If you want to learn a bit more about climate change, the talks at Copenhagen, the science behind it etc etc, a really good resource is www.350.org - a group pushing for a limitation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million (ppm). We are currently at 387ppm, and the poli poli poli politicians gathered at Copenhagen are discussing a target of 770ppm.
I could go on but I think 350 does a much better job of explaining things.
Check out the 350 website, and get informed!
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Australia is world's largest per capita CO2 emitter, keeps head firmly in the ground
Australia recently overtook the USA as the highest per capita carbon dioxide emitting country in the world.
It was set to pass emissions trading laws in parliament before the Christmas break. The Opposition had reached an agreement with the government to pass the legislation. The proposed law was monumentally weak, committing to only a 5% cut in 2000 emission levels by 2020 (when we were all supposed to be below 1990 levels in two years time, had we abided by the Kyoto Protocol). However, it was something.
This morning a vote was taken on the leadership of the major Opposition party, the Liberals, and Malcolm Turnbull lost out to Tony Abbott by one vote. A vote was then held on whether or not to back the emissions trading scheme, and the result was a fairly emphatic 'no'.
So Australia, the world's biggest per capita carbon dioxide polluter, will as always 'wait and see'. They will wait to see what comes out of Copenhagen, which could be a whole lot of nothing. Rather than be proactive, and act in the interests of their children and grandchildren they will risk their already depleted rivers and parched lands, not because the proposed legislation was not ambitious enough, but because there are still far too many climate change deniers walking the halls of parliament.
Well done Australia, well done...
It was set to pass emissions trading laws in parliament before the Christmas break. The Opposition had reached an agreement with the government to pass the legislation. The proposed law was monumentally weak, committing to only a 5% cut in 2000 emission levels by 2020 (when we were all supposed to be below 1990 levels in two years time, had we abided by the Kyoto Protocol). However, it was something.
This morning a vote was taken on the leadership of the major Opposition party, the Liberals, and Malcolm Turnbull lost out to Tony Abbott by one vote. A vote was then held on whether or not to back the emissions trading scheme, and the result was a fairly emphatic 'no'.
So Australia, the world's biggest per capita carbon dioxide polluter, will as always 'wait and see'. They will wait to see what comes out of Copenhagen, which could be a whole lot of nothing. Rather than be proactive, and act in the interests of their children and grandchildren they will risk their already depleted rivers and parched lands, not because the proposed legislation was not ambitious enough, but because there are still far too many climate change deniers walking the halls of parliament.
Well done Australia, well done...
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