Reading Time: 12 mins 22nd April 2022
Author: Robert Watson

1.5°C ... GOING, GOING, GONE!
The Paris Agreement is a landmark international accord that was adopted by nearly every nation in 2015 to address climate change and its negative impacts. The agreement aims to substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2°C above preindustrial levels while pursuing the means to limit the increase to 1.5°C. Source: IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

On current evidence, one could reasonably believe that Earth has possibly reached, or is very close to reaching the critical +1.5°C temperature increase over pre-industrial temperature levels.

Reading Time: 8 mins 21st February 2022
Author: Robert Watson

THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The expense and difficulty in reaching a sustainable level of global temperature before 2050 was made more difficult by the inaction and neglect of the Morrison government and particularly the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor.

At the same time many industries were independently moving away from fossil fuel generated power Morrison, Taylor, Joyce, Pitt and many other conservative politicians were encouraging and promoting fossil fuel companies while almost completely ignoring renewables and the necessary infrastructure for transition ...

Reading Time: 6 mins 7th January 2022
Author: Robert Watson

YOUR CLIMATE DOLLARS IN A SUSPECT MARKETPLACE
In the past couple of years there has been a major upsurge of interest and concern with Australia’s policies on climate and the attitude of the government towards climate change.

The Emissions Reduction Fund, the uptake of carbon credits to offset pollution and substantially under-governed, voluntary schemes are moving emissions rather than reducing emissions ...

Reading Time: 10 mins 3rd November 2021
Author: Robert Watson

THE MINING INDUSTRY HAS BEEN GOOD FOR AUSTRALIA, BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER!
The past generation has seen various governments fail to utilise the incredible wealth that has been generated by the exploitation of natural resources in Australia.

... does Australia get a good deal from the natural resources exploitation industry?