Executive Secretary of The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Pozan Poland Yvo de Boer gives his Day 3 Update on the progress of the conference.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is convinced the science on man made global warming is settled. In fact he’s so convinced that the science of the IPCC and NASA’s James Hansen is correct that his number 1 political priority is the introduction of an Emissions Trading Scheme by mid 2010.
The latest science shows that the [...]
Our current Australian anti-farmer policies coupled with a population that grows by 1 person net each 1.3 seconds will lead us to a point within 40 years where we will be a net importer of food. As the world population grows by another 2.3 billion people, food in Australia will indeed become a scarce resource.
During [...]
Gary Johns is a former minister in the Keating Labor government.
In a terrific piece in todays Australian Newspaper he says that the Emissions Trading Scheme will require Australians to pay for something that will have zero impact on climate change.
“THE one certainty of climate change (anthropogenic or not) is that it is unstoppable. Government advertisements [...]
One of Australia’s Pioneers of Green Farming Terry McCosker writes:
I have just read through Natalies Williams post and the comments it has stimulated. As an originator of much of the “green” change which is accelerating through rural Australia I am very happy to see the quality of the debate and the similarity of ideas.
I would [...]
Do you remember the last time you saw or read something that turned your whole belief system upside down.
I have an absolute treat for you today, thanks to Agmates reader Dr Christine Jones.
Michael Pollan [pictured] is a journalist, author, academic who has written an 8,500 word essay ( don’t fall over) “Farmer In Chief – [...]
Agmates has stated that the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme will do little to fight climate change. In my opinion the scheme is chiefly designed to give the Rudd Government global green kudos and Australian’s a warm and fuzzy green glow.
Leading British scientist Dr James Lovelock backs up what I and others have been saying. In [...]
Agmate’s Glenn & Natalie Williams [pictured] are Cattle producers and from North Queensland. Natalie writes:
I have to wonder if ordinary Australians get away from the computer long enough to get outside and actually make a difference to the world … and sequester some carbon.
Farmers and graziers are sequestering more carbon in a week than other [...]
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