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Scientist Steve Schneider Flips Fears
On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age.  Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)

Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference.   Read more here. (2)

Not Evil Just Wrong
Buy the DVD by clicking on the flashing icon above. (1)

Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time …  Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)

Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness.  Read more here. (1)

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Archive for June 22nd, 2005

Pictures of Whales

The Sydney Morning Herald has started a site called ‘whales watch’ with photos of whales emailed in from readers. Some of the photos are truly magnificent.
http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2005/06/21/1119250965027.html

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Managing our Rangelands (Part 1)

I am passionate about Australia’s rangelands. They cover about 75 percent of the land area of this continent – according to a website that I’ve just discovered.
The Australian Burea of Statistics (ABS), from memory, suggests about 60 percent of Australia is rangeland under pastoral lease.
I am not sure how these vast areas should be [...]

The Land (June 16, 2005)

I write a fortnightly column for The Land; the NSW Rural Weekly.
Last week I wrote about drought and Jared Diamond and I have got lots of positive and negative feedback.
The Land doesn’t put a lot of stuff on the web, but the piece is up at the IPA website, click on http://www.ipa.org.au/files/news_981.html.
In the same edition [...]