Category Archives: IPCC

Amid all the hoopla, the science continues

Posted on 14 August 2012 by Peter Boyer

Robert Manne is being too hasty in proclaiming that the ascendancy of global warming denial spells defeat for climate science. [14 August 2012 | Peter Boyer] “Victory of the Denialists: How climate science was vanquished” is the banner headline on … Continue reading →

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Face it, the Rio summit was a failure

Posted on 26 June 2012 by Peter Boyer

Twenty years on, Rio is a shadow of what it represented in 1992. [26 June 2012 | Peter Boyer] If the aim of last week’s “Rio+20” environment summit was to show the world that a sustainable global economy is a … Continue reading →

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Ruminations on extreme nature

Posted on 13 March 2012 by Peter Boyer

The Murray-Darling floods may seem like an anomaly, but they fit within the IPCC pattern for climate change in Australia. [13 March 2012 | Peter Boyer] The long-suffering people of the Murray-Darling basin don’t need to be told that Australia’s … Continue reading →

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