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  • Gulf oil & gas disaster, fracking, media censorship & dirty gas threat to World
    16 August 2011 par Dr Gideon Polya (Open-Publishing)
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    The 2010 Gulf oil and gas disaster made people pause to consider the safety of deep-water drilling. However a major pollutant from the disaster was natural gas (mostly methane) but this did not give rise to public concern about natural gas as a major threat to Humanity and the Planet. Indeed the World is now undergoing a gas rush and a gas boom, with gas derived from conventional on-shore and off-shore sources and also from shale deposits that are being subject to hydraulic fracturing or (…)

  • Australian Labor Government Carbon Price Plan fails to tackle climate change
    12 August 2011 par Dr Gideon Polya (Open-Publishing)

    One must measure success in “tackling climate change” in terms of reduction of GHG pollution rate (Mt CO2-e per year) and reduction in atmospheric CO2-e concentration (currently about 394 ppm CO2, but top scientists and biologists say it must be reduced to about 300 ppm; see “300.org”: ).
    Below are some carefully documented calculations based on authoritative Treasury, ABARE and US EIA data that demonstrate that the Australian Labor Government’s proposed Carbon Price Plan will not meet (…)

  • Pro-oil, pro-gas, pro-coal Australian Labor Government’s Carbon Price deception
    9 August 2011 par Dr Gideon Polya (Open-Publishing)

    At huge expense to Australian taxpayers the pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-oil, pro-war, anti-environment Australian Labor Government is posting out to all Australian householders a 20 page booklet called “What a carbon price means for you. The pathway to a clean energy future” (for free download see: ) and which dishonestly claims that the Gillard Labor Government is “tackling climate change”. Australian taxpayers should be enraged that they are having to pay for being lied to by omission and (…)

  • World has 600 Gt CO2 left to pollute before 2050: Australia & Belize have ALREADY used their "fair share"
    24 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 2009 the German Advisory Council on Climate Change (WBGU) determined that for a 75% chance of avoiding a 2 degree C temperature rise, the World must pollute less than 600 Gt CO2 between 2010 and essentially zero emissions in 2050. Unfortunately Australia (through disproportionately huge annual fossil fuel burning and exports) and Belize (through disproportionately huge annual deforestation) have already used up their “share” of this terminal greenhouse gas (GHG) budget. The analysis below (…)

  • Boycott Murdoch Media and other MSM over Egregious Censorship, Warmongering and Climate Change Denial
    21 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Australian Mainstream media, and especially the warmongering, genocide-complicit , genocide-ignoring and climate denialist Murdoch media, deserve critical exposure over outrageous, genocide-ignoring non-reportage and mis-reportage on matters linked to mass human mortality notably war, war deaths (12 million US war-related deaths so far in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan alone) and climate change (10 billion predicted to die this century due top unaddressed, man-made climate change; (…)

  • Rational risk management over genocidal US wars & Climate Emergency means Boycott Murdoch Media
    17 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rational risk management vital for the safety of society successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis (this involving the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. However this is typically perverted by (a) lies, non-reportage and censorship, (b) anti-science spin involving the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position and (c) blame and shame, with the ultimate obscenity being (…)

  • Analysis: Australian Labor Goverment Carbon Price-ETS scheme fails & entrenches climate change inaction
    16 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Australian Gillard Labor Government has proposed a Carbon Tax-Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)-Ignore Agriculture (CTETSIA) that has produced considerable public debate. Careful analysis of this Carbon Price plan reveals that, contrary to Labor Government propaganda, it will only reduce Australia’s disproportionately huge annual Domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution rate by 8.5% by 2020 and by 53.2% by 2050. Labor’s plan must be exposed as deceitfully entrenching climate change (…)

  • Look-the-other-way, climate criminal Australia ignores 25 Elephant in the Room climate change realities
    6 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia is currently having a major debate over how to “tackle climate change”, whether by a Carbon Tax and Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS ) mechanism (Labor Government) or through taxation-free Direct Action in areas of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution reduction such as cleaner energy, biochar and re-afforestation (the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Opposition). Both the Government and Opposition are agreed on “5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020” coupled with expanding coal and liquid (…)

  • Climate criminal, climate racist Australia ignores 10 major climate facts, commits to BAU GHG pollution
    2 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Climate criminal Australia leads the First World in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, is the world’s leading coal exporter and is among the world’s top liquid natural gas (LNG) exporters.
    However Australia, like its fellow major GHG polluters Canada and the US, wants business as usual (BAU) GHG pollution despite public rhetoric to the contrary that, as described below, requires extraordinary censorship of major Elephant in the Room realities by Mainstream media, lobbyists (…)

  • Country analysis: World must get zero emissions at present rates in 20 years, Australia 5, Bangladesh 139
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    An analysis of every country in the world reveals that in order to avoid a catastrophic 2 degree C temperature rise (EU policy), at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution the World must achieve zero emissions in less than 20 years, Australia must cease GHG pollution within 5 years, and Bangladesh must get to zero emissions within 139 years.
    The authoritative Australian Climate Commission, advised by an expert Scientific Advisory panel composed of 9 leading Australian climate (…)