climate change, definition of

The sale and purchase of carbon credits or pollution permits through carbon markets.

The practice is designed to help control carbon dioxide emissions by placing a price on a ton of emitted CO2 and providing members of trading schemes with economic incentives to reduce the amount of pollution they produce.

The market is dominated by cap-and-trade schemes, such as the EU's emissions trading scheme, but carbon trading can also refer to the sale of carbon offsets from emission reduction projects.

In theory, carbon trading mechanisms mean that emission reductions are achieved at the lowest possible cost, as businesses will only purchase carbon credits - effectively paying someone else to cut emissions for them - if they can not deliver emission reductions at a lower cost themselves.

• What is Climate?
  We ask: what is climate? and how we experience the climate effects how we think about it.
• Global Warming, climategate, big business and being green
  The theory of man made global warming is turning into an excuse to derive profit from peoples good nature, what is going on?..
• Michael Jackson and his Green legacy
  The King of Pop is dead - but what is his Green legacy? In this article we have a look at what he has really done for the world and its environment.

• Dueling Climate Reports
  In the interests of free speech I'm reposting this article so it gets better exposure.
• Climate Council, represents who?
  The Climate Commission is being reformed as the Climate Council, we ask who do they represent and what is their funding model?
• Tasmania Bushfires, lack of hazard reduction burns to blame
  The Tasmania Bushfires are more a result of a lack of hazard reduction burns and not due to Climate Change.
• Methane from waste food an environmental problem?
  We look at whether methane from waste food is a real problem in our environment.
• BOM 'predicts' a hot Summer in Australia
  BOM have just announced that due to a three day 'heat wave' we are due a hot Summer...
• Ballarat museum scaring children with biasless climate propaganda
  Caring about the environment is one thing, deliberately setting out to scare young children with climate change propaganda in an art gallery is something completely different...
• What does Free Range Eggs mean?
  What do you think Free Range Eggs means in Australia? Well, apparently there is no standard definition of what Free Range is...
• Dirty weather is dirty PR
  Al Gore is at it again with his '24 hours of Climate Reality', we call it what it is - BS.
• Fixing a water pump cheaply
  Our pool cleaner pump just died and I was able to fix it for $14...
• Extreme weather not related to Climate Change says IPCC
  In a rather surprising report from the IPCC they play down the link between extreme weather and Climate Change...
• What is climate change?
  We answer the question: what is climate change?
• Carbon rap - even the young realise Climate Change is a fraud
  Good video explaining what is really going on with Climate Change
• Climate change is not the long term problem, environmental degradation is.
  We propose that man-made climate change, as a risk to society as we know it, is less of a real risk than current environmental degradation and pollution.
• A Rational Discussion of Climate Change: the Science, the Evidence, the Response
  US House of Representatives Science Committee has a meeting today titled 'A Rational Discussion of Climate Change: the Science, the Evidence, the Response' - we give you the details.
• Climate Change Policy in Australia
  With an election just around the corner the politically sensitive issue of how Labour is to deal with Climate Change has been presented as policy today.
• Climate Change: the ice is fine
  Electromagnetic survey to measure ice thickness uncovers vast areas of resilient "old" ice in the Arctic; leading researcher concludes, "Any talk about tipping points, a sudden drop and no recovery ... I don't think it is going to happen."
• Is Climate Change caused by Photoshop?
  We look at the images used in the media to portray climate change and find quite a few have been run through PhotoShop..
• heathrow expansion stopped due to climate change?
  It appears that a UK judge seems to have swallowed hook line and sinker the 'settled science' of climate change and stopped Heathrow from being expanded..
• Climate Change caused an island, erm sand bar to disappear..
  "Climate change sunk my sandbar..." hmm
• Climate Change killed my cat..
  It seems that everything from Floods through to Fires through to droughts is being blamed on global warming and climate change. I think this is oversimplifying the story and ignoring local changes we have caused.
• Is keeping data private 'normal practise' in climate research?
  It seems Phil Jones thinks its perfectly normal to do research and publish said research whilst withholding data.
• Yet another Climate Change department?
  Seems the AU government are busy producing yet more Co2 via civil servants for climate change.
• Act on Co2 - the advert..
  Ofcom in the UK is investigating a climate change advert which really takes things too far.
• Met Office proposes to make Data Set Verifiable
  The UK Met Office want to put in place a collation of station data that is publicly accessible.
• Cover-More, you drink and its cover-less..
  If you have Cover-More insurance, don't travel and do any drinking if you want to remain insured - thats the finding of a recent Today Tonight special.
• Is ETS a lame duck?
  The Emissions Trading Scheme looks to be stuck in the Senate. Does this mean it will fail?
• A failure to insulate
  It appears the Rudd governments insulation rebate scheme is beyond repair...
• Climate Change bullies?
  Climate Change Scientists seem to believe they are being bulled...
• Sydney transport - oh what a fine mess!
  Yet more politically motivated tweaking of the Sydney transport system..
• National Climate Change Forum response
  This is in response to the National Climate Change Forum being held in Adelaide.
• What is the fuss with biochar??
  Given the sudden interest in the media on biochar one would think a way of really saving the world has been discovered...
• Bush Fires and being Green, can you do both?
  Given that bush fires cause a lot of destruction and environmental damage, can we manage them and be green at the same time?
• Is the Australian Stimulus package green enough?
  

