Crozier to oppose development of climate change policy - Local News - News - General - Braidwood Times

Cr Crozier said last week that climate was an "important matter and should not have been taken when council was in caretaker mode." He continued that development of a policy would "take a lot of staff resources", as a large and complex subject and "we need to know what it will cost."

Cr Crozier said he prefer a simpler "energy policy" and that Council should wait to see what State and Federal bodies do first. "We should see what's going to be committed on a broader canvas before we commit ourselves" he said.

Cr Bransdon replied that "developing a climate change policy is not a very big issue when you consider the major issue facing the world." Cr Bransdon referred to a similar policy passed by the Tumut Shire (26 August 08), noting that Council "wouldn't be starting from scratch." Tumut's document is simplified to one page.

Cr Crozier was recently quoted in The Australian newspaper (15/9/08 'Emissions trading 'worse than drought') saying he "is sceptical of global warming, and says the ETS is a waste of time."

NYT Times' Revkin: Get real on global warming - The Daily Princetonian

People around the world need to be more proactive in respecting the environment, Andrew Revkin, prize-winning New York Times environment writer and author, said Thursday in a lecture titled “The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Global Warming, from the North Pole to the White House.”

“We are modifying Earth in ways that are profound and permanent,” Revkin said to a crowd of around 40 community members, professors and students in the Frist Multipurpose Room.

Revkin spoke about his experiences as an environmental journalist and writer and about the crucial role humans play in altering the planet.

“We’re becoming the driver of important dynamics on the planet,” he explained, pointing to slides of a treeless forest and an extinct dolphin species. “We are interfering with the way biology works and interfering with cycles.”
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“Science journalism is not a booming enterprise,” Revkin said. “Trying to get stories on climate on the front page is hard.”

Revkin also brought attention to the “disservice” some journalists do to the environmental field.

“For every Ph.D., there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.,” Revkin said, commenting on the way that reporters pit scientists with opposing views against each other in their articles.

This practice, he said, causes a “disengagement from what we do know, and the facts tend to get hidden.”