By JAMES WOODFORD Phil Watson says 9.50 am on January 12 will be a preview of the state’s sea level future. Watson is the Team Leader of the Department of Environment and Climate Change’s Coastal Unit and for the first time has launched a program to document the flooding impacts of the highest tide visible [...]
Entries Tagged as 'climate change'
King Tide: A Glimpse Into Waterworld
December 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments · News
Tags: climate change·coastal development·infrastructure·sea level rise
Estuary or Mess-tuary?
November 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Guest Viewpoint
Bruce Thom was the chair of the National State of the Environment Council, a member of the esteemed Wentworth Group of Scientists and a long-time warrior for coastal protection. He wants to see determined and national action on the continent’s estuaries. The current woeful state of the Murray River Estuary is an extreme replication of [...]
Tags: climate change·estuaries·murray river mouth·water management·wentworth group
Missing history or emissions progress?
November 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Guest Viewpoint
Jeff Angel is the Director of the Total Environment Centre, a legend of the Australian conservation movement and author of Green is Good. We are at a crossroads, he writes: In the next month Australia will take some steps forwards on the journey to a low carbon economy or falter to a deadstop. In December the Rudd [...]
Tags: climate change·forests
Real Dirt, Fast – 6 November
November 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Real Dirt Fast
They say people often look like their pets and that scientists sometimes look like the creatures they study. Overlooking his unruly beard, Dr Duck, more formally known as Professor Richard Kingsford from the University of NSW, is no exception. Right now he is even behaving like a bird. Dr Duck is on a mass migration around the [...]
Tags: carbon guilt·climate change·moon·richard kingsford·waterbirds
Real Dirt, Fast – 23 October
October 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Real Dirt Fast
Sometimes it is the little stories that shed light on the big ones. There is a lot of triple-bogey-sized news at the moment and most of it is economic – although, considering the economy (as someone once said) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, every economic story is really an environmental one.
Tags: black throated finch·climate change·emissions trading·endangered species·peter garrett·swift parrot·whales
Real Dirt, Fast – 16 October
October 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Real Dirt Fast
Now to the weather. Real Dirt has been writing about the environment for more than fifteen years and if there is one thing that is certain it is uncertainty. The biggest stories are nearly always the ones that no-one saw coming. But every now and then there is a weather map that looks [...]
Tags: bureau of meteorology·climate change·economy·jupiter·pollution·snowy hydro·tallest tree
Carbon dioxide: economic nose dive with a triple pike?
October 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments · News
For the past twelve months, John Connor, Climate Institute CEO and a keen amateur bodysurfer, has been riding a huge left hander that’s been breaking off Point Climate Change, selling the message of cutting greenhouse gases. But in just a few short weeks that beautiful wave has closed out and emission cuts look like being smashed on [...]
Tags: climate change·economy
Real Dirt, Fast – 2 October
October 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Real Dirt Fast
Professor Garnaut’s final report on climate change came down this week just as the planet’s economy looked as though it was about to do some weird quantum thing and collapse down to a little black hole the size of a pea. Still those little black holes, as the scientists tell us, can be as heavy [...]
Tags: amazon·climate change·economy·kangaroo·kevin rudd·red gums
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s Amazing Speech on Bailing out the Billionaires
September 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · News
Already today we have heard news of polls showing that as belts are tightening so is environmental will. I know the US $700 billion bailout isn’t strictly an environmental story but it will be the mother of all excuses for why we have to defer action on climate change. I recommend taking a few minutes to [...]
Tags: bail out·climate change·economics
Real Dirt, Fast – 28 August
August 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Real Dirt Fast
This Week’s Environmental News in Three Minutes…. This is an era that calls for tough talk and Real Dirt wishes there were more tough talkers around, which is a pity that a little Australian with a name befitting a wharfie pub brawler faces extinction. The Aussie in question is the Growling Grass Frog and by [...]
Tags: Business Council of Australia·climate change·growling grass frog·pulp mill·sea level rise
