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Australia: Climate News this week

Australians are preoccupied with weather – heavy rain and thunderstorms in the North,  extreme heat in the South. Adelaide the world’s hottest city today. Mad dogs, Englishmen, and Australian Open tennis players go out in the midday sun.

If all Australians, instead of just a few, had solar air conditioning, what a difference it would make to electricity consumption from the grid.  If King Islanders would let Pacific Hydro’s wind farm go ahead – what a difference to Victoria’s electricity supply!

Meanwhile, our revered Prime Minister Tony Abbott  is busily setting up a new inquiry into the health harm done by wind turbines. Scorning the numerous authoritative inquiries already completed, Tony might perhaps  ask Sarah Lurie of the anti wind power Waubra Foundation, to run this one?

Abbott’s other feat is to remove all nasty words such as “climate” and “clean energy” from the political discussion.  A favourite Liberal tactic – changing words, as in changing the (correct) “asylum seekers” into the (incorrect} “illegal maritime arrivals”

Now – for a bit of real news- the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the South Australian Government announced that they have committed to funding for Alinta Energy to run a feasibility study into building a  solar thermal power plant in Port Augusta.

January 16, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized