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Written by info@ecologicalinternet.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation: none given)
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Federal Government's former climate change adviser Ross Garnaut says Australia's credibility on the issue would be boosted if the Senate were to pass an emissions trading scheme. Professor Garnaut says the differences between the Government and Opposition over the scheme do not look good internationally. "With the 2020 target on the table, if the rest of the world is prepared to accomodate strong mitigation, I think our interests would be served by passing ETS," he ... |
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Written by info@ecologicalinternet.org (Minnesota Public Radio: Stephanie Hemphill)
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Minnesota Public Radio: A University of Minnesota forestry expert says global warming and other stressors will dramatically change the state's northern forests, leaving much of the state a prairie. Lee Frelich said it's not just the higher temperatures and drought, it's also more straight-line wind storms, fires, the booming deer population, and plagues of pests both native and exotic. They'll all push the range of balsams and birches as much as 300 miles north. Frelich's predictions appear in the ... |
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Written by info@ecologicalinternet.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation: none given)
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A keynote speaker at a mining conference in Wollongong says the agriculture sector will come out worse off than the mining sector in the coming decades. Business forecaster Phillip Ruthven from the IBIS Group also told the conference agriculture has a far greater environmental footprint than the mining industry. Mr Ruthven says the output from the coal mining industry in New South Wales is twice that of agriculture. He says in the face of climate change, mining will be a ... |
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Written by info@ecologicalinternet.org (Duluth News Tribune: John Myers)
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 |
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Duluth News Tribune: Substantial areas of what is now Northland forest may someday change to savanna or grassland, according to University of Minnesota scientists detailing the impacts of climate change in a newly published research paper. The paper predicts Duluth-area forest types -- red and white pine, birch and aspen -- will recede northeast to about Thunder Bay, while prairie-like habitats now common in southern and central Minnesota will move into the North-land. The scientific paper, ... |
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Written by info@ecologicalinternet.org (Montreal Gazette: none given)
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Montreal Gazette: A coalition of North American environmental groups plans to welcome Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Washington this week with an advertising blitz targeting Alberta's oilsands and Ottawa's climate change policy. "Our top line message is that Canada's tarsands are inconsistent with President Obama's clean energy vision," says Gillian McEachern, senior climate campaigner at ForestEthics. Dimitri Soudas, a spokesman for Harper, said the prime minister plans to use his meeting ... |
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