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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…

Labor bid to accept climate change refugees January 5, 2006 – 11:09AM Australia should prepare to accept climate change refugees from Pacific island nations likely to “sink” under rising sea levels, Labor says. The federal opposition will today release a Pacific climate change strategy aimed at planning for mass relocations of people living on vulnerable…

Australia’s hottest year on record Australia has officially recorded its warmest year on record. Data collected by the Bureau of Meteorology indicate that the nation’s annual mean temperature for 2005 was 1.09°C above the standard 1961-90 average, making it the warmest year since reliable, widespread temperature observations became available in 1910. The previous record of…

2005 Australia’s warmest year on record It’s official – the 2005 Australian mean temperature of 22.89°C makes 2005 Australia’s warmest year on record, announced the Hon Greg Hunt MP, Parliamentary Secretary with ministerial responsibility for Bureau of Meteorology. “The annual Australian Climate Statement released today by the Bureau of Meteorology shows that 2005 has been…

By David Wroe, CanberraJanuary 4, 2006Page 1 of 2 LAST year broke heat records by a meteorological mile — it was more than one degree hotter than average, prompting the Bureau of Meteorology to sound a renewed climate change alarm. The bureau’s annual Australian climate statement, to be released today, shows the average national temperature…

Mercury rising, stormy weather – our world is taking a battering By Michael McCarthy You see it in heat, you see it in ice, you see it in storms. Climate change without doubt became the critical environmental issue of 2005. The evidence of global warming occurring here and now mounted up during the year and…