Rudd positioned to win the environmental vote

The Australian Prime Minister's worst dreams were realised when his months of hoping that Labor's national conference would be a showcase of all the worst aspects of the ALP came to naught on the weekend.He had been hoping they would implode and had been pressing Labor's super-sensitive spot on uranium, the exposed raw nerve of an unfinished, three-decade-long factional argument.

Aussies voters wooed with green and gold

I predicted early on that global warming is going to be a major factor in the Australian federal elections planned for the end of this year. Last week Prime Minister John Howard belatedly recognised this in attempting to divert the focus away from AGW and onto economic management, when he claimed that, "climate change is not the overriding moral challenge for Australians". Then he contradicted

NSW Government won't take criticism

I have to say I am pretty suss of any government that wins a election based on the uselessness of the opposition. Even when I think the opposition is utterly impotent, I don't necessarily want my thesis proven beyond any shadow of a doubt because it tends to give the winner carte blanch to act like a bunch of brigands.As seems to be proven by the response of the incumbent, whom I voted for, to

Arctic hippopotamus to survive the polar bear

We only have one hundred years till mankind can start experiencing life in our own Jurassic Park according to Appy Sluijs, an expert in ancient ecology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and fossil footprints of a pantodont found on an Arctic island.:::[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantodont]Most adult polar bear males weigh 300-600 kg (660-1320 lbs) and measure 2.4-3.0 m (7.9-10.0 ft) in

Twenty four Amur leopards left

Talking about biodiversity...:::[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_leopard] clipped from edition.cnn.com Hunters kill one of last surviving Amur leopardsThe story so far...• Hunters have killed one of the last seven surviving female Amur leopards• There are 25 to 34 Amur leopards still living in the wild, WWF

Marginals want investment in biodiversity infrastructure

Eight in ten Australian voters in marginal seats believe the way to fortify against climate change is to strengthen the biodiversity of their natural habitats, according to Galaxy Research. It shows an encouraging sophistication in their understanding of climate change and the future it will bring. I'm guessing they believe a strong and healthy biodiversity is vital to our environmental health

Howard denies moral dimension to global warming

Honestly, if John Howard had been reading Global Warming Watch, like he should, he would have known months ago that global warming will feature heavily at the next Australian election. And he wouldn't have made this faux pas. :::[SMH]Prime Minister John Howard has rejected Labor leader Kevin Rudd's claim that climate change is the overwhelming moral challenge facing Australians.Which has me

Global Warming: Historical data confirms it

Global warming... not all bad... clipped from www.thehumorarchives.com  Global Warning Climate Change Humour

This Earth Day in America

A Washington Post, ABC News and Stanford University poll reveals:- a third of Americans now say that global warming is the world's single largest environmental problem, double the number of a year ago.- seven in 10 Americans want more federal action on global warming, and half said that believe the government should do much more than it is now.- fifty two percent said the issue is "extremely" or

Book-burning in Washington DC, 2007 AD

The anti-science nature of the Bush Administration is well known. Their latest assault involves manoeuvring that withdraws chemical research libraries from scientist and researchers. And lawyers. A briefing paper for the agency enforcement director concludes that the loss of library access will substantially impede investigations and prosecutions of polluters. clipped from www.smh.com.auCarbon credit debate gets personalA range of regulations and carbon trading schemes were emerging in Britain and the US, but

Solomon needs his temple foundations examined

David Solomon needs to take great care with his statistical work, if he does not want to be tarred with the same 'Chicago school of economics' oily brush that brought us the Iran-Contra affair, the invasion of Iraq, and Paul Wolfowitz.He doesn't take care, and so his latest work is gleefully used by Andrew Bolt to prove that activities directed towards 'global-cooling' are a waste of time. What

Aussies up for a fight against global warming

I don' think our federal leaders and oppositions are going to get by on simple global warming tokenism any more. clipped from www.worldpublicopinion.orgPoll Finds Worldwide Agreement That Climate Change is a ThreatAn international poll finds widespread agreement that climate change is a pressing problem. This

Doing your global warming homework

clipped from www.desmogblog.comTruthiness vs. Science

Global Warming Watch picked up by Reuters

Upon randomly checking my BlogBurst workbench I discovered that one of my posts in early April was picked up by Reuters UK. It's a buzz for this blogger, and explains the recent spike in traffic . As I am experimenting with Clipmarks' clip-to-blog function, I clipped the first few paras. clipped from

The 3rd man in history to ever walk on water

clipped from www.funny-potato.comThe 1st one was Jesus Christ...The 2nd one was Peter (the apostle)........Then there was this guy .......Jose Global Warning Climate Change

At last! Al Gore planning to run...

..his house on solar power. I think it is great that the Get Gore campaign got Gore going. When it comes to walking-the-talk, he is running - emissions-free, from his manor. So thinks Green Options: clipped from www.greenoptions.comSign seen in front of Al Gore's mansion in the posh Belle Meade section of

One Bolt doeth not a thunder-storm maketh

Climate change denial advocate, Andrew Bolt, doesn't know that the increase in average temperatures from around the globe, measured over time is what we commonly call "global warming". That's a lot of individual measurements, in the googles, yet he persistently claims to debunk the theory based on his observations of the temperature on any one day somewhere in the world. :::[Andrew Bolt Blog:

Let them eat my gasses

A few weeks ago the ruling Australian Liberal Party dealt themselves into the upcoming green elections by outsourcing our environmental policy to Indonesia: :::[The Road to Surfdom]So, Malcolm Turnbull and his boss, The Rodent*, have suddenly come out with this policy to pay $A200m to encourage developing nations in the southern hemisphere with significant rainforest, such as Brazil, Australia

IPCC Report specifics for Australia

IPCC Report implications for Australia: * more drought, fires and inundation caused by sea-level rises * withdrawal on private insurance on coastal properties * increased water security problems * areas of the coast, especially Cairns and south-east Queensland, face increased risks from sea-level rises and "increases in the severity and frequency of storms and coastal flooding""Hot spot"

IPCC's clarion call

Coming to an IPCC Report near you. :::[SMH: Window closing on planet's chances]"Unmitigated climate change would, in the long term, be likely to exceed the capacity of natural, managed and human systems to adapt."The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due out tomorrow, and that is some of the wording just agreed upon between scientists and governments after last-minute

Bush forced to regulate carbon dioxide from cars

In enormous news for the mitigation of global warming, the US Supreme Court has forced their federal government to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars. The directive forces the Bush Administration into a major policy u-turn: :::[CNN] In a 5-4 decision, the court said the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate the emissions of carbon dioxide and

Was Earth Hour a candle in the wind?

Sydney's Earth Hour was an unconditional success in raising awareness about what we can do to fight global warming, with well over fifty percent of the population participating : :::[SMH]MORE than half of Sydneysiders - as many as 2.2 million - switched off their lights to celebrate Earth Hour on Saturday night, a poll has found.No one saw this avalanche of support coming - only 65,000 households

Earth Hour got a bit... well... earthy.

It was very romantic to spend the first night in a long time having a candlelight dinner and drinks with my wife.Not so for my three year old - when he realised that no birthday cake was to follow the dowsed lights, and that he was not going to be allowed to blow out the candles... he took himself off to bed with his favourite car. Early.Yesss!So did we. But not before checking out the darkened