Archive for September, 2010
Comment on ‘Solar’ by Ian McEwan
Posted by jennifer, September 26th, 2010 - under Books.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 8
IN his latest novel about climate change, award-winning novelist Ian McEwan[1] apparently took inspiration for his main character, Michael Beard, from the people he encountered at the 2007 Potsdam Nobel Laureate Symposium on climate change. Not surprising Professor Beard is male and a Nobel Laureate, but interestingly also fat, comic, aging, a liar and scoundrel. At [...]
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Save the Murray: Remove the Barrages
Posted by jennifer, September 19th, 2010 - under Opinion.
Tags: Drought, Murray River, Water
Comments: 31
The release of a new Murray Darling Basin plan on October 8, 2010, is likely to reignite debate over how best to solve the problems of the Murray River. It will further pit some environmentalists and some South Australians against upstream irrigators as a debate over how to fix the two very large freshwater lakes [...]