By Lenore Taylor 12 November 2013 (theguardian.com) – Tony Abbott has confirmed that his government has abandoned its longstanding policy to reduce Australia’s emissions by between 5% and 25% of 2000 levels by 2020 – a crucial and internationally scrutinised goal that had retained bipartisan support since 2009, throughout Australia’s tumultuous political debate over climate […]
By Seth Shulman, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)7 November 2013 (LiveScience) – Al Dutcher, Nebraska’s state climatologist, is an expert on climate change and a professor at the University of Nebraska. He’s also a self-described conservative who is outraged that the state legislature and Nebraska’s Republican governor are letting politics interfere with questions of science. […]
By Christopher Rowland 5 November 2013 WASHINGTON (Boston Globe) – The setting was not unusual for a scholarly conference: a bland ballroom in a Houston hotel. But Willie Soon’s presentation was anything but ordinary. As PowerPoint slides flashed on a screen, his remarks crescendoed into a full-throated denunciation. “Those people are so out of their […]
3 November 2013 (AAP) – The federal government has approved a massive coal mining project in central Queensland that will be the largest in the country. Environment Minister Greg Hunt approved the 37,380 hectare Kevin’s Corner project on Friday. The mine, to be operated by a joint India-Australia consortium, GVK-Hancock, is the first to be […]
By Tamino19 October 2013 (Open Mind) – Many of you are probably aware of a “report” which is intended to contradict the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. Its authors call it the “NIPCC” report for “Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change.” It’s supposed to represent the very best that so-called “skeptics” have to […]
By Rhett A. Butler 23 October 2013 (mongabay.com) – Illegal logging remains pervasive in the Brazilian state of Pará, finds an assessment released Monday by Imazon. Analyzing satellite data and records from Pará’s environmental agency Sema, the Brazil-based NGO found that 78 percent of logging documented via satellite between August 2011 and July 2012 was […]
By PETER HECHT24 October 2013 GROVELAND, California (The Sacramento Bee) – Starting Aug. 27, a force of nature devastated the economy of this historic Tuolumne County town, 3,100 feet high on the mountain pass into Yosemite National Park. The Rim fire burned well into October, devouring more than a quarter-million acres of forest. Its choking […]
By Jean Williams25 October 2013 (examiner.com) – Three major bushfires and more than 60 smaller ones have been burning across parts of Southern Australia for seven days without an end in sight, NBC News is reporting. In a risky move, the Blue Mountain region firefighters deliberately joined the State Mine fire with the Mount Victoria […]
By Mark McCaffrey25 October 2013(National Center for Science Education) – The Heartland Institute, the organization that brought you the widely spoofed Unabomber billboard, the faux International Climate Change Conference, and that has been working on a curriculum for middle and high school students designed to teach controversy and confusion, is at it again. Heartland just […]
By Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito25 Oct 2013 IWAKI (Reuters) – Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks. Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in […]
