Focus on climate change | Prime Minister of Australia has a blog!

I decided to kick off my blogging career with a focus on climate change.

The latest scientific research on climate change confirms our worst fears. Climate change is happening faster than we previously thought, creating a more serious threat to our economy, our environment and to future generations.
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How do you think we can make Australians more aware that we need to act on climate change now?

Kevin Rudd's blog

In addition to the common prohibitions on defamatory and abusive content, the rules for Mr Rudd's blog say that comments will be accepted for only "five business days" from the time the post is published, be moderated by his staff strictly during business hours, cannot include links to other websites, and are limited to 300 words.

"Not allowing links to other websites is just dumb," one blogger, Stilgherrian, told the Herald. "Links are the currency of the web. They allow you to reference work that's already out there. If you can't do that, and you're limited to 300 words, then the discussion won't ever get past repeating slogans."

It was a sentiment shared by "An Onymous Lefty" blogger, Jeremy Sear, who posted a response to the Prime Minister's blog titled "Kevin Rudd is hip to the kids ... of 2004".

How to Strenghten the Senate Climate Bill: Lesson 1: Collect Letters | CCAN Blog

Glad to oblige the Senator, I took this message back to the grassroots with a further caveat: The Senator’s office had received in the neighborhood of 900 letters from opponents of the bill, compared to only 6 or 700 from supporters. Not missing a beat, climate activists across the state took up the Senator’s challenge and sprung into action, determined to make up the gap with the “cap and tax” crowd.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Are the deserts getting greener?

It has been assumed that global warming would cause an expansion of the world's deserts, but now some scientists are predicting a contrary scenario in which water and life slowly reclaim these arid places.