Links To Latest Eco Articles
Following is a list of various eco and enviro articles of interest selected from various websites. Please email your favourite eco- or enviro-tech articles and they will be added to this...
Climate Change
The Story Of Cap And Trade
The Story Of Cap And Trade With increasing temperatures and frequency of extreme weather events world wide, plus polar ice packs melting and all of the other doomsday climate scenarios suddenly all too close, climate change is on everyone's...
The case for a carbon tax
The media is full of terror about the potential impacts of a carbon tax, a tax that is being fought just as hard by the mining lobby as the mining tax was. 'It will put miners out of business', 'it will be a job killer', 'it will drive the energy...
Cosmic rays not causing climate change
An international group of scientists writing in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics investigated the hypothesis that a reduction in the amount of cosmic radiation hitting the earth reduces the size and number of cloud droplets, which leads...
Inconvenient Fallacies; Some Greenhouse Truths
Lots of people I know are opting to have their local council come and change all their light bulbs to compact flouro lights (CFLs) in the belief that is somehow going to reduce global warming. This is one of the fallacies of ‘An Inconvenient...
Climate Change: A Guide For The Perplexed
A firm and ever-growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with...
The Case For An International Carbon Tax
One of the major flaws with Kyoto accord was that it pegged nations’ allowed greenhouse emissions to that of 1990, and that we should all aim for 10-20% less by 2020. Or something similar. This is based on very poor...
Business In A Post Carbon Economy
Is business as usual compatible with a post carbon economy? When the taxpayers' bill for reducing emissions arising from business is greater than the economic benefits of such business, is it...
Why Nuclear Power is Simply a Stupid Idea
Like Lazarus, the nuclear power spectre keeps reappearing in the ‘conversation’ as the nuclear and the uranium mining industries seemingly test the resolve and resilience of the anti-nuclear lobby. Again and again in small mentions in media...
Debunking Nuclear Industry Claims
In all countries using nuclear energy there are well established procedures for storing, managing and transporting nuclear wastes. Storage is safe and secure, plans are well in hand for eventual disposal. Nuclear power is the only energy-producing...