Off to Russia
Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Prize (see...
View ArticleThe future of Brave New Climate
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ― Lao Tzu The...
View ArticleIs pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or-break century?
Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC...
View ArticleTwo books on sustainable nuclear energy
This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for...
View ArticleWorrying about global tipping points distracts from real planetary threats
In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s...
View ArticleVote to get the Integral Fast Reactor presented at MIT!
Mass-producible integral fast reactor modules can power every country on earth for nearly a millennium with waste products already at hand. That’s the pitch that Tom Blees has made to the Climate CoLab...
View ArticleMIT competition update – 3 days left, votes needed!
Below is an update on the MIT competition that I highlighted in the last BNC post, including a plea for final action. There are only 3 days left to register your support, and in my opinion, this really...
View ArticleMIT Climate CoLab update – the result?
This is an update to this recent BNC post: MIT competition update – 3 days left, votes needed! ———- Guest Post by Ron Gester M.D. The Treasurer of SCGI, Ron is a retired emergency physician and...
View ArticleWillacy’s Fukushima
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has...
View Article‘Pandora’s Promise’ documentary movie in Australia
For my Australian readers, October 2013 is THE month for green energy. It’s at last time to book your tickets to see Pandora’s Promise! You can get further details at the Antidote Films/Cinema Ventures...
View ArticleBNC 2.0
2013 was a quiet year for the Brave New Climate website. After a number of years of heavy blogging from 2008 to 2011 (averaging about 150 posts per year), I guess I’d run out of steam by 2012, and that...
View ArticleScott Ludlam’s viral video
Scott Ludlam’s viral video Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Scott Ludlam is a Western Australian Senator with a last minute reprieve after losing his seat at the last Federal election. Ludlam will get a...
View Article4 million views on BNC
4 million views on BNC Today this modest climate + energy blog passed 4 million page views. My thanks to all the regular guest posters and commenters on BNC for building up and critiquing the archives...
View ArticleHighly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers Thompson Reuters (who produce the Institute for Scientific Information journal impact factors) have released the first update of Highly Cited Researchers in the sciences and...
View ArticleGreenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change
Regular BNC commenter and my friend Geoff Russell (@csiroperfidy) has published a new book. It’s called “Greenjacked!: The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. The blurb: Today’s...
View ArticleClimate heating for 2014 in Australia
The Bureau of Meteorology in Australia has released its annual climate statement, for 2014. As expected, it was once again a hot year across the continent (and indeed, globally): There is a lot of...
View ArticleThe Limits of Planetary Boundaries 2.0
Back in 2013, I led some research that critiqued the ‘Planetary Boundaries‘ concept (my refereed paper, Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping points?, appeared in Trends in Ecology...
View ArticleSolar Impulse; and other comedies
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. Many nuclear supporters tend to shy away from overt...
View ArticlePh.D. scholarships in ecology & conservation
Ph.D. projects now offered in the Dynamics of Eco-Evolutionary Patterns (D.E.E.P.) research group, based at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Tasmania. We study ecological and...
View ArticlePokécology: people will never put down their phones, but games can get them...
By Jessie Buettel & Barry Brook. Original published on The Conversation. Anyone who has been outdoors in a populated area in the past month will be aware of the massive success of Pokémon GO, which...
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