Mark Carter
Mark Carter has been researching aviations contribution to global warming for the last 6 years and helped set up both Flight Free Australia http://www.flightfree.net.au (a group campaigning to raise awareness of flyings warming impact, with a pledge to not fly call to action) and the No 3rd Tulla Runway coalition http://www.no3rdtullarunway.net.au campaigning agains the proposed third runway at Melbourne Airport. In 2018 I researched and wrote The elephant in the sky: the hazards of aviation emissions and how we can avoid them (https://flightfree.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-elephant-in-the-sky_online_s.pdf)
Recent articles by Mark Carter
31 January 2025
Is Catherine King’s Tulla runway approval invalid? Yes, if climate impacts are included
On 10 September 2024 federal aviation minister Catherine King gave Melbourne Airport the go-ahead to build a third runway.
25 November 2024
Exposing the layers of aviation industry greenwash
For the aviation industry as a whole, and, for that matter, our federal government too, ‘net zero 2050’ is just the latest layer of greenwash. The sector is a serial offender, having misrepresented its global warming impact for decades.
18 February 2024
Pigs might fly: Australian aviations delusional emissions future
Australian aviation is in the news again. Having ripped off passengers, illegally sacked workers, and impacted the health of residents under airport flight paths, the industry has now received $30m from taxpayers to manufacture sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). And investors and airlines are clamouring for more.