Re: FW: [Carbonequity] Climate change media to 23 December 2008
Lynne Dempsey
are about 40 of us - but Kazel, Kelly and myself and the only ones who
use it! This is one of the things which "have not worked out as planned"
when we initiated the Transition Town group on the Opotiki Coast. We
thought there would be a bit of a buzz with an exchange of views/ideas etc
Perhaps we are somewhat ahead of the game - and 2009 will be the year
that we will see more local initiatives. None of us on this list are
fooled by the temporary easing of oil prices - and even economists are
acknowledging that the financial meltdown can only get rougher ....not
that our MPs in power show any signs of responding to dire climate
change forecasts or curbing NZ's CO2 emissions. Are they in denial? Do
they not care about their children or grandchildren who will inherit a
certain disaster?
Experts are now saying that thanks to global political inaction we have
no hope of preventing cataclysmic climate warming - so there will be
tough times ahead - beginning already with mass starvation in countries
where crops are failing due to a change in regular weather patterns.
(Our media choose not to speak of this.)
The Market Place idea has hit a bit of a speed bump - but once it is up
and running - I do hope we will all support it.
I want to acknowledge the major contribution of Kazel over this past
year - the weekly columns are great...and she has taken on the job of
organising the user-friendly Food Co op - plus many other Transition
Town roles. Thanks Kazel for all your work in keeping this initiative
afloat!
Kind regards to everyone
Lynne
Kazel Cass wrote:
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> I get these emails each week and I usually just pick one link to
> follow and read the whole article. You don’t want to get too
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> reminding ourselves what it is that we are working for.
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> Have a great Xmas, thank you for all your support, help, positive
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> *Climate change media to 23 December 2008*
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> POLITICS & POLICY----------
>
> *The economy won't matter if the Earth dies*
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-economy-wont-matter-if-the-earth-dies-20081217-70qq.html
>
> Kenneth Davidson, The Age, December 18, 2008
>
> KEVIN Rudd and Penny Wong are prepared to bet the global environment
> against a plan to wedge the Coalition in the Senate to win the next
> election.
>
> *Obama left with little time to curb global warming*
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081214/ap_on_sc/global_warming_obama
>
> Seth Borenstein, AP, 14 December 2008
>
> When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a
> slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a
> ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.
>
> ALSO
>
> *Obama cranks up the green revolution*
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-cranks-up-the-green-revolution-1206394.html
>
>
> * CPRS
>
> *Households pay as big polluters cash in on climate change*
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/households-pay-as-big-polluters-cash-in-on-climate-change-20081216-6zrp.html?
>
> *Australia counts itself out: Ross Garnaut*
>
> http://www.theage
> <http://www.theage/>.com.au/national/australia-counts-itself-out-20081219-72ei.htm
>
> *Warm-up act in climate war*
>
> http://www.theaustr
> <http://www.theaustr/>alian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24824789-11949,00.html
>
> *Rudd's defence of target contains some telling omissions*
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/rudds-defence-of-target-contains-some-telling-o
> missions-20081216-6zwa.html
>
> *Scheme too kind by half to emitters: think-tank*
>
> http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/scheme-too-kind-by-half-to-emitters-thinktank/1388379.aspx
>
> *This PM can talk the talk but not walk*
>
> http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/opinion/editorial/general/this-pm-can-talk-the-talk-but-not-walk/1388390.aspx
>
> *MPs' offices sandbagged in protests*
>
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24806939-12377,00.html
>
> *Wave of protests greets greenhouse target*
>
> http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1002528/Wave-of-protests-greets-greenhouse-target
>
> *Scientists predict a hot and bleak future*
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/scientists-predict-a-hot-and-bleak-future/2008/12/15/1229189534105.html
>
> ENERGY & INNOVATION----------------
>
> *Energy secretary nominee sees coal as 'nightmare'*
>
> http://wvgazette.com/News/200812160723
>
> Ken Ward Jnr, Charlestown Gazette, 17 December 2008
>
> President-elect Barack Obama's pick for U.S. energy secretary isn't
> sold on the idea that technology to capture greenhouse emissions and
> pump them underground will save the coal industry.
>
> *Coal is the great danger as 'peak oil' approaches, scientist warns*
>
> http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/agu-2008/coal-is-the-great-danger-as-peak-oil-approaches
>
> Harvey Leifert, Daily Climate, 18 December 2008
>
> When will oil production peak and begin to decline? Scientists,
> engineers and economists have debated the point for years, on the
> assumption that carbon dioxide emissions will decline when less oil is
> burned.
>
> *Biochar and its Role in Mitigating Climate Change*
>
> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1217-zafar_biochar.html
>
> Salman Zafar, Mongabay, December 17, 2008
>
> The growing concerns about climate change have brought biochar, a
> charcoal produced from biomass combustion, into limelight.
>
> *At Last, A Date*
>
> http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/12/15/at-last-a-date/
>
> George Monbiot, Guardian, December 15, 2008
>
> For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a
> date for peak oil. And it’s not reassuring.
>
> ALSO
>
> VIDEO:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/dec/15/fatih-birol-george-monbiot
>
> *Sun king Garrett cuts solar subsidy*
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/sun-king-garrett-cuts-solar-subsidy/2008/12/17/1229189709644.html
>
> Ben Cubby and Mark Davis, SMH, December 18, 2008
>
> SYDNEY residents who want to install rooftop solar panels will have
> their subsidy cut almost in half from next July, under a landmark
> shake-up of the nation's solar industry.
