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DROUGHT HIT AUSTRALIA BATTLES CLIMATE CHANGE |
Courtesy of
Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud
Australia Mining Pioneer,
.... out of a most kind concern to make you all aware of the desperate
situation in which Australia willingly put itself !!!!
Story by Michael Perry
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
AUSTRALIA: November 2, 2006
SYDNEY - Australia is already feeling the heat from climate change with
a five-year drought devastating rural life, severe early season
wildfires and record unseasonal temperatures.
Every four days, a farmer commits suicide under the stress of failing
crops, dying livestock and debt as the worst drought in 100 years bites
deep into the nation's psyche and erodes economic growth.
"The current drought highlights how vulnerable we are to climate
change," said farmer Mark Wootton. "We will never solve the drought if
we don't solve climate change."
Australia's cities are also suffering, with every major centre imposing
strict water usage restrictions as reservoir levels fall. Sydney, the
largest city, is examining a desalination scheme to guarantee future
water supplies.
Neighbouring New Zealand is also experiencing climate chaos, with a
severe spring snow storm recently killing livestock on the same day
hundreds of bushfires burnt parts of southeast Australia.
South Pacific island states, which have for years battled rising sea
levels and more frequent storms believed caused by global warming, were
last month hit by Cyclone Xavier. The storm was the first of the
cyclone season and formed two months early.
Australian scientists and environmentalists say climate change is no
longer a future threat and are urging Australia to sign the Kyoto
Protocol aimed at lowering greenhouse gases.
Many scientists say carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and
methane from agriculture is causing the atmosphere to warm. Kyoto
obliges about 40 nations to cut emissions by at least 5.2 percent below
1990 levels by 2008-12.
BIG APPETITE
However Australia, a major coal and gas exporter and the world's 10th
largest greenhouse gas emitter, negotiated a rise in emissions, setting
a Kyoto target of limiting emissions to 108 percent of 1990 levels.
Australia and the United States later refused to ratify the pact,
saying it unfairly excluded big developing nations such as India and
China.
"Australia and the globe are experiencing rapid climate change," said
the Australian government's Bureau of Meteorology.
The bureau said the country was experiencing an annual rise in
temperatures, with the hottest year on record in 2005, an increase in
heatwaves and a decrease in frosts and cold days.
It said rainfall patterns had changed, with the barren northwest seeing
more rain and eastern Australia, the main population and food belt,
drying up.
"I expect climate change to affect all Australians," said Geoff Love,
the bureau's director.
Prime Minister John Howard only recently conceded global warming was
real, having earlier questioned the science behind climate change
warnings.
"We're all affected in some way by climate change. We must respond on a
number of fronts. There is no one single solution...," Howard said in a
recent weekly radio address.
Australia's 20 million people have one of the biggest ecological
footprints in the world, producing more greenhouse gases per person
than most other nations, according to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
report.
The average Australian uses 6.6 "global" hectares to support their
lifestyle, ranking behind the United States, but ahead of the United
Kingdom, Russia, China and Japan.
"If the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in
Australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the
resources we use and to absorb the waste," WWF-Australia CEO Greg
Bourne said in a statement.
Howard's solution to climate change revolves around using new
technologies to produce cleaner fossil-fuel energy, burying greenhouse
gas emissions underground, and nuclear energy.
Howard refuses to consider reducing fossil fuels, saying it would cost
jobs in the lucrative coal industry. The Queensland Farmers Federation
says a new report has found more than 39,000 rural jobs had disappeared
since the drought started.
CLEAN AND GREEN
"An effective and credible response requires Australia's national
greenhouse gas emissions go down, not up," said Corin Millais, chief
executive of the Climate Institute.
"We Don't Love a Sunburnt Country Anymore" read a newspaper
advertisement by the institute, referring to a classic Australian poem
which romanticises a country frequently ravaged by drought.
The institute has called on the government to legislate to reduce
greenhouse emissions by more than 60 percent by 2050, set a carbon
price to reward firms that reduce pollution, ensure new power
generation is from zero or low-emission technologies, set a mandatory
energy-efficiency standards and ratify Kyoto.
Greens Senator Christine Milne criticised Howard's backing of
geosequestration, underground storage of carbon dioxide, saying it was
an "unproven technology".
"We need to start making major cuts to our greenhouse gas emissions
now. The best way to do this is to use proven, safe renewable
energy...," she said, citing the growth of solar and wind energy in
Europe, Japan and the United States.
More than one fifth of Australia's power needs are already supplied by
clean energy and gas cogeneration. Last month, the government announced
Australia would build the world's biggest solar power plant as part of
a A$500 million (US$378 million) Low Emissions Technology Demonstration
Fund.
