A fact on carbon emissions
Do you know that over 1.2 trillion Giga bytes of data is currently being stored in data farms across the planet? This is projected to grow to 40 trillion gigabytes by 2020. That’s the amount of data IDC predicts will…
Quantifying the impact of climate change
New report from the Climate Council New ground-breaking scientific research in 2014 can now tell us just how much of an influence climate change has on a single heatwave or heat records. Read more here.
Human activity has pushed Earth beyond four of nine ‘planetary boundaries’, scientists warn
At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a "safe operating space" for human beings. That is the conclusion of a new paper published in the journal Science by 18 researchers trying…
No tea and scones for you, Tone … Firefighters call on Abbott
In the past week we’ve seen bushfires consume huge stretches of land in South Australia and Victoria. 19 communities totalling thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes around Adelaide, more than 2,000 firefighters were called upon to battle…
Put it back Tony!
"If you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax?" (Tony Abbott 2009). The graph shows the national electricity market – Annualised carbon emissions. The red line marks when the carbon tax…
Catholic bishops call for end to fossil fuels
WOW: Catholic bishops from around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuel use and increased efforts to secure a global climate treaty! Speaking about the announcement, Monsignor Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón, Archbishop of Ayacucho, and president of the…
October 2014 – Hotest on record globally
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of more extreme hot weather. In fact, if you are under the age of 37 you've never experienced a year of below average temperature. Over the past 100 years, heatwaves have caused more deaths…
Obama pledges $3 billion to Green Climate Fund
US president Barack Obama has formally announced a $US3 billion contribution to an international fund to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change. He outlined his pledge to the UN Green Climate Fund while speaking to university…
Emissions deal embarrasses Abbott
Climate change deal: US-China agreement embarrasses Abbott Government. The World Today By Naomi Woodley and Eleanor Hall Mr Abbott, speaking at the East Asia Summit in Napyidaw, Myanmar, said while welcome, the US-China deal would not prompt him to put…
Climate changing coffee yields
Climate change has been compounding the economic problems coffee farmers have been experiencing the world over. For these farmers, climate change has meant losses to their crops from either too much rain or due to droughts. Over the past decade,…
