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Australia: Alpha mine 'could accelerate climate change'
2013-09-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Australian Conservation Foundation says a proposed coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin could accelerate climate change if it goes ahead. Court proceedings started yesterday in the Land Court to stop GVK Hancock's Alpha Coal Project in the state's central-west. Community members are contesting the mine, but Hancock Coal says it's already passed rigorous federal and state approval processes. The Conservation Foundation's Professor Ian Lowe says climate change is a valid argument when...
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Australia, where is your science minister?
2013-09-17 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change has become a political football in Australia in a game with few rules and, depending on your chosen sporting code, plenty of illegal spear tackling and studs-up challenges. To continue with our sporting analogy, Australia's prime minister elect Tony Abbott has just taken the climate change ball and locked it in a cupboard at the back of the official residence. And in the same cupboard, there's a fancy-looking box with the word "science' written on it (there is some awesome stuff...
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Australia shares hit 5-yr highs ahead of US Fed meeting
2013-09-16 09:46:44| Automakers - Topix.net
Australian shares rose 0.8 percent to hit five-year highs on Monday morning, with gains on Wall Street reinforcing positive sentiment ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting this week, though trading volumes were subdued.
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Australia: The right climate for action
2013-09-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: In the searing Max Frisch morality play Biedermann und die Brandstifter (The Fire Raisers) the hapless Mr Biedermann invites three people into his home ignoring the obvious reality that they are arsonists. He continues to turn a blind eye as they wreak havoc through his community. Written in 1958, the play is seen as an allegory for Europe's contrived ignorance towards the rise of totalitarianism. Today it could be seen as a parable for our wilful blindness towards climate change. The early...
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Australia: 'Pool of hot air' fans the flames
2013-09-15 15:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Weather patterns creating a ''pool of hot air'' over central Australia continue to set new temperature records for the country and foster unseasonably warm conditions over many regions of the nation's south-east, meteorologists say. Winter ended with a record national average maximum - at 29.92 degrees - on August 31. September 1 then averaged 31.45 degrees, beating the previous earliest day above 31 degrees by 15 days, the Bureau of Meteorology said in a special climate statement highlighting...
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