The amount of plastic pollution collecting in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is greater than previously estimated “and is growing exponentially”.
(The Canberra Times, 10 March 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Category Archives: Climate
Summer’s hottest reads
The Bureau of Meteorology says 2017 was Australia’s third hottest year on record. Seven of Australia’s 10 warmest years have now occurred since 2005.
(The Canberra Times, 11 January 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The economic environment
Federal environment funding in Australia has been cut by a third since the Coalition took office.
(The Canberra Times, 14 December 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Finkel energy review
Giles Parkinson: “Finkel decoded: The good, the bad, and the very disappointing”
(The Canberra Times, 9 June, 15 June 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Trump confirms he will seek to quit the Paris climate agreement
A reworking of David Low’s masterpiece from June 1940
(The Canberra Times, 30 May, 2 June, 3 June 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Indebted
The government announces changes to higher education funding: student fees up 8%, HECS debts to be repaid earlier, and budget cuts.
Keane in Crikey [paywalled]: What, exactly, motivates this government’s passionate loathing of young people?
(The Canberra Times, 2 May 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
March for science
“Malcolm once endorsed common sense positions on climate change. Then he became prime minister”.
Well common sense concern about, rather than positions on, at any rate.
(The Canberra Times, 22 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Adani coalmine and the Great Barrier Reef
Back-to-back coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef has left scientists in a state of despair.“I don’t really know what else the reef needs to do to signify that it’s in serious trouble.”
And a vast new coalmine planned nearby is set to contribute to the warming that makes those bleaching events more common.
“It’s either Adani or the Great Barrier Reef. Are we willing to fight for a wonder of the world?”
(The Canberra Times, 12 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Man from Snowy River v2.0
How game-changing energy policy is made.
(The Canberra Times, 17 March 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Driverless vehicle
Your semi-regular reminder not to leave hapless pets trapped in parked cars.
Giles Parkinson runs a quick ruler over South Australia’s energy plan to deal with failures in the National Energy Market and the vacuum that is the Federal Government’s energy transition policy.
(The Canberra Times, 14 March 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)