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Crazy Claims from Climate Scientist
This is absured, but true: Australia’s use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the “destruction of much of the life on the planet”, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama.  Read more here. (4)

Learning by Candlelight
As I waited night after night for the electricity to return, candlelight kept teaching me about moving air’s talent for removing heat, hampering any effort to keep warmth “down here” by constantly sending it up and away.   Read more here. (0)

People Powered Gym
A US gym has installed specially-adapted exercise bikes that recycle energy generated by people as they work out.   Read more here. (0)

Flying on Vegetable Oil
A passenger plane has successfully completed a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.  Read more here. (2)

Reef Recovery After Tsunami
Scientists have reported a rapid recovery in some of the coral reefs damaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami four years ago.  Read more here. (0)

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Archive for September 30th, 2008

Financial Crash, Not Good for Concept of Carbon Trading

 
The proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street failed to pass the US Congress last night.   Across the world disappointed investors are now fleeing stock markets as the global economy teeters on ruin.
 
With the likely arrival of more austere times it is unlikely national governments will have a lot of time or interest in [...]

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Bill Kininmonth to Speak at Melbourne Forum

A branch of the Victorian Liberal Party has been attacked for holding a climate science forum in Melbourne that will hear only one, unfashionable point of view: the skeptics.  For more information on this, and other environment-related events, visit the community page at this blog. 

Bill Kininmonth to Speak Tomorrow in Melbourne on Climate Change

Well known climate change skeptic, Bill Kininmonth, will be speaking at a community forum on Wednesday , October 1,  at 8pm at the Marwal Centre, 9 Marwal Ave, North Balwyn.  The organisers, the Kew Branch of the Liberal Party, are offering tea and biscuits afterwards.

The forum received some publicity in yesterday’s The Age newspaper.

Marketing Carbon at the Gold Coast

Dear Colleague,
The greatest gathering of global and domestic carbon market practitioners and businesses ever assembled in Australia - 100 speakers and 90 exhibitors representing leading carbon market experience from Europe, Asia, North America, New Zealand & Australia - will be on hand at Australia’s first international carbon market expo & conference on the Gold Coast [...]

More Problems with Computer Models: Our World is One of Novelty and Change

 
The risk of a climate crisis, like the risks associated with sub-prime mortgage securitisation, are calculated using complex computer models and both are too complex for the average punter to understand.  
 
As Graham Young wrote last week in a blog post entitled ‘Sub-prime and climate change’, these models were created by clever people with PhDs [...]