The opportunity cost of the Iraq War

Image source: www.worldpress.org Quite aside from the appalling human cost of the war in Iraq, according to a recent article, It’s only $300 billion, in the Washington Post, the economic cost will soon exceed the predicted cost of the Kyoto Protocol to the US economy. The irony is that this is what Dubya said at [...]

The Minister for Greenwash

The Rt Hon Ian McFarlane, MP Image source: http://www.abc.net.au/rural/ outlook2002/image.htm I had to smile the other day when I read that the Australian Energy Minister, Ian McFarlane, was reported to have told a conference organised by the coal industry in Sydney that they should clean up their publicity act, saying the future fuels issue had [...]

Will Kyoto save Tuvalu?

Image source: unfccc.int That juggernaut of a lobby group, AOSIS, which (… ahem) as we all know, is the Alliance of Small Island States, will be rejoicing tomorrow when the Kyoto Protocol officially comes into effect. The question is, will this coalition of small island and low-lying coastal countries be any less vulnerable to the [...]