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Why we wont need coal

Date: 02-Dec-11
Author: Climate Spectator - Giles Parkinson
solar PV is likely to fall below the cost of coal in Australia (wholesale grid parity) before the end of the decade.

2011 one of hottest years on record: WMO

Date: 02-Dec-11
Author: Climate Spectator - Reuters - Jon Herskovitz
The WMO, part of the United Nations, said the warmest 13 years of average global temperatures have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997. That has contributed to extreme weather conditions that increase the intensity of droughts and heavy precipitation across the world, it said.

Land, water, scarcity threaten food security: UN

Date: 02-Dec-11
Author: Climate Spectator - Reuters - Svetlana Kovalyova
MILAN (Reuters) - A rapidly growing population, climate change and degradation of land and water resources are likely to make the world more vulnerable to food insecurity and challenge the task of feeding its people by 2050, the United Nations' food agency said.

Denmark aims for 100% renewable energy in 2050

Date: 02-Dec-11
Author: Climate Spectator - Reuters - Mette Fraende
The government's proposal called for coal-fired power plants and oil-fired heating to be phased out by 2030. Coal heating, which now accounts for 11 percent of the total heat supply, would be replaced by biomass.

Climate change and the acidifying, warming Southern Oceans

Date: 02-Dec-11
Author: Climate Spectator - Matthew Thompson
Recent data shows that the Southern Ocean is changing now: it's warming and it's becoming less salty, and the amount of carbon dioxide that's stored in the Southern Ocean is increasing

Australias ticking bushfire time-bomb

Date: 02-Dec-11
Author: Asian Correspondent
If I lived there, I'd be making sure I knew the quickest way to get to the beach."

Landholders must know their rights to negotiate access arrangements for exploration

Date: 02-Dec-11
Author: Kemp Strang Legal
What to do if approached by an explorer

Read on for a good legal advice outline

Aquifer interference

Date: 02-Dec-11
Author: Kemp Strang Legal
A new interim aquifer interference regulation in New South Wales took effect on 30 June 2011. It amended the previous exemption for persons lawfully engaged in mining and petroleum exploration activities to hold a water access licence. The regulation now requires any persons who are engaged in new mining and petroleum exploration activities which involve the taking of more than 3 megalitres of water per year from groundwater sources to hold a water access licence. It should be noted that the regulation does not operate retrospectively and only applies to new activities.

Air monitors hit high level 11 times

Date: 31-Oct-11
Author: Singleton Argus - PAUL MAGUIRE
Each of the alerts resulted from a 24-hour rolling average of dust particles rather than pollution peaks throughout the days.

UN Conference address

Date: 31-Oct-11
Author: 13 y/o Canadian girl
UN Conference address

Thailand: Thousands leave Bangkok as floods advance

Date: 31-Oct-11
Author: Asia Correspondent
BANGKOK (AP) - Tens of thousands of Bangkok residents jammed bus stations and highways Wednesday to flee Thailand's flood-threatened capital as the city's governor ordered official evacuations in two swamped northern districts for the first time since the crisis began.

Floodwaters bearing down on the metropolis have killed 373 people nationwide since July, causing billions of dollars in damage and shutting down Bangkok's second largest airport.

Govt still in talks with miners on MRRT

Date: 31-Oct-11
Author: Business Spectator - AAP
Ms Gillard says the government is working "very cooperatively" with representatives of the mining industry.

"The approach we have taken is to work with them on every detail of the legislation," she told ABC Radio.

Aust govts negligent over CSG development

Date: 31-Oct-11
Author: Climate Spectator
Gundi Royle, an experienced energy industry executive now with US investment bank Moelis & Company, has broken ranks with her colleagues and accused the CSG industry of "racing ahead to establish a fait accompli, and governments have been negligent in not joining up the dots. Once the capital is sunk it will be impossible to stop the industry rolling over the country."

Clearing the haze in China

Date: 31-Oct-11
Author: Climate Spectator - Angel Hsu
Speaking at Seventh Environment and Development Forum on September 22, China's pollution control secretary Zhao Hualin announced that the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) intends to revise its national ambient air quality standards to include PM 2.5 measurements. Recognising the contribution of PM 2.5 pollution to poor visibility and air quality, Zhao told the audience, "We have now started to address the haze problem, which is precisely a PM 2.5 problem".

Mud power: just add bacteria

Date: 31-Oct-11
Author: Climate Spectator - Ashley Franks
Bacteria capable of producing electricity occur naturally in almost any type of mud, sewage or waste. The bacteria usually use this process to breath without oxygen.

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