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Bailing out the climate

by admin on 22. Dec, 2009 in Blog, Elections, Politics

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez took the stage at COP15 and launched his own protest. He declared, “If the climate was a capitalist bank, the rich governments would have saved it.” (Via: Huffpost.)

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Australians' attitude to COP15

by admin on 14. Dec, 2009 in Blog, Environment

Essential Research has come out with the latest polling on Australians’ attitudes to Copenhagen. Unsurprisingly, it reveals that Australians, by and large, recognise the importance of the negotiations in Copenhagen. Even Coalition voters consider it important (59%), according to the cross tabs. With the “hackergate”/”climategate” frenzy still trying to stymie a meaningful agreement in Australia, [...]

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No slowdown in warming

by admin on 09. Dec, 2009 in Blog, Environment, Opinion

As Tony Abbott spreads the “global cooling” conspiracy, more evidence demonstrates that temperatures are going up and up. A report by the World Meteorological Organization says that recent years are on track to be the hottest on record: The decade of the 2000s is very likely the warmest decade in the modern record, dating back [...]

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News from Copenhagen

by admin on 08. Dec, 2009 in Blog, Environment

Sean Kidney, convenor of the Carbon Bonds Initiative, is up in Copenhagen at the moment and is writing up some very interesting tidbits from the side-show. I was particularly interested in this comment regarding renewables: 2. More practically, Q-Cells, one of the world’s largest photovoltaic solar companies, claims that solar cells have reached grid price [...]

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