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Anvil Hill Alliance | Rising Tide Australia | Mineral Policy Institute]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10182&category_id=22 Rushing to a Climate Disaster 2007-06-05T14:00:58 climate_change Melbourne Indymedia January 2007 was the World's Hottest January Ever Recorded and 2006 was the fifth hottest year on record, with ice cream imported from half a world away while Glaciers and ice sheets melt. In Queensland the Land and Resources Tribunal has found that Fossil fuels are not linked to global warming in a judgement on a new coal mine developed by Xstrata. The Tribunal was also sceptical of the Stern Review and the latest report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change according to an ABC report.

The petro-chemical, automobile and mining industries have been at the heart of undermining scientific research and information on climate change with Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study and a heavily subsidised Disinformation Campaign

Challenges for universities to go Research Zero | Rainforest Information Centre on Climate Change
Beyond Zero Emissions | Avoiding Catastrophe | Climate IMC]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10159&category_id=22 Zero Emissions must be the Target to Avoid Climate Catastrophe 2007-02-21T15:44:36 climate_change Melbourne Indymedia "We must go to zero emissions and start removing existing atmospheric carbon straight away if we are to avoid dangerous run-away climate change," said Philip Sutton, Convenor of Greenleap Strategic Institute, to a large audience at Federation Square at the Sustainable Living Festival. (Powerpoint presentation (PDF)) This follows packed crowds at Richmond Town Hall and in Ballarat recently to hear John Seed from the Rainforest Information Centre on Climate Change.

Recent studies and reports indicate that Catastrophic Climate Change may be Inevitible unless Drastic Steps are Taken. Some experts are warning the IPCC Report under-estimates Global Warming, with increased melt from the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, precipitating an accelerating rise in sea levels resulting in a 12 metre rise or more.

Beyond Zero Emissions | Avoiding Catastrophe | Climate IMC]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10075&category_id=22 Walk Against Warming: 30,000 in Melbourne 2006-11-15T20:59:20 climate_change Melbourne Indymedia More than 30,000 people marched from the Town Hall to Birrarung Marr in Melbourne on Saturday to demand urgent action on climate change. A cross section of groups challenged Victorian political leaders to commit to reducing Victorian greenhouse emissions by 20% by 2020. The rally was part of a global day of action against climate change. Full Story [1,2]
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[Walk Against Warming]]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10053&category_id=22 Newcastle Activists Target Peabody for "Practices of Cultural and Eco Genocide" 2006-10-18T23:09:45 climate_change Melbourne Indymedia Around 30 people descended upon Peabody’s office in Newcastle in protest against Peabody’s practices of Cultural and Eco Genocide on the homelands of the Navajo and Hopi peoples in America and their interest in doing the same on Australian Lands. [Read more]

"Climate change now is a global issue and the global community must now act to protect what is left of our precious environment. These coal companies have no place in our future the way they desecrate the earth and our sacred homelands" said Arthur Ridgeway who is a traditional owner of the Pambalong area that now makes up Newcastle. [Photos on Arizona Indymedia | Quicktime movie (4.7MB)]]]> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10019&category_id=22 Carteret Islands Evacuated Due to Rising Sea Level 2006-09-30T14:55:02 climate_change Melbourne Indymedia "I recently visited the Carteret Islands, 100 km north east of Bougainville, having heard that they were suffering badly from rising seas caused by global warming. All 6 of the islands in the group are being badly damaged and the islands look like making history as the first atoll to be abandoned due to rising seas. Food crops have been destroyed, houses have been washed away and malaria is now the most common cause of children dying." said independent documentary film maker, Pip Starr, in a detailed report of what he saw when he visited the Atoll.

Torres Strait Islanders are also facing annihilation from rising sea levels with climate refugees set to be an increasing problem globally.

Pip Starr Pictures | Climate IMC | GETUP: It's Getting Hot In Here - Climate Change
Background: Climate Change and Development Issues for Island States - Jan 2005 Report on MIM]]>