Debate heats up, the ice keeps melting - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Until recently, the conventional wisdom was that once the sea-ice disappears in summer - possibly as early as 2030 - it stays gone, but a study came out recently challenging that view. It concluded that the ice may come and go in somewhat dramatic fits and starts, until it eventually peters out in the second half of this century.Quadrant Online - Silence of the gods
In other words, whichever way you look at it, the canary is dying.
The director of the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, Mark Serreze, and his team have studied the Arctic for over 20 years. He explains: "We're now committed to an ice-free Arctic in the summer - there's just too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the planet's getting too warm. We've crossed a tipping point."
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Beyond Zero Emissions and the University of Melbourne Energy Institute have teamed up to write a courageous plan to transform our energy sector and propel it into the 21st Century.
The plan, which has wind and solar thermal power at its heart, weans us off fossil fuels within just 10 years, with a cost of about $8 per week for households.
When freedom of speech in Australia was abused, Sydney PEN was silent.Quadrant Online - "Wait and see"
Sydney PEN is a fashionable Left-wing dining and chat group whose reason for being is the defence of freedom of speech.
"Wait and see" makes perfect sense. See what happens in the real world rather than the fantasy world of flawed climate models.‘Terminator’ actor to talk environment in Oslo
Mr Schwarzenegger will join European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard and British sociologist Baron Anthony Giddens at this year’s confernce, which will be simultaneously translated for English-speakers during the Norwegian-only parts of the programme.
The event, said to be the “largest of its kind in Scandinavia”, will be held at the Clarion Hotel Oslo Airport between November 21 and 22.
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