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![Broken carbon promise costs Gillard](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Broken carbon promise costs Gillard
Climate change is threatening to fragment Prime Minister Julia Gillard's leadership.
![<i>Inside Money:</i> The weather is the news: pay attention](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
<i>Inside Money:</i> The weather is the news: pay attention
I remember when the weather was innocent and free.
![La Nina, global warming to blame for floods](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
La Nina, global warming to blame for floods
Experts blame a combination of a La Nina weather pattern and global warming for the magnitude of the Queensland flood disaster.
![Weather Watch: Worst yet to come for Queensland](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Weather Watch: Worst yet to come for Queensland
Back on January 1 authorities said Queensland was facing a flood of "biblical proportions". Now, almost two weeks later, and it's hard to fathom that the "worst is yet to come" as unprecedented flooding hits the drought ravaged region.
![<i>Jesse Dykstra:</i> Climate change, natural disasters and human vulnerability](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
<i>Jesse Dykstra:</i> Climate change, natural disasters and human vulnerability
Is climate change the greatest modern threat?
![The carbon detectives](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
The carbon detectives
Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions is challenging enough. But what if we can't even measure the pollution we're trying to reduce?
![<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Cancun talks highlight climate dilemma](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Cancun talks highlight climate dilemma
In contrast to the train wreck at Copenhagen a year ago, decent progress was made at Cancun, writes Brian Fallow.
![<i>Editorial:</i> Cancun gains worthless with Kyoto in limbo](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
<i>Editorial:</i> Cancun gains worthless with Kyoto in limbo
The rift between developed and developing nations on how to extend or replace the Kyoto Protocol has not been healed.
![Smith hails breakthrough in global climate change talks](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Smith hails breakthrough in global climate change talks
Nick Smith yesterday hailed a "major breakthrough" in climate change talks which ended on Saturday.
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Govt welcomes Cancun climate deal
The Government has welcomed progress made at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change but the Green Party says it falls short of what is needed to avert the worst effects of global warming.
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Leave lignite in the ground, says environment commissioner
State-owned coal miner Solid Energy's plans to turn low-grade Southland lignite coal deposits into massive new industries make no sense and the coal should remain in the ground, says the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.