QLD floods highlight the cost of climate extremes
After a long, hot period of drought in eastern Australia, spanning much of the 1990s and 2000s and referred to as the worst in 1000 years (see also discussion on BNC on the drought here and the strange...
View ArticleLivestock and Climate Change … Status update
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. The United Nations report...
View ArticleLow intensity geoengineering – microbubbles and microspheres
Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a...
View ArticleStrange bedfellows? Techno-fixes and conservation
I have a new paper out in the peer-reviewed journal Biological Conservation that will be of interest to BNC readers. It is called “Strange bedfellows? Techno-fixes to solve the big conservation issues...
View ArticleFeeding the billions in 2050’s sauna (Part I)
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: The...
View ArticleFeeding 10 billion on a hotter planet (Part II)
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was:...
View ArticleFeeding 10 billion in 2050’s sauna (Part III)
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was:...
View ArticleDietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was:...
View ArticleWorrying about global tipping points distracts from real planetary threats
In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s...
View ArticleNuclear Waste Part 1: The elephant (shrew) in the room
This is the first in a four part series on nuclear waste which will run on BraveNewClimate.com over the next four days. Geoff Russell, July 2013 (Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan,...
View ArticleNuclear Waste Part 2: The nuts and bolts of waste
This is the second in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Click here for Part 1. What’s special about nuclear...
View ArticleNuclear Waste Part 3: Case studies
This is the third in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1 and Part 2. Case studies in waste...
View ArticleNuclear Waste Part 4: The choice … waste into fuel OR renewable wastelands
This is the final in a four part series on nuclear waste which has run on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I conclude the...
View ArticleAn open letter to the ABC about Catalyst’s latest Fukushima piece
Mark Horstman travels to Fukushima Prefecture in Japan to investigate where the radioactive fallout has travelled since the Daichi nuclear power plant accident over three years ago. This was the...
View ArticleWhat the Melbourne Cup can teach us about journalists… and real emissions cuts
Remember that Melbourne cup drop in electricity use? A half of one percent. Excuse me for not being blown away by this... If you have a problem, then work out a solution and execute it. That's how...
View ArticleThe Limits of Planetary Boundaries 2.0
Back in 2013, I led some research that critiqued the ‘Planetary Boundaries‘ concept (my refereed paper, Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping points?, appeared in Trends in Ecology...
View ArticleWhat can we learn from Kerala?
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. Kerala is a state on the South Western coast of India;...
View ArticleSatnavs, biofuel and climate change
The biofuel roll out is worse than just too slow...
View ArticlePh.D. scholarships in ecology & conservation
Ph.D. projects now offered in the Dynamics of Eco-Evolutionary Patterns (D.E.E.P.) research group, based at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Tasmania. We study ecological and...
View ArticlePokécology: people will never put down their phones, but games can get them...
By Jessie Buettel & Barry Brook. Original published on The Conversation. Anyone who has been outdoors in a populated area in the past month will be aware of the massive success of Pokémon GO, which...
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