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Gideon Polya

  • 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. (…)

  • Resource to stop gas-fired power plants, fossil fuel burning, GHG pollution & man-made climate change
    27 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The World is facing a Climate Emergency and a worsening Climate Genocide due to Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) from man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) and from GHG-producing agriculture and forestry practices.
    The World must cease fossil fuel burning and that means that it should stop building new fossil fuel-burning power plants.
    However there is a big push around the World for a shift to gas burning from coal burning based (…)

  • Zionist West reports Tunisian, Libyan, Egyptian & Bahraini Arab Revolutions but ignores Iraqi protests
    24 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Western media have been reporting the Arab Revolution underway in countries including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Bahrain. However while pro-Zionist, Western media and politicians laudably support the courageous protests for democracy in these countries, there is extraordinary silence in relation to the demands for democracy in Occupied Palestine and Occupied Iraq in which the indigenous inhabitants live under the tyrannical rule of genocidal European invaders (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • US, Apartheid Israel, torturer Suleiman et al. pervert Egyptian Revolution, continue Egyptian Holocaust
    14 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US, Apartheid Israel, torturer Omar Suleiman and traitorous Egyptian Establishment are perverting the Egyptian Revolution and continuing the Egyptian Holocaust and Egyptian Genocide in which 22 million Egyptians have died avoidably from greed-imposed deprivation since 1950.
    The Egyptian Revolution has seen off US-backed, pro-Israel dictator Hosni Mubarak but time will tell whether the US, Apartheid Israel, the Egyptian military and the corrupt Egyptian Establishment will be (…)

  • Egyptian Revolution, US-backed Mubarak, Apartheid Israel & censorship by pro-Zionist Mainstream media
    31 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Egyptian writer and lecturer Mona Eltahawy published an article on the current Egyptian revolution entitled “All Egyptians are being liberated from the burden of history”” (The Age, Melbourne, On-line National Times section, 31 January 2011: ), her key passage being: “But here now finally are our children - Generation Facebook - kicking aside the burden of history, determined to show us just how easy it is to tell the dictator it’s time to go. To understand the importance of what’s going in (…)