Another bit of excellent research from the ANU (Australian National University) with Professor Brendan Mackey’s team looking at 132 forests around the world. They found that Australia’s Victorian eucalyptus gum forests hold 1,900t CO2/hectare 4x more than tropical forests
Brendan Mackey ANU | ABC news http://bit.ly/13yA4v
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Old growth forests store carbon best – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Posted in Carbon Sinks, Climate Change, tagged ANU, brendan mackey, carbon, carbon sequestration, Climate Change, inappropriate subsidies on 18, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Global Humanitarian Forum – Climate Change responsible for 300,000 deaths a year
Posted in Catalysts for Action, Climate Change, Food Security, Water Shortages, tagged Climate Change, Food Security, Global Humanitarian Forum, human crisis, Kofi Annan on 14, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The human face of the existing impact of Climate Change is now being quantified. Climate Change is a human crisis where the poor of the world are already suffering significant illness, loss of life and livelihood.
Report projects that by 2030, worldwide deaths will reach almost 500,000 per year; people affected by climate change annually expected [...]
California’s Water Woes Threaten the Entire Country’s Food Supply | Water | AlterNet
Posted in Climate Change, Food Security on 13, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
US Secretary of Energy, Dr Stephen Chu is telling it like it is. Described as a “Cassandra on a mission of truth” and “a dystopian breath of fresh air” in this posting from AlterNet. | Water| the issues of California’s retreating water supply get a good airing. Scott Thill states
“Simply put, global warming, human-induced [...]
Carbon sinks losing the battle with rising emissions
Posted in Carbon Sinks, Climate Change, tagged anthropogenic carbon, carbon dioxide, Carbon Sinks, Climate Change, CO2, Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, CSIRO, Global Carbon Project, Ocean, sea level rise on 12, March, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Anyone that has been following the science of climate change will not be surprised at this latest from CSIRO Climate Scientists at the current Copenhagen Climate Change preparatory conference leading up to the main conference with national leaders and ministers in December. See http://en.cop15.dk/
“Forests, grasslands and oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere [...]
Global food shock likely, as Australian agriculture effected by climate change
Posted in Climate Change, Food Security on 28, September, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
This scenario will be horribly familiar to anyone with a long term view of the challenges of 21C, readers of Malthus, Erhlich’s Population Bomb (1968) or good Permaculture training.
But even then it can be a bit of shock when your worst concerns of years, in my case 30+, are being echoed by conservative political [...]
Climate Change as a civilisation threatening event
Posted in Climate Change, Climate Chaos on 25, September, 2007, | 1 Comment »
I first posted this at the popular science magazine Cosmos in response to comments on their Timeline on global warming, that itself was kicked off from Agents France Press article that global warming is happening faster than previous worst case scenarios. see Global Warming: a timeline.
As a climate change educator since 1988 and now [...]
