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Australia has 'much to lose' from climate change
2013-09-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia has much to lose if climate change continues unabated, the head of a new review of climate science has warned. Dr Qin Dahe, a glaciologist and respected Chinese academician, was co-chair of the working group that wrote the fifth major assessment of climate science for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on Friday. In an exclusive interview with Fairfax, he urged Australia not to think of itself as a small, unimportant player in climate change. Our scientists...
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Wool Prices Suddenly Recovering in Australia (Weekly Report)
2013-09-27 21:35:56| EmergingTextiles.com
Wool prices rebounded this week in Australia, although super-fine micron prices were depressed by a surge in offered quantities. Our weekly report delivers a comprehensive view of wool prices in Australia, with a long list of micron types in A$, US$ and euro terms. Historical charts are also available, such as downloadable historical data. A glimpse on the Chinese, New Zealand and South African markets is provided.
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Solar-powered family car from Eindhoven University of Technology covers 544 miles in Australia on a single charge
2013-09-27 21:30:27| Green Car Congress
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Australia: Carbon cycle tracked as Victoria's forests breathe
2013-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Nestled among the dry eucalypt forests behind Nagambie, north of Melbourne, the 36-metre metal ''flux tower'' looks out of place. Far above the sparse grey box and lemon gums it sends out an infrared beam that, 20 times a second, measures the transfer of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the landscape. The project is part of scientific efforts to understand one of the big unknown questions in climate science: will soil, trees and plants continue to soak up large amounts of CO2 as the...
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Australia: Coalition urged raise emissions reduction target
2013-09-27 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government has been urged to raise its emissions reduction target in the wake of the IPCC report findings, with the Greens calling on Tony Abbott to "abandon his anti-science ideological view" towards climate change. Leaked drafts of the keynote UN report on climate change, which is released once every six years, show that global carbon emissions need to be cut by 10% a decade if a widely agreed limit of 2C of warming is to be met. Australia has a bipartisan target of a 5% emissions reduction...
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