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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 30th, 2006

Worrying About Mekong River Dolphins

They’ve been described as the rabbits of the sea. I’m referring to minke whales.
How much money does Greenpeace spend sending boats to the Antarctic to ’save’ them?
I’m more concerned about the species that are really threatened with extinction like the freshwater dolphins of Asia.
After posting earlier today on the baniji in China, I was [...]

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Polling the State of the Environment

Greenpeace tell us we should worry about global warming and GM food. But what are most people worried about when it comes to the environment?
There is currently a poll on ‘The Environment’ at the ‘What the People Want’ . If you fill it in and leave your email address Graham Young will [...]

A Note on Energy & Adaptation: Steven Hayward

“In the end, a relentless campaign to extend political control over the world’s energy use is likely to fail, in part because, even if severe climate change is in our future, most people intuitively recognize that rhetoric about “the end of civilization as we know it” is inconsistent with human experience. Our distant ancestors survived [...]

Worrying About the Baiji

I was a little confused by a recent article at ABC Online about the Baiji, the rare river dolphins in the Yangtze River in China.
I was confused because the news article titled ‘Plan hatched to save Yangtze dolphins’ suggested the dolphin would be saved because they could be relocated to a nearby lake. [...]