After floods, resignations and community consultations, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is slowly getting back on track thanks to the appointment of former NSW Labor minister Craig Knowles as the new head of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, explains Amber Jamieson.
READ MOREJanuary, 2011
Is The Australian addicted to Monckton’s denial?
Christopher Monckton is one of the world’s most charismatic climate deniers, yet he has no qualifications at all in climate science. Among his beliefs are that the UN is attempting to create a world government and young climate campaigners are like the Hitler Youth. Others have also examined Monckton’s creative CV, writes Graham Readfearn.
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La Niña in a nutshell
Roselina Press writes: The recent floods have devastated Queensland, with 35 flood-related deaths since November 30. Much of the region is littered with mud and debris. Victoria too, is battling, with two thousand properties experiencing flood damage. The focus is now shifting from immediate clean-up to asking: what caused these floods? Climate change? Freak weather? According to meteorologists, the [...]
READ MOREDon’t put the brake on electric vehicles in Oz
The wheels aren’t just turning on the electric vehicle (EV); the whole industry is accelerating thanks to a major new initiative by the Chinese government. Why is Australia getting left behind? asks Alice Body.
READ MORECattle in the high country not caring for the land
Andrew Bradey, former Snowy Mountain stockman, farmer and president of the Environmental Farmers’ Network, writes: Last week the newly elected coalition government paid back the mountain cattlemen for helping them reclaim the state seat of East Gippsland, where returning cattle grazing to the Alpine National Park was a key election issue. Desperate for a fig-leaf [...]
READ MOREQLD floods: don’t mention climate change (or the number of ‘tiny’ emissions from coal)
As the floods in Queensland and Victoria gushed through homes, businesses and streets leaving tragedy behind, all of that murky water and grime sent moral compasses and other measures of taste and decency spinning and cavorting in all directions, writes Graham Readfearn.
READ MOREFarmers on Twitter: hashtags over harvesters
They might be more familiar with harvesters than hashtags, but a growing community of Australian farmers are embracing Twitter as a tool to communicate, particularly in light to the recent floods.
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Origin of the North Atlantic Freeze
Dr Andrew Glikson, Earth and paleo-climate scientist at the Australian National University, writes: As predicted by the IPCC-2001 report, global warming trends tracking toward 2100 are likely to be expressed by an increase in weather variability. Expect these to include a series of heat waves, fires, floods, hurricanes and cold fronts, the consequence of an [...]
READ MOREFloods around the world
The Queensland floods have dominated local media in the last week, and rightly so. However, other regions across the globe, including Sri Lanka, Brazil and South Africa, are also suffering severe flooding, although their governments may not be as equipped to cope with the devastation.
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Rockhampton flood crisis: attack of the blood suckers
Anton Lang (writing as TonyfromOz) writes from flood affected Rockhampton: The flood peak looks to have finally made it here into Rockhampton city, and fortunately, it only made it to 9.2 metres. The expected peak was 9.4 metres and some of you may think that extra 8 inches may not be much, but that 8 [...]
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