Rain may have fallen over parts of south-eastern Australia over the weekend – in some places to the point of flooding – but the confidence of farmers in the future of their businesses has fallen to its lowest level this year, results from Westpac and Charles Sturt University reveals.
ABC News: ‘Farmer confidence hits yearly low as dry drags on’
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The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has been rating the policy announcements of all federal political parties on the issues of water and climate change.
ABC News: Govt told to ‘pull up socks’ on environment
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The Greens have launched their Sun Fund policy in Cairns, which seeks to use the Federal Government’s claimed $300 million annual fossil fuels subsidy for renewable energy instead.
The Greens believe that this will reduce greenhouse gas emissions thus protecting the likes of the Barrier Reef and wet tropics.
ABC News: ‘Greens pledge to push renewable energy’
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Summers in Cloncurry seem to last forever and there is always a sunny side to the street, making it an ideal place to become the first town to run entirely on solar power.
ABC News: ‘Cloncurry set for solar revolution’
In 1889, the Queensland town of Cloncurry recorded Australia’s hottest day – 53 degrees Celsius in the shade. It’s a record of which the town is very proud.
According to State record temperatures “There are also numerous extreme high temperatures which have been recorded prior to about 1910 using non-standard instrumentation, most notably a reading of 53.1 at Cloncurry in January 1889. It is likely that this will be struck from the official record in the near future.”
Thanks to Luke Walker for this one.
The rush for biofuels could harm the world’s poorest people, Oxfam has said.
In a new report, the UK aid charity appears to be joining a growing chorus of concern about the side-effects of Europe’s drive to get fuel from plants.
BBC News website: ‘Biofuel rush harmful, Oxfam warns’
Perhaps Oxfam should stop pushing climate change propaganda via ‘film parties’ etc.
Yes, it’s that science fiction film ‘AIT’ again.
“A recent study, Richey et al 2007, showed a warm MWP in the Pigmy Basin, Gulf of Mexico. Julie Richey made an effective presentation at the AGU Session showing an elevated MWP from her foram studies and, together with Alicia Newton who made a similar presentation. Richey said that they had faced unusual opposition from one reviewer who threw many roadblocks towards publishing their results – something that was unprecedented in their experience in presenting empirical results from a qualified laboratory.”
From Climate Audit: Richey et al 2007 and Cariaco
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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