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Climate change media to 17 February 2009
BUSHFIRES AND EXTREME EVENTS --------------------
•• Face global warming or lives will be at risk
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/face-global-warming-or-lives-will-be-at-risk-20090211-84od.html
Peter Marshall , The Age, 12 February 2009
Dear Mr Rudd and Mr Brumby, On behalf of more than 13,000 firefighters and support staff in Australia, I write this open letter to request a review of Australia's fire risk and our readiness to meet future catastrophic events.
'At risk' firies want urgent global warming action
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/12/2489847.htm
PM warned over 'hell to highwater state'
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/pm-warned-over-hell-to-highwater-state/1430268.aspx
Roslyn Beeby, Canberra Times, 11 February 2009
The Rudd Government must call an urgent science summit in Canberra to discuss links between climate change and extreme weather events across Australia, a leading scientist says.
Records smashed
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-warming/records-smashed-20090209-82bv.html
Marian Wilkinson, Sydney Morning Herald, February 10, 2009
THE heatwave that accompanied the bushfires on Saturday smashed records, as much of Victoria, including Melbourne and 20 other centres, registered unprecedented highs, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Humans could provide spark that ignites Amazon
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16566-humans-could-provide-spark-that-ignites-amazon.html
Catherine Brahic, New Scientist, 9 February 2009 by
In one of the most extreme climate change scenarios, a blistering drought will dry up the Amazon forest, which will ignite and burn away, leaving the world's rain patterns disrupted.
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Warning of wildfire threat to tropical forests as planet heats up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/15/climate-change-wildfire-threat
The end of certainty
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-warming/the-end-of-certainty-20090213-876f.html
Marian Wilkinson and Ben Cubby, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 2009
All signs point to the climate becoming more extreme
Drought and fire here to stay with El Nino's return
http://www.theage.com.au/national/drought-and-fire-here-to-stay-with-el-ninos-return-20090216-899u.html
Adam Morton, The Age, February 17, 2009
Victoria is likely to come under the influence of another El Nino within the next three years, exacerbating the drought and the likelihood of bushfires, a senior Bureau of Meteorology climate scientist says.
Australian bushfires pump out millions of tonnes of carbon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/13/carbonemissions-australia
Alok Jha, guardian.co.uk, 13 February 2009
The deadly bushfires that have claimed hundreds of lives will also harm the environment as the carbon-rich eucalypt forests release their payload of CO2
•• Bushfires and extreme heat in SE Australia
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=654
David Karoly, Real Climate, 16 February 2009
Climate change must be 'a factor' in deciding whether to rebuild
http://www.theage.com.au/national/climate-change-must-be-a-factor-in-deciding-whether-to-rebuild-20090210-83l5.html
Adam Morton, The Age, February 11, 2009
Climate change should be factored in when deciding whether to rebuild devastated bush settlements, leading climate scientists have warned
Victoria 'could face worse fire danger next summer'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/16/2492070.htm
ABC News, 15 February 2009
An expert in climate modelling says next summer could see even higher fire dangers for Victoria due to extreme temperatures.
A deadly reminder that we must tackle climate change
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/a-deadly-reminder-that-we-must-tackle-climate-change-20090211-84mn.html
Tim Flannery, Sydney Morning Herald, February 12, 2009
The day after the great fire burnt through central Victoria, I drove from Sydney to Melbourne. Smoke obscured the horizon, entering my air-conditioned car and carrying with it that distinctive scent so strongly signifying death, or, to Aboriginal people, cleansing.
ENERGY & INNOVATION----------------
•• Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/15/james-hansen-power-plants-coal
James Hansen, The Guardian, 15 Februry 2009
The government is expected to give the go-ahead to the coal-burning Kingsnorth power plant. Here, one of the world's foremost climate experts launches an excoriating attack on Britain's long love affair with the most polluting fossil fuel of all
A New Gang Comes to Los Angeles: Solar-Panel Installers
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123457326090086555.html
Miriam Jordan, Wall St Journal, 14 February 2009
When Albert Ortega was released from prison four months ago, he was determined to turn his life around. So he went green.
Indian experts find bacteria to beat global heat
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Earth/Bacteria-to-beat-global-heat/articleshow/4134025.cms
Rajiv Mani, TNN, 16 February 2009
In a major breakthrough that could help in the fight against global warming, a team of five Indian scientists from four institutes of
the country have discovered a naturally occurring bacteria which converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into a compound found in limestone and chalk.
Powers of brightness
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/2/12/152824/755
Joseph Romm, Gristmill, 12 February 2009
Biggest California utility contracts for world's biggest solar power deal.
Is America Ready to Quit Coal?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/15coal.html
Melanie Warner, New York Times, 14 February 2009
Last May, protesters took over James E. Rogers’s front lawn in Charlotte, N.C., unfurling banners declaring “No new coal” and erecting a makeshift “green power plant” — which, they said in a press release, was fueled by “the previously unexplored energy source known as hot air, which has been found in large concentrations” at his home.
