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Record Temperatures And Record Energy Use

Posted on 10. Aug, 2010 by Ross.

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17 countries around the world have recorded all-time national record temperatures this summer, giving people from different corners of the world more of an idea of what to expect from future climate change.
With the Russian 37°C heatwave currently doubling Moscow’s death rate, and Pakistan suffering from cataclysmic flooding, these warm weather patterns are bringing more [...]

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Energy Efficiency Twice As Powerful As Clean Energy

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Still doubting whether using energy efficient lighting can really help save the planet?
Well, Australians seem to think so now. The Energy Efficiency Council of Australia issued a report which estimates that under current trends and investments, energy efficiency will deliver 65% of global carbon reduction by 2020 and 53% by 2030.
That means that over the [...]

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Holistic Management: Natural Grazing Patterns Prevent Desertification But Increase Climate Change

Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Livestock, which are commonly perceived to be a main cause of desertification, are actually the solution to helping maintain vegetation in the face of climate change.
Whilst most of the world focuses on preventing climate change through renewable energy and greater use of energy efficient technology, some of the most innovative research is starting to emerge [...]

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Australia Dumps Carbon Trading Scheme

Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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In the face of intensified political opposition and a hostile Senate, the Australian government has been forced to backtrack on one of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s key election promises: the creation of an Australian emissions trading scheme to help the country stop being one of the world’s most polluting nations.
With the highest emissions per capita [...]

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Ocean Acidification Masks The Smell Of Death

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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Ocean acidification is the silent, unfashionable side-effect of climate change. With the world’s media focused on the prospect of more powerful storms, droughts, sea level rises and other meteorological phenomena, as well as the impact on humanity from lower quality of life through to climate refugees, what happens beneath the churning surface of the stormy [...]

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Carbon Offsets: Will the Martin Luther of Climate Change Please Stand Up?

Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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The Catholic practice of selling indulgences – exchanging absolution from minor sins for a price which the Church happily pocketed – was one of the chief motivating factors for German priest Martin Luther to nail his 95 questions to the door of Wittenburg university cathedral in 1517: a primary catalyst of the Reformation and the [...]

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Australia’s Carbon Cap-and-Trade Climb-Down

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Ross.

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After failing to secure flagship cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate, the Australian Government is being forced to splinter its’ environmental draft laws in order to get them passed individually.
The government is putting forward part of last week’s defeated bill - a plan for 20% of Australia’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2020 - [...]

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Australia and New Zealand Agonise Over Carbon Reduction Targets

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Ross.

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In the spectrum of the ambition of industrialised nations to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Australia and New Zealand have traditionally occupied the same end of the scale as the USA: could do better and don’t really care.
As the Copenhagen conference begins to loom ever closer, intensifying international debate on the carbon [...]

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Australia Sees 20% Energy Price Rise

Posted on 21. May, 2009 by Ross.

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Businesses and households in Australia have been left facing a massive 20% increase in their energy bills, increasing the average household bill by over $200 and leaving businesses searching for energy efficiency measures to help save their companies from the extra costs during the recession.
The energy price rises are due to a decision from the [...]