The carbon price package announced today is Australia’s first step in transitioning away from its current fossil fuel economy toward the renewable energy one we need to get to as soon as possible. There are significant improvements on Labor’s original Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). But of course it’s far from perfect and it’s far …
Category: Energy
Mar 08 2011
Climate Emergency: Time to Slam on the Brakes
I wrote this post for Skeptical Science as a basic rebuttal of the argument “It’s not urgent”. Global warming is an increasingly urgent problem. The urgency isn’t obvious because a large amount of warming is being delayed. But some of the latest research says if we want to keep the Earth’s climate within the range …