Why can't the government understand there's no such thing as clean coal?

Some new form of madness must surely have taken hold when we're being asked to ponder whether or not the Clean Energy Finance Corporation should fund "clean coal", or cleaner coal, power stations. Seriously? Is this a trick question?

It's hard to imagine, even a year ago, that the matter would have been worthy of serious consideration, but to quote South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill, "When 'clean' has its meaning expanded to include 'coal', you realise how busted national electricity policy truly is". Yep, plain speaking is indeed in short supply.

Read Sarah Gill’s comment in today’s Melbourne Age - “Why can't the government understand there's no such thing as clean coal?”

'We can fix this, we can stop this madness" - Yeb Sano

“We can fix this, we can stop this madness,” so said Philippines’ climate negotiator, Yeb Sano.

The tearful negotiator appears in the movie “Climate Change Disruption” speaking at the 2013 Warsaw UN Climate Change conference that followed the most powerful storm this planet had ever seen.

Typhoon Haiyan affected almost 15 million people in the Philippines, including five million children.

The movie is many things, among them powerfully emotional as it points to the dilemmas arising out of earth’s disrupted climate, but more importantly it is encouraging all of us to do something and that something is to join the Sunday, September 21 People’s Climate March.

For those of us in Victoria, the Melbourne March starts at 11:00am at the State Library in Swanston St. and end at the Treasury Gardens. Similar marches can be found in all Australian capital cities.