Tag Archives: Policy & Politics

Legal petition pushes President Obama to declare climate emergency

The petition filing comes two days before the landmark climate agreement reached last year is signed in New York. The president signed an omnibus bill lifting the 40-year-old export ban in December, less than a week after agreeing to the … Continue reading

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Bizzaro World: Science Committee Pushing Exxon Agenda

The operative memes are “first amendment”, and “free speech” – the perverse application of which we saw when Tobacco industry executives defended their right to lie under oath to Congress – an interpretation that the energy industry defended at the time. – perhaps … Continue reading

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New charts from WEF

How about Developing countries beating Developed?

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Hunt v. QLD holidays

<Prof Will Steffen> “reviewed case study on Great Barrier Reef, focussing on increasing risks to tourism from climate change…report released Friday — mysteriously, Great Barrier Reef was cut completely…However, our community banded together to get the word out far and wide. … Continue reading

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Restore CSIRO Scientist John Church to his valuable role at work.

John Church, (CSIRO) has been working on Sea level change research (world wide). He has been made redundant yet his work is vital in Australia’s contribution to climate change with data from the Southern Hemisphere. His work would enable Informed … Continue reading

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Lessons from – Oil Rich Alberta’s New Carbon Tax

“You may be aware that the “Texas of Canada”, Alberta, recently had an election, and that the results were roughly equivalent to Bernie Sanders being elected Governor of the Lone Star State.One of the first things the new administration did, … Continue reading

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This election is our last chance to save the Great Barrier Reef

“Fund catchment and coastal management to the required level to largely solve the pollution issues for the Greater GBR by 2025, to provide resilience for the system in the face of accelerating climate change impacts. The funding required is large – of … Continue reading

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End of energy and transportation as we know it’: Tony Seba

Within just 15 years conventional energy production and transport…obsolete by revolution in batteries, solar power and electric cars… “no excuse” for any utility in Australia not to know what’s coming, he says, outlining world with little centralised power generation, 100 … Continue reading

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Lord Krebs: scientists must challenge poor media reporting on climate change

We are above neither the law nor legitimate journalistic scrutiny – and editors are quite within their rights to seek out divergent views…But the key word here is “legitimate”. Scrutiny that is carried out in the public interest with the … Continue reading

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Look what we did on Friday!

On Friday, thousands of solar and renewable energy workers, solar owners and supporters rallied at Cabinet Ministers’ offices across the nation, in an unprecedented show of support for the Renewable Energy Target. >readmore> SolarCitizens

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