Only You – Flying Pickets (Live)
Every time we play the Flying Pickets we get requests for more information about them. Here as a start to satisfy that curiosity is a live concert of their biggest hit, "Only You"
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Archived material from historical editions of The Generator
Al Gore’s Own `Inconvenient Truth’
Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Continue Reading →
Dirty facts behind the ‘clean coal’ pipedream
The major parties remain wedded to coal-fired electric power, pinning their last hopes on the ‘clean coal’ theory. But even if collecting, transporting and burying coal’s greenhouse emissions one day turns out to be possible and affordable, the stuff still has to be mined and transported.
On a round trip from Kooragang Coal Terminal to Mt Arthur mine, near Muswellbrook, each coal train burns at least 3,200 litres of diesel (about 1,000 litres empty on the down and 2,200 loaded on the up) and around 40 litres of engine oil, for a net load of 7,800 tonnes of coal.
There are also currently about 70 coal ships queued up waiting to get into the port, predicted to rise to 90 by April.
In contrast, the sunlight delivered to a solar thermal power plant arrives free, every day.
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Surveys show Aussies want climate change action
The vast majority of Australians want to tackle global warming, reports a survey by ABC News Online , 14/3/07. An international poll conducted by the Lowy institute has found that 92 per cent of Australians "favour measures to combat global warming". The poll surveyed almost 20,000 people in 17 countries, including the United States, Russia, Continue Reading →
U.S. bans climate change discussion
The Bush administration is ordering federal wildlife officials headed for international meetings on polar bears not to talk about how climate change and melting ice are affecting the imperiled animals.
It is the latest in a string of cases in which the administration has carefully controlled or even banned government employees’ public speech about global warming.
This latest chapter involves two memorandums written in late February that put strict limits on what U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees could discuss at meetings in Norway and Russia.
A third memo says the policy will apply for trips to those two nations as well as Canada and "any northern country."
The memos were revealed Wednesday night in the Seattle P-I Web site’s environmental blog, Dateline Earth.