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Climate change media to 3 February 2009
CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT-------------
Thousands join hands for our climate future
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=404
Canberra, 3 February 2009
Protesters call for larger carbon cuts
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/protesters-call-for-larger-carbon-cuts-20090203-7w6u.html
Climate summit outcomes
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/?p=400
Labor loses backing on emissions
http://www.theage.com.au/national/labor-loses-backing-on-emissions-20090202-7vra.html
Climate Reader #1
http://www.carbonequity.info/download.php?id=12
Prepared by Carbon Equity and Climate Action Centre Melbourne as a contribution to Australian Climate Action Summit, Canberra 31 January-3 February 2009
ENERGY & INNOVATION-------------
Every silver lining has a cloud
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13013035
The Economist, 29 January 2009
Plans to engineer the climate may be less effective than had been hoped
A sketch plan for a zero-carbon Australia
http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/01/29/a-sketch-plan-for-a-zero-carbon-australia/
Posted by Barry Brook on 29 January 2009
Energy without an end
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/energy-without-an-end-20090201-7uvm.html
Muriel Watt and Iain MacGill, the Age, February 2, 2009
The environment and the economy would benefit if the Government showed leadership on solar power.
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Heat is on backward government energy policies
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/heat-is-on-backward-government-energy-policies-20090201-7uvs.html?page=-1
The Age editorial, 2 February 2009
POLITICS & POLICY---------------
Real action is the only hope for our planet
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/real-action-is-the-only-hope-for-our-planet-20090202-7vos.html
Reverend Alistair Macrae, The Age, February 3, 2009
We must demand better of our leaders than just mouthing platitudes.
The climate of our discontent
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/28/6214/99404
Ken Ward,Gristmill, 29 January 2009
As meaningful as his presidency is, Obama will not act fast enough on the climate crisis.
Warming gets cold shoulder from Canberra
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/warming-gets-cold-shoulder-from-canberra-20090128-7ryv.html
David Spratt, The Age, January 29, 2009
The Government is jogging on the spot when it needs to take big strides.
Obama Calls for Green Battle against Economic Crisis
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,603873,00.html
Gregor Peter Schmitz, Der Spiegel, 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama has said this week he wants to fight climate change, making the kind of statements the rest of the world has been waiting to hear for a long time.
Stern recipe for change
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5627461.ece
Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times, 1 February 2009
To stop the world warming we have to cut our carbon emissions to African levels
Gore warns of damage from climate change
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/28/gore.climate/
Paul Courson, CNN, 28 January 2009
Suggesting that the planet will soon reach an irreversible "tipping point" of damage to the climate, former Vice President Al Gore told members of Congress on Wednesday that the United States needs to join international talks on a treaty.
The climate freeloaders: emerging nations need to act
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/29/network-carbon-emissions-developing-nations
Fred Pearce, The Guardian, 29 Janaury 2009
Key developing countries have long been exempt from efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now, as global climate talks move forward, that policy must change
Spend a trillion a year to save planet: report
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/global-warming/spend-a-trillion-a-year-to-save-planet-report/2009/01/27/1232818435579.html
Ben Cubby, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 January 2009
Tckling climate change will be much cheaper than most governments expect, according to a major report by global consultancy McKinsey.
CARBON TRADING---------
•• Carbon trading may be the new sub-prime, says energy boss
Terry Macalister, the Guardian, 30 January 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/30/eu-carbon-trading-scheme
System 'risks being diverted from purpose; weakness of government regulation highlighted
•• Scrap carbon trading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/01/emissionstrading-carbonoffsetprojects
Oscar Reyes, guardian.co.uk, 1 February 2009
This flawed system has failed to cut emissions. It's time to tackle the broader economic system that led to the climate crisis.
Britain's big polluters accused of abusing EU's carbon trading scheme
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/27/industry-abusing-ets-carbon-trading
Terry Macalister, guardian.co.uk, 27 January 2009
Britain's biggest polluting companies are abusing a European emissions trading scheme (ETS) designed to tackle global warming by cashing in their carbon credits in order to bolster ailing balance sheets.
SCIENCE & IMPACTS-----------------
Parched: Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/parched-australia-faces-collapse-as-climate-change-kicks-in-1522529.html
Geoffrey Lean and Kathy Marks,, he Independent, 1 February 2009
Leaves are falling off trees in the height of summer, railway tracks are buckling, and people are retiring to their beds with deep-frozen hot-water bottles, as much of Australia swelters in its worst-ever heatwave.
Is there a link between Adelaide’s heatwave and global warming?
http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/02/03/is-there-a-link-between-adelaides-heatwave-and-global-warming/
Barry Brook, bravenewclimate, 3 February 2009
Adelaide is the hot place to be right now.
Drought warning as the tropics expand
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16516-drought-warning-as-the-tropics-expand.html
Catherine Brahic, New Scientist, 1 February 2009
California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, warned on Thursday that his state "is headed toward one of the worst water crises in its history".
Science loses out when ice caps melt
Siusan Gaidos, Scince News, 30 January 2009
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40442/title/FOR_KIDS_Science_loses_out_when_ice_caps_melt
t’s hard to imagine a mountain range without snow-covered peaks. But that may soon be the case in countries in or near the tropics.
Ocean acidification is accelerating and severe damages are imminent
http://www.physorg.com/news152527254.html
Physicsorg, 30 January 2009
Urgent action is needed to limit damages to marine ecosystems, including coral reefs and fisheries, due to increasing ocean acidity, according to 155 of the world’s scientific experts who will release the Monaco Declaration this Friday.
Monaco Declaration (PDF)
http://ioc3.unesco.org/oanet/Symposium2008/MonacoDeclaration.pdf
Rx for Arctic warming
http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/arctic-haze/rx-for-arctic-warming
Elizabeth Grossman, DailyClimate, 29 Janaury 2009
Curbing air pollution across the Northern Hemisphere can slow the Arctic's unprecedented thaw, researchers say.
Bushfires to burn up climate efforts
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/global-warming/bushfires-to-burn-up-climate-efforts/2009/01/29/1232818613945.html
Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 2009
Australia is sitting on a time bomb when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions: bushfires.
Emissions Cut Won’t Bring Quick Relief, Scientists Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/science/earth/27carbon.html
Cornelia Dean, New York Times, 26 January 2009
Many people who worry about global warming hope that once emissions of heat-trapping gases decline, the problems they cause will quickly begin to abate. Now researchers are saying that such hope is ill-founded, at least with regard to carbon dioxide.
Arctic sea ice drops below 2007 levels
http://climateprogress.org/2009/01/27/nsidc-arctic-sea-ice-drops-below-2007-levels
Joseph Romm, 27 January 2009
Arctic sea ice extent just dipped below January 2007 levels in the last few days, according to the daily time series from the National Snow and Ice Data Center
SUSTAINABILITY------------------
Two children should be limit, says green guru
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article5627634.ece
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Times on line, 1 February 2009
Couples who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned.
VIDEO----------------
Chris Martenson: The crash course
http://ecosanity.org/blogsanity/?p=571
www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
Chris Martenson left his career as the Vice President of a large, international Fortune 300 company to make profound changes in his, and his family’s, lifestyle because of disturbing developments he saw coming. On his own dime, he spent the last 4 years conceiving and producing The Crash Course: a free, condensed online version of his “End of Money” seminar, to warn and educate people about the unprecedented confluence of economic, energy and environmental challenges before us.
RADIO------------------
Climate change is essentially irreversible, according to a sobering new
scientific study
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2
NEW BLOGS--------------------
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot
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