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…
This video was produced by The National Academies in the United States, an umbrella body incorporating the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. The video explains how scientists have arrived at the current state of knowledge about recent climate change and its causes.…
Community environment groups across the region are celebrating the news that Energetica Resources Pty Ltd has withdrawn its application for a coal seam gas (CSG) licence in south western NSW (i.e. the region to the north and north west of Corowa). “We are very pleased to hear that Energetica has withdrawn their application,” said Delwyn…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 and Albury Toward Climate Health support the campaign to shut down Hazelwood power station. WATCH committee member Lizette Salmon had this to say about the matter in a letter published in the Border Mail (30th May 2012)… Hazelwood power station isn’t exactly around the corner from the beautiful Border region, but that’s no reason to…
Anna Rose, co-founder and Chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition is visiting Albury for a community forum to promote her new book Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic, documenting her experiences with retired Liberal Party senator Nick Minchin. – Location: Albury Masonic Centre, Gulpha Street, Albury. Date: Wednesday 13th…
Rural areas are where the global uncertainties of the 21st century will be addressed: climate change, population, natural disasters. They will bear the pain disproportionally. That’s why we need leaders who understand rural space and emerge from this space, but to get there we need to improve rural education. That’s Margaret Alston with the first…
Wodonga & Albury Toward Climate Health (WATCH) 