Australia has a very clever package for climate change action
He believes Australia has come up with a “very clever” package of measures that benefits from the mistakes made in the early years of the European emissions trading scheme,… In truth there will never be a better time for the resources sector, which has many of the industries most affected.
Outsider can’t understand our climate debate, THE AUSTRALIAN, Mike Steketee , July 23, 2011 WITH the climate change debate in Australia trapped in a seemingly never-ending circle of claims and counter-claims, an outside perspective can be refreshing.
“I don’t know why people have the impression that Australia is jumping ahead of the rest of the world,” Malte Meinshausen says. With its promised 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions from 2000 levels by 2020, he adds, Australia still will have the highest per capita emissions in the developed world. Continue reading
Australian Greg Sheridan – a not so moderate pro nuclear voice
Just in case you didn’t notice, I’ll mark in red some of Mr Sheridan’s best efforts at answering the anti-nuclear case – Christina Macpherson
Paralysed by our anti-nuclear hysteria, THE AUSTRALAN, Greg Sheridan, July 23, 2011“…….On one issue, a fairly toxic interaction of anachronistic elite opinion and the popular faith in fossil fuels has led to one of the most debilitating Australian syndromes: our completely kooky phobia about anything to do with nuclear power. This is hurting us in energy planning, foreign policy and, crucially, defence……. Unless you are a Greens/Taliban fundamentalist seeking to de-industrialise the West, you are not serious about climate change if you oppose nuclear energy…..”
Malcolm Turnbull – Australian Liberal’s moderate voice on Climate Change
As Turnbull said: ”There has been a very effective campaign against the science of climate change by those opposed to taking action to cut emissions – many because it does not suit their own financial interests – and this has played into the carbon tax debate.”….
Turnbull on a crusade, The Age , Michelle Grattan, July 23, 2011 “…….In Thursday’s Virginia Chadwick Memorial Oration The Age in Sydney, Turnbull took on the climate sceptics – naming Lord Christopher Monckton who appeared at the National Press Club earlier this week – and appealed to Liberals to stand up for the science.
”Those of us who do not believe that the CSIRO is part of an international Green conspiracy to undermine Western civilisation, or that leading scientists like Will Steffen are … you know, subversives, should not be afraid to speak out and loudly on behalf of our scientists and our science….. Continue reading
North Korea’s nukes a threat to Australia
Australia may be nuclear target: Kevin Rudd, THE AUSTRALIAN, Peter Alford in Nusa Dua , July 23, 2011 FOREIGN Minister Kevin Rudd says North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs are a direct threat to Australia……He lashed out following an intervention by Foreign Minister Pak U’i-chu’un at the ASEAN Regional Forum blaming the US, South Korea and Japan for provoking the current dangerous instability on the Korean Peninsula.
Mr Rudd told Mr Pak it was “unacceptable” for North Korea to blame on others the security problems it had caused for the whole region, Continue reading
Nuclear costing is making renewable energy look better
The tragic calamity that has gripped Japan, starting from the horrendous tsunami and subsequent radiation leaks, has not just impacted the nuclear plans of Japan, but the entire nuclear energy industry of the world. ….disposal of nuclear waste has become controversial, as has the cost of commissioning and later de-commissioning nuclear power plants…..But nowhere has a full costing been done. …. Prof. Hiroshi Komiyama, Chairman of the Mitsubishi Research Institute, has strongly advocated a low-carbon future through enhanced use of renewable energy.
Cost of Nuclear Power May Enable Renewable Energy to Gain Further Ground, SUNIL CHACKO, HUFFINGTON POST, 7/22/11 In the past, renewable sources of energy, such as solar, wind, bio-fuels, and geothermal, had been relegated in comparison with the pre-Fukushima rush for nuclear energy. Indeed, Japan went so far as to plan for 50% of its power to come from nuclear by 2030, in a nation where people have grown accustomed to not having to open doors because electric motor-driven doors open automatically, and there is similar use or wastage of power, depending on the perspective of the beholder. Continue reading
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