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How an ocean went into hiding in Australia
2013-08-20 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: A chunk of the oceans took a wrong turn in 2011. Instead of going from sky to rain, into rivers, and then back into the oceans in the usual water cycle, it got stuck in Australia, caught up in record-breaking floods and rivers that run backwards into the continent. So much water got lost down under that global sea levels fell and stayed low for more than a year. John Fasullo of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, noticed something amiss while looking at trends in...
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Australia: The Coalitions climate change policy: it's the public, not polluters, who pay
2013-08-20 03:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: You don't have to be a policy expert to realise that if the Coalition is serious about climate change, it will have to take its Direct Action Plan back to the drawing board. Having spent time analysing the parties' climate change policies for the University of Melbourne's Election Watch, I'm disappointed that yet another speech by Greg Hunt, the shadow minister for climate action, failed to answer key questions about the Coalition's climate policy. As it stands, the Direct Action Plan falls short...
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AUSTRALIA: Retailers lack knowledge of their suppliers
2013-08-19 13:25:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A report has found that most Australian retailers do not have a clear understanding of who is producing their clothes - with the findings giving rise to concerns that they do not know whether there is exploitation, forced labour or child labour in their supply chains.
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Australia: Environmentalists gear up for legal fights after $40bn gas hub declared illegal
2013-08-19 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environmental groups are gearing up for a succession of legal battles over developments after the Western Australian supreme court ruled the environmental approval of a $40bn gas hub was illegal. WA chief justice Wayne Martin decided that the proposed facility at James Price Point in the Kimberley should not have been approved due to an invalid environmental approval process. The judgment is a further embarrassing blow to WA premier Colin Barnett, who has enthusiastically backed the onshore...
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Australia: There's a hole in the Coalition's climate-change policy
2013-08-19 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Can "direct action" cut Australia's carbon emissions for the price Tony Abbott says it can? Climate change minister Mark Butler says not. Last week he welcomed "new independent modelling", which he said showed the Coalition's policy would "cost billions of dollars more than Tony Abbott claims and has no chance of meeting Australia's emissions reduction target". He highlighted this finding: "To achieve the emissions reductions required to deliver the Coalition's commitment to the 5-25 per cent targets...
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