Archive for August 10th, 2007
Sceptics shock kayaker
Posted by Paul, August 10th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 34
Rural climate change sceptics shock kayaker
From ABC Rural Thursday, 09/08/2007
A man paddling and pulling his kayak from Brisbane to Adelaide to promote the need for action on climate change says he is disappointed with the sceptical nature of outback Australians.
Steve Posselt, who is pulling his kayak along the Darling River road due to a lack [...]
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Cooling clouds – a note from Marc Morano
Posted by Paul, August 10th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 18
An interesting new paper has been published:
Spencer, Roy W.; Braswell, William D.; Christy, John R.; Hnilo, Justin (2007)
Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations
Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, No. 15, L15707
Abstract
We explore the daily evolution of tropical intraseasonal oscillations in satellite-observed tropospheric temperature, precipitation, radiative fluxes, and cloud properties. The warm/rainy phase [...]
Save the planet – drive to the shops!?
Posted by Paul, August 10th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 11
This article is from The Times (London). Not sure what to make of this, other than perhaps a ‘green’ attack on meat eating:
Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’
Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is [...]
Tasmanian Pulp Mill assessment process – a note from Cinders
Posted by Alan Ashbarry, August 10th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Forestry
Comments: 3
Tasmanian Pulp Mill assessment process vindicated by the Federal court
The Federal court confirmed today that the Assessment of Tasmania’s proposed pulp mill was fair and reasonable and that the public had ample opportunity to state their views.
A Federal Court judge rejected the claims by the Wilderness Society and a group calling itself Investors for Tasmania’s [...]

