The atmosphere is to the earth as a layer of varnish is to a desktop globe. It is thin, fragile and essential for preserving the items on the surface.150 years of burning fossil fuel have overloaded the atmosphere to the point where the earth is ill. It now has a fever. Read the detailed article, Soothing Gaia’s Fever for an evocative account of that analogy. The items listed here detail progress on coordinating 6.5 billion people in the most critical project undertaken by humanity.Â
Government yields on climate bill split Posted 1 hour 55 minutes ago Updated 1 hour 24 minutes ago Bill split: the Government says it doesn’t want renewable energy targets held up in the Senate. (Library of Congress) Video: Christopher Pyne discusses the ETS (Insiders) Related Story: Industry waits on elusive carbon trading consensus The Federal Continue Reading →
Will they listen ???Neville Gillmore—– Original Message —– From: “Hollo, Tim (Sen C. Milne)” <Tim.Hollo@aph.gov.au>To: <media@lists.greens.org.au>Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:16 AMSubject: [Greens-Media] Greens offer Government ‘new way forward’ for meaningful climate action> Greens offer Government ‘new way forward’ for meaningful climate action> > Thursday 13 August 2009> > The collapse of Mr Rudd’s Carbon Continue Reading →
What the new Climate Camp Cymru can do for Wales We’ll protest against opencast mining and ensure the Welsh Assemby’s 2020 pledges are met … so why not join us? Black outlook … Opencast coal mines are being developed across South Wales. Photograph: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images When members of the UK’s first Camp for Climate Continue Reading →
AUSTRALIA could develop a trade in agricultural carbon offsets to the United States worth more than the nation’s current global coal exports – but not if agriculture is covered by an emissions trading scheme (ETS), says an international carbon trading expert says. Dr Ken Newcombe, the Australian who helped devlop the first carbon trading model Continue Reading →
Australia faces more natural disasters August 10, 2009 Article from: Australian Associated Press AUSTRALIA faces more frequent and more catastrophic natural disasters as the climate changes, but government agencies are hard-pressed to respond, a new study warns. The disasters could occur simultaneously and in regions that have never before experienced such events, the Australian Strategic Continue Reading →
Himalayas rich habitat in danger From correspondents in Kathmandu | August 10, 2009 Article from: Agence France-Presse A FLYING frog, the world’s smallest deer and the first new monkey to be found in more than a century are among 350 new species discovered in the eastern Himalayas in the past decade, the WWF says.But Continue Reading →