Climate Change is a War we must fight!! From the Age
October 23rd 2007 00:34
I don't often agree verbatim with Climate Change articles out there but this Article from the Age is pretty much all you need to know about Climate Change and Australia and has some great perspectives on the Election.
i have just copied the steps he outlines that Australia needs to take to get back on track but it is worth reading the whole article. It is a one-stop shop of information.
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i have just copied the steps he outlines that Australia needs to take to get back on track but it is worth reading the whole article. It is a one-stop shop of information.
Link Here CLICK
Read on........
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bali in early December is the crunch point. "Aspirational goals" must be banished for the fiction they are and serious binding commitments made to tackle climate change. In preparation, an Australian government should take the following immediate steps:
■Ratify the Kyoto Protocol and propose that the second commitment period be brought forward from 2012 with binding emission reduction targets for all nations. The objective is to limit temperature increase to two degrees, which will require global emissions to fall by at least 60 per cent by 2050.
■Show international leadership by proposing the adoption of equal per capita carbon allocations globally by a date to be agreed, say 2040. This will provide the circuit-breaker for the developing world to accept binding commitments.
■ Accept that Australian emissions under this scenario must be reduced by 50 per cent by 2025 and 90 per cent by 2050.
■ Accelerate the introduction of a national emissions trading system, incorporating these reductions.
■ Impose a national moratorium on all new coal-fired power stations and new coal export projects until their carbon emissions can be safely sequestered.
■ Set a national mandatory target of 30 per cent electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
■ Implement world's best practice energy efficiency and conservation standards.
■ Develop contingency plans to handle the peaking of global oil supply.
Australians must demand that all political candidates clearly set out their climate change policy. We need to know the detail now, not take it on trust until after the election; we have been let down too badly already and it cannot happen again.
In the event that real leadership does not emerge, we must place these issues outside the political sphere, to be handled independently on a quasi-war footing. It is that serious.
Ian Dunlop was formerly an international oil, gas and coal industry executive. He is deputy convener of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil.
■Ratify the Kyoto Protocol and propose that the second commitment period be brought forward from 2012 with binding emission reduction targets for all nations. The objective is to limit temperature increase to two degrees, which will require global emissions to fall by at least 60 per cent by 2050.
■Show international leadership by proposing the adoption of equal per capita carbon allocations globally by a date to be agreed, say 2040. This will provide the circuit-breaker for the developing world to accept binding commitments.
■ Accept that Australian emissions under this scenario must be reduced by 50 per cent by 2025 and 90 per cent by 2050.
■ Accelerate the introduction of a national emissions trading system, incorporating these reductions.
■ Impose a national moratorium on all new coal-fired power stations and new coal export projects until their carbon emissions can be safely sequestered.
■ Set a national mandatory target of 30 per cent electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
■ Implement world's best practice energy efficiency and conservation standards.
■ Develop contingency plans to handle the peaking of global oil supply.
Australians must demand that all political candidates clearly set out their climate change policy. We need to know the detail now, not take it on trust until after the election; we have been let down too badly already and it cannot happen again.
In the event that real leadership does not emerge, we must place these issues outside the political sphere, to be handled independently on a quasi-war footing. It is that serious.
Ian Dunlop was formerly an international oil, gas and coal industry executive. He is deputy convener of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil.
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Glad you like it, a friend designed it for us and i think its cool, good to have another opinion.
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wow! You have a company...groovy!! I like the logog too, but wondered what the world had "run into" or flattened! Maybe it is apt afterall...coz in good time the world will deal with its worst plague in history, its life threatening infestation of parasites, also known as the human species.
Anyhoo....I still want to see someone agitating for research dollars being put into magnetism.
I swear it is the "Holy Grail" of a permanent energy solution that is totally non polluting.
So, I have written to Turnbull, whom I know...yes I realize that looks bad...anyway, got a "polite" response.
So, SOMEONE must start taking it seriously, because the Japanese are working on it as we speak, and we may well miss out on huge dollars because of it, and in the menatime, get lumbered with yet more polluting ideas, albeit on a smaller scale maybe, and as for sesquisestration...or whatever it is...it is not totally proven, and there is no guarantee it will not seep out anyway, particularly after big earth movements which, believe me, we are in for shortly!
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PS. I like your logo too. We should handle the world like a baby.
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How my heart aches for governments around the developed world to make rational decisions and do these things... but is it a pipe dream?
I don't know if you caught 'Insight' last night on SBS, but strangely for me, I felt like watching TV. Anyway, all that the 'suits' could say about the Australian food shortage of the future, was more or less, that when the Carbon Credits system is in swing and Carbon is priced... well in not so many words... we'll just import from the poor third world countires who don't rate Carbon and use their water to grow our crops.
One idiot even said he couldn't see why we needed a local farming community anyway... just import it from the third world, when the water runs out!
Why am I still so incredulous at these things, that's what I can't understand?
I was really pleased to see a young guy stand up and outline the need for local produce and that the issue really is about water...and the issue of crops now being grown by thrid world countries to create ethanol, may inhibit imports and limit our variety. The response was that is still a defiant - WHEN IT RAINS, no matter how many times these 'suits' were asked if they could entertain the notion of a climate shift.
The response when pinned down to a concrete, as that Australian farmers will adapt... I am still trying to figure out how if there is no water?
The point is, that in Australia we rely too much on meat protien instead of more vegetarian means. Meat is very expensive in terms of water and they have predicted a 25% rise in our food bill by Christmas as a result. It will not stop there and will become dearer and dearer.
Still Incredulous that Kyoto can be ignored ...
Lilla ...