Archive for February 21st, 2008
Which Countries have a Lifestyle Consistent with an 80 per cent Reduction in Carbon Dioxide Emissions?
Posted by Paul, February 21st, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 22
Below is a graph of per capita carbon dioxide emissions for various countries around the world. Which countries have an emissions level consistent with an 80 percent reduction from the world’s current total emissions?
The answer is is Haiti and Somalia.
From Prometheus: ‘Carbon Emissions Success Stories’
Professor Ross Garnaut says that Australia should promote strong global action [...]
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Alan Moran on the Garnaut Review: Mission Impossible
Posted by jennifer, February 21st, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 61
In his Interim Climate Change Review for the Australian government Professor Ross Garnaut is looking to the world stabilising emission levels at year 2000 levels “soon after 2020”. Following this he sees a need for halving them by 2050 and reducing them to a quarter of 2000 levels by 2100.
He also considers that emissions [...]
An Arctic Buzzard
Posted by jennifer, February 21st, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 3
This Arctic Buzzard, also known as a Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus), was found with a broken wing but rehabilited successfully.
It’s a bird of prey with a diet consisting mostly of mice, lemmings and young rabbits. The breeding range is very northern, described as holarctic, and migrates southwards in the autumn.
Cheers,
Ann Novek
In Sweden
Neil is Back in Action
Posted by neil, February 21st, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
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Comments: 8
I took this slightly out-of-focus photograph from the verandah of my living room, four days ago and in doing so, formally began to re-establish my collection – hopefully, all is not lost.
By way of perspective, I have long suspected that one of the many benefits of living in tropical wilderness is the luxury of going [...]
Garnaut Confirms Need to Cut Emissions by 60 Percent
Posted by jennifer, February 21st, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 16
Releasing his Interim Report in Adelaide [Australia] today, Professor Ross Garnaut who was appointed by the new Labor government to provide policy advice on climate change, said that Australia should
promote strong global action on climate change and be prepared to match the commitments of
other developed nations.
The Executive Summary states:
This Interim Report seeks to provide a [...]
The Milky Way is Twice the Size We Thought it Was
Posted by Paul, February 21st, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: 9
It took just a couple hours and data available on the internet for University of Sydney scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought.
Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy – a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across – is 12,000 light [...]

