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Australia: The right's anti-wind campaign is pure scaremongering
2013-07-23 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott's quip that emissions trading schemes represent "a so-called market in invisible stuff" has been rightly derided as a dog-whistle to climate denialists, unsuccessful only in that it was not pitched high enough to escape detection by the rest of us. Critics have had plenty of fun pointing out the many examples of "invisible stuff" that is, like carbon dioxide, critically important despite the fact that we can't see it -- electricity, financial risk, and so forth. A point that has attracted...
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Australia must improve OECD broadband ranking: Husic
2013-07-22 12:17:31| Wireless - Topix.net
The NBN is critical to improving Australia's lagging broadband ranking in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, said parliamentary secretary for broadband, Ed Husic.
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Australia: Most support emissions trading
2013-07-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: More people back Labor's earlier move towards a carbon trading scheme than oppose it and most Australians believe it should make a deeper cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 than planned, new polling has found. Commissioned by environment group the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the poll found that 41.4 per cent of people supported shifting to an emissions trading scheme and 33.4 per cent were against. A quarter were undecided. The poll was conducted last Thursday by ReachTEL, which surveyed...
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Services begin through Fremantle rail tunnel in Western Australia
2013-07-22 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Rail services have been launched in The Fremantle Line Tunnel in Western Australia, marking a major milestone in the Perth City Link Project.
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Australia: Confusion reigns in carbon debacle
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: After another week of heated debate over carbon, many investors, businesses and voters probably wish policy making could approach the certainty held by climate scientists. ''We know climate change changes everything,'' said David Jones, head of climate monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology, after another unusual spell of warm weather gave Melbourne its highest July maximum in more than 150 years of records, while Sydney notched five straight days of 20-plus temperatures for the first time in...
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