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1. UN climate conference: prepare for a 'bluewash'

   polar regions. As sea ice melts in response to global warming, the dark open water absorbs far more heat ... between the land surface and the ice, the water has the effect of lubricating ice flow. Outcomes already ... raising temperatures still further. Changes in temperature, soils and water availability then often ...

2. The new climate science: Governments gamble with our survival

   certain points, even small quantitative changes can become huge changes of quality. If ocean water heats ... explanation appears to relate to the fact that deep ocean water normally contains higher levels of dissolved ... carbon dioxide than water higher up. Near the surface, vast quantities of tiny organisms use sunlight, ...

3. Fossil fuels to blame for SA power crisis

   more energy than before. More water evaporates and the warmer atmosphere can hold larger quantities of ... water vapour. The results include escalating numbers of the largest, most violent storms. The weather in ...

4. Food and climate change: the looming disaster?

   with which plants use water. But field experiments suggest that the boost to crop yields from this ... farmland. Might not technology come to the rescue? New irrigation methods, perhaps? But fresh water in key ...

5. South Australian “energy intervention”: a gift to the gas industry

   imperil their underground water supplies and those of their neighbours. What about renewables? Unlike the ...

6. Gas has worse climate footprint than coal

   “fracking” — that is, hydraulic fracturing, in which drillers inject a high-pressure mix of water, sand and ... gas releases during drilling, since an estimated 30-70% of the injected water resurfaces, bringing gas ... relatively quickly to carbon dioxide and water. Almost all of it is gone within twenty years of its release. ...

7. Biochar — menace or benefit?

   water and fertiliser. As a result, food production would shrink. An array of economic pressures would ... Land and Water scientist, Evelyn Krull, points out that biochar "has a chemical structure that ... this process consist almost entirely of water vapour and carbon dioxide. The small amounts of nitrogen ...

8. Climate change: When scientists become revolutionaries

   Climate crisis Renfrey Clarke Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at Manchester University, said on October 29 last year: “Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the politica ...

9. SA Labor backs UCG coal scheme

   pumping in air to keep the combustion going. The oxygen in the air reacts with the coal and with water ... large amounts of hydrogen, which when burnt creates water, the greenhouse "footprint" of UCG ...

10. New outback oil and gas no friends of the climate

    water, sand and various chemicals via a drill-hole into the rock strata, at extreme pressures, to open ... since fracking has a bad record of contaminating groundwater. The water from bores in the Arckaringa ...

11. Arkaroola uranium row puts pressure on Labor

    on February 23 that Marathon anticipated using five million litres of water a day for mining and ... processing. “That’s a heck of a lot of water in a very dry environment,” she said. Large-scale groundwater ...

12. How to crash a planet: Just follow Garnaut

    to the impacts of increased emissions on factors such as atmospheric water vapour, clouds, and sea ... to warm Arctic waters at a much faster rate? And what if the warmer Arctic temperatures cause frozen ...

13. Geothermal energy — hot promise, tepid response

    Could this heat be extracted, geologists and engineers wondered, by injecting water and using the ... water heated up to 145 degrees" lie beneath sedimentary rock at depths between 2.4 kilometres and ...

14. Drive for nukes ignores vast geothermal resource

    is sunk into the granites and water at very high pressure is pumped in. Numerous mini-earthquakes are ... repeated. If the geologists have calculated correctly, the fracture zones interconnect. Water pumped down ...

15. Behind South Australia’s nuclear waste dump scheme: the dilemmas of provincial capitalism

    South Australia? Well, there’s wine, though global warming, bringing higher temperatures and water ...

16. The Lib's dodgy climate policy

    improving energy efficiency. Rebates would be provided for solar panels and solar hot water. Abbott also ...

17. Top climate scientist slams coal, carbon trading

    renewable energies cannot do the entire job). "Moreover, improved (third generation) light water ...

18. Heatwaves an ominous sign

    is now kept open 24 hours a day, with cold water supplied, to give relief to city residents at risk ...

19. Australian agriculture — a carbon-neutral future?

    about seven years before they are oxidised to carbon dioxide and water. After 12 years they are almost ... soil structure and water retention. There is also a big role for the composting of urban green wastes, ...

20. Bushfires — just chance, or climate change?

    involving shifts in water temperatures in the Indian Ocean. How the IOD might interact with global warming ...

21. Can biochar help stop climate change?

    condensed from the gas stream contains large amounts of water and is relatively acidic. Nevertheless, ...

22. Natural gas: transition fuel or greenhouse menace?

    oxygen to form water and carbon dioxide. After seven years, half of the methane is gone, and after 20 ...

23. New research: natural gas will cook the planet

    pump water. Liquefying gas for export consumes about 20% of its energy content, so the emissions ...

24. Nuclear waste dump case unravels

    confined inlet whose waters mix only slowly with those of the Southern Ocean. Any accident that released ...

25. The bright future for solar thermal in Australia

    Alinta would rather solar power were used to pre-heat water for the existing plant, which would then stay ...

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