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Climate and uranium news this week

Bushfires tear across South Eastern Australia.  Is this a taste of what is coming for this summer and beyond?

It follows Australia’s warmest 12 months on record. Our last summer broke 123 extreme weather records in 90 days. Last month was Australia’s hottest ever September on record.

The IPCC has released its Fifth Assessment Report. There’s a 95-100% probability that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 is human induced.

And what is the Abbott government doing about climate change?   The Climate Commission has been abolished. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation will be abolished. We no longer have a Department of Climate Change. On October 14, the draft legislation to repeal the carbon price mechanism, to be the first item of business for the 44th Parliament, was revealed.

The planetary crisis of climate change surely shows us that it requires planetary, internationally co-operative solutions. Australia was a leader in climate action – but look at us now – an international disgrace?

Uranium. Toro Energy holds it AGM today, amid accusations that it has misled shareholders by pretending that  a new uranium deposit in Western Australia has gained regulatory approval, when it in fact, has not.

October 18, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews