Top StoriesMay’s sharp fall in jobless numbers added to the greenness of the ‘recovery’ (or less bad) thesis; overnight June’s unemployment figures were so awful that they could have stunted at least, the wavering shoots.
We have a decade, tops, to save the planet
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Climate scientists in Australia have been shaking their heads over the political hot air that’s puffed out of this election campaign. Some have completely disengaged from it. These scientists have been waiting decades for global warming to hit the agenda, so now that it’s at the top of it, why aren’t they hanging off the parties’ promises? Maybe it’s because they were watching the satellite photos of the Arctic sea ice melt months ago. Here they are on the NASA website (click on image):
These photos show that the sea ice shrunk to 40 per cent below its average size, losing an area twice the size of NSW. And no-one saw it coming. This is not a panic puff piece or a tabloid beat up, this is just one of the findings cited in the report prepared by Dr Graeme Pearman, the former head of CSIRO’s atmospheric research unit and the Climate Adaptation Science and Policy Initiative at the University of Melbourne. Pearman’s report, commissioned by the Climate Institute, says that the evidence of global warming has dramatically increased in the past 12 months. The report also states:
These are the kind of findings that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is quibbling over ahead of the release of their fourth report for the year in Valencia, Spain, this week. The IPCC is attempting to filter thousands of pages of scientific findings down to a 25-page document – a synthesis to guide government policymakers around the world. But there are widespread concerns that their findings are already out of date given this year’s results. According to Pearman’s estimate, the world only has 5-10 years to take drastic action. So what has to happen in that incredibly short amount of time to mitigate major disasters? John Connor, CEO of the Climate Institute, told Crikey, “all new energy must come from clean energy from now.” “We must drive a new sustainability revolution that dramatically cuts energy wastage, now and brings forward new clean technology,” says Connor. “The window of opportunity for a smooth transition is narrowing rapidly. People can’t just be climate consumers but climate citizens, this just requires political will, the technology is there siting on the shelf it just has to be employed,” says Connor. ”Pressure must be placed on political and business leaders to act now.” Assuming those leaders can take time out from arguing over tax cuts, laptops, communism, union thugs, budget surpluses, nuclear reactors, when to retire, who’s the bigger economic conservative and ear wax, that is. |
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no shit sherlock!! the wrinting has been on the wall for 20 years
How many reruns of the same stories concluding the same result
Governments fool us with rhetoric whilst the corporations raid our resources
our standard of living = climate change, duh
So, obviously 24th Nov is our last chance as individuals to influence the politicians. We all need to be thinking seriously about climate change when we hit the polls on the 24th. In the Senate, please vote for the Climate Change Coalition.
Cameron, re-runs are the necessity of propaganda. Without real science to prove the green/socialist tale, agenda pushers & vested interests profiteering from it rely on propaganda re-runs on basis of telling a lie often enough …
Crikey as usual pushing hthe Global Warming Bandwagon - what about the fact that Antarctic sea ice area reached 16.2 million squared kilometers in 2007 - a new absolute record !
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.area.south.jpg
Cameron, did Tony tell you he was one of Richard Court’s BootBoys?
That’s right, he’s a Liberal from W.A.
A failed Liberal at that.
He will spew the Right Wing bile until the cows come home. That’s his job.
From a CC committed: Q for Dr Graeme Pearman: Please help us all understand the relationship between a 40% increase below Aver. Arctic Ann. Sea-Ice Min. and an observed linear trend in sea-level rise (1993-2006 of 3.3 +/- 0.4 mm/year. Thanks.
Keep putting out the bile, Andrew, to remind me of the nasty nature of socialists, including Hitler. No enlightenment or pursuit of truth for you, dogma will suffice. You do know that another ice age will come, or do you? Do you know why we have seasons?
Re: The record Antarctic sea ice cover. Did this include West Antarctica? Has the Larsen B Iceshelf reformed? Temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula have risen 3 degrees in 50 years. For more detail see http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
Greg, NASA & others have predicted thickening ice in Antarctica as a result of global warming - http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/sea_ice.html. Stick to the point Tony, you’re wasting your breath, no-ones wants to hear it.
Yes, Cameron. You Sociulist. Those commie scientes are screwing us and jus want to take our muney. Jus like when they pretend a man went on the moon. Now they pretend global warming going to kill us. They jus want buy scientes stuff and chasen chiks.
Yes, Cameron. You Sociulist. Those commie scientes are screwing us and jus want to take our muney. Jus like when they pretend a man went on the moon. Now they pretend global warming going to kill us. They jus want buy scientes stuff and chasen chiks.
Surely the best way to clarify what the science is truly trying to tell us is to get a panel of experts in the climate sciences to argue out the evidence and reach a consensus on what it all means - that would be the IPCC, wouldn’t it?
Tony, I’d be embarrassed to admit any link to Richard Court and the filth of the Liberal Right.
So I understand your position.
Temps rise - global warming; temps fall - global warming; sea levels rise - global warming; sea levels fall - global warming; ice thins - global warming; ice thickens - global warming. This is not science, it’s a cult, where G-O-D is replaced with A-G-W
I am proud to have worked for the Court Liberal government, arguably the second best government in history of WA, or at worst the 3rd best after Sir Charles Court’s & Sir David Brand’s Liberal governments. Now, back to that man made climate change myth.
How to spot a political lie wrapped up in scientific jargon? It’s in the political weasel words like “consensus” replacing words such as “proof” in scientific debates. In case you missed science class, science is not a democracy where we vote on truth.
I am a green from way back….cant believe I would be backing a Court Liberal. Shows that even those people sometimes see through scams…but then they should know as they created a few.
I’m amazed that so many comments on such a vitally important matter waste time on people’s personal & political bitch fights. Grow up, open your eyes, and VOTE for climate change action on Saturday. And to climate change deniers … you pack of morons.
I’m amazed that so many comments on such a vitally important matter waste time on people’s personal & political bitch fights. Grow up, open your eyes, and VOTE for climate change action on Saturday. And to climate change deniers … you pack of morons.