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
Thanks to Luke Walker for the link.
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’
Thanks to Luke Walker for the link.
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
“But we know that Linah Ababneh updated the Sheep Mountain data in 2002. We also know that Linah Ababneh’s update, aside from finding a difference between strip bark and whole bark chronologies, did not replicate Graybill’s results and had no HS shape whatever. (Figures for Sheep Mountain for strip bark and whole bark from 1600 on are shown separately in the thesis.) So the Sheep Mountain chronology had been updated – why wouldn’t this update have been used, aside from it not having a HS shape?”
Ababneh Fig. 5. Cold and warm periods as inferred from tree ring widths chronology (Ababneh, 2006, This study) fluctuations above and below the mean after normalizing, whole-bark and strip-bark chronologies are grouped together from two sites Patriarch Grove and Sheep Mountain.
From Climate Audit: ‘Hughes and the Ababneh Thesis’
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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