Should politicians who urge us to reduce our air travel also reduce their own air-travel? The Economist this week has an article about the differences between northern and southern Europe concerning personal morality of politicians, particularly regarding climate change issues. Northern European citizens seem more concerned than those in the [...]

Two scientists have proposed a new theory about the cause of climate change: cosmic rays. The book is: “The Chilling Stars”, by Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder. Calder is a former editor of “New Scientist” magazine, and the BBC Newsnight has an excerpt from the book here.
“The Chilling [...]

The Economics Editor of The Guardian, Larry Elliott, argues that dealing with climate change will have a negative economic impact, but that the global economy is currently strong enough to take that impact. We are not sure that the net economic impact of dealing with climate change will be negative, given the impetus that [...]

The political leaders of Australia’s six states have agreed to introduce their own joint carbon emissions trading system by 2010 if the Australian Federal Government still refuses to do so, according to this newspaper report. You would think John Howard’s Federal Government would be shamed into action by this example of leadership [...]

A taskforce appointed by the Australian Government has recommended an international emissions trading scheme. The main motivation seems to be the protection of Australia’s commodity trade, rather than any reduction in greenhouse gas emissions or actions to tackle climate change. A pity that the current Australian Government — yet to ratify the [...]