From: Neville Gillmore [mailto:nevilleg729@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:12 PM To: Andrew Glikson Cc: JOHN JAMES Subject: What would 3 degrees mean ?
Andrew.
It is becoming obvious that 3 or higher degrees will be reached, with business as usual approaches. This is disastrous for our planet.
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Irrigators are calling on the South Australian Government and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to upgrade barrages at the lower lakes, near the Murray mouth.
The barrages were built stop salt water from the Southern Ocean spilling into the Murray.
Recent stormy weather has pushed salt water into Lake Alexandrina, because the barrages were not closed in time.
Colin Grundy, the last irrigator on the Murray at Mundoo Island, wants all the gates on the barrages automated.
“[I want] to stop the sea coming back in and putting salt water back into the lakes, which is lifting the EC (electrical conductivity) level of the lakes,” he said.
“They (gates) need to be automated because if you could just push a button they’ll shut, or if they do it automatically with salinity meters and level meters, they can do it automatically by themselves, which would even be better.”
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has reportedly struck off the Pacific coast of Mexico, following a series of weaker quakes off the coasts of Oregon and California.
The Associated Press reports the earthquake caused tall buildings to sway in Mexico City.
Witnesses reported seeing people running out of offices onto the streets of the capital, according to Reuters news agency.
Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard said on his Twitter account there were no initial signs of major damage.
Mexico City’s subway system and international airport, as well as other key services, were still functioning, he said.
Earlier, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon, followed a minute later by a smaller quake off California’s central coast.
The quakes come a day after an 8.6 magnitude earthquake rattled Indonesia, initially triggering a tsunami warning.
National Broadband Network fibre-optic cables are being installed, but social analyst David Chalke says everything will be wireless by the time the network is finished. Source: AdelaideNow
71 per cent of Australians use laptop, tablet or smartphone
Expert says most internet is mobile
But NBN says video still does “heavy lifting”
THE rise of mobile internet through smart phones and tablets threatens to make the national broadband network a waste of money, a prominent social analyst says.
Speaking in Adelaide about the latest Australia SCAN social trend survey, Quantum Market Research’s David Chalke said NBN Co was “missing the boat”.
“Everything is going to be wireless by the time they’ve dug up the roads and stuffed the pipes,” he said.
“It will be too late, it’s all going to be mobile and wireless in the future.”
A survey of 2000 Australians, performed every year for the past two decades, revealed desktop computers were dying out. Most people (71 per cent) had a laptop, tablet or smartphone.
“The lion is uncaged,” he said. “It was chained to the desktop, no more. The future is all about mobility. `I’ll do it wherever I want, whenever I want, however I want, on a 4 1/2 inch screen’.”
But an NBN Co spokeswoman said it was the demand for data-rich video that was driving the fibreoptic network.
“People want the convenience of wireless technologies so they can use their iPads and laptops in more places, but fixed networks continue to do the `heavy lifting’ of broadband data use,” she said.
“As we move to a time where really data-heavy applications like video become more prevalent, there will be an increasing need for fixed connections like the NBN.”
She said it was also important to recognise that when people use iPads or smartphones in WiFi mode, they are using a wireless connection to a fixed network.
Top NSW Labor officials warned about HSU time bomb
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THE corruption crisis tearing apart the Health Services Union threatens to engulf NSW Labor with claims emerging that key party figures were warned about the alleged antics of senior HSU officials but took no action.
Emails obtained by the Herald reveal the state Opposition Leader, John Robertson, was warned three years ago, when he was a minister, about allowing the HSU national president, Michael Williamson, to serve as the ALP national president.
Mr Williamson, the ALP national president for 2009-10, is facing allegations of extensive corruption but is fighting a push from HSU officials to resign.
Warned … NSW Opposition Leader, John Robertson. Photo: Brockwell Perks
The Herald has also been told the former NSW Labor powerbroker John Della Bosca twice warned Labor officials, including the now-NSW ALP general-secretary, Sam Dastyari, not to endorse Craig Thomson for the 2010 election because the allegations against him concerning credit card misuse would flare.
The emails concerning Mr Williamson show union official Peter O’Toole contacted Mr Robertson to warn him about the HSU boss. Mr O’Toole’s warnings followed the airing of similar concerns in 1999.
”Do you remember the coffee we had at Haymarket when you tried to dissuade me from running against Williamson,” wrote Mr O’Toole.
”Didn’t I mention the number of times Michael had been mugged at ATMs and had to withdraw additional money with the union credit card?
”Didn’t I mention the six-hour lunches every Thursday before Labor Council?
”Knowing what you know, if you think Williamson should be the next federal president of the ALP then do nothing. But, I think it’s about time this bloke was taught what it is to care for union members. Why isn’t there a standard of practice for these guys?
”You have the power to do something about this, why don’t you?”
Mr Robertson replied that he didn’t recall their earlier conversation and said Mr O’Toole should ”take the matter up with the party’s national office”.
Mr Thomson entered Parliament in 2007 as the Labor member for the central coast seat of Dobell. In his first term, allegations emerged that during his time as the HSU national secretary between 2002 and 2007, he misused his union-supplied credit card to the tune of more than $100,000.
When Labor began preselections for the 2010 poll, sources say Mr Della Bosca had two conversations with Mr Dastyari, who was being groomed to take over as the general-secretary, about the danger of Mr Thomson standing again.
The HSU national secretary, Kathy Jackson, said on Monday that she similarly warned Mr Dastyari and others.
Mr Dastyari was unavailable yesterday but said previously that he was not general-secretary at the time and that Mr Thomson was challenged for preselection in a rank-and-file ballot but won.
Back then, NSW Labor was occupied with removing Mr Della Bosca’s wife, Belinda Neal, from the neighbouring central coast seat of Robertson.
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