"The challenge is to reduce the cost of these technologies so that a
range of competitively priced low-emission technologies is available,"
said Treasurer Peter Costello. (US$1 = A$1.32)
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Incidentally Peter Costello does not know what he is talking about ,
since with all aquifers locked up pending full official apologies for a
generation long most heinous Collective Crime... all schemes invented
by Costello & Co will led nowhere ... and this another good warning to
head indeed !
The conditions for my return will be made known, and amongst those I
want that present WA whorehouse aka WA Parliament to resign in mass ...
and none of that political rabble to ever stand for election !
By order
Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud
Australia MIning Pioneer
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| Title: Re: DROUGHT OF PILLS CAUSES LE TURD RELAPSE |
02 Nov 2006 05:18:43 PM |
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<jpturcaud@ratbag.fr> meant in message
<snip rubber room raving>
Courtesy of
Jean-Paul Turcaud
Midas wannabe
Fraud Quack
Fraud ocean frog
Fraud water expert
Fraud Knight claimer
Fraud Mining Pioneer
Fraud diamond/gold expert
Fraud Exploration Wannabe
Failed Prediction Nutcase
President of Idiots_R_Us
Sad embarrassment to all of France
Founder and sole member of the True Geology
Inventor of UPL - Useless Pontificating Lunatic
Worlds biggest loser
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| User: "SEubank " |
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| Title: Re: DROUGHT OF PILLS CAUSES LE TURD RELAPSE |
02 Nov 2006 08:31:30 PM |
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Sunny wrote:
<jpturcaud@ratbag.fr> meant in message
<snip rubber room raving>
Courtesy of
Jean-Paul Turcaud
Midas wannabe
Fraud Quack
Fraud ocean frog
Fraud water expert
Fraud Knight claimer
Fraud Mining Pioneer
Fraud diamond/gold expert
Fraud Exploration Wannabe
Failed Prediction Nutcase
President of Idiots_R_Us
Sad embarrassment to all of France
Founder and sole member of the True Geology
Inventor of UPL - Useless Pontificating Lunatic
Worlds biggest loser
who knows
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: DROUGHT OF PILLS CAUSES LE TURD RELAPSE |
05 Nov 2006 03:35:27 AM |
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SEubank < a =E9crit :
Australia is tasting the grapes of wrath, and there will be no respite
to the the Collective Punishment in force now.
Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud
Australia Mining Pioneer
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| User: "Sunny" |
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| Title: Re: DROUGHT OF PILLS CAUSES LE TURD RELAPSE |
05 Nov 2006 05:39:08 PM |
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<sir.jpturcaud@neuf.fr> wrote in message
news:1162719327.061784.73820@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Australia is tasting the grapes of wrath, and there will be no respite
to the the Collective Punishment in force now.
Jean-Paul Turcaud
Kook of the Month, August 2001
Victor von Frankenstein "Weird Science" Award, August 2000
Looney Maroon Award, August 2001
Midas wannabe
Fraud Quack
Fraud ocean frog
Fraud water expert
Fraud Knight claimer
Fraud Mining Pioneer
Fraud diamond/gold expert
Fraud Exploration Wannabe
Failed Prediction Nutcase
President of Idiots_R_Us
Sad embarrassment to all of France
Founder and sole member of the True Geology
Inventor of UPL - Useless Pontificating Lunatic
Worlds biggest loser
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| User: "Great Sandy Gold Mine Prospector" |
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| Title: Re: DROUGHT OF PILLS CAUSES LE TURD RELAPSE |
05 Nov 2006 07:56:26 PM |
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Hey puss faulty Gene Puss Turdcoward can you make one post and not tell a
lie?
Hey puss faulty Gene Puss Turdcoward you are a liar and a thief and a very
sick demented old man that could not even stop your wife leaving you for a
great properly hung Australian Sandy Desert Pioneer Prospector.
Hey puss faulty Gene Puss Turdcoward you are a very little man in every way
and cannot tell one bit of truth
Hey puss faulty Gene Puss Turdcoward you are the Internet liar kook of the
world.
Hey puss faulty Gene Puss Turdcoward move to a country that will look after
the mentally insane and sick. Trouble is no other country wants their minors
interfered with.
Gene Puss Turdcoward you should be in jail/goal for life due to your filthy
disgusting heinous acts of depravity.
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<sir.jpturcaud@neuf.fr> wrote in message
news:1162719327.061784.73820@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
SEubank < a écrit :
diatribe of demented sick frog puss face Gene Puss Turdcoward removed
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