Monthly Archives: March 2023

An early skirmish in our age’s greatest battle

Chris Bowen must be cursing his luck. As the climate change minister was arguing passionately in parliament last week for his career-defining emissions bill, its inadequacies were thrown into sharp relief by the release of another dire UN climate report. … Continue reading

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A sleeping giant is stirring

Monitoring the world’s biggest sheet of ice is mostly a humdrum affair for Jan Lieser. Every day since 2006 the University of Tasmania glaciologist has been checking satellite images of the East Antarctic coast that are almost always pretty much … Continue reading

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The false security of carbon offsets

Last year, not long before stepping down as chief executive of the world’s fifth biggest oil company, Shell, Ben van Beurden told veteran US satirist Jon Stewart that he envisaged the world hitting its “safe” 1.5C warming limit by 2050. … Continue reading

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