Category: Climate chaos
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
admin /29 June, 2008
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman, Mr Graeme Samuel, today launched a suite of ACCC guidance materials on carbon offsets claims.
“There is a growing trend of marketing claims about the ability to ‘neutralise’ the carbon footprint of, for example, cars, flights and households using carbon offsets,” he said.
“Consumer concerns about the veracity of claims on carbon offsets have led the ACCC to develop guidance for consumers and industry on the Trade Practices Act implications of carbon offset claims.”
admin /26 June, 2008
QUEENSLAND has more to lose from climate change than any other Australian state, with the twin threats of severe drought and intense cyclones, a new report shows.
The state government has responded by launching a $3 million campaign to get householders to shrink their carbon footprints.
Queensland Climate Change Minister Andrew McNamara today released the report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Climate Change showing the state’s average temperature could rise by five degrees celsius by 2070.
admin /26 June, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming probably will mean more illegal immigration and humanitarian disasters, undermining shaky governments and possibly expanding the terrorism threat against the U.S., intelligence agencies say.
“Logic suggests the conditions exacerbated (by climate change) would increase the pool of potential recruits for terrorism,” said Tom Fingar, deputy director of national intelligence for analysis.
Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia are most vulnerable to warming-related drought, flooding, extreme weather and hunger. The assessment warns of a global spillover from increased migration and water-related disputes, Fingar said in prepared remarks Wednesday to a joint hearing of a special House committee on global warming and a House Intelligence subcommittee.
admin /26 June, 2008
One of the largest process control projects in the world undertaken by Alcoa World Alumina and Honeywell, QUASAR (Quality Automation Solutions in Alumina Refining), was awarded Engineers Australia‘s 2007 National Project Excellence Award in Automation, Control and Instrumentation at an awards ceremony in Melbourne this month.
The complex global project was Australian lead, with a project cost of more than A$400 million (over A$150 million just in Australia) and aimed to link seven Alcoa refineries in four different continents to one core process control system, QUASAR.
admin /26 June, 2008
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TREASURER Wayne Swan has hinted the Government may defy its chief climate change adviser Ross Garnaut’s recommendations to deliver a broad-based emissions trading scheme that includes transport costs amid reports the Government will delay putting a carbon price on petrol.
The climate change question dominated question time today, with the Transport Minister Anthony Albanese accusing the Opposition of having “more positions than the kama sutraâ€, particularly over the inclusion of petrol in any emissions trading scheme.
admin /26 June, 2008
By Fiona Harvey in the Financial Times The market in greenhouse gas emissions could outstrip the conventional commodities markets to become the biggest traded commodity, the head of the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission said yesterday. Bart Chilton, commissioner of the CTFC, said: “The potential size and scope of a structured carbon emissions market in Continue Reading →
