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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 13th, 2009

New Report on Corals and Carbon for the Curious

Posted by jennifer, January 13th, 2009 - under News, Opinion.
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HAVE you ever wondered what happens when corals grow so tall they are above sea level or whether the Great Barrier Reef could extend its range further south with global warming?
If you are curious you will probably enjoy and learn much from a new 81-page report by Craig D. Idso on global warming and coral [...]

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Accessing US Senate Webpages

Posted by jennifer, January 13th, 2009 - under Community.
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Hi Jennifer
 
When you put the article about 650 scientists a while back I found I could not access it. I also noticed in the blog others who stated they could not access it either. I also found no US Senate page was accessible. After trying various things and knowing I could access it from work [...]

Vote Now for This Blog

Posted by jennifer, January 13th, 2009 - under Good Causes.
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WE are into the final days of voting for the 2008 Weblog Awards. 
This blog is a finalist in the online community section.   There is no environment section.  
You can vote every 24 hours.  We are only short a few hundred or so votes.  
So please, vote now, and then vote again tomorrow, and then it will be all over.
Click here: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-online-community/

From Gaia to Medea: More Hubris

Posted by jennifer, January 13th, 2009 - under Books, Opinion.
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THE Gaia hypothesis first proposed by British scientist James Lovelock – the notion that all living things are interlinked as a single self-regulating body – is popular with some scientists and accords with the idea that because human activity has changed the chemical composition of the atmosphere we are likely to be interfering with the [...]