Alarm after AGL backtracks on no fracking promise by Simon Frazer, ABCUpdated January 16, 2013, 8:58 am tweet Email Print Concerns about proposed gas drilling in Sydney’s south-west have again flared, after a backflip by energy company AGL on its promise not to use the controversial fracking technique. The New South Wales Government is considering Continue Reading →
Stonehenge among towns damaged in outback storm By Elise Worthington, ABCUpdated January 15, 2013, 9:45 pm tweet1 Email Print ABC © Enlarge photo Authorities says a wild storm has damaged around 80 per cent of buildings in the central-western Queensland town of Jundah. The storm also tore through the nearby town of Stonehenge, damaging the Continue Reading →
Global Warming Has Increased Monthly Heat Records Worldwide by a Factor of Five, Study Finds Jan. 14, 2013 — Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, Continue Reading →
Arctic Sea Ice Decline and Ice Export Between Greenland and Svalbard Jan. 14, 2013 — The Arctic sea ice is shrinking, both in extent and thickness. In addition to the humanmade contribution to the sea ice loss, there are also natural factors contributing to this loss. In a new study from the Bjerknes Centre we Continue Reading →
Climate change and the myth of human progress Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:33 PM PST Illustration by Mr. Fish, TruthDig Note: On present climate policy settings, the world is headed to 4 degrees C of warming by 2100, perhaps as early as 2060. We’ve known that for at least the last five years, but in Continue Reading →
Climate change inaction the fault of environmental groups, report says Academic paper largely clears President Obama of blame over failure to pass climate legislation through Congress Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 January 2013 20.04 GMTBarack Obama A Harvard academic has put the blame squarely for America’s failure to act on climate change Continue Reading →