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Is a misleading climate change op-ed in The Wall Street Journal really news?

Graham Readfearn writes: What’s news these days when it comes to climate change? Could it be the news that rising temperatures could severely affect the world’s wheat crops maybe? Or how about how...

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Farmers will attack the govt but not their supermarket giant customers

Matthew da Silva writes: Farmers appear to have no qualms about attacking the government, but the raised fist turns into a cat’s paw when the time comes to criticise their largest customers, the retail...

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Death isn’t an option: climate change activists aren’t waiting for deniers to...

Crikey intern Freya Cole writes: Rather than trying to convince climate sceptics with science, should we just wait for them to die off? That’s the argument raised in a recent Grist article, where...

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Fresh food not-for-profit hard hit after Sunday Age report

Freelance journalist Matthew da Silva writes: Based in inner-north Melbourne’s Brunswick East, CERES is a popular not-for-profit environment education centre and public farm that hosts farmers’ markets...

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Good news on coal from US, but QLD ‘Can-Do’ better

Dan Cass writes: There is great news this week that US President Barack Obama is about to commence the end of the age of coal. The US EPA is about to bring in a greenhouse gas emission standard for new...

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Conservatives and climate change: it’s complicated

Noel Turnbull, adjunct professor of media and communications at RMIT University, writes: New research provides some intriguing insights into why, and what sort of, conservatives oppose climate change...

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How to get poverty-stricken communities to adapt to climate change

Paul Mitchell, climate change advisor at Save the Children Australia, writes: Today, politicians, academics, the UN, aid agencies and community workers from around the world are all gathering in...

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Hate campaign against climate scientists hits the denier spin-cycle

Graham Readfearn writes: Right now we’re in the middle of the global dissemination of a gross misrepresentation of facts. The line currently being spun by climate change sceptic commentators and...

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Heartland unleashes the Unabomber in its newest advertising campaign

Graham Readfearn writes: In a promotional video for the upcoming Heartland Institute’s climate change sceptics’ conference in Chicago, the think-tank’s president Joseph Bast said the scientists coming...

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Climate change & the Murray Darling: when our most divisive enviro issues meet

Crikey intern David Donaldson writes: Climate change and the Murray-Darling Basin plan are two of the most divisive environmental issues in Australia. They are also two of the most important. But what...

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