Integral Fast Reactors
http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/nfc/ifr
Notes by Jim Green, Friends of the Earth
AND
Integral Fast Reactors for the masses
http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/02/12/integral-fast-reactors-for-the-masses/
Barry Brook, Brave New Climate, 12 February 2009
Plan B
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/2/8/22587/75724
Jamais Cascio, Gristmill, 9 February 20090
Geoengineering is risky but likely inevitable, so we better start thinking it through
POLITICS & POLICY----------------
Victorian coast
www.climatechange.vic.gov.au/futurecoasts
The Victorian Government has been modelling what our coastline might look like with up to 10m of sea level rise.
•• A Red Ring Around Canberra
http://newmatilda.com/2009/02/10/canberra-red-ring
Alison Potter, New Matilda, 10 February 2009
Disgusted at Canberra's disastrous response to climate change, Alison Potter joined thousands of others who are taking matters into their own hands
Nicholas Stern: Spend billions on green investments now to reverse economic downturn and halt climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/11/stern-climate-change
David Adam, guardian.co.uk, 11 February 2009
Leading economists – including Nicholas Stern – call for immediate £277bn global fund to generate clean power, insulate homes and create jobs
Review for emissions plan
http://www.theage.com.au/national/review-for-emissions-plan-20090212-863v.html
Tom Arup and Adam Morton, the Age, 13 February 2009
Treasurer Wayne Swan has ordered another review of the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme, prompting the Opposition to accuse it of abandoning its climate change policy.
AND
ETS: backdown and avoid senate scrutiny
http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20090213-ETS.html
Bernard Keane, Crikey, 13 February 2009
AND
Australia's emissions plan wavers as carbon price falls
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSSP427901
CARBON TRADING-----------------
Blaze a fail
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/2/10/155317/246
Gar Lipow, Gristmill, 11 February 2009
From 2005 through 2007, emissions from within facilities covered by the Kyoto Emissions Trading Scheme have risen by around 1.8 percent.
Carbon permits for big polluters could spark 'trading war'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/11/2489008.htm
ABC News, 11 February 2009
The Federal Government's climate change adviser has warned of a possible trading war if Australia's big polluters are over-compensated under an emissions trading scheme.
Will the carbon price collapse in the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme?
http://climatedilemma.com/2009/02/16/will-the-carbon-price-collapse-in-the-carbon-pollution-reduction-scheme/
Peter Wood, Climate Dilemma, 16 February 2009
SCIENCE & IMPACTS---------------
•• As Effects of Warming Grow, U.N. Report is Quickly Dated
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2120
Michael lemonick, environment360, 12 February 2009
Issued less than two years ago, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a voluminous and impressive document. Yet key portions of the report are already out of date, as evidence shows the impacts of warming intensifying from the Arctic to Antarctica.
Eating less meat could cut climate costs
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16573-eating-less-meat-could-cut-climate-costs.html
Jim Giles, New Scientist, 10 February 2009 by Jim Giles
Cutting back on beefburgers and bacon could wipe $20 trillion off the cost of fighting climate change. That's the dramatic conclusion of a study that totted up the economic costs of modern meat-heavy diets.
CO2 hits new peaks, no sign global crisis causing dip
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE51B44Z20090212
Alister Doyle, Reuters, 12 February 2009
Atmospheric levels of the main greenhouse gas are hitting new highs, with no sign yet that the world economic downturn is curbing industrial emissions.
The big melt
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/2/9/101428/4863
West Antarctic ice-sheet collapse means more catastrophe for U.S. coasts
Joseph Romm, Gristmill, 09 February 2009
Scientists uncover a dramatic rise in sea level and its broad ramifications
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/02/09/scientists.uncover.a.dramatic.rise.sea.level.and.its.broad.ramifications
e! Science News, 9 February 2009
Scientists have found proof in Bermuda that the planet's sea level was once more than 21 meters (70 feet) higher about 400,000 years ago than it is now
Australian story: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
http://www.abc.net.au/austory/austorybb.swf?var=24601
First wave
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/40789/title/First_wave
Cristine Russell, Science News, 28 February 2009
The presidents of two island nations draft escape plans, anticipating sea level rise
•• Climate change likely to be more devastating than experts predicted, warns top IPCC scientist
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-02/su-ccl021009.php
Eureka Alert, 14 February 2009
Without decisive action, global warming in the 21st century is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, according to a leading member of the IPCC.
AND
Pace of climate change exceeds estimates
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/14/AR2009021401757.html
Extreme water shortages predicted for tropical Andes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-change
Paula Leighton, Guardian Environment Network, 11 February 2009
A new scientific study says that climate change in the tropical Andes will lead to water shortages and impact on socioeconomic activity in the region, writes
PODCASTS-----------------
Climate Wars - Part One
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090119_10989.mp3
Climate Wars - Part Two
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090126_11172.mp3
Climate Wars - Part Three
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090202_11529.mp3
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