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Discussion over why its far better for the environment to pipe water from Tasmania to Melbourne than building the Wonthaggi desalination plant

Decision by two countries to join scheme exposing corruption in mining and oil industries represents significant breakthroughBritain and France have both announced they are to join a groundbreaking initiative to expose systematic...

"This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather. Not just hot weather. But extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago – It’s been a while – the scientists all agreed that what...

Ed Davey tells conference that more than one-third of the UK's subsidies for wind, wave and tidal energy is spent in ScotlandEd Davey, the UK energy secretary, has warned that Scotland could lose billions of pounds in subsidies...

Recall this story from yesterday: US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse From Rhode Island Provides Erroneous Information To American Public in Global Warming Rant Foxnews reports on the apology...

Via POLITICO’s Morning Energy – May 21, 2013: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif. – Chair of Senate Environment & Public Works Committee) took to the Senate floor and invoked the Oklahoma tornadoes in her speech on global...

by Judith Curry A central puzzle of modern American politics is why so many voters can maintain strong political views concerning complex policies yet remain relatively uninformed about how such policies would bring about...

What was the reason you gave up watching the BBC's Late Review (or Newsnight Review as it then became) or the BBC Review Show as it now is? For me it was the regular guest called Ekow Eshun...

To John Cook – it isn’t ‘hate’, it’s pity, – pity for having such a weak argument you are forced to fabricate conclusions of epic proportions Proving that crap can flow uphill, yesterday,...

Former senior official John Ashton attacks government for 'spooking potential investors' in energy infrastructureThe number of people employed by the government to work on the UK's adaptation to the effects of climate change...

Building programme advancing, says minister as expectations of timetable delay at Hinkley Point grow and Chinese 'lose interest'The government has insisted it was still optimistic about plans to build a series of nuclear...

"So you want Ed Miliband to win the next election, do you?" This is the argument you often hear being advanced by diehard Tories – Toby Young, among them, it would seem – to explain why however much Ukip may make...

Alaska photo from Shutterstock Until this past Friday, the U.S. was the only Arctic nation that lacked a formal strategy in its approach to the region. In advance of Wednesday’s Arctic Council meeting in Sweden, the Obama...

Online petitions are one of the curses of our age. They're a curse, of course, because the people they're invariably aimed at are shrill, bitter lefties who've got nothing better to do with their rancid, soapless, job-free...

Appointment of Peter Lilley, one of only four MPs to vote against Climate Change Act, criticised by green campaignersOne of the government's fiercest climate change sceptics has been appointed to advise the prime minister...

Ben Moxham, senior policy adviser and former aide to BP chief Lord Browne, becomes latest energy official to quitA key adviser to the prime minister on energy and climate change policies has resigned, in the latest of an...