Peter Smith reports in the Financial Times from Sydney:
Tony Abbott, Australia’s new opposition Liberal leader, a plain-spoken former student boxer nicknamed the “Mad Monk” following his flirtation with the Catholic priesthood, on Tuesday declared his intention of taking a wrecking ball to the Labor government’s emission trading scheme.
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Another sign that Copenhagen may not be the success the world needs to be
Countdown to Copenhagen: “Get Real,” says Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes talks about why cutting down on carbon with economically binding measures is not necessarily the best foot forward to tackle climate change at Copenhagen:
Copenhagen will be no more successful than was Kyoto. The reason: China. Last year China surpassed the U.S. in producing carbon dioxide, even though China’s overall economy is still...
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Philip Stephens on why Copenhagen should be a ’successful failure’
From the Financial Times:
There is a real danger, of course, that if Copenhagen does not live up to the Bali billing, the world’s political leaders will gradually back away even from more modest measures to slow the warming of the Earth. Given the condition of their economies, many of them need only the flimsiest...
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Skepticism for Clean Coal
Chris Morrison explains why we need to start accepting that there is nothing called ‘clean coal’.
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“Global warming might be solved with a helium balloon and a few miles of garden hose.”
…or so suggests Intellectual Ventures, a Washington-based firm, as described in this bizarre yet interesting take on global warming.
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