Australia’s Cyclone: Climate Change, or Just Really Bad Weather?

The cyclone that thrashed a still-soggy Queensland yesterday has re-energized an ongoing debate Down Under over what Australia can expect from a warmer planet and what the nation – the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide per capita – should do about it. Front and center in the fray is Ross Garnaut, the government’s climate [...]

Cyclone Yasi Is Really, Really Big

How big is the storm that is threatening much of Australia with 190 mph winds? About this big, according to our friends at NASA: In a way, though, it’s fortunate that the storm will be hitting a relatively rich, relatively well-off country like Australia, which is on the fortunate side of the disaster gap. Less [...]