Tag: Australia
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Bill McKibben Inspires Australia to ‘Do The Math’ for Climate Action
If ticket sales, packed seats and a rapt audience are anything to go by, Bill McKibben’s first show in Australia was a roaring success …
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Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
It’s not that there are no alternatives. The alternatives just aren’t being taken. That’s dangerous. So if you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can.
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Fracked Gas: A Bridge Fuel to Nowhere
To start, natural gas is not the clean-energy solution it’s touted to be. According to the Pembina Institute, if only five of the 12 proposed liquefied natural gas terminals were built on the B.C. coast, they could spew 63-million tons of carbon a year into the atmosphere—exceeding the amount now produced by the Alberta tar…
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Current Reports on Climate Change Issues
Research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change looked at 50,000 globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of global warming…