The climate debate represents a broad church, encompassing an enormous diversity of opinion.  I know people who (still) believe that the climate concerns are completely bogus and the creation of malicious groups wanting to recast global economic sys ...

China recently announced (1) a plan to achieve net zero-emissions by 2060. Significantly, this pledge was made by President Xi himself at the annual United Nations General Debate session.  This announcement surprised many analysts who struggled for ...

Gas looks like becoming the new coal.  Recent announcements by the federal government showcasing gas as being the key to maintaining reliable, low cost electricity.  Kathyrn Murphy writing for the Guardian (1) captured the mood of those opposin ...

The goal of the Paris Convention is for all nations to have a pathway to net zero carbon emissions.  Ideally by 2050 but if not then soon after.  The Australian federal government is hedging its bets on whether net zero by 2050 is achievable. W ...

In May after the Democrat primaries were cancelled and the Sanders campaign was suspended, Joe Biden moved to shore up party support by setting up Unity Task Teams included an all-star climate team co-chaired by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and John Kerry.&n ...

The Australian Electricity Market operator (AEMO) is a public/private entity charged with managing the nation's key energy markets.  This includes the National Energy Market (NEM) which is the integrated electricity grid covering all Australian stat ...

How will the Australian grid of the future, one based on 100% zero carbon generation, differ from the current Australian grid which remains dependent on coal and gas fired power plants?  For the purposes of this discussion let's consider the Nationa ...

No New Fracking?? Back on March 15, during what turned out to be the final debate of the Democratic primary, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders went back and forth on fracking. Biden got in the final line: “No more ... no new fracking”. Not unreasonably ...

In this article I am going to examine residential energy consumption, its contribution toward the carbon footprint of individual average Australians and using my own household data show the impact of rooftop solar on household greenhouse gas emissions.&n ...

The Australian Electricity Sector Australians consume a lot of electricity - there are many reasons for this but historically cheap power from coal and to a lesser extent hydro was a big factor promoting high levels of residential consumption as well ...