Archive for October 2nd, 2008
After 10 Years, Still No Evidence to Convict Herbicide in Mackay Mangrove Dieback
Posted by jennifer, October 2nd, 2008 - under News, Opinion.
Comments: 16
About 10 years ago the Pioneer River which runs through the North Queensland town of Mackay flooded and some mangroves died. A few years later the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) launched its ‘Save the Reef’ campaign focusing on claimed impacts of farming on the Great Barrier Reef and an academic at the University of Queensland, [...]
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Canadians Want More Debate on Climate Change
Posted by admin, October 2nd, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 1
“Canadians are deeply frustrated by the quality of politicians’ discussions of climate change and global warming according to a nationally representative poll carried out for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy by COMPAS Research and completed September 29, 2008. Such frustrations cut across regions and party groupings. Most Canadians tend to subscribe to the anthropogenic [...]
Dramatic Urbanization Warms California
Posted by admin, October 2nd, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 1
Global warming due to increasing greenhouse gases is responsible for some of the overall heating observed in Los Angeles and the rest of California. Most of the increase in heat days and length of heat waves, however, is due to a phenomenon called the “urban heat island effect.” Read more here.
Better Reason Than ‘Climate Change’ for Eating Kangaroo
Posted by jennifer, October 2nd, 2008 - under Opinion.
Tags: Kangaroos
Comments: 25
The Australian government’s climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut, has suggested that reducing sheep and cattle numbers and replacing them with 175 million farmed kangaroos would help to dramatically reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Read more here.
Yep. The concept of a climate crisis can be used to justify all sorts of things.
A problem for the kangaroo industry has been the lack of [...]

