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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 July 13th, 2006

Three Pressing Issues for the Macquarie Marshes

It was good to see Professor John Quiggin drawing attention to the problems with the Macquarie Marshes in his post of last Sunday titled ‘Macquarie Marshes again’.
But it’s a pity he can’t get beyond ad hominem attacks [1] and a pitch for his ARC fellowship, which is about trading water in the Murray Darling Basin. [...]

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Did It Really Get That Cold in Stanthorpe?

A couple of hours drive west from my home in Brisbane, is a place called Stanthorpe up on the Great Dividing Range. The town has an abattoir and according to its operator John Allen, as reported by James Nason at Farm Online, it closed on Monday because temperatures dropped to -20 C and [...]