It gobbles up one-fifth of Victoria’s electricity and has cost taxpayers billions of dollars in subsidies. Now its producer is pressing for more public dollars to shield it from the Rudd Government’s emissions trading scheme and the global financial crisis. It may be a lightweight metal, but aluminium exacts a heavy toll.
Thirty years after Liberal [...]

LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Big energy and engineering companies will reap most profit from a climate deal due in December, as they use their financial and intellectual clout to grab low carbon subsidies
Utilities and oil companies, among the biggest polluters, are using their market awareness to stay ahead of a climate race, manoeuvring to [...]

An environmental economist at the CSIRO says he is being told not to publish a paper on climate change because it challenges Government policy.
But the CSIRO says it is not trying to censor the scientist and is still reviewing the case.
Fears are being expressed both inside and outside the agency that it is self-censoring to [...]

Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 2nd November 2009
There is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; [...]

The promise of biofuels like ethanol is that they will someday help the world grow its way out of its addiction to oil. Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the U.S. in 2008, while countries like Brazil have already widely replaced gasoline with ethanol from sugar cane and countless start-ups are working [...]

Names of shame, ignominy, criminals against humanity, against planet Earth itself.  Agents of the lethal delays in our response to escalating, accelerating, catastrophic global warming.
Yet, as deniers of climate change, they’re amateurs compared to us.  Us activists, environmentalists, scientists, and certainly Copenhagen politicians.
Even though we’re believers, not skeptics, our denial is far more insidious and [...]

OSLO (Reuters) – Greenland’s ice losses are accelerating and nudging up sea levels, according to a study showing that icebergs breaking away and meltwater runoff are equally to blame for the shrinking ice sheet.
The report, using computer models to confirm satellite readings, indicated that ice losses quickened in 2006-08 to the equivalent of 0.75 mm [...]

A new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) determined that the number of record high temperatures over the last decade was much greater than the number of record low temperatures. The study authors said that the results were evidence of climate change’s effect in our weather.
Analyzing millions of readings from surface stations [...]

A self-amplifying effect presently sustains monsoon winds, but it could also disrupt the circulation over land and sea. The periodical rainfall could stop from one season to another or for months within seasons. High air pollution could lead to the disruption, researchers of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research report in the Proceedings of [...]

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The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for October 2009 was the sixth warmest on record, with an anomaly of 0.57°C (1.03°F) above the 20th century average of 14.0°C (57.1°F).
The global land surface temperature for October 2009 was 0.82°C (1.48°F) above the 20th century average of [...]