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Post by ignorantianescia on Jan 14, 2013 7:42:12 GMT
Climate change denial is almost a national pastime in Australia. Monbiot seems to overestimate climate scepticism and climate denial in Australia. This article states to the contrary that an overwhelming number (two-thirds) of Australians consider climate change a serious problem, based on a national survey conducted in 2011. Denialists are a teeny minority (4.2%), while "strong skeptics" are a somewhat larger, yet still small, minority (8.5%). 45% of Australians report having personally experienced direct effects of climate change. Read more: www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climatechange-denial-feels-the-heat-20130112-2cmhu.html#ixzz2HvxeuIr5
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Post by ignorantianescia on Jan 16, 2013 8:05:57 GMT
2012 is already stacking up to be one of the coldest in a long time. Well, a "long time" can't mean a period longer than nine years, it seems: www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/
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Post by unkleE on Jan 19, 2013 5:50:27 GMT
45% of Australians report having personally experienced direct effects of climate change. I wonder what the stats would be after the last 2 weeks. - Just over a week ago was reportedly the hottest day Australia-wide ever recorded. In Sydney we had 43oC.
- Then yesterday, we were on holidays on the NSW south coast, where temperatures reached 48oC in some locations (I think the highest officially recorded was 46). In Sydney the official temperature at Observatory Hill was 45.8, half a degree higher than the previous record.
- There are scores, perhaps hundreds of bushfires still burning, dozens of homes have been lost, and some fire crews have been fighting fires for almost 3 weeks straight. Bushfire authorities say that weather projections indicate that weather predictions indicate that present firefighting resources will be insufficient for the future.
None of this proves climate change is happening, but it is consistent with it.
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Post by sandwiches on Feb 6, 2013 22:49:59 GMT
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Post by sandwiches on Feb 9, 2013 17:43:44 GMT
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/nemo-climate-change-storm_n_2646720.html'Nemo' And Climate Change Connection: Scientists Weigh-InThe Union of Concerned Scientists has posted an informative breakdown on the connections between the winter storm bearing down on the Northeast and the planet's changing climate."It’s Cold and My Car is Buried in Snow. Is Global Warming Really Happening?," notes that storms like this one -- a classic Nor'easter -- are well-known to residents along the nation's North Atlantic coast. But shifts in the climate due in large part, most scientists say, to burning fossil fuels, are likely to make such storms even more fierce and frequent.
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Post by labarum on Feb 14, 2013 21:58:33 GMT
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Post by ignorantianescia on Feb 17, 2013 8:32:27 GMT
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Post by ignorantianescia on Mar 18, 2013 18:54:00 GMT
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Post by ignorantianescia on Mar 20, 2013 11:55:55 GMT
The PRC has plans for its own ETS: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/china-focuses-on-emissions-plan-20130318-2gb3g.htmlThe Chinese government has unveiled a detailed roadmap for a national emissions trading scheme in a significant sign the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter will introduce a country-wide carbon price.
Speaking in Washington, the deputy director of China's powerful National Development and Reform Commission, Wang Shu, backed a national scheme, saying it could provide ''an efficient and lower-cost approach for addressing climate change and realising low carbon development''.
The speech to an arm of the World Bank last week preceded the political debate around carbon pricing in Australia flaring again on Monday, with the Coalition renewing its vow to scrap Australia's carbon price and replace it with a ''direct action'' policy.
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Post by sandwiches on Apr 2, 2013 18:54:19 GMT
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/climate-change-carbon-emissions-australia Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia – report
Country faces more frequent and more severe weather events if it fails to make deep and swift cuts to carbon emissions The extreme heatwaves, flooding and bush fires striking Australia have already been intensified by climate change and are set to get even worse in future, according to a new report. Only fast and deep cuts to carbon emissions can start to reverse the trend, say scientists from the Climate Commission, an independent advisory group set up by the Australian government. The report states that the number of record hot days in Australia has doubled since the 1960s, with the summer of 2012/2013 including the hottest summer, hottest month and hottest day on record. In a previous heatwave in southeastern Australia in 2009, Melbourne experienced three consecutive days at or above 43°C in late January, the report notes, leading to 980 heat-related deaths, three times the average mortality. Hot records are now being broken three times more often than cold records, the report found.
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Post by unkleE on Apr 2, 2013 20:38:28 GMT
Living in Sydney, I find it is now more common to find oneself concluding that a certain weather event is a sign of climate change, or hear other people saying the same. Subjective experience is a poor measure of such a long term trend (which is why scoffers like the Murdoch press can always find something they can point to in their denial), but the signs are becoming unfortunately more obvious, as the Guardian report notes.
I will be interested to see how the Sydney Telegraph (a real rag that reports views more than news these days, in my opinion) runs with climate change over the next few years, if these trends remain as obvious as they have been this summer. But I won't be holding my breath for a humble apology for all the obscurantist comment they've printed!
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Post by sankari on Apr 3, 2013 7:47:11 GMT
Also reported by the ABC: ( Source). The graphic is pretty compelling:
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Post by sandwiches on Apr 3, 2013 18:33:44 GMT
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Post by ignorantianescia on May 16, 2013 16:48:00 GMT
This is hardly "stop the presses" material, but nevertheless: A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1% agreed that climate change is caused by human activity.
Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, said the finding of near unanimity provided a powerful rebuttal to climate contrarians who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled.
The survey considered the work of some 29,000 scientists published in 11,994 academic papers. Of the 4,000-plus papers that took a position on the causes of climate change only 0.7% or 83 of those thousands of academic articles, disputed the scientific consensus that climate change is the result of human activity, with the view of the remaining 2.2% unclear.
The study described the dissent as a "vanishingly small proportion" of published research.www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/climate-research-nearly-unanimous-humans-causes
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Post by timoneill on May 16, 2013 20:37:42 GMT
This is hardly "stop the presses" material, but nevertheless: A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1% agreed that climate change is caused by human activity.
Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, said the finding of near unanimity provided a powerful rebuttal to climate contrarians who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled.
The survey considered the work of some 29,000 scientists published in 11,994 academic papers. Of the 4,000-plus papers that took a position on the causes of climate change only 0.7% or 83 of those thousands of academic articles, disputed the scientific consensus that climate change is the result of human activity, with the view of the remaining 2.2% unclear.
The study described the dissent as a "vanishingly small proportion" of published research.www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/climate-research-nearly-unanimous-humans-causesYes, but that overwhelming consensus of scientific research can be ignored by head-in-the-sand conservatives because, as Stephen Colbert so sagely observed, "reality has a well-known liberal bias".
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