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Climate Rationalist in Council Election

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Hi Jennifer,

I am a candidate for council election in the Sandridge (Port Melbourne) ward of Port Phillip, which is inner bayside Melbourne.Please view my campaign website www.scrinis.info for a comprehensive description of my beliefs and platform.I want this to be an electoral test of public opinion on climate policies and their implications locally and federally.At the moment, I am conducting this campaign completely independently, with my own limited resources.I am seeking the support of local and international scientists for this campaign.Election day is November 29.

Anthony Scrinis

Good Book: The Deniers by Lawrence Solomon

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Hi Jennifer,

 

You may be interested in a book I found titled “The Deniers” by Lawrence Solomon.

Theme is “The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud.  And those who are too fearful to do so.

 

I have found this book to be extremely informative with regarding the real story behind climate change and the agenda of the IPCC.

 

Kind Regards,

Frank

Australian Water Market Report

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Dear Waterfind subscriber,

Waterfind has today publically released our 2007-08 Annual Water Market Report. As a part of Waterfind’s dedication to providing an integrated water brokerage service, we strive to provide our clients with the most up to date and comprehensive information about the Australian water market. 

The report provides information on the state of our National water resources, major policy announcements and trading activity for the 2007-08 irrigation season, and provides some analysis on how these factors impacted the water market throughout the season. 

 Key findings of the report include: 

1.  Major northern water storages above the NSW–QLD border line were not adversely affected by the current drought conditions being experienced in Australia, holding on average 90% of their capacity compared to 20% on average for major southern storages. 

 

2.  The largest volume of water stored in Australia was in Lake Argyle in Western Australia, with over 10 million ML of actual water storage, more than the other 9 largest water storages in Australia combined. 

 

3.  The price of water in Australia’s largest water markets in the Southern Murray Darling regions experienced extreme volatility during the 07-08 season, peaking at $1200 per ML in November 2007 only to drop to below $300 per ML in February 2008.  This was influenced by water resource availability and major policy/allocation announcements during the season.

 

4.  Early observations indicate that water market activity in the 2008-09 season has been lower than in 2007-08, with prices being recorded at up to 50% less than the same period last year.  This has been attributed to grower concerns about last season’s record high prices and current uncertainty of water resource availability. 

 

To view the full 2007-08 Annual Water Market Report, visit www.waterfind.com.au/water-report-signup.html.

 

 

Regards, 

Waterfind Pty Ltd
NATIONAL WATER BROKERS

Climate Conference in Amsterdam

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The Royal Geological and Mining Society of The Netherlands, together with the Royal Institute of Engineers and the Royal Geographical Society organise a national conference with the title:

 

CLIMATE CHANGE: Facts, Uncertainties and Myths

 

Thursday November 20th 2008 at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam

 

The title already suggests that everybody talks about climate change, but what are the facts? What are the scientific uncertainties and what is nonsense? Should we be concerned like the “climate alarmists”, or can we ignore the problems like many “climate sceptics” seem to be doing? The conference organisers believe that we should do none of that, but we ought to think about it. At this conference, the question of climate change will be tackled from various scientific disciplines. The issues will be considered climatologically, geologically, biologically astronomically and even philosophically. New facts, new interpretations and new insight will be presented.

 

The subject is hot. The speakers are top-class in their discipline and will present their own research results. The location is first-class and the admission fee is low. The discussions will be lively and enlightening. With great confidence in the success, I invite you to be present at this conference. All information can be found at http://www.kngmg.nl., where you can also register. The flyer can be downloaded at: flyer

 

See you on November 20th,

 

Peter de Ruiter, KNGMG President

Call for Papers on Climate Impacts

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Dear Friends,

 

We are planning to publish a series of papers looking at the economics, politics and impacts of climate change. The CSCCC will release these papers individually throughout 2009, and also use them as basis to write a second Civil Society Report in the lead up to the important United Nations COP-15 (taking place in Copenhagen in December 2009). The call for papers is open to everyone (of course, not all papers will be accepted) so please send the call for papers below to anybody you think might be interested.

 

The more people receive this call for papers, the more material the CSCCC will be able to publish in 2009.

 

Best, Caroline

CALL FOR PAPERS ON CLIMATE IMPACTS

The Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change (A coalition of 49 civil society organisations from 37 countries – www.csccc.info) is planning to produce a series of papers on the economics, politics and impacts of climate change during 2009. If you are interested in submitting a paper on any of the subject areas outlined below – or indeed other areas – please contact us on admin/a\csccc.info (replace /a\ with @)

The issues:

Disease

Water availability

Sea level rise

Extreme weather events (i.e. storms, hurricanes, floods, and droughts)

Agriculture

Forestry

Ecosystems and Species