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. 

Rich nations cut carbon

admin /24 May, 2008

 G8 greenhouse gas emissions fall
 Encouraging sign … emissions by so many nations in the G8 have not previously fallen together any year since 1990.

GREENHOUSE gas emissions by all the Group of Eight industrial nations except Russia fell in 2006 in the broadest dip since the world started trying to slow climate change in 1990, a Reuters survey showed today.

Rising oil prices, some measures to curb global warming and a milder winter in the United States in 2006 that depressed energy demand for heating all contributed to an overall 0.6 per cent dip in G8 emissions in 2006 from 2005.

Report counts homes that will go under

admin /24 May, 2008

Marian Wilkinson and Ben Cubby in the Sydney Morning Herald

THE rise of sea levels due to climate change is a direct threat to more than 1660 homes near Newcastle and Wyong, the State Government’s first detailed survey of threatened coastline shows.

The report comes as the Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, prepares to fight a court ruling that found he was legally bound to consider climate-related risks of flooding in major coastal developments. His approval for the South Coast’s Sandon Point housing development was challenged by environmentalists last November.

Ferguson buries millions of dollars with CO2

admin /18 May, 2008

Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has unveiled draft legislation to establish the world’s first framework for carbon dioxide capture and geological storage (CCS). Mr Ferguson said it involved capturing greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly from coal-fired power stations, before they reached the atmosphere. The gas is then injected and stored deep underground in geological formations similar to Continue Reading →

Budget fails to impress Greens

admin /18 May, 2008

The Rudd Labor government last week introduced a means test for the government rebate toward the cost of rooftop solar panels for domestic use. THe implication of the rebate is that households earning more than $100,000 each year will not get any financial assistance if they want to go solar. The move has infuriated climate Continue Reading →

Climate experts put poor in sights

admin /4 May, 2008

Matthew Warren, The Australian DEVELOPING countries need to be set “demanding and binding” emissions targets as part of an aggressive upgrade to global action on climate change signalled by Australia’s and Britain’s lead greenhouse policy advisers. In two new separate papers, Ross Garnaut and Nicholas Stern have called for deep cuts in developed country emissions Continue Reading →

Oceans may die from oxygen depletion

admin /4 May, 2008

GLOBAL warming could gradually starve parts of the tropical oceans of oxygen, damaging fisheries and coastal economies, a study showed today.

Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently in line with rising temperatures, according to the scientists based in Germany and the United States.

And models of global warming indicate the trend will continue because oxygen in the air mixes less readily with warmer water. Large fish such as tuna or swordfish avoid, or are unable to survive, in regions starved of oxygen.

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