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Australia: Greg Hunt uses Wikipedia research to dismiss climate change-bushfires link
2013-10-24 05:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The environment minister Greg Hunt has dismissed a link between bushfires and climate change, saying he "looked up what Wikipedia says' about bushfires and it was clear Australia had a history of frequent events during hotter months since before European settlement. Hunt was questioned on BBC's Newshour program about the connection between climate change and bushfires including the prime minister Tony Abbott's claim that the UN climate chief Christiana Figueres was "talking out of her hat' when...
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VIDEO: Australia property prices on the rise
2013-10-24 05:19:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Property costs in some of Australia's major cities have been rising in recent months, and there are concerns a price bubble may be brewing. Phil Mercer reports from Sydney.
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Australia: Al Gore attacks Tony Abbott's refusal to link bushfires with climate change
2013-10-24 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Tony Abbott's insistence that bushfires aren't linked to climate change is like the tobacco industry claiming smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, Nobel laureate Al Gore says. In light of the New South Wales bushfire disaster, the former US vice-president says the prime minister's comment that bushfires are a function of life in Australia and nothing to do with climate change reminds him of politicians in the US who received support from tobacco companies, and who then publicly argued the companies'...
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Chevron acquires offshore blocks in Bight basin, Australia
2013-10-24 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Integrated energy firm Chevron's Australian subsidiary has acquired exploration interests in two offshore blocks located in the Bight basin, a deepwater frontier basin.
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Australia, UN spar over wildfires & climate change
2013-10-23 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's prime minister accused the U.N.'s climate change chief on Wednesday of "talking through her hat" when she drew a link between wildfires raging in his country and global warming. Firefighters were battling about 60 fires burning across New South Wales state, with strong winds fanning blazes in the Blue Mountains, a major commuter area of small towns west of Sydney. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s Bonn-based Climate Change Secretariat, told CNN earlier this week that there...
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