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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
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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 May 3rd, 2009

Journalist Asks for Temperature Data

Journalist Greg Roberts at Australia’s national daily newspaper has started asking the Australian Bureau of Meteorology some hard questions – and now he is even asking to see the actual temperature data for Antarctica.  Bravo Mr Roberts!  Read more here.

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Defining the Greens (Part 7)

GREENPEACE is a large global corporation broadly committed to ‘saving the environment’.   Greenpeace is currently focused on influencing the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December on the basis that this represents “the best chance we have of reversing current emissions trends in time to prevent the climate chaos that we are hurtling towards”.
Greenpeace has called [...]

Swine Flu and ‘Factory Farming’

The first known case of the current swine flu pandemic occurred amid a highly unusual outbreak of contagious respiratory ailments near a large factory hog farm in Mexico; and the public-health community had been warning for years that hog farms posed just such a threat.  Read more here.

Obama’s Hurricane Warning

During a town hall meeting prior to his primetime press conference Wednesday, President Obama offered a dire global weather forecast to mark his 100th day in office.  Read more here.