Do people care about the climate? Or does the average ‘Joe’ really know? It’s an open question these days, and opinion polls offer little help. Some show that climate ranks fairly low among public concerns, while others indicate a high level of concern among the populace. And in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate summit, [...]

Most people are convinced that climate change is happening, but few are prepared to accept that it’s our own children who will suffer because of it, finds David Sornig For weeks my daughter’s class has been rehearsing its lines for a play in which they are performing the ethics of environmentalism. As far as I [...]

  Lecture to a Meeting of the Royal Society of the Arts Sydney, 21 October 2009 by Clive Hamilton     Alarm bells    This paper lays out the latest scientific understanding of the task humanity faces to avoid catastrophic climate change. 2 One of the most striking features of the global warming debate has [...]