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Coal seam gas — dirtier than coal, worse than shale
Saturday, June 4, 2011
By Renfrey Clarke
In the land of desperate excuses, coal seam gas is king. The new boom industry of the Queensland and New South Wales hinterlands contaminates ground and surface waters, while taking rich farmland out of food production.
But at least, its promoters argue, coal seam gas (CSG) is a weak hitter among sources of greenhouse pollution. When burnt in modern power plants, the story goes, CSG can be as much as 70% “cleaner” than coal.
New research: natural gas will cook the planet
Sunday, April 3, 2011
By Renfrey Clarke
If there were an Olympics for climate amorality, Australia’s capitalists would be hauling in the medals.
Just consider this quote from Queensland coal baron Clive Palmer in the December 15 Australian: “The Galilee Basin overall has got 100 billion tonnes of thermal coal, so it’s a great reservoir for Queensland in the future, so you’d be crazy not to develop it.”
And it’s not just coal, but any greenhouse-polluting fuel that can be can be dug or drilled from the landscape or seabed. Take Australia’s natural gas industry, poised now for a vast expansion.
Increased flood risk linked to global warming
Likelihood of extreme rainfall may have been doubled by rising greenhouse-gas levels
Climate inaction will kill 5 million people, mostly children, by 2020
A report was released in Cancun on 3 December 2010 detailing a large-scale crisis with some impacts increasing by over 300% globally by 2030.
From Climate Vulnerability 2010: The State of the Climate Crisis
Climate vulnerability by the numbers
- NEARLY 1 MILLION climate change driven deaths estimated every single year from 2030 if action is not taken
- SOME 5 MILLION climate deaths estimated over the next ten years in absence of an effective response
10 indicators of a warming world
German energy goal for 2050: 100% renewable electricity supply
New UBA study shows that electricity supplied entirely from renewable energies is realistic
Germany’s electricity supply could make a complete switch to renewable energies by 2050. The technology already available on the market could make this possible even today, but it requires that electricity be used and produced very efficiently.
Report: Oceans' demise near irreversible - moving towards the tipping point
[By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers. July 4.]
WASHINGTON -- A sobering new report warns that oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.
SMH: Too hot to live: grim long-term prediction
HALF the Earth could become too hot for human habitation in less than 300 years, Australian scientists warn.
New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase
By Juliet Eilperin from the Washington Post
Friday, September 25, 2009
Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.
The new overview of global warming research, aimed at marshaling political support for a new international climate pact by the end of the year, highlights the extent to which recent scientific assessments have outstripped the predictions issued by the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.
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