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Australian political responses to Obama's climate change Inauguration speech

Submitted by takver on Wed, 23/01/2013 - 9:42am

The parliamentary leaders of the Labor Party, Liberal Party and the Greens all responded to Barack Obama's statement on the necessity to act on climate change made during his 2013 inauguration speech.

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard welcomed the statement and also reiterated government policy on carbon pricing, and the trend for more extreme weather events due to climate change as articulated by climate scientists.

Tony Abbott was more combative, attempting to use his press conference question for taking a cheap shot at President Obama not being able to get climate legislation passed through congress, and attacking the Government's carbon pricing policy.

Greens leader, Senator Christine Milne, also welcomed the change in priority on climate change by the US administration and said that "the proof of President Obama's commitment will be in what the US does in the global negotiations" over the next two years.

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Tasmanian bush fires sign of world to come

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 21/01/2013 - 6:06am

The image of kids in the water clinging to a dock, under a fire-red sky, captured the situation. The great Australian heat wave of 2013 also struck the southern-most part of the country, the island of Tasmania. Maybe this is the future anywhere trees grow, as global warming heats the planet.

Professor David Bowman is at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, teaching and researching Forest Ecology. He's a published expert on fire in the earth system.

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Planners need to allow for Coastal wetlands migration due to sea level rise, climate change

Submitted by takver on Sat, 19/01/2013 - 5:28pm

Coastal Wetlands are under pressure. They face rising seas from climate change, but their biggest obstacle to migrate naturally inland is human development with roads, houses and other infrastructure blocking their way. And our urban planners are largely unaware of this tricky situation.

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United Natures - a United Nations of all species

Submitted by United Natures on Thu, 17/01/2013 - 12:17am

United Natures - a United Nations of all species

Documentary movie on the Rights of Mother Earth and permaculture of the inner landscape. Featuring a stellar international cast of top environmental thinkers and activists including Vandana Shiva, Dr Helen Caldicott, Polly Higgins (ecocide), Starhawk (permaculture), Father Bob Maguire, Cormac Cullinan (Wild Law), David Holmgren (co-originator of permaculture) and Michael Reynolds (earthships) amongst others. A homemade grassroots independent film self-funded by the director, Peter Charles Downey.

Website
www.unitednaturesmovie.com

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Japanese Sasago syndrome, Dutch dam marker and African inferno overflow as evidences of hot expanding earth theory [global warming, geophysics and cosmology]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 16/01/2013 - 3:35am

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A good few hundreds unfailing bolts were find torn loose in almost one geophysical and technical moment of lithospheric stretching in Japanese tunnel “Sasago” in 2012. It means that long dams in Holland can one near day be toppled in the water!

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CORPUS DELICTI AND SMOKING GUN
OF ACCELERATED HOT EXPANSION OF THE EARTH

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Australian Heatwave part of global warming trend says IPCC head Pachauri

Submitted by takver on Tue, 15/01/2013 - 7:24pm

The IPCC chairperson is visiting Australia and commented that the Extreme heatwave and catastrophic bushfires that Australia is experiencing is an 'unmistakeable' part of a global trend of an increase in the frequency and intensity of heatwaves and other extreme weather events. Indeed, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have just released a new study - Global increase in record-breaking monthly-mean temperatures - which clearly shows the present Australian heatwave records being broken and the US recording it's hottest year in 2012, are both part of this global trend.

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“Japan Sasago Syndrome” and “African infernal overflow” as evidences of hot expanding earth theory [global warming, geophysics and cosmology]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/01/2013 - 12:07am

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A GOOD FEW HUNDREDS UNFAILING BOLTS WERE FIND TORN LOOSE IN ALMOST ONE GEOPHYCICAL & TECHNICAL MOMENT OF LITHOSPHERIC STRETCHING IN JAPANESE TUNNEL “SASAGO” IN 2012. IT MEANS THAT LONG DAMS IN HOLLAND CAN ONE NEAR DAY BE TOPPLED IN THE WATER!

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CORPUS DELICTI AND SMOKING GUN
OF ACCELERATED HOT EXPANSION OF THE EARTH

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Time to cease expansion of coal to reduce climate change says Ad

Submitted by takver on Mon, 14/01/2013 - 12:17pm

Prominent scientists and environmental organisations have published a full page ad in Monday's Australian Financial Review calling for the cessation of the expansion of coal exports from Australia.

Background: Read Melbourne University Associate Professor Peter Christoff's article on Why Australia must stop exporting coal. Or watch this 2010 lecture by Dr. Guy Pearse from the University of Queensland on Queensland's coal addiction | Greens Leader says 'Look at the damage to humanity caused by people who bankroll coalmines' | Australian Heatwave part of global warming trend says IPCC head Pachauri

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A relevant graphic

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 13/01/2013 - 5:05am

Here's a graphic created by SchNEWS (www.schnews.org.uk) in the UK a number of years ago, incase you haven't seen it. It's copyleft I believe so its reusable.

As an outsider looking on from rainy England*, and hoping the fires stop soon with minimal further loss, I just wonder how the climate change deniers will try to stop the public making the connection between this and climate change? There's a chance that enough idiots will vote Tony Abbott in next time, who appears to be an old-school climate change denier from another era.

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Greens Leader says 'Look at the damage to humanity being caused by people who bankroll coalmines'

Submitted by takver on Thu, 10/01/2013 - 12:39pm

Jonathon Moylan's ANZ Bank hoax letter over the Maule's Creek Project open cut coalmine continues to produce reverberations. Greens Leader Christine Milne has now come out in his support arguing that we are in a climate emergency and we need to have a very serious 'Look at the damage to humanity being caused by people who bankroll coalmines'. Independent Economist Rod Campbell implies that the real hoax being perpetrated on small and institutional investors in Whitehaven coal is by Gillespie Economics and NSW Planning Department who massively overestimated the benefits and underestimated the social, environmental, health and climate costs of the project.

Related: ANZ Stop the Loan e-petition

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