Keywords: Global Emissions
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ENVIRONMENT
- Scott Stephens
- 22 January 2007
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Perhaps the slick advocacy of Al Gore’s pop environmentalism is a way of baptising lives that are already excessive, self-seeking and idolatrous with a sickly green tinge. Rather than change our consumption habits, it makes us feel better about them (like drinking Diet Coke).
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 September 2006
Despite the bleak prognosis, An Inconvenient Truth is an optimistic film. Al Gore is no doomsday prophet, but an engaging orator who believes humans can change to meet the threat posed by global warming.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 05 July 2006
The power of nature has been dominant this summer—the heat, the drought, the dust and the terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.
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ENVIRONMENT
It has been one of those Australian summers where nature has been dominant. The heat, the drought, the dust and the ever-present, terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.
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AUSTRALIA
Paul Osborne asks: Should we export uranium at all? Should we lock up the reserves and declare Australia nuclear free - setting an example to the rest of the world? What is Australia's moral responsibility when a country suddenly turns around and wants to use material from nuclear processes, fuelled by Australian uranium, for weapons?
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ENVIRONMENT
One joy of following scientific progress is seeing it connect threads of knowledge into a tapestry revealing a picture of a previously unknown scene.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Langmore
- 30 April 2006
John Langmore reflects on the relationship between Australia and the United Nations
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 25 April 2006
How do people decide when to stop clapping after a performance? The progress of fads and fashions—in thought, opinion or consumer behaviour—can be described by one of the laws of magnetism.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Robert Hefner
- 23 April 2006
If our actions are contributing to a climate which makes catastrophic hurricanes more likely, surely we owe it to the dead, maimed and homeless to examine those actions more closely.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 23 April 2006
Regarding climate change, what we need is not a new way of engineering but a new way of living.
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