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 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: 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 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. >

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: Green power solution at hand for little cost: Experts
smh.com.au 3/21/2009 — Sydney Morning Herald:

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 ...

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 ...

Absolute must read: Australia today offers horrific glimpse of U.S. Southwest, much of planet, post-2040, if we don’t slash emissions soon
climateprogress.org 4/13/2009 — Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness — the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived there , [scientists] say. That’s the subhead on a stunning L.A. Times piece, ...

Scott Dodd: Can a Giant Prehistoric Snake Teach Us About Climate Change? — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 2/9/2009
The snake discovered recently by scientists in Colombia was huge: as long as a school bus and heavy as a small car. Its remains, now being studied at the University of Florida, are about as long as a T-rex -- which of course makes me start ...

Can Crazy Techno Schemes Actually Save Us from Climate Change? — AlterNet.org: Environment 2/9/2009
From blocking out the sun with "space shields" to fertilizing the oceans with carbon-consuming algae, will the magic of science save us?

World's scientists to issue Copenhagen warning — The most recent articles from BusinessGreen 2/9/2009
BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen , Monday 9 February 2009 at 10:45:00 Global conference will attempt to shape Copenhagen talks by providing update on latest climate science Climate change scientists are to hold an emergency summit ...

Stefanie Michaels: THINK SWISS- Climate Trail Exhibition — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 2/9/2009
I have written about Swizterland several times in the arena of green living. I find it so interesting, that this tiny European country can offer options to more effective ways in living green. Not just for a select group of individuals either, but ...

Australia fires a climate wake-up call - experts — The Independent - Environment RSS Feed 2/10/2009
Weekend bushfires in Australia that killed 173 people are a climate change wake-up call for the public and politicians and a window to the future, experts said on Tuesday. > >