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Prof Barry Brook
David
Spratt
Mark
Diesendorf
Robyn
Francis
Saturday Plenary
Sessions
Mark
Diesendorf
Robyn
Francis
David Spratt
Climate Code Red
Prof Barry Brook Science of Climate Warming (ppt)
Jenny
Bain Peak Oil and Climate Warming (ppt)
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The
text of David Spratt's excellent speech to the Friday
night session of the CLEAN conference has been posted on
the LINKS site.
Global warming - No more business as
usual: This is an emergency!
By David Spratt
October 10, 2008 -- A year ago I was researching what
was intended to be a short submission to the Garnaut
review [commissioned to advise the Australian federal
government of Labor Party Prime Minister Kevin Rudd],
when events in the polar north turned the world of
climate policy upside down. It was found that eight
million square kilometres of sea-ice — an area the size
of Australia — was melting, in the immortal words of one
glaciologist, "a hundred years ahead of schedule".
Yet the international policy debate carried on as if
this had not happened. Out-of-date scenarios, research
and observations were being used to propose emission
reduction targets that would still lead to catastrophe
even if fully implemented.
And so a short submission became a long detour into how
the climate debate is being constructed, and the result,
with Philip Sutton, was a book we did not intend to
write, Climate Code Red.
We came to the conclusion that most of the public policy
debate on climate is delusional, that is, a fixed, false
belief resistant to reason or confrontation with actual
fact. In the new Quarterly Essay, Tim Flannery
says “There is no real debate about how serious our
predicament is”, nor has there been the “understanding
of just how profoundly we are influencing the very Earth
processes that gives us life”.
For Full Article
http://links.org.au/node/683
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The
power point presentation of Jenny Bain on peak oil and
Climate warming
click
here
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Good introductory
explanation of climate warming
at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/01/climatechange.carbonemissions
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"THE HOUR IS GETTING LATE"
An
article by David Spratt in the magazine 'Australian Yoga
Life'
http://www.ayl.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/ayl_free_info__climate_change.pdf
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Climate Code Red David Spratt partial download or ordering the book
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Tipping Point - Perspective of a Climatologist - James Hansen's (heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies - world's foremost climatologist) key statement on climate
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Skeptical Science - a website that gets skeptical about global warming skepticism ...how to deconstruct the sceptics.
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Ian Angus: " Confronting the Climate Change Crisis ": Canadian ecosocialist perspective
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