Posted in Australia, Sydney, books, tagged Australian Conservation Foundation, Dissent, Energy, government, nuclear power, Worldwide on 17 September 2007 | 4 Comments »
…achieve anything useful.
Over the weekend of 8-9 September I was in Sydney for my cousin’s wedding. It was a beautiful wedding, but I won’t bore you with that. That weekend also happened to be when the 2007 APEC meeting was held in Sydney and the powers that be of Sydney were in lock [...]
Posted in Australia, tagged carbon emissions, carbon neutral, climate change, Dissent, Energy, fossil fuel dependence, government, greenhouse effect, nuclear power, renewable energy, solar power, wind power, Worldwide on 15 April 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Australian Greenhouse Office of the Federal government projects Australia’s greenhouse emissions trends. Tracking to the Kyoto Target was released last year just before Christmas (so no one would notice it). Even though Australia never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, a government department has still found Australia will not meet its Kyoto target of 108 per [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carbon emissions, carbon neutral, climate change, Energy, fossil fuel dependence, government, greenhouse effect, mass media, nuclear power, renewable energy, sustainable living, Worldwide on 10 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Serendipity rears her pretty head again. I don’t take in much mass media and so I’m a bit slow when it comes to current affairs (most of its just the same old stories. Don’t they get bored?). Get up sent me this email on Thursday:
The last thing most Australians want is to follow our American [...]
"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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