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Australia: NSW bushfires: Cooler conditions aid efforts
2013-10-24 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
7 News: Firefighters are taking advantage of cooler conditions to gain the upper hand in the battle with bushfires in the Blue Mountains amid warnings it could take weeks for them to be fully extinguished. The NSW Rural Fire Service are working to strengthen containment lines around three blazes burning uncontained in the Blue Mountains as the bushfire emergency in NSW eases. As the state's bushfire crisis enters its ninth day, there are 57 bushfires burning across the state, with 23 uncontained, the...
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AUSTRALIA: Pacific Brands issues profit warning
2013-10-24 14:41:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Australian clothing group Pacific Brands has issued a full-year profit warning, citing difficult trading conditions and a downturn in the workwear market.
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Australia: Informed discussion on climate change impacts can turn table on denialist prime minister
2013-10-24 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alex White: The Australian government is fast turning into an international embarrassment on climate change. The environment minister Greg Hunt revealed that he looked Australia's history of bushfires on Wikipedia and concluded that there was no link between the latest outbreaks and climate change. (More on Hunt's risible Wikipedia searches at The Guardian here.) Meanwhile, climate denying prime minister Tony Abbott has been criticised by Nobel laureate and former US vice president Al Gore over Mr Abbott's...
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Plane fighting Australia fires crashes as cooler weather eases threat
2013-10-24 06:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A plane dousing wildfires in bushland south of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, crashed into a national park on Thursday, killing the pilot and sparking a new fire to add to 55 still burning across the state of New South Wales. The accident happened as more dry, windy conditions caused a flare-up in huge fires burning for a week in mountains to the west of Sydney, closing roads and entering a valley running down towards the metropolitan area. "It's hard to definitely say that (the worst is...
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Australia: Bushfires: Coalition deploys straw man against burning issue of climate change
2013-10-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government is desperately constructing a straw man to help it fight the potentially big political problem of rising public concern about climate change and scrutiny of its Direct Action policy. The straw man is the contention that anyone making a perfectly reasonable and scientifically justifiable point -- that climate change is likely to cause a higher prevalence of the weather conditions that pose a bushfire risk -- has actually been making the unreasonable and scientifically unjustifiable...
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