Climate Change
Capitalism and the climate change crisis
By Patrick O’Connor, June 11, 2011
Record levels of greenhouse gas emission constitute a damning indictment of the capitalist system.
Evidence of intensifying climate change grows
By Dan Brennan, January 26, 2011
Global surface temperatures for 2010 matched record highs, with the past decade the hottest ever recorded.
Cancún climate negotiations end without agreement on emissions reductions
By Patrick O’Connor, December 13, 2010
United Nations-sponsored climate change negotiations in Cancún, Mexico concluded last Saturday without any agreement between the more than 190 national government delegations on binding carbon emissions reduction targets.
The oil spill and the food web
By Dan Brennan, June 30, 2010
Scientists warn that the Gulf oil disaster threatens to poison organisms at the base of the food chain.
Climate scientists exonerated in hacked emails inquiry
By Chris Talbot, April 26, 2010
An independent inquiry into the conduct of scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia in Britain has found “absolutely no evidence of any impropriety whatsoever.”
Australia: Opposition leader unveils slush fund for corporate polluters and agribusiness
By Patrick O’Connor, February 9, 2010
Liberal leader Tony Abbott last week released the opposition coalition’s new climate change policy, pledging to establish a multi-billion dollar public fund to be placed at the disposal of the largest corporate polluters and agribusiness interests.
Marxism, socialism and climate change
By Nick Beams, December 22, 2009
The problems of climate change are so profound and far-reaching that they require the rational mobilisation of all available economic, material, scientific and technical resources, something that is only possible only under socialism.
Climate change, emissions trading schemes and the profit system
By Patrick O’Connor, December 21, 2009
Public meetings called by the WSWS and the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) in Sydney and Melbourne last week exposed the real agenda behind emissions trading schemes and the official climate change “debate”. The following is the report delivered by WSWS writer Patrick O’Connor.
Australian SEP meetings discuss socialism, climate change and emissions trading schemes
By our reporters, December 19, 2009
Public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne this week exposed the real agenda behind emissions trading schemes and the official climate change “debate”.
Global climate diagnosis worsening
By Peter Symonds, December 7, 2009
An international group of leading climate scientists has updated the 2007 IPCC report based on the substantial body of scientific research published over the past three years. Their conclusions not only confirm the trends reported in 2007, but in a number of key areas exceed previous expectations.
Copenhagen Climate Summit: The gulf between rhetoric and reality
By Peter Symonds, December 7, 2009
Even before the climate summit begins today in Copenhagen, the goal of a legally binding international treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions has been ruled out.
Australia: Bipartisan carbon trading deal transfers $6 billion from households to corporate polluters
By Patrick O’Connor, November 26, 2009
The final terms of the government’s so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme—set to be approved by parliament this week and to commence operations in 2011—underscore that the mechanism has nothing to do with protecting the environment, but is driven by the interests of corporate Australia.
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