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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 January 5th, 2008

Exceptional rainfall produces exceptionally clean waterways

Posted by neil, January 5th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
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I recently reported that the wet season had well and truly arrived in the Daintree, with over 700 mm of rain in five days.
More recently, Jennifer published the Australian mean rainfall total for 2007 at 497 mm, slightly more than the long-term average of 472 mm.
So, there is no question; the Daintree Cape Tribulation rainforest [...]

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2007 Coldest this Century: Lubos Motl

Posted by jennifer, January 5th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
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With the end of the year, and all the global warming hype, I’ve been trying to understand how hot 2007 really was globally and also the direction in which temperatures are now trending considering the satellite and near surface measurements at the NOAA and Hadley websites respectively. Of course raw numbers, graphed [...]

Sun Bears (Part 2)

Posted by jennifer, January 5th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
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The world’s smallest species of bear, the sun bear ( Helarctos malayanus ), was classed as ‘Vulnerable’ and accepted for inclusion in the IUCN Red List in November 2007.**
The international organisation that regulates trade in endangered species, CITES, had already listed sun bear as threatened with extinction and notes that there is a trade in [...]