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Quick link: Wind farm power output
By Robert Merkel on October 5, 2010
A common area of stoushing on energy threads of doom is the reliability of wind power. Wind Farm Performance, as the name suggests, brings actual data to the table. Based on AEMO market data, you can see how much power [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, federal election 2010, Markets | Tagged AEMO, barry brook, renewable energy, wind power | 246 Responses
Tar sands, Obama and oil spills
By Brian on June 17, 2010
That image, which you can easily find by googling, is perhaps becoming emblematic of tar sands mining. At Treehugger in 2008 this: Environmental Defense has called Alberta’s tar sands ‘the most destructive project on earth’, but perhaps the UN’s senior [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged barack obama, barry brook, Christiana Figueres, Copenhagen climate change conference 2009, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, James Hansen, Maude Barlow, Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), PETM, Robert Reich, Storms of my Grandchildren, tar sands, the venus syndrome | 82 Responses
Nukes: a necessary part of our future?
By Brian on July 20, 2009
I think that nuclear power is a sufficiently sustainable source of power to provide all of the growth in our energy demands that are going to come in the next million years or so. (Emphasis added) Yes, I checked the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment | Tagged barry brook, brown coal, coal, Nuclear | 81 Responses
Senator Fielding goes wobbly on climate change
By Brian on June 9, 2009
Last week Harry Clarke noted that Senator Fielding was heading to the US to attend a delusionist love-in on climate change organised by the Heartland Institute. The Australian Libertarian Society went one better and sponsored the conference, whatever that means. [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Australian Libertarian Society, barry brook, cprs, Graeme Pearman, Heartland Institute, Senator Fielding, Senator Wong | 177 Responses
Popular science and Moses down from the mountain
By Robert Merkel on April 23, 2009
Barry Brook does a nice job reviewing Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth, Plimer’s attempt to debunk contemporary climate science. Brook writes: I’ve been critical of Ian’s views before (see here and here). In short, my view was that Ian’s assertions [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Climate change, Science | Tagged barry brook, ian plimer | 99 Responses
Perspectives on the CPRS
By Robert Merkel on March 30, 2009
Two critiques of the CPRS today. First, Barry Brook and Tim Kelly have sent a submission to the Senate inquiry, discussing the problems they see with the CPRS. Most should be no shock to LP readers – Brook points out [...]
Posted in Climate change, Developing world, Energy, Environment, Markets, Trade | Tagged barry brook, carbon pollution reduction scheme, carbon tax, cprs, emissions trading, Guy Pearse, tim kelly | 57 Responses
Climate and the fires – out come the denialists
By Robert Merkel on February 26, 2009
One of the key predicted effects of climate change in south-eastern Australia is increased bushfire danger from the warmer, dryer, weather; the DSE report on this Victorian state government page states that: Relative to the climate of 1974 to 2003, [...]
Posted in Climate change, Disasters, Science | Tagged barry brook, black saturday, bureau of meteorology, bushfires, Climate change, denialism, skeptic, william kininmonth | 112 Responses
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