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Australia: Emission reductions: Coalition appears determined to ignore the experts
2013-10-30 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: So, Australia is going to have to cut greenhouse emissions by more than the bare minimum 5% target and it would be cheaper if we bought overseas carbon permits to help us do it. Who knew? Well, we all did -- really. The Climate Change Authority's first draft report joins a bookshelf full of previous reports to governments saying much the same thing -- such as the Shergold report to the former Howard government and the two Garnaut reports to the Rudd government. But the Coalition government...
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Australia: Climate Change Authority says Abbott must raise emissions target
2013-10-29 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's 5% emissions reduction target is "not a credible option' and must be increased, possibly to 15% or 25%, the independent Climate Change Authority has found in recommendations posing a huge challenge for the Coalition's Direct Action policy. The Coalition and Labor have promised to meet the same 2020 greenhouse gas reduction targets -- a minimum 5% and a maximum of 25% -- by 2020, under the same set of conditions about what action would need to be taken by the rest of the world for Australia...
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Australia climate-denying prime minister is convinced hes the authority on climate change
2013-10-29 00:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Global warming is bringing droughts, heat waves, floods, and fires to Australia. The good news for the land down under, however, is that its new prime minister, Tony Abbott, is the self-declared expert on all things climate related. And he says everything is just fine. The Australian state of New South Wales has been enduring some of its worst bushfires in recent history, fueled by unseasonably hot and dry spring conditions. Asked by CNN about the fires and global warming, Christiana Figueres,...
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Australia: Abbott's new climate policy rejected by economists
2013-10-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: Leading economists have overwhelmingly rejected Tony Abbott's direct action climate change policy and backed carbon pricing. A Fairfax Media survey of 35 prominent university and business economists found only two believed direct action was the better way to limit Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. Thirty - or 86 per cent - favoured the existing carbon price scheme. Three rejected both schemes. Internationally renowned Australian economist Justin Wolfers, of the Washingtonbased Brookings...
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Australia: Fires incite political debate over climate change
2013-10-27 01:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: As bushfires devastated parts of New South Wales, the political sphere was heating up over whether global warming is behind the ferocity of the Australian fire season. (Song plays throughout: Change - Flume) (Footage of the bushfires is shown) TRACY BOWDEN, ABC REPORTER, 7.30: Is this climate change in action? ANNABELLE CRABB, 7.30 PRESENTER: Behind the fire-front a secondary battle is underway CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONENT, CNN: Is there a link between climate...
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