policies will see Australia’s emissions continue to rise rapidly while the impacts [...]

An absolutely classic rant by Crikey‘s Bernard Keane. Welcome back to Parliament for the final time this year. Two more weeks of this stuff and then we’re finished for a summer that already feels like it’s been going a month. That’s assuming Anthony Albanese doesn’t keep his colleagues confined here at the end of next [...]

Today the world’s average temperature is just under one degree Celsius above what it was in pre-industrial times. Some scientists are saying that with the current level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a two degree rise is locked in unless we can reduce emissions to almost zero and actively remove carbon from the atmosphere. [...]