Australian Targets

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Monday, December 31, 2012

Is Climate Change causing an exponential rate of Ice sheet Mass Loss, sea level rise?

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Climate scientist James Hansen and his colleague Makiko Sato have released a new discussion paper with updated data on ice sheet mass loss f...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Elevated sea surface temps threatening marine biodiversity in Western Australia

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High sea surface temperatures (SST) of up to five degrees above normal are currently being experienced off the north-western Australian coas...
Friday, December 28, 2012

China's coral reef ecosystems suffer devastating 80 per cent decline

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In the last 30 years the coral reef ecosystems off the coast of mainland China and Hainan Island have suffered an 80 per cent decline largel...

Gas fired power stations for NSW and Victoria placed on hold

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EnergyAustralia has announced shelving plans for construction of a 1000MW gas fired power station in the Latrobe Valley at it's Yallourn...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Increase in cyclone frequency in Indonesia blamed on climate change

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Cyclone frequency in Indonesia in 2012 is 28 times that for the year 2002, according to the Indonesian Disaster Management Agency BNPB, with...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Global Warming on West Antarctic Ice Sheet three times the global average

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The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming at three times the global average, according to temperature measurements at Byrd Polar Station. Thi...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

"We do have an emergency" - Arctic Methane Feedback amplifying warming

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As James Hansen in this video says "We DO have an emergency". He talks about climate tipping points such as the loss of summer ...

2 Arctic seal species listed as Endangered due to Climate Change

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The Centre for Biological Diversity reports that as a result of their 2008 petition, the US Federal Government has added Ringed seals and Be...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Coal protest: activists scale Yallourn power station Cooling Tower

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Four days ago two intrepid climate change activists scaled one of the cooling towers at Yallourn coal fired power station in Victoria's...

Electricity Demand Falling in Eastern Australia according to CEDEX

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New research on energy demand in the National Energy Market (NEM) by Pitt and Sherry's carbon emissions Index (CEDEX) shows demand fo...