Australian Targets

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

2011 hottest year globally with a La Niña event, 10th warmest on record

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2011 is likely to be the world's tenth warmest year on record. This is despite a particularly strong La Niña which usually acts to dampe...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Attenborough warns of ice shelf destruction in Antarctica

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UK Naturalist and documentary maker David Attenborough has warned about the implications of melting ice sheets in the polar regions but emph...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Pacific climate change: temperatures rise, sea levels increase, rainfall changing

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A major new report on climate change in the Pacific Ocean region reports that the region is getter hotter, sea levels are rising, rainfall i...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Grid battery energy storage break-through a promising solution for solar and wind power

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Large scale grid power storage for energy may become possible with use of nanoparticle electrodes for batteries being researched and develop...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Climategate 2.0 a storm in a teacup while extreme weather worsens with climate change

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More emails by climate scientists have been publicly released from the break-in to the University of East Anglia servers two years ago. The...

Extreme weather, risk management and adaptation in a warming climate - latest IPCC report

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Over the weekend the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events an...
Friday, November 18, 2011

The carbon economy of logging native forests and CO2 reduction

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An interesting seminar was held at the Australian National University on November 10, 2011 on logging of native forests and the timeframe fo...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Logging East Gippsland old growth forests destroys wildlife refugia in a warming climate

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Environmental activists have been out in old growth Forests in East Gippsland this week attempting to stop more rape of our natural environm...

Intact native Forests mitigate bushfire in a warming climate

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As Australia's climate warms up we are facing increased bush fire risk . Old growth forests trap moisture and provide an important bulwa...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

BBC short changes Climate change in overseas sales of Frozen Planet nature documentary

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The BBC has relegated the seventh and final episode of the Frozen Planet series presented by Sir David Attenborough to an optional extra. T...