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Archives for August 2009

Climate Alarmists Morphing into War Mongering Neo-conservatives?

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“THE Pentagon and the [US] State Department have studied issues arising from dependence on foreign sources of energy for years but are only now considering the effects of global warming in their long-term planning documents…” according to John Broder writing in yesterday’s New York Times.

“Although military and intelligence planners have been aware of the challenge posed by climate changes for some years, the Obama administration has made it a central policy focus.” [Read more…] about Climate Alarmists Morphing into War Mongering Neo-conservatives?

Famous Koala Dies

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SAM the Koala was euthanized last Thursday. 

When bushfires were raging the state of Victoria earlier this year, the koala became famous after video footage was released showing her drinking water from a fire fighter’s bottle.

But the four-year-old never recovered from surgery last Thursday to remove cysts associated with Urogenital chlamydiosis, a disease which affects about 50 percent of Australia’s koala population.

The Most Important Vote Since Federation?

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“The vote that Senators deliver on August 13, and again later should the bill be defeated and resubmitted, is the biggest decision that they will make in their political careers. For the passage or not of this bill will determine the fate of the Australian economy, and the standard of living of average Australians, for decades to come.”  Bob Carter

Quadrant Online ETS Forum, edited by Professor Bob Carter, is now online.

Forum participants: James Allan, David Archibald, Bob Carter, Ian Castles, Sinclair Davidson, Terry Dwyer, David Evans, Ray Evans, Viv Forbes, John Izzard, William Kininmonth, Jennifer Marohasy, Des Moore, Alan Moran, Joanne Nova, Ian Plimer, Alex Robson (some essays will be posted over the coming days).

www.quadrant.org.au

Michael Connor, Quadrant, Sydney

Red Gum Forests Need Water and Thinning: Not Bob Carr

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Nick Ashwin 001 copyFORMER New South Wales Premier, Bob Carr, obviously has no idea when it comes to the history and ecology of river red gum forests in south western NSW. His misguided comments in The Land one week ago (“Forests or fenceposts”, July 30, pg 19) reflect the prejudices of someone born and breed in Sydney and trained as a journalist before becoming a career Labor politician, and more recently a handsomely paid roving representative for Macquarie Bank.

Mr Carr may have a deep knowledge of US political history, but he clearly doesn’t understand the history of the forests in his own land – Australia. [Read more…] about Red Gum Forests Need Water and Thinning: Not Bob Carr

Dawn, North Keppel Island, Central Queensland

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Yeppoon Aug09 021 cut 2APOLOGIES for not posting so much over the last week:   I have been driving north along the east coast of Australia and this morning I woke up to this magnificent view across to North Keppel Island.  It’s a National Park Island within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

Dissent from German Scientists

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More than 60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared their dissent from man-made global warming fears in an Open Letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel… The scientists declared that global warming has become a “pseudo religion” and they noted that rising CO2 has “had no measurable effect” on temperatures. The German scientists, also wrote that the “UN IPCC has lost its scientific credibility.” Read more here and in German here.