The Wire

It’s a week when climate sceptics are gaining ground, and when the newly agreed upon Emissions Trading Scheme seems more about rewarding polluters than reducing emissions. And then today along comes ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, the latest summary of climate science – it says the news is worse than expected and that climate change is accelerating, esepcially the melting of the ice at both Poles. Story features Professor Matthew England , joint director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and one of the report’s authors.