Monthly Archives: September 2014

Tony Abbott – cars over public transport

Surely he must be on drugs. Or is it really possible for him to be so stupidly contrarian without? “Public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still [a] hideous drain on the public purse…Mostly though…there just aren’t enough people wanting to … Continue reading

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Poor world ranking for cycling

While our media encourages so much excitement about our high performers in big competition cycling events, the rest of us are hardly encouraged at all to get on our bikes. Melbourne is somehow a high ranking city for “liveability” but surely … Continue reading

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Rio Tinto’s great big nuclear delusion

Other than detail in item below, with Tony Abbott recently selling uranium to India, you wonder what price he offered, especially considering that world market price is now less than cost of production. Of course, he could always have offered … Continue reading

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CO2 emissions bury the UN summit

There’s so much fuss about climate change being complex. Here’s the latest from Carbon Visuals to ‘decomplexify’ using animated graphic movie thingos: >readmore> CarbonVisuals

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Annual carbon subsidy ‘up to $39Billion’!!!!!

Australia’s polluting energy sector benefits from an annual subsidy of $14-39 billion from the unpriced cost of climate damages on economic growth, environmental systems, health, and security, finds new analysis by The Climate Institute. The electricity sector alone receives a carbon … Continue reading

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Candidates Forum: ‘we’re in the business of growing renewable energy’, says Vic Labor

Election promises about Climate Change from Labor

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The dirty dozen myths of the RET debate

Latest collection, bringing together the many misleading arguments, from big business objectors to RET, also from our government, on their behalf. >readmore> ClimateSpectator

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Julie Bishop rejects UN request to strengthen Australian climate target

And Phoney Tony is snubs Obama and Cameron, at UN, when he’s in New York the next day for more obsession that terrorism in Australia is obviously a bigger threat than climate emergency. >readmore> SMH

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Counting the Cost-new report by Climate Council

Time to get noisy, to make sure our leaders know that we know how much of our commonwealth they’re risking, obsessed with virtues of free market economics, representing big business, not the rest of us. >readmore> Climate Council

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Labor to dump East-West Link if elected, even if contracts are signed

So here’s a clear battle line, which we need to support, to stop crazy $1.3Billion per km road, which will only promote more gridlock and less public transport. >readmore> The Age

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