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- The Greens take on CPRS/ETS Bill by Climate Change Views on Nov 26, 2009
And so we go into the first long night of the CPRS bill. The deal has been done, with enough Liberal Senators giving the Government the numbers to extend sitting hours late into tonight and all the way into next week if necessary. From here on it bec...
- Science cooks the books by Climate Change Views on Nov 25, 2009
KEVIN Rudd recently went over the top last week in a speech to the Lowy institute, declaring it was "time to remove any polite veneer" from the climate change debate, which he claims is the "moral challenge of our generation". Then he launched an ext...
- Australian ETS: Of politics and poor policy by Climate Change Views on Nov 24, 2009
KEVIN Rudd has offered a compromise Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme with ambitious political goals: to win its passage through the Senate, to entrench divisions within the opposition and launch himself on the global stage to try to salvage the Cope...
- Australia's climate deeds by Climate Change Views on Nov 23, 2009
This year saw the second warmest winter in Australia since records began. Across the continent, day and night, average temperatures were 1.33 degrees hotter than the average from 1961 to 1990, the 30-year period meteorologists use as their base.Septe...
- A view: Senator the Hon Ian Macdonald by Climate Change Views on Nov 23, 2009
North Queensland based Liberal Senator and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia, Senator Ian Macdonald today led off the debate on the Rudd Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.Senator Macdonald said that the Government w...
- Sea levels threaten by Climate Change Views on Nov 20, 2009
Almost 250,000 homes, now worth up to $63 billion, will be "at risk of inundation" by the end of the century, under "worst-case but plausible" predictions of rising sea levels. The study -- released ahead of the crucial Senate vote on Labor's emissio...
- Senator the Hon Ian Macdonald will vote against ETS by Climate Change Views on Nov 19, 2009
From the website: I am very pleased to be able to lead off in this debate, but I have to say it is going to be one of the most difficult debates to prosecute, because the bill before the chamber today, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009...
