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  • Review: Peter Seligman’s “Australian Sustainable Energy - by the numbers”. Climate catastrophe avoidable
    9 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The important study “Australian Sustainable Energy - by the numbers” by Professor Peter Seligman (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2010) must be emulated by scientists and engineers for every country in the World. The looming climate catastrophe and climate genocide do not have to happen.
    “Australian Sustainable Energy - by the numbers” by Peter Seligman is a very important book for Australia and indeed the whole World. As an expertly compiled, case study assessment of (…)

  • Gulf oil & gas disaster, lobbyists, Obama & huge threat of natural gas (methane) to Humanity & Biosphere
    19 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Methane is 72 times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas (GHG) on a 20 year time scale and industrial leakage of methane (1.5% to 2.2%) has led Professor Robert Howarth, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to conclude that "A complete consideration of all emissions from using natural gas seems likely to make natural gas far less attractive than oil and not significantly better than coal in terms of the consequences for global warming."
    Yet President Barack Obama has (…)

  • World Environment Day Message: "Effective actions are possible. But delay must not be an option"
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    World Environment Day (5 June 2010) has just passed but the worsening Climate Emergency remains.
    Members of the prestigious US Academy of Sciences (255 members, including 11 Nobel laureates) have recently signed a statement about climate change in which they conclude : “Society has two choices: we can ignore the science and hide our heads in the sand and hope we are lucky, or we can act in the public interest to reduce the threat of global climate change quickly and substantively. The (…)

  • Video: Protesting BP at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
    5 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Activists, on Sat., June 5, 2010, staged a demonstration at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. They are protesting BP’s supposed “criminal corporate negligence” with respect to the recent massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to their press release. Their campaign, which is national in scope, is entitled: “Seize BP!”
    To learn more about the “Seize BP” campaign, go to: https://secure2.convio.net/pep/site/SPageServer?pagename=SeizeBP Andrew Castro is the local organizer. ANSWER Baltimore also (…)

  • Questions Q&A won’t ask re Australian climate racism, climate terrorism & climate genocide
    3 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Thus the annual per capita Domestic and Exported GHG pollution of Australia is 54 tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) per person per year as compared to 60 times less (0.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year) for Bangladesh, a densely populated mega-delta country acutely threatened by man-made global warming.
    Top climate scientists say that the World must urgently reduce the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) (…)

  • Another Bengali Island Drowns due to AGW; Mega-delta & Island Nations must take high GHG Australia to ICC
    1 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    After Copenhagen, decent folk around the World are acutely aware of the plight of the Tuvaluans as remorselessly rising sea levels due to man-made global warming threaten the very existence of their nation. However this problem exists for other Island Nations and low lying, mega-delta, continental nations (most notably Egypt, Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands, the UK, Romania, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, the US and China.
    Now it has been recently (…)

  • "LNG = clean energy" Greenhouse Gas Untruth makes the Australian Apartheid Labor Party Unfit to Govern
    7 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The extreme right wing, pro-war, pro-coal, human rights-abusing, spin-driven Australian Labor Government has repeatedly declared that it is instituting an “education revolution”.
    However a key element of the teaching and learning process called “education” is correct information (I must note here that this is my 5th decade of teaching science students at a leading Australian university and that, unlike most of my colleagues, I have a postgraduate qualification in teaching in Higher (…)

  • Letter to Australia re ABC, climate change denialist Monckton, Biofuel Genocide & Climate Genocide
    3 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The World is facing what an overwhelming international scientific consensus says is a worsening Climate Crisis, Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency from man-made global warming (anthropogenic global warming, AGW). However the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has given extraordinary coverage to the views of a visiting UK climate change denialist Mr Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. The following letter about politician and (…)

  • Proposed draconian punishment for Australian anti-coal demonstrators invading power plants
    28 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The State of Victoria, Australia, is the worst carbon polluting state in the worst carbon polluting country in the World. Most of Victoria’s electricity comes from the burning of brown coal at huge power stations like Loy Yang and Hazelwood in the eastern Victorian region called Gippsland.
    Unfortunately Victoria is ruled by a right wing, pro-coal Labor Government that is busy building superhighways, fossil fuel-burning power stations and a huge desalination plant. The extreme right wing, (…)

  • World conference of the Peoples on the Climate change and the rights of the Earth-mother
    11 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Considering that climate change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother Earth as we know it today;Noting the serious danger that exists to islands, coastal areas, glaciers in the Himalayas, the Andes and mountains of the world, poles of the Earth, warm regions like Africa, water sources, populations affected by increasing natural disasters, plants and animals, and ecosystems in general;
    Making clear that those most affected by climate change (…)