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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 August 10th, 2007

Sceptics shock kayaker

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

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!?

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

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 [...]