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A Climate Change Denier (usually just Denier) is a derogatory term used to describe a Climate Change Skeptic. Usually a sign that a debate on climate change has degraded into name calling and none science based discussion.

The implication is that the 'Denier' is denying the clearly evident facts supporting man made climate change; where as what they do dispute is the link between mans influence on the climate and the changes in the climate being seen, and how much of that change is purely due to natural processes.

• Fossil fuel-funded study attempts to deny the human causes of climate change
  In yet another attempt to deny the effects of climate change, the fossil fuel industry has funded a study that experts say lacks scientific credibility and is full of ‘nonsense.’ The Heartland Institute, an agency financed by coal and oil giants,...
• Insiders insist National Geographic will remain autonomous, despite Fox relationship
  Last week, a single piece of news rocked the internet in a way that few other headlines have. The world learned that 21st Century Fox - an outfit headed by known climate denier Rupert Murdoch - will pay $725 million to increase its stake in National a...
• Insiders say that National Geographic will continue to operate autonomously, despite new relationship with Fox
  Last week, a single piece of news rocked the internet in a way that few other headlines have. The world learned that 21st Century Fox - an outfit headed by known climate denier Rupert Murdoch - will pay $725 million to increase its stake in National a...
• Infamous climate change denier Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon loses funding amid bribery scandal
  It looks like funders are abandoning Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, after the prominent U.S. climate change denier may have failed to disclose petroleum companies were paying him. The Guardian reports that documents obtained by Greenpeace revealed that...
• Infamous climate change denier Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon gets funding pulled amid bribery scandal
  It looks like funders are abandoning Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, after the prominent U.S. climate change denier may have failed to disclose petroleum companies were paying him. The Guardian reports that documents obtained by Greenpeace revealed that...
• Financial supporters pull the plug on climate change denier Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon amid bribery scandal
  It looks like funders are abandoning Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, after the prominent U.S. climate change denier may have failed to disclose petroleum companies were paying him. The Guardian reports that documents obtained by Greenpeace revealed that...
• Funders pull the plug on climate change denier after his shady deals come to light
  It looks like funders are abandoning Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, after the prominent U.S. climate change denier may have failed to disclose petroleum companies were paying him. The Guardian reports that documents obtained by Greenpeace revealed that...
• Petition: Don’t Put a Climate Change Denier in Charge of U.S. Environmental Policy!
  When Senate majority is handed to the GOP, a Republican will become the chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. And Senator Jim Inhofe, one of the most outspoken climate change deniers in government, is set to lead environmental policy starting

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Climate Change housing refers to housing that has been designed to operate in a way that minimizes its impact in contributing to climate change through reducing the man made component of climate change.

Note: This does not automatically mean that a house so designed is 'green' or 'eco' over the longer term, rather it is focused on minimizing its man made climate change impact first; which can lead to it been green if done correctly. Basically one does not automatically lead to the other.

Note: Beware of carbon 'get rich quick' schemes; i.e. solar power offsetting, etc as these often only work with costly rebates (which a lot of governments are now pulling out of supplying on mass due to them not being financially sustainable over the longer term).

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A Climate Change Skeptic is someone who believes, in the context of Climate Change, that the human influence on the climate has been dramatically overplayed compared to natural processes and other external influences (such as the Sun).

Note: It does not mean they do not believe that the climate changes, rather that the amount of that change due to human activity is over emphasized and too 'precise' given the limited time (a few hundred years) we have had to measure the climate compared to the age of the climatic system (millions of years).

• Climate change department closed by British Prime Minister
  In voting to exit the European Union, the United Kingdom may also have voted to take a step back from the reality of climate change. In one of her first acts as Prime Minister, Theresa May dissolved the national Department for Energy and Climate Change...

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