User:Peter Campbell/Climate change links

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These are recent links on Climate change (from Delicious) that I have bookmarked:

Greenhouse gas levels highest in 3m years: Carbon dioxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere are on the cusp of reaching 400 parts per million for the first time in 3 million years. The daily CO2 level, measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, was 399.72 parts per million last Thursday, and a few hourly readings had risen to more than 400 parts per million. [?]
Coal gets 'rogue' status in fight for clean Earth: Australian coalmining has become a ''rogue industry'' and most of the coal slated for export must stay in the ground if the nation is to tackle climate change, according to prominent US environmentalist Bill McKibben. Many coal projects, and coal infrastructure projects in Queensland, are expected to run for decades, and are only now gaining development approval. [?]
The days of relying on natural resources are over: Thirty years ago, Singapore's then chief minister, Lee Kuan Yew, famously said Australia was in danger of becoming the poor white trash of Asia. The fact that we are not probably has a lot to do with the truth of Donald Horne's equally famous statement that Australia is the lucky country. Lee was lashing out at our Anglo-centrism and Horne was offering an explanation for Australia's second-rate business and political leadership whose costly mistakes were covered up by our abundance of natural resources. [?]
Climate-driven disasters cost Victorians $4 billion: Climate-driven disasters such as bushfires and floods have cost Victorian taxpayers more than $4 billion over the last decade, it has emerged, as the Napthine Government released its plan for Victoria to prepare for the future impacts of climate change. The plan â released on Tuesday in state parliament â aims to manage risks to Victoria of increase bushfires, heatwaves, droughts and floods as climate change intensifies. [?]
The National Climate Assessment: The next National Climate Assessment is scheduled to be completed in 2013. Information about the current assessment can be found on this site by following the links below and in the sidebar. The National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC) has overseen the development of this draft climate assessment report, engaging over 240 authors in its creation. Click here to access the report: http://ncadac.globalchange.gov [?]
A summer that refuses to throw in the towel: This summer has been called everything from âextremeâ to âangryâ and for large swathes of the country those adjectives still apply. Earth warmest in past 11,300 years Canada's glaciers facing 'irreversible' thaw Cities such as Melbourne and Adelaide are midway through long heatwaves with no relief expected until Thursday. Nationally, summer was the hottest since consistent records began in 1910. [?]
Why Global Warming Wonât Go Viral | Climate Meme: For nearly 30 years, scientists and activists have been warning us about the impacts of global warming. They have testified before Congress, rallied on the mall in Washington, presented at United Nations forums, produced and distributed movies, written emotionally powerful songs, and so much more. Despite these valiant efforts, the problem is scarcely closer to being solved now than it was when it first appeared in mainstream press in the early 1980â²s. [?]
Corporate blowback | Castlemaine Independent news: Without public protest, democracy is dead. Every successful challenge to excessive power begins outside the political chamber. When protest stops, politics sclerotises: it becomes a conversation between different factions of the elite. But protest is of no democratic value unless it is effective. It must disturb and challenge those at whom it is aimed. It must arouse and motivate those who watch. [?]
Torrential rain floods Athens: ATHENS: Torrential rain of an intensity not seen in decades flooded roads in Athens on Friday, overturning parked cars and stranding dozens of motorists, including a 28-year-old woman who died of what appeared to be a heart attack. [?]
Flood-hit Queenslanders may be moved to higher ground - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): The Queensland Government has raised the prospect of abandoning some flood-prone areas and relocating residents and businesses to higher ground. It was a strategy employed in the Lockyer Valley town of Grantham, where the 2011 floods claimed more than a dozen lives. [?]