Bushfires and extreme heat in south-east Australia
realclimate.org 2/22/2009 — Guest commentary by David Karoly , Professor of Meteorology at the University of Melbourne in Australia On Saturday 7 February 2009, Australia experienced its worst natural disaster in more than 100 years, when catastrophic bushfires killed more ...

Australia: the Saudi Arabia of solar?
acfonline.org.au 7/1/2009 — Australia has the potential to house 34 solar thermal power stations by as soon as 2020, says a leading global engineering company. WorleyParsons is planning to build the world’s largest solar thermal power plant in Australia by 2011 and is ...

Australia fires point to risks of shifting population
online.wsj.com 2/18/2009 — Wall Street Journal: The wildfires that have so far claimed more than 170 lives in Australia highlight the vulnerabilities in countries where populations are spilling into rural areas already under stress from sometimes extreme weather conditions. ...

Australia Unveils Targets to Cut Pollution
nytimes.com 12/14/2008 — Australia announced plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by between 5 and 15 percent by 2020, angering environmental groups that had lobbied for much deeper cuts. >

A Snowy Mountain Scheme for the 21st Century
watthead.blogspot.com 7/14/2009 — The time has come for an aspirational new nation-building project to spur a prosperous, clean energy economy in Australia By Leigh Ewbank. Originally published by On Line Opinion - Australia's e-Journal of social and political debate. Last week marked the 60th anniversary of the momentous ...

Australian heatwave sign of climate change
reuters.com 2/2/2009 — Reuters: A heatwave scorching southern Australia, causing transport chaos by buckling rail lines and leaving more than 140,000 homes without power, is a sign of climate change, the government said on Thursday. The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting ...

Is global warming driving Australia’s bushfires?
features.csmonitor.com 2/16/2009 — The deadly wildfires that tore across southeastern Australia this past week have prompted some experts to look beyond the arsonists, lightning strikes, and carelessly discarded cigarette butts to a more complex culprit: climate change. While all ...

Australia counts the cost after the inferno
guardian.co.uk 2/20/2009 — In view of the scale of this fire's consumption of humans, animals, houses and large and small treasures, it can seem almost obscene to mention history. But in April 1770, Captain Cook, passing a northern New South Wales headland in his barque, ...

What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 4/12/2009 — A result of climate change? "You'd have to have your head in the bloody sand to think otherwise," Eddy said. They call Australia the Lucky Country, with good reason. Generations of hardy castoffs tamed the world's driest inhabited continent, created ...

Australia to act on natural disasters
thenational.ae 2/9/2009 — National: The savage effects of climate change on health are to be investigated by a new multimillion-dollar study funded by the Australian government as researchers investigate the threats posed by more frequent heat waves, cyclones, fires and ...

Stimulus will be used to spur energy projects in California — Scientific American - Environment 3/18/2009
SACRAMENTO – California plans to spend nearly $300 million in federal stimulus cash on a wide range of energy projects, a key state official said yesterday. [More]

Lobbyists Swarm Washington Touting Energy Ideas — Scientific American - Environment 3/19/2009
There's a green gold rush on Capitol Hill. [More]

Stimulus Appears to Be Sparking Alt-Energy Revival — Scientific American - Environment 3/20/2009
NEW YORK--There are signs that the federal stimulus might be pumping a little life into the alternative-energy industry. [More]

With Green Intentions, Entering the Realm of Co-op Board Politics — NYT > Environment 3/23/2009
For environmentally concerned tenants, getting their buildings to become more eco-friendly can be a complicated and thankless task. >

Energy Secretary’s Challenge: Serving Under a Microscope — NYT > Environment 3/23/2009
For Steven Chu, a slight, soft-spoken Nobel laureate, Washington has been an initiation that he has likened to being “dumped in the deep end of the pool.” >