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Flannery sets deadline to save world By Edmund TadrosJanuary 17, 2006 – 11:13AM Australian scientist Tim Flannery said the world still had ‘one to two decades’ to take action to reduce global warming, despite one of Britain’s best-known environmentalists warning that the world has already passed the point of no return on global warming. In…

Warmer temperatures enhance growth conditions of fatal fungus EnvironmentWashington, D.C. – infoZine – Results of a new study provide the first clear proof that global warming is causing outbreaks of an infectious disease that is wiping out entire frog populations and driving many species to extinction. Published in the Jan. 12 issue of the journal…

Bloomberg.com: Canada: “Climate Change Will Kill Billions, Scientist Says (Update1) Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Climate change will kill billions of people this century as the Earth warms, passing into a “fever” phase from which it may take 100,000 years to recover, James Lovelock, the scientist who propounded the “Gaia” theory, said. Temperatures in temperate regions…

Why did NASA kill a climate change project? – Editorials & Commentary – International Herald Tribune: “NASA has quietly terminated the Deep Space Climate Observatory, citing ‘competing priorities.’ The news media took little notice. Few Americans, after all, had even heard of the program. But the entire world may come to mourn its passing. Earth…

The Magenn Power Air Rotor System (MARS) is an innovative lighter-than-air tethered device that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, efficiently generating clean renewable electrical energy at a lower cost than all competing systems. This electrical energy is transferred down the tether to a transformer at a ground station and then transferred…

News Interactive – Poll: “HAVE YOUR SAYShould Australia turn nuclear to reduce greenhouse emissions? “ (The correct answer is NO – vote now!)

The Australian: Leslie Kemeny: New forum for a clean future [January 10, 2006]: The article ‘New forum for a clean future’ attempts to extol the benefits ofthe The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, basingsolutions on new technologies in opposition to the Kyoto Protocol (failing torecognise that, yes, ratifying Kyoto would be but a…

AGL Green Living: “What is AGL Green Living?AGL Green Living is 5% accredited Green Power and 95% non accredited energy”

Father of LSD, now 100, and his ‘problem child’ – Europe – International Herald Tribune: “Father of LSD, now 100, and his ‘problem child’By Craig S. Smith The New York Times FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2006BURG, Switzerland Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a…

Greenpeace warns against fatalismJanuary 5, 2006 Calls for Australia to accept climate change refugees should be backed up withefforts to reduce global warming, says Greenpeace. Labor is releasing a Pacific climate change strategy aimed at planning for massrelocations of people living on vulnerable islands in the South Pacific. It follows Bureau of Meteorology figures showing…