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US ‘Cap n Trade’ Carbon Act Passes First Major Hurdle

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YESTERDAY President Barrack Obama praised the House of Representatives for its “Historic action with the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act …  It’s a bold and necessary step that holds the promise of creating new industries and millions of new jobs, decreasing our dangerous dependence on foreign oil… Now it’s up to the Senate to take the next step.”  [Read more…] about US ‘Cap n Trade’ Carbon Act Passes First Major Hurdle

James Hansen Arrested

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Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested this afternoon in West Virginia along with NASA climatologist James Hansen, local activist Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network, Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds, 94-year-old former U.S. Representative Ken Hechler and more than a dozen others.  Read more here.

Legislating on the Basis of a Scientific Theory

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IS it ever a good idea to base legislation on a scientific theory? 

The Australian Parliament’s upper-house Senate has begun debating the Rudd Labor government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009, also known as the emissions trading scheme.  The legislation is based on the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

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Measuring Changes in Attitude

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WE live in a world in which we are constantly bombarded with the results of surveys about attitudes to political, social and economic issues of the day. Even the Australian Statistician undertakes surveys that produce subjective data that has potential implications for government policies.  Read more here.

Local Level Climate Projections

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Up until now, most projections have been at a sub-continental level – giving information at a regional level in squares of 300km on a side.  Defra’s projections are among the first in the world to give information at a local level – to the scale of large cities of 25km square and, in some cases, projecting weather patterns to a village scale of 5km square.  Read more here.