YOU will have heard on the news over the last three weeks of the activities of Senator Steve Fielding in Australia. Steve is an independent cross-bench senator who holds a casting vote over the passage of the Australian ETS (termed the Carbon … [Read more...] about Due Diligence on Science Underpinning Carbon Trade
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Evidence for ‘Solar Signature’
Increasingly strong evidence of a clear solar signature in a number of climatic indicators in Europe, strengthening the earlier conclusions of a study that included stations from the United States... With the recent downturn of both solar activity … [Read more...] about Evidence for ‘Solar Signature’
Beach Houses to Go
MILLIONS of dollars worth of luxury waterfront homes at Byron Bay will be demolished in the name of climate change following a council decision to enshrine "planned retreat" in law. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Beach Houses to Go
New Marine Data Website
THERE is now a website where, at least theoretically, anyone can download near-real time data on ocean temperatures, salinity and currents for the Australian marine environment. The Australian government contributed $52 million to the … [Read more...] about New Marine Data Website
Costing a Whale
LAST week the International Whaling Commission (IWC) met on the Portuguese island of Madeira and agreed that climate change is a threat to whales. A decision on the Danish proposal for Greenland to hunt 10 humpback whales a year was postponed. … [Read more...] about Costing a Whale
More Mosquitos in Colombo
An outbreak of dengue fever in Sri Lanka has led to 151 deaths and is continuing to spread. To cover up its own responsibility for the erosion of public health care, the government has blamed ordinary people for the epidemic and imposed punitive … [Read more...] about More Mosquitos in Colombo