Climate change

  • SlowTV: James Hansen: Looking for real solutions after Copenhagen

    James Hansen | Sydney | Mar. 2010
    James Hansen: Looking for real solutions after Copenhagen
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 James Hansen is known as the 'grandfather of climate change' and is perhaps the world's leading authority on the science of climate change. He is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s E... » play video
  • SlowTV: The future of carbon trading in Australia. Garnaut, Eckersley, Thornton

    Kane Thornton | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
    The future of carbon trading in Australia. Garnaut, Eckersley, Thornton
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In the wake of the government vote on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at Copenhagen, this seminar explores the outlook for a carbon trading scheme in Australia and what it will mean for business, individual... » play video
  • Should nuclear power be a response to climate change?
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 At the University of Adelaide, a panel of prominent scientists and campaigners debate the controversial question, "Should we consider nuclear power as a response to climate change?" The speakers include: Professor Barry Brook, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Ch... » play video
  • SlowTV: Growth fetishism and the climate crisis. Clive Hamilton

    Clive Hamilton | Albury-wodonga | Jan. 2010
    Growth fetishism and the climate crisis. Clive Hamilton
    Part 1 | Part 2 Professor Clive Hamilton explores the balances being struck between environmental protection and economic growth in the context of the current advice from climate scientists. He also argues that our preoccupation with economic growth is inconsistent with protecting the Earth from sev... » play video
  • SlowTV: Deakins 09: Shaping the low carbon economy. Peter Madden

    Peter Madden | Melbourne | Nov. 2009
    Deakins 09: Shaping the low carbon economy. Peter Madden
    Part 1 | Part 2 "Over the last few years, Forum For The Future has set the pace for futures thinking on sustainability. In doing so, it?s become clear that we need to focus on the positive and compelling visions of what a low-carbon future would look like". Mr. Peter Madden. At this Alfred D... » play video
  • SlowTV: Climate change denialism and the challenges ahead. Kevin Rudd

    Kevin Rudd | Sydney | Nov. 2009
    Climate change denialism and the challenges ahead. Kevin Rudd
    Part 1 | Part 2 "It is time to remove any polite veneer from this debate... The overwhelming need for Australia to tackle the great challenge of our generation is being frustrated by the do-nothing climate change sceptics". In his major speech to the Lowy Institute, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd... » play video
  • SlowTV: Climate change denialism. Clive Hamilton and Andrew Glikson

    Andrew Glikson | Melbourne | Sep. 2009
    Climate change denialism. Clive Hamilton and Andrew Glikson
    Part 1 | Part 2 (Andrew Glikson) | Part 3 (Questions) At this event organised and hosted by Robert Manne, Clive Hamilton and Andrew Glikson discuss the politics and science of climate change denialism: where did it emerge from? Whose views does it represent? Is there a scientific basis to it? Prof... » play video
  • Inconvenient truths about trade and climate change policy. Ross Garnaut
    Part 1 | Part 2The arbitrary allocation of free emissions permits to trade-exposed industries will create economic distortions with global ramifications. Without an effective international approach, they will contribute to a breakdown of the WTO-based global trading system. Professor Garnaut discuss... » play video
  • SlowTV: A Copenhagen Price Collar. Warwick McKibbin

    Warwick McKibbin | Sydney | Sep. 2009
    A Copenhagen Price Collar. Warwick McKibbin
    Part 1 | Part 2As we approach the Copenhagen global negotiations on emissions reductions, economist Warwick McKibbin looks at recent approaches to the issue and where they have failed. The Kyoto protocol focused on commitments of developed countries with an exclusive goal of emission reductions from... » play video
  • SlowTV: 2080: Climate change scenarios. David Karoly

    David Karoly | Melbourne | Sep. 2009
    2080: Climate change scenarios. David Karoly
    In this talk, climate expert David Karoly lays out the likely future climate change scenarios - and how dependent they are on human actions now - while presenting the latest scientific findings on the earth's climate . Karoly is a professor in the University of Melbourne's school of earth sc... » play video