Climate Change
Fossil Fuel-Backed Climate Deniers Rush to Promote Michael Moore Documentary ‘Planet...
By Richard Collett-White and Zak Derler
May 1, 2020
Climate science deniers and long-time opponents of renewable energy, many with ties to oil and gas companies,...
Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher
New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned...
Bill Gates backs startup using sunlight to create 1,000C-plus heat
Heliogen uses mirrors to concentrate solar energy that can power heavy industry
By Jillian Ambrose
19 Nov 2019
Bill Gates is backing a new venture which aims...
How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and...
By George Monbiot
May 7, 2020
Denial never dies; it just goes quiet and waits. Today, after years of irrelevance, the climate science deniers are triumphant....
Australian businesses call for climate crisis and virus economic recovery to...
Innes Willox, chief executive of the Australia Industry Group, says Covid-19 and climate are ‘urgent’ challenges that overlap
By Adam Morton
Mon 4 May 2020
A...
Climate crisis: 2019 was Europe’s hottest year in history, EU says
22 April 2020
Last year was the hottest in history across Europe as temperature records were shattered by a series of extreme heatwaves across the...
Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)
By Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes
23 August 2017
Abstract
This paper assesses whether ExxonMobil Corporation has in the past misled the general public about climate change....
The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic
By Jonathan Watts
9 Apr 2020
We set out across the ice-filled Antarctic bay to listen for whales, but first we heard something altogether different: an...
Planetary boundaries
Planetary boundaries is a concept involving Earth system processes which contain environmental boundaries, proposed in 2009 by a group of Earth system and environmental...
German far right targets Greta Thunberg in anti-climate push
Climate change denying groups advising the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have close ties to Trump-supporting think-tanks in the US
ByDamian Kahya
14.05.2019
As they seek to gain...