Jennifer Marohasy

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Archives for September 27, 2005

The Weather Makers

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What is it about ‘global warming’ that brings out the worst in people like Tim Flannery?

Prof Flannery was on ABC Television’s The 7.30 Report last night promoting his new book. I have not read The Weather Makers but I understand from the interview last night that he proposes temperatures are going to rise by 3C and the really bad thing is that our addiction to coal is now driving weather patterns.

Prof Bob Carter, also interviewed, responded: “The idea that we can manage the climate is frankly hubris.”

Flannery also proposed a carbon tax and that this be levied immediately to move power generation away from coal to solar, wind and possibly even nuclear power.

I gather The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, yesterday and on the weekend, gave the book and the dire predictions loads of coverage.

In comment at another post Rog provided these links:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/editorial/storm-warning-on-impact-of-climate-change/2005/09/25/1127586743182.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/nuclear-future/2005/09/25/1127586747151.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/flannery/biog.htm

Bob Hawke On Uranium

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Once upon a time I often repeated the slogan ‘think globally, act locally’. It is perhaps this concept that Bob Hawke was promoting when he suggested last night that Australia become a dumping ground for the world’s nuclear waste.

According to ABC Online he said,

“Australia has the geologically safest places in the world for the storage of waste.”

“What Australia should do, in my judgement, as an act of economic sanity and environmental responsibility, say we will take the world’s nuclear waste.”

I reckon it is a good idea – but would like to see a feasibility study. Now which environment group will be the first to condemn it?