Australian Targets

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Monday, January 31, 2011

Fines for 73 climate change activists protesting proposed coal power station

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The Muswellbrook Local Court today was crammed with activists. In the largest single court appearance for an Australian climate protest 73 p...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Forests are not commodities - REDD under fire for narrow focus on carbon storage

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A new report from some of the world's top experts on forest governance has criticised various international climate change accords inclu...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Green groups criticize Federal Government for slashing climate programs

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Environment, climate change and green groups have criticized the Federal Government for budget cuts to solar development and carbon reductio...

A carbon neutral solar and wind powered world in 20 to 40 years?

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Is it achievable? You bet! All it takes is the political and social will to make it happen says two US researchers who have just publishe...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

US Banks greenwashing with carbon principles says RAN report

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Banks have still got a long way to go to meet their own carbon principles says a new report from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) in the...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Albedo Feedback: Climate Models under estimate loss of reflectivity in the Arctic

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Loss of reflectivity in the Arctic is double the estimate used in current state-of-art climate models according to new analysis of the North...

Greenland sets a new melt record in 2010 - sea levels to rise

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The chilly fact is that the Greenland ice cap is melting at an accelerated rate. The big melt achieved a new record in 2010 according to new...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Atmospheric nuclear testing stagnated mid 20th century global warming

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New scientific research from Japan puts forward that the stagnation in global warming in the mid twentieth century was caused by the atmosph...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

2010 equal warmest year on record globally, say NASA and NOAA

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2010 Global surface temperatures matched 2005 as the equal warmest year on record according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

2010 wettest year on record globally, and the wettest for Queensland

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2010 was the wettest year on record globally according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with Australia exper...