Exxon (Mobil in Australia) has admitted - for the first time - that the climate deniers it funds are causing problems for action on climate change. This is a first for the company which has spent, since 1998, $23 million funding the climate denial industry. And it’s official - Exxon made this statement […]
Less than two weeks ago, Greenpeace released a damning report on carbon capture and storage (CCS) labelled “False Hope” which outlined the problems associated with the unproven technology. Central to CSS’s flaws is that it’s proponents are asking us to pin our hopes that it may be available by 2030. […]
From Canberra, Greenpeace head of campaigns Stephen Campbell sends this statement:
“We are in the midst of an extreme climate crisis and the Rudd Government’s first budget was an opportunity to show voters that they truly means business on climate change.
“Instead they have let Australia down by not delivering the climate solutions that are at their […]
We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful, crisp Canberra morning to deliver the “Stop Fueling Climate Change” petition. Seven of us, all rugged up, constructed a wonderful wind-turbine on the steps of treasury which we then proceeded to stuff full of postcards signed by people from all over Australia. Over thirty thousand […]
You have to hand it to the Greenhouse Mafia, aka the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network (AIGN). In their submission to Professor Ross Garnaut, among their justifications for doing as little as possible to address climate change, they drop little pearlers such as: “leaving aside the moral dimension of the issue” and the “Interim Report’s initial […]