Some popular (i.e. non-technical) articles and PowerPoint slideshows are available here as PDF files. To open them you will need Acrobat Reader 5.0. If you do not have this software already, you can download it free of charge from the Adobe web site, accessed by clicking HERE.

Slideshows

Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy (Nov 2007) PDF

Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy (Oct 2007), more technical version presented at ANZSES Solar 2007 conference PDF

Some popular articles by Mark Diesendorf

NEW: Submission to Garnaut Climate Change Review, December 2007. PDF

NEW: "Myths, fallacies and spin about greenhouse solutions", November 2007, published on <www.energyscience.org.au>, Briefing Paper No. 21.

NEW: "Paths to a Low-Carbon Future: Reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2020", published by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, September 2007. PDF

NEW: "The Short-term potential for renewable energy and demand reduction to provide base-load power in New South Wales". 17 July 2007. PDF

NEW: "Renewable energy sources left to rot", Courier Mail, Brisbane, 23/7/2007. PDF

NEW: "The Base-Load Fallacy", revised November 2007, published on <www.energyscience.org.au>, Briefing paper No. 16.

"Nuclear greenwash" Courier-Mail, Brisbane 14/11/2006 PDF

Submission to Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy Review Secretariat, 2006. PDF

"In defence of renewable energy and its variability", D!ssent No. 21, Spring 2006, pp. 5–8. PDF

"A clean energy future for Australia: response to Trainer critique", CSIRO Sustainability Network, Update 56, 2006, www.bml.csiro.au/susnetnl/ netwl56E.pdf

"Muzzling the Greenhouse Debate", Canberra Times, opinion piece, 15 February 2006. PDF

"A sustainable energy future for Australia". CSIRO Sustainability Network, Update 54, www.bml.csiro.au/susnetnl/netwl54E.pdf. This is a more detailed summary than "How to reduce CO2 emissions by 50%", listed below. PDF

"Can nuclear energy reduce CO2 emissions?". A brief report was published under the title, "Green credentials are not a given", in the Canberra Times, 8 June 2005, p.19, and then a more detailed account (slightly edited) in Australasian Science, July 2005, pp.29-30. The complete version is given here. PDF

The subsequent debate with a representative of the Australian Uranium Information Centre, published in the August 2005 issue of Australasian Science, is available here.

"How to reduce CO2 emissions by 50%", Australasian Science vol.26, No. 4, 34-6, May 2005. PDF

"Opponents of wind power are blowing a lot of hot air", Canberra Times, opinion piece, 20/1/2005. PDF

"An alternative pathway to clean energy", Canberra Times 25/3/2004, p.17.
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"A Clean Energy Future for Australia -- Summary", by Hugh Saddler, Mark Diesendorf & Richard Denniss. Clean Energy Future Group, March 2004.
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"Why Australia needs wind power", Dissent no. 3, pp.43-48, Summer 2003/04. PDF

"A kick in the teeth for scientific debate", Australasian Science vol. 24, no. 8, pp.35-37, September 2003. This is a slightly edited version of the following review paper with references [PDF], which is available here on our Website by kind permission of Australasian Science, www.control.com.au

"Australia's polluting power: Coal-fired electricity and its impact on global warming", Sydney: WWF-Australia, April 2003.
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"Backing a loser", published in slightly edited form as "Propping up the old smokestack industries", Canberra Times, 22 April 2003, page 11. This article is based on part of the above report to WWF.
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"Sustainable development in China", China Connections, January-March 2003, pp.18-19. This is a shortened version of a manuscript on the following PDF.

'Quarry or advanced economy -- Where do ecologically sustainable jobs come from?', in Now We The People, Papers of the National Conference, Sydney: Now We The People, July 2002, pp.88-89. PDF

‘Pathways to a sustainable future’, Dissent No. 5, Autumn/Winter 2001, pp.40-44. PDF

‘Counting the cost of government subsidies’, Canberra Times, 8 November 2001, p.9.
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‘Clean, green economic growth’, Canberra Times, 12 July 2001, p.11. PDF

'Urban Transportation in the 21st Century', Environmental Science & Policy, invited editorial. Vol. 3, pp.11-13, 2000 PDF

‘Smokestack industries are the big winners’, Canberra Times 4 December 2000.

'Role of business in sustainable development', Executive Excellence, December 2000, p.19.

'Debate over tidal power in Western Australia' -- published on several e-mail lists, 2000. PDF

‘Credibility at stake on greenhouse cuts’, Canberra Times, 6 October 2000, p.9.

'Lessons for Sydney from Olympic Transport' – published in Sydney Morning Herald, 4 October 2000 under the title ‘Public transport a winner, and should remain so’. PDF

'Do new roads reduce traffic?’ -- published in Sydney Morning Herald, 30 November 1999 under the title 'All choked up over our love affair with the car'. PDF

‘Second airport or second best?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 1999, p.15.

'Big roads big bills', Australasian Science Vol. 20, No.4, pp. 34-35, 1999.

'Comment on the Kyoto conference’, Ecological Economics Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.40-41, 1998 (co-authored by Anna Gollner).

'What can we do to protect our environment?', Uniya Focus (newsletter of Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre), No. 34, October, 1998.