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
Dengue fever in Queensland is at a fifty year high with over 900 confirmed infections and one death from the mosquito borne fever this calendar year. Over 15,000 people were infected in the mid-1950s. The disease causes severe headaches and fevers that culminate in an intense rash on the skin and pain in the joints. Continue Reading →
The Australian Conservation Foundation ACF will hold an emergency board meeting this week to resolve a split in the group over its president’s support for the Rudd governments carbon pollution reward scheme. The ACF was one of three well-funded environmental groups close to the government that announced support for the delay in an emissions trading Continue Reading →
AN emergency board meeting of the Australian Conservation Foundation will be held today as anger mounts in the green group over its officials’ support for the government’s emission trading scheme.
ACF executive director Don Henry says he made the decision to support the scheme with president Ian Lowe.
But the ACF’s member-chosen council, which in turn selects the board, is understood to be unhappy with their move, reflecting anger amongst rank and file members.
From the Ecologist
Dan Box is on-site to witness the world’s first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels
The evacuation of the Carteret Islands have begun. This morning I stood on black volcanic sand, pressed up right against the jungle, and watched a small white boat powered by a single outboard engine run in against the shore. On board were five men from the Islands, the fathers of five families, who have come to finish building houses and gardens already begun in a cleared patch of jungle at Tinputz, on the east coast of Bougainville. When these homes are ready the five will return to the Carterets, to fetch their wives and children back. Life, they hope, will be better for them here. On the Carterets, king tides have washed away their crops and rising sea levels poisoned those that remain with salt. The people have been forced to move.
Help us fight climate change, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch asks first lady Stuart Rintoul | May 09, 2009 Article from: The Australian DAME Elisabeth Murdoch has written to Michelle Obama inviting her to join an environmental “call to arms” she is launching, called Influential Women for Climate Change Action. In the letter, the latest signal by Continue Reading →
Climate change displacement has begun – but hardly anyone has noticed The first evacuation of an entire community due to manmade global warming is happening on the Carteret Island Rising sea levels have eroded much of the coastlines of the low-lying Carteret Islands situated 50 miles from Bougainville Island, in the South Pacific. Photograph: Jeremy Continue Reading →