Month: February 2017

Climate activists’ final act, as they move into the last stage of grief

Climate activists’ final act, as they move into the last stage of grief

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By Larry Kummer. Posted at the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Trump’s election, solidifying the Republican’s dominance at all levels of the US government, has disheartened climate activists. A new article in The Atlantic attempts to build support, but only shows the weakness of their beliefs. Perhaps the skeptics have won this round of the climate […]

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February 14, 2017 at 02:59PM

Petition: Help Climate Scientists Avoid Personal CO2 Emissions

Petition: Help Climate Scientists Avoid Personal CO2 Emissions

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Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian ABC, a government news organisation, reports that 100s of scientists who attended a 4 day conference in Australia’s capital Canberra last week are all sad about what we are doing to our planet. But there is something we can do to help. Climate change: Scientists sad, frustrated as […]

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February 14, 2017 at 12:51PM

Keep Hazelwood open

Keep Hazelwood open

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Hazelwood 1,600MW of electricity generation is due to close at end of March. This must further stress our already strained power supplies and rack up prices further. People concerned that this would weaken our electricity grid should email politicians asking that Hazelwood be kept open. I will be emailing the PM, Treasurer and several other members of the Commonwealth Parliament. For information email to –
Keep.Hazelwood.Open (the you know what symbol) engineer.com
Terry McCrann had a good article – Keep Hazelwood power station open through takeover

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February 14, 2017 at 10:59AM

Gov. Brown neglected fixing Oroville dam, but found money for illegals, high-speed train

Gov. Brown neglected fixing Oroville dam, but found money for illegals, high-speed train

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Despite repeated warnings about a systemic failure of California’s Oroville dam, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is coming under new fire for not fixing the concrete spillway over costs despite multiple warnings. Now the spillway is falling apart and more rains are coming. The dam provides water to one of the largest farming communities as well […]

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February 14, 2017 at 09:13AM