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Australians' attitude to COP15

Australians' attitude to COP15

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

No slowdown in warming

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

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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