There’s a fair bit of talk going on right now around the issue of so-called ‘Carbon Sequestration’ in Soil, and most of it is avoiding the key issue. This of course is that there is only one good long term storage method for Carbon in the ground, invented by mother nature some 250 million years…
Some comments on the Mining Tax from David Macilwain… In a collision of parallel universes – that of the ordinary taxpayer and that of the extraordinary non-taxpayer – the revelation of the new Mining Tax’s pitiful returns coincided with the concealment of Rio Tinto’s extraordinary tax-free profit. The returns to the people’s fund from rattling…
MISLEADING ‘ECONOMIC’ ARGUMENTS We shouldn’t spend more money on renewables etc because Australia has a large deficit Politicians often refuse to spend more $ on pro-environmental actions, arguing it’s too costly and will increase the public deficit, BUT: We have the third lowest debt in the world. Many Australians go into debt to buy a…
Seems to be a dream in the minds of many of those in positions of power and influence both here and overseas.. At the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, Christine Legarde chief of the IMF drew attention to climate change as the ‘biggest economic problem’ faced by the West, a position eagerly adopted and…
In a few days time a senate enquiry will start looking at submissions and considering “Recent trends in and Preparedness for Extreme Weather Events”. The following submission was submitted on behalf of WATCH, written by myself, David Macilwain:- Submission to Senate Enquiry on Extreme Weather, trends and preparedness. I make this submission…
By chance I had a conversation with a neighbour this morning, and being a hottish day it started with the weather. I didn’t mention the question of ‘warming’, but he did, and soon admitted to reading the Herald, which was evidently going on about ‘people fudging the data’.. A story on how some years…
Not about to get sentimental or self congratulory about ‘our’ achievements in 2012, or make any conciliatory approaches to the leaders of governments and industry who are making life hell for the next generation, in an indulgent orgy of forgiveness and consumption. I can’t even say that it will be good to see the back…
In a blunt article today published in the AGE, Nick Feik expresses his coldly realistic view that we have passed the point where action on climate change can hold conditions at a safe level and avoid runaway climate change. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/green-movement-has-been-an-abject-failure-20121204-2at7t.html While he explains that he doesn’t blame the environment movement for allowing the emissions that…
For anyone who’s been following our pretences in the international arena to emissions reductions under the Kyoto protocol, this weeks announcement of a ‘target’ under the second Kyoto period – 2013-20 -will come as no surprise; we don’t plan on making any further ‘cuts’. In fact this isn’t quite true – we plan to make…
Community environment groups across the region are celebrating the news that Energetica Resources Pty Ltd has withdrawn its application for a coal seam gas (CSG) licence in south western NSW (i.e. the region to the north and north west of Corowa). “We are very pleased to hear that Energetica has withdrawn their application,” said Delwyn…
Wodonga & Albury Toward Climate Health (WATCH) 