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  • June 5 World Environment Day: climate criminal Australia & US have 2 to 5 years to cease GHG pollution
    5 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    June 5 is World Environment Day and around the World millions of decent folk have been participating in events demanding action on the worsening climate emergency. Put bluntly, unaddressed, man-made climate change is predicted to kill about 10 billion mostly non-European people or about 100 million people per year this century in what is described as a Climate Genocide. Already about 18 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation in the Developing World (minus China) and this is (…)

  • Dire Message for Earth Day, 22 April: stop deforestation, fossil fuels, livestock & population increase
    22 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 22 is Earth Day but the news is bad and getting worse.
    1. The World’s population is currently 6.9 billion and is estimated to reach 9.1 billion by 2050 (UN Population Division: ).
    2. In 2010/11 food utilization exceeded food production and in the last year the prices of sugar, cereals and oils and fats have increased about 1.4-fold (see (see FAO, “World Food Situation”: ).
    3. Water-borne diseases kill about 1.8 million people each year, 1.1 billion people lack proper drinking (…)

  • Gulf Coast Officials Enjoy Spending Spree at BP’s Expense
    17 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear — much of which had little to do with the cleanup, an Associated Press investigation shows.
    The oil giant opened its checkbook while the crisis was still unfolding last spring and poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Gulf Coast communities with few strings attached.
    By Michael Kunzelman, Mike Schneider, (…)

  • Pro-gas Australian Labor Govt wants Coal to Gas transition by Carbon Tax - but Gas burning worse GHG-wise
    16 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australia has a shocking record of climate change inaction coupled with an unenviable position as a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However the anti-science, pro-fossil fuel Australian Labor Government headed by pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-neocon America, pro-coal, pro-gas PM Julia Gillard survives as a Minority Government due to alliance with 1 Green MP and 2 rural independent MPs.
    After much prevarication the neocon Australian Labor Government has (…)

  • 3.3% Methane (CH4) leakage & CH4 105 times worse than CO2 as a GHG => gas dirtier than coal GHG-wise
    20 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Methane (CH4) is a major greenhouse gas (GHG) that on a 100 year time scale has a relative global warming potential (GWP) that is 25 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2).
    However a re-assessment by US scientists that takes atmospheric aerosol responses to CH4 into account has found that on a 20 year time scale CH4 is 105 times worse than CO2 as a GHG (as compared to 79 without considering aerosol effects).
    Recent data from the US EPA indicates that the industrial leakage of CH4 in the US (…)

  • Carbon Price & Climate Change Action Fact Sheet for leading per capita greenhouse gas polluter Australia
    14 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution but is also a world leader in climate change inaction. The Australian Labor Government has set up an advisory Climate Commission that is funded with $5.6 million over 4 years. I am a 5 -decade career scientist (biological chemistry) with a big teaching role at a very good Australian university. I have carefully researched and documented the following Fact Sheet pro bono publico to assist public education in the (…)

  • Activists & pro-gas Oz Government’s Carbon Tax-ETS-Ignore Agriculture (CTETSIA) climate inaction plan
    4 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-human rights Australians are appalled by the betrayal of pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-human rights Australians and Labor voters by the successive pro-war, pro-coal, pro-gas, human rights-abusing Rudd and Gillard Labor Governments.
    Now pro-environment Australians are witnessing Australian climate activism organizations going "soft" by lending support to the pro-gas Gillard Labor Australian Government’s Carbon Tax-ETS-Ignore Agriculture (CTETSIA) Plan that (…)

  • Labor Government of world-leading per capita GHG polluter Australia commits to climate change inaction
    27 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Notwithstanding the political rhetoric and spin that they are “tackling climate change”, the pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-oil, anti-science, Australian Gillard Labor Government is overwhelmingly committed to climate change inaction as revealed by the latest Gillard Labor spin on a Carbon Tax and an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
    Labor policy is for a 5% reduction on 2000 greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by 2020. (…)

  • Capitalism kills => Science-based eco-socialism, green socialism & climate socialism for India & World
    17 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Science-based eco-socialism, green socialism and climate socialism are urgently needed for India and the World. Capitalism kills over 5 million annually from imposed deprivation in India and 18 million annually from deprivation in the Developing World (excluding China).
    India is an egregiously corrupt, Western-style, capitalist democracy which means that the Indian Government (for the rich by the rich) ignores the horrible reality that most Indians live and die in extreme poverty. Like (…)

  • Climate Energency: Science and Equality demand Eco-socialism, Green Socialism and Climate Socialism
    17 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The climate emergency means that science is now demanding Eco-socialism, Green Socialism, and Climate Socialism - morally informed by the equality of man, science is supplanting the arguments about Capitalism versus Socialism previously dominated by economic and politics theorists.
    The purpose of a "society" is surely the common good, but capitalists justify the increasing proportion of the cake taken by the wealthy since the 1960s by the claim that capitalism is superior to socialism in (…)