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The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Hothouse Earth Could Soon Be Unavoidable Researchers say the world may be approaching a tipping point, followed by a dangerous slide towards Hothouse Earth, an overheated planet. By Tim Radford Global sea levels, too, would rise, by 10 metres, or even as much as 60 metres, to drown all the world’s great coastal cities. Such a transition might happen “in only a century or two”, but...

ANU Climate Change Institute's Will Steffen says it will be "virtually impossible" to hold global temperatures below 1.5 degrees. "Climate change is accelerating. So in other words, the rate at which the climate system is changing, that rate is going up, so in other words, temperatures are rising faster than they were 30 years ago," he said. "We can also see sea level rise - which is an important one - because that is controlled mainly by ocean and ice; they have a lot of momentum. That is accelerating. "We can start to see some of the so-called tipping point...

  Australia must slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 per cent by the end of the decade and get to net zero by 2035 to hedge against the accelerating impacts of climate change. Those startling claims - described by one MP yesterday as "overreaching" - are contained in a new Climate Council report, Aim High, Go Fast: Why Emissions Need To Plummet This Decade. Canberra has pledged to cut emissions by 26-28 per cent by the end of this decade, so a 75 per cent cut would represent almost a tripling of current targets. The Climate Council report suggests every fraction of a degree in glob...

Bold challenge to decarbonise Australia in 15 years laid down by Climate Council Posted 4 updated 4 Renewables need to dominate our energy mix within the next decade, according to the report. ( Share Print text only Cancel A new report from the Climate Council lays out an ambitious challenge to Australian governments and industry: get carbon emissions to net zero by 2035.  Key points: Australia needs to reduce emissions by 75 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2035, the report says The US is expected to announce increased Paris targets as early as next week The EU is already in talks ...

Share on Twitter Australia has less than 10 years to drastically scale up emissions reduction efforts as part of a global push to halt the devastating impacts of rising temperatures, a major new Climate Council report has warned.  The report urges Australia to cut emissions by 75 per cent before 2030 and reach net zero emissions by 2035 - while forecasting that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels during the 2030s.  “The problem is the rates of climate change," report author Will Steffen told SBS News. "The rate at which the temperatu...