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By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2010
Writing in today’s Fin, Laura Tingle, who’s normally very well informed, reports on work being done in the Department of Climate Change on a new version of the ETS, this time based on consumption not production. The idea is that [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Markets, NSW Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, Bruce Hawker, carbon price, carbon tax, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, consumption, consumption based ets, Copenhagen, cprs, Department of Climate Change, direct action, ets, Federal Election 2010, Garnaut, graham richardson, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, Laura Tingle, Mark Arbib, market based mechanisms, NSW Labor, NSW Right, Penny Wong, Polls, production, rent seeking, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 10, 2010
Tony Abbott has been explaining to Adelaide primary school children that we’re in an age of global cooling. Biblical Palestine was warmer, it seems, when Our Lord trod the desert sands. Read all about it at Still Life With Cat.
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Climate change, climate change denialism, cooling, global warming, Jesus, primary school, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 22, 2010
Over at The Drum, Clive Hamilton begins a five part series on climate change denialism, beginning with a look at cyber-bullying. Previously on LP: Communicating climate science.
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, The Web | Tagged climate change denialism, Clive Hamilton, cyber-bullying, the drum |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 19, 2010
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has given a speech in Adelaide at the first forum designed to address the impact of climate change on Australia’s coasts. This is part of a broader programme of adaptation planning, and this particular meeting [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, coastal development, coasts, coasts and climate change counciul, IPCC, Penny Wong, report, Tim Flannery |
By Mercurius on February 12, 2010
Today I attended the debate between UNSW computer scientist Dr Tim Lambert (author of Deltoid blog) and Lord Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. The venue was the Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom, and attendance was about 60% of capacity, that is [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment | Tagged Alan Jones, Christopher Monckton, climate change denialism, climate science, debate, Deltoid, Lord Monckton, Sydney, Tim Lambert, Viscount Monckton |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2010
Overland editor Jeff Sparrow has a great piece in Crikey today, reflecting on the significance of Christopher Monckton’s tour of Australia. If you’re not signed up, I’d strongly urge you to take out a trial subscription to read the whole [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Christopher Monckton, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, Crikey, Culture, Culture Wars, elites, emotion, Jeff Sparrow, knowledge, Liberal Party, Menzies, nature, overland, populism, rationality, Science, science studies, Sociology, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2010
Peter Hartcher on Barnaby Joyce’s address to the Press Club: ”Because we represent the alternative government in Australia, that does not mean that we are omnipotent and that our views permeate to become the views of everyone else. We have [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Christopher Monckton, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, Coalition policy, Lord Monckton, national press club, Viscount Monckton |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
After last night’s round of interviews with Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce, one thing is clear about the Coalition’s climate change policy. No one believes in it. They’ve come to this pass because of the momentum of the twin drives [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, bike riding, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, contradictions, direct action, Kevin Rudd, liberal leadership, liberals, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2010
Presiding as he has been over the Nationals-isation of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott might pause to consider one of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s bon mots: You can’t straddle both sides of a barbed-wire fence. The first stage of selling the Coalition’s [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged 7 30 Report, Barnaby Joyce, carbon emissions, climate change denialism, Coalition, cprs, ets, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Nationals, political communication, retail politician, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
Posted in Activism, Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, History, International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Technology | Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Apocalypse, Capitalism, Climate change, climate change denialism, collective action, conservatism, contingency, Culture, disavowal, ecology, end of history, Energy, History, ideology, necessity, neo-liberalism, non-renewable resources, peak oil, Politics, resources, Science, Slavoj Žižek, the imaginary, utopia, world politics |
Shock! Horror! Political journosphere shocked by the ALP playing politics!
By Mark Bahnisch on February 5, 2010
Ben Eltham has a wrap up of the week in politics at New Matilda. It’s certainly fair to say that it certainly didn’t go all the Coalition’s way. What surprises me about the commentary we’ve seen in the lead up [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, Barnaby Joyce, Ben Eltham, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, Federal Election 2010, first term government, John Howard, Labor, Liberal Party, Media, media narrative, New Matilda, Newspoll, parliament, political narrative, polling, Tony Abbott | 98 Responses