>
> *Switch to solar undermined by Rudd climate plan*
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/environment/switch-to-solar-undermined-by-rudd-climate-plan-20081218-71n4.html
>
> Tim Colebatch, the Age, December 19, 2008
>
> A flaw in the design of the Federal Government's emissions trading
> scheme means households buying solar power systems in future might not
> be helping to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
>
> SCIENCE & IMPACTS----------------
>
> *Met Office warn of 'catastrophic' rise in temperature*
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5371682.ece
>
> Dr Vicky Pope, Times Online, December 19, 2008
>
> A new study by the Met Office warns that the world could warm by more
> than 5C in the next 90 years, if emissions keep on rising. This would
> be catastrophic for the environment and for humanity.
>
> ALSO
>
> *2008 amongst the ten warmest years*
>
> http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_835_en.html
>
> *Cooling La Nina fails to ease rising heat*
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/national/cooling-la-nina-fails-to-ease-rising-heat-20081218-70ws.html
>
> *This too shall gas*
>
> http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/19/105214/63
>
> Joseph Romm, Gristmill, 19 December 2008
>
> Arctic Research Center: Underwater permafrost is thawing and releasing
> methane
>
> AND
>
> *Methane time bomb ticking louder*
>
> http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/18/10192/710
>
> AND
>
> *NASA: Another brutally hot year for the Siberian tundra*
>
> http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/17/nasa-another-brutally-hot-year-for-the-siberian-tundra
>
> *Methane Bubbling Up From Undersea Permafrost?*
>
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081219-methane-siberia.html
>
> Mason Inman, National Geographic News, December 19, 2008
>
> The East Siberian Sea is bubbling with methane, a powerful greenhouse
> gas, being released from underwater reserves, according to a recent
> expedition by a Russian team.
>
> *Global Warming Impacts On U.S. Coming Sooner Than Expected*
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081216201404.htm
>
> ScienceDaily, Dec. 16, 2008
>
> A report released at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical
> Union on December 16 provides new insights on the potential for abrupt
> climate change and the effects it could have on the United States
>
> REPORT
>
> http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-4/final-report/default.htm
>
> *Arctic Ice Volume Lowest Ever as Globe Warms: UN*
>
> http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/50927
>
> Robert Evans, Reuters, 17 December 2008
>
> Ice volume around the Arctic region hit the lowest level ever recorded
> this year as climate extremes brought death and devastation to many
> parts of the world
>
> AUDIO
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2008/2450762.htm
>
> *Arctic melt passes the point of no return*
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/arctic-melt-passes-the-point-of--no-return-1128197.html
>
> Steve Connor, Independent, 16 December 2008
>
> Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic
> region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least
> a decade before it was predicted to happen.
>
> ALSO
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7786910.stm
>
> *Sea levels: 'A rise of up to 1.5 metres may even be too conservative'*
>
> VIDEO:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2008/dec/17/sea-levels-james-randerson
>
> STORY:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/16/climatechange-scienceofclimatechange
>
> Sea level rise due to global warming will "substantially exceed"
> official UN projections and could top 150cm by the end of the century,
> according to a report from the US Geological Survey on the risks of
> abrupt climate change.d
>
> *Swiss glaciers 'in full retreat'*
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7770472.stm
>
> Jonthan AMos, BBC News, 19 December 2008
>
> Swiss glaciers are melting away at an accelerating rate and many will
> vanish this century if climate projections are correct, two new
> studies suggest
>
> *Greenland**'s Glaciers Losing Ice Faster This Year than Last*
>
> http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/547420/
>
> newswise, 15 December 2008
>
> Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island
> of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly
> three times what was lost one year ago.
>
> AND
>
> *Loss cause*
>
> http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/18/14428/566
>
> Joseph Romm, Gristmill, 19 December 2008
>
> Two trillion tons of land ice lost since 2003, rate of Greenland
> summer ice-loss triples 2007 record
>
> [Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L17505 (2008)]
>
> *Update on sea surface temperatures and the Great Barrier Reef*
>
> http://www.climateshifts.org/?p=823
>
> Rachael Middlebrook, 16 December 2008
>
> The sea surface temperature (SST) model forecast (NOAA) for the Great
> Barrier Reef (GBR) is predicting widespread bleaching, with severe
> scenarios predicted to affect the northern GBR from mid January 2009.
>
> ALSO
>
> *Australia aims for destruction of Great Barrier Reef*
>
> http://www.climateshifts.org/?p=835
>
> *World’s oceans turning acidic faster than expected*
>
> http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/18/world%E2%80%99s-oceans-turning-acidic-faster-than-expected/
>
> Peter N. Spotts, CS Monitor, December 18, 2008
>
> Acidification caused by carbon emissions could bring some oceans to a
> tipping point
>
> *the carbon atlas*
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/interactive/2008/dec/09/climatechange-carbonemissions
>
> *Inventor: Evaporation units could cool Earth*
>
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6174640.html
>
> Greg Gordon, McClatchy Tribune, 20 December 2008
>
> Some scientists find idea intriguing, others scoff at plan.
>
> ALSO
>
> http://www.sacbee.com/702/story/1490304.html
>
> GREAT VIDEO--------------
>
> *John Holdren: The science and physical implications of climate change*
>
> http://usclimateaction.org/userfiles/flash/Holdren.html
>
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