Photo credit: Reuters / Noah Berger. By Anders Lorenzen While much of Europe and the US is sweltering in warm summer weather, data out from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) […]
June warmest month on record
Australia repeal the carbon tax
Al Gore and Clive Palmer. Photo credit: Alex Ellinghausen By Anders Lorenzen It’s been coming for a while, but the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has finally won the political backing to repeal […]
UN: Nobody on this planet will be untouched by climate change
Bush fire in Australia. Photo credit: John Crux via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen The Intergovernmental on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body, Monday released the second part of their Fifth Assessment Report […]
Huge wave power potential emerges in Australia despite climate scepticism
By Anders Lorenzen While Australia’s government are busy promoting their anti-climate agenda, in the background, in the state of Victoria, a promising wave energy project has been born. A 62.5 megawatt wave […]
Beginning of 2014 sees battling of extreme weather
Flooding in Worcester, England. Photo credit: Nick via Flickr; 2014 By Anders Lorenzen in London, UK and Matt Owens in Fairfax County, USA We recently wrote of the unprecedented floods the UK […]
Australia approves controversial reef dredging
Abbot Point. Photo credit: Tom Jefferson / Greenpeace. By Anders Lorenzen As reported previously on this blog, the Australian government is aiming to build the world’s largest coal port in Abbot […]
Opinion: Recent extreme weather events must give a clear signal to governments
US snow storm have set many states into a standstill. Photo source: BBC. By Anders Lorenzen On Friday 3rd January 2014, Britain prepared for severe flooding caused by strong winds. It’s the […]
The year that was and looking ahead – part two of three
Could The Great Barrier Reef in Australia be a thing of the past? By Anders Lorenzen Did our key predictions for 2013 come true, and what are we expecting from 2014? Coal’s […]
Developments outside Cop 19 summit dominated UN climate talks
Greenpeace unfurl a banner hinting that the Polish coal industry run the country. By Anders Lorenzen This year’s round of climate talks have been dominated by developments not central to the talks […]
Climate sceptic Australia hit by out of season wildfires
Wildfires have painted the sky red and yellow, here evident from Sydney Harbour. By Anders Lorenzen Just under two months since the newly elected Australian government, led by climate sceptic Tony Abbott, […]
A greener life, a greener world 