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Climate change media to 10 February 2009
BUSHFIRES AND EXTREME EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA--------------------
•• Dr Greg Holland and Professor David Karoly join Lateline
ABC TV Lateline, 9 August 2009
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2486757.htm
Dr Greg Holland of the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the Victorian Government's chief climate change adviser Professor David Karoly join Lateline live from Melbourne
Fires the deadly inevitability of climate change
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/fires-the-deadly-inevitability-of-climate-change-20090209-8289.html
Freya Mathews, The Age, February 10, 2009
The disaster challenges the Government to accept evident truths.
It will only get worse as climate changes
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/general/it-will-only-get-worse-as-climate-changes/1428048.aspx
Jonathan Pearlman, Canberra Times, 9 February 2009
Australia faces "a very dangerous decade or decades" as climate change increases the intensity of fires and lengthens the bushfire season, scientists and environmentalists warn
Fires, floods pressure Australia government on climate
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5180MF20090209
James Grubel, Reuters, 9 February 2009
Australia's deadliest wildfires increased pressure on the national government to take firm action on climate change on Monday as scientists said global warming likely contributed to conditions that fueled the disaster.
RESEARCH FROM BUSHFIRE CRC
Climate change and its impact on the management of bushfire
http://www.bushfirecrc.com/publications/downloads/Fire-Note-climate-change_25.pdf
Bushfire Weather in Southeast Australia: Recent Trends and Projected Climate Change Impacts
http://www.climateinstitute.org.au/images/stories/bushfire/fullreport.pdf
C. Lucas, K. Hennessy, G. Mills and J. Bathols, Bushfire CRC and Australian Bureau of Meteorology
September 2007
Victorian briefing
http://www.climateinstitute.org.au/images/stories/bushfire/CI050_BW_VIC_Brief_Final.pdf
Climate change takes a mental toll
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2009/02/09/climate_change_takes_a_mental_toll/
Emily Anthes, Boston Globe, February 9, 2009
There is evidence that extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, cyclones, and hurricanes, can lead to emotional distress, which can trigger such things as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder
Fatal mix of high heat and drought
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25026939-5013404,00.html
Asa Wahlquist, The Australian, February 09, 2009
Weather experts have blamed record temperatures, a sustained drought and climate change for the bushfires that devastated Victoria and are expected to have claimed up to 100 lives over the weekend.
CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT-------------
•• Protesters call for bigger carbon emission cuts
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/global-warming/protesters-call-for-bigger-carbon-emission-cuts/2009/02/03/1233423209413.html
Sydney Morning Herald, 3 February 2009
Hundreds of people surrounded Parliament House in Canberra to protest against the Rudd Government's planned carbon emissions reduction target.
AND
It's just the beginning for action on climate change
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/news/Climate-change/climate-summit-050209
Parramatta group joins call for climate change action
http://parramatta.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/parramatta-group-joins-call-for-climate-change-action/1427015.aspx
Labor loses backing on emissions
http://www.theage.com.au/national/labor-loses-backing-on-emissions-20090202-7vra.html
Climate of creative disobedience
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/rooted/2009/02/03/a-climate-of-disobedience/
Escalating climate action in 2009
http://johnswheelbarrow.blogspot.com/2009/02/escalating-climate-action-in-2009.html
Recent climate science: implications for policy
Australian Climate Action Summit, 31 January. Powerpoint and notes (2 files)
http://www.carbonequity.info/download.php?id=13
http://www.carbonequity.info/download.php?id=14
ENERGY ANND INNOVATION------------------
U.S. becomes top wind producer, solar next.
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5115B520090202
Reuters, 2 February 2009
The United States overtook Germany as the biggest producer of wind power last year, new figures showed, and will likely take the lead in solar power this year
Planned coal plants dropping like flies
http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/05/michigan-governor-granholm-coal-plant-moratorium/
Joseph Romm, Climate progress, 5 February 2009
It looks like approval for eight more conventional coal plants now in the pipeline will be delayed and/or cancelled.
How to stash carbon dioxide: Turn it into stone.
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/05/how-to-stash-carbon-dioxide-turn-it-into-stone/
Victoria Schlesinger, The Christian Science Monitor, February 5, 2009
Dissolved in water and pumped underground, CO2 becomes limestone.
Biofuels more harmful to humans than petrol and diesel, warn scientists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/02/biofuels-health
Alok Jha, guardian.co.uk, 2 February 2009
Corn-based bioethanol has higher burden on environment and human health, says US study
POLITICS AND POLICY------------------
Green lobby groups reject emissions trading scheme
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2480350.htm
Margot O'Neill, ABC Lateline, 2 February 2009
More than 150 climate change groups have opposed passage of the Government's carbon trading scheme through Parliament, saying the targets are dangerously low.
Personal carbon budgets possible by 2020, says head of RSA study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/03/personal-carbon-budgets-rsa
Everyone in the UK could have their own carbon budget by 2020, says the head of the most comprehensive trial of the idea. AND
Get out your carbon ration books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/feb/06/carbon-emissions-personal-trading
The scheme to reduce emissions – championed by David Miliband – is gaining new support
SCIENCE AND IMPACTS----------------------
Scientists plan emergency summit on climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/09/scientists-summit-climate-change
David Adam, The Guardian, 9 February 2009
Scientists are to hold an emergency summit to warn the world's politicians they are being too timid in their response to global warming.
•• Antarctic ice sheet collapse may swamp U.S. coasts
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE51472Q20090205
\Will Dunham, Reuters, 5 January 2009
North America's coastlines would be hit especially hard by rising sea levels if the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses and melts in a warming world as some experts fear
AND
Ice collapse 'could raise sea levels 20 feet'
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/ice-collapse-could-raise-sea-levels-20-feet-1630239.html
AND
Antarctic warming is robust
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/02/antarctic-warming-is-robust/langswitch_lang/sw
Obama's expert warns of doom
http://www.theage.com.au/world/obamas-expert-warns-of-doom-20090205-7yxo.html
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Age, February 6, 2009
UNLESS there is timely action on climate change, California's agricultural bounty could be reduced to a dust bowl and its cities disappear, President Barack Obama's Energy Secretary has warned.
Audio
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/audio/2009/feb/05/climate-change-usa-chu
California faces 'grimmest water situation ever'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/04/water-shortage-california-drought
'Warm everywhere' in Arctic this winter
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29038734/
Andrea Thompson, MSNBC, 5 August 2009
Expert: Dec.-Jan. temps drop, both are 'crucial ice-growing months'
AND
More Extreme Weather In The Arctic Regions
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205083526.htm
AND
Arctic storms seen worsening; threat to oil, ships
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5134N720090204
Indian Ocean driving Australia's big dry: study
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482667.htm
Anna Salleh, ABC science online, 5 February 2009
Australia's severe drought is being driven by temperature fluctuations in the Indian Ocean, scientists have found.
Summary of the exceptional heat wave in SE Australia
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/statements/scs17.pdf
RESOURCES----------------
Global warming 101
http://www.desmogblog.com/is-climate-change-real
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