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Climate change funding: Response from Dr Andrew Glikson

admin /4 March, 2012

So Neville – what is the price of the Earth? The root cause of global warming has been long established, by the mid-20th century, and to date more than 500 billion tons of carbon have been/continue to be released into the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions and land clearing.  Further research is not going to Continue Reading →

Light rail may displace 200 buses an hour

admin /4 March, 2012

Light rail may displace 200 buses an hour Jacob Saulwick March 5, 2012 Read later Unsustainable … Sydney’s bus back-up. Photo: Quentin Jones SOME peak hour buses entering Sydney’s central business district from the north will be redirected to the Cahill Expressway and the Western Distributor to push them out of the centre of the Continue Reading →

Climate change research is costing the Australian taxpayers

admin /4 March, 2012

Climate change research is costing Australian taxpayers by: Gemma Jones From:The Daily Telegraph March 05, 201212:11AM 25 comments 1 MILLIONS of dollars in government research funding is being ploughed into studies of emotion in climate change messages, ancient economic life in Italy and the history of the moon. Studies of sleeping snails and determining if Continue Reading →

Oil exploration: too high a price

admin /4 March, 2012

Oil exploration: too high a price Deepwater may cost BP $40bn in damages, but the oil industry hasn’t learned its lesson Share36 reddit this Comments (81) Damian Carrington guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 March 2012 20.30 GMT Article history The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster was the US’s worst ever offshore oil spill. Photograph: Ho/Reuters As a symbol Continue Reading →

Increase in Tornado Activity Dr Andrew Glikson

admin /4 March, 2012

Andrew Glikson Geospec@iinet.net.au 6:02 PM (3 minutes ago) to me 1. Not a cluster of “97 volcanoes” but of “97 tornados” ( AMENDED) 2. Its basic science, the higher the temperatures, i.e. higher energy, the higher the intensity of warm air plumes rising from the ground and developing into tornados. 3. Surprise, surprise. The non-attribution Continue Reading →

Desal insanity will cripple us (NOV 2010)

admin /4 March, 2012

Recent events make this report topical for the present   Desal insanity will cripple us by: Miranda Devine From: Herald Sun November 11, 2010 12:00AM 31 comments 0 Desal plants are not the way forward says Miranda Devine. Source: The Courier-Mail SERIOUSLY, which genius decided to build a desalination plant to suck water from the Continue Reading →