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15 Australian Climate Scientists Settle The Score
This post has been copied directly from the Sydney Morning Herald online opinion section from 1 August 2009. These are fifteen men and women who are genuine climate scientists and have been involved in producing, reviewing and critiquing climate change science for decades. Had any doubt about where the science of climate change stands? Let…
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Penguins Join Brisbane Walk Against Warming
I personally got involved in WAW because I’m concerned about how climate change is going to affect future generations. When I think of potential conversations with children who will inherit this planet, I want to say that I did everything possible to encourage the government to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Keeping up with WAW…
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Opportunity ripe for Australian leadership on emissions targets
Professor Garnaut said he is hoping for a global agreement to limit greenhouse emissions to a level that is in Australia’s best interest as he delivered his final report to a press conference at Parliament House yesterday. Keeping greenhouse emission levels to 450 parts per million (ppm) is the minimum that scientists say needs to…
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UK jury rules climate damage justifies coal protest
Greenpeace activists in the UK have been acquitted of criminal damage by arguing that the coal-fired power station they shut down was causing more property damage than they were. A jury has let them off despite the fact that they painted the Prime Ministers name down the side of a chimney at Kingsnorth power station.…
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Garnaut's aim is pathetically low
Professor Ross Garnaut – economist, government adviser, and climate policy reviewer – has today given his pronouncement about the way Australia should tackle climate change. Given that his last report heralded disastrous climate change impacts such as the loss of the Great Barrier Reef and the melting of the polar ice caps if the global…
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Greenpeace gives Hay Point coal ships a paint job
As I write, 10 Greenpeace activists are painting the sides of coal ships waiting in a queue outside Hay Point terminal near Mackay. This is the largest coal port in Queensland and there are nearly 50 ships in line ready to be loaded. I’m on board the Esperanza, which is anchored nearby. We’ve been out…
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More than 82% of Australians don’t want export coal expansion
A poll we released today shows that 4 out of 5 Australians want our export coal industry to be capped or reduced. Nonetheless, at both state and federal government levels, there are plans for the massive expansion of the industry. The Rudd government has plans to double our national export capacity, while just 2 weeks…
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Are we prepared to lose our Reef?
It was sobering to have internationally-acclaimed reef scientist Charlie Veron on board the ship for the past few days. The campaigners and crew on board had the opportunity to hear from the man who has discovered 20% of the world’s coral species how dire the situation really is for the coral reefs of the worlds.…
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No shale mine! Community protest flotilla at Airlie beach
Cruising up the Whitsunday coast, it seems absolute insanity that anyone could think of endangering this incredible environment to profit from an excessively polluting rock-to-oil project, which would turn local shale reserves into synthetic crude oil to be further refined into diesel or petrol. The local community at Airlie beach are running a well-established campaign…
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Garnaut’s Urgent Message Lost In Emissions Trading Hysteria
Someone should explain to Michael Costa that the point of an emissions trading scheme is to reduce greenhouse pollution. It’s not a PR exercise so that it looks like we’re doing something about climate change. Because in the meantime, as Professor Ross Garnaut pointed out in his draft report on Friday, increased temperatures will wipe…