Australia ranked 17 on world’s top polluters list
AUSTRALIA has one of the world’s highest rates of greenhouse gas emissions per person.
Climate Change
Farmers steeled for El Nino
FORTIFIED by good prices for beef, emerging markets for fresh milk, and rivers and creeks in full flow, Sunshine Coast farmers are preparing for El Nino.
Conspiracy theory steers PM’s advice on climate change
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott’s chief business adviser, Maurice Newman, has described climate change as a hoax led by the UN.
Climate report highlights future risk to health
A NEW report which outlines the consequences of climate change for our health, food security and community cohesion, has been endorsed by the AMA.
Emissions target needs to be 40% less than 15 years ago
THE ABBOTT Government has been warned that Australia needs to cut its carbon emissions by up to 40% below what they were in 2000.
Old and sick face brunt of climate change
OLD, young and sick Australians are most at risk of health problems as the globe’s climate changes, a new report from the Academy of Science shows.
Climate change causing heatwaves, research shows
HEATWAVES are occurring five times more often due to climate change, new research has revealed.
Report: fossil fuels should stay in ground to keep temp down
A NEW climate change report has warned exploiting the Galilee Basin in central Queensland could become a significant factor in global temperature rises.
UQ offers free course to fight climate change denial
A FREE online university course created in Brisbane aims to explain the mentality behind climate change denial and give students tools to combat it.
Carbon target should be raised: Climate Change Authority
THE Abbott government has been urged to make more aggressive cuts to its carbon emission reductions target, beyond the current 5% by 2020 plan.
Scrutiny on Australian carbon policies steps up
SOME of the world’s biggest carbon-emitting nations have urged Australia explain how its polices will achieve a 5% reduction in emissions by 2020.
Climate change leaves bad taste in mouths
TASTELESS carrots, bad pizza dough and poor quality steak are some of the impacts we can expect from Australia’s changing climate, new study says.
Clarence to weather harsher floods, droughts
THE Clarence Valley is predicted to become more flood prone in the future, a new report has found.
Climate change making droughts worse: report
A REPORT has found climate change was driving an increase in the intensity and frequency of extremely hot days
Lights out for Earth Hour highlights need for changes
ON SATURDAY night people in Coffs Harbour and around the world will be switching their lights out to show their support for action on climate change.
OPINION: It’s the end of the world and beer as we know it
THE last ounce of climate change scepticism oozed out of me on the way to work yesterday.
Australia failing in “stewardship” of Great Barrier Reef
MORE protection is needed to reduce the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, a major international study on three World Heritage sites shows.
Flannery: Abbott Govt’s approach to renewable energy “grim”
“GRIM” is how scientist, author and Climate Council member Tim Flannery describes the Abbott Government’s approach to climate change and renewable energy.
Change needed for new climate
AUSTRALIAN businesses are not properly prepared for climate change, experts at the University of Queensland claim.
Climate change could cause cyclones to hit south: expert
CLIMATE change could start bringing more cyclones to southern areas of Queensland, a researcher says.
Climate change opens way for tiger sharks, pushes out whites
WARMING waters from climate change will make the Northern Rivers coastline less attractive to white pointers but may encourage tiger sharks to head south.
More intensely hot days on the way if climate change ignored
THE Australian Academy of Science warns of more intensely hot days and less cold days if climate change is not addressed.
Heads in sand a statement on climate change inaction
More than 60 people protesting a perceived lack of decisive government action on climate change sent a message by sticking their heads in sand at Jetty Beach.
World Wetlands Day forum on Coffs Coast aids conservation
IMPORTANT news on managing estuarine wetlands will be available at a forum at the National Marine Science Centre in Coffs Harbour this Friday.
Human actions blamed for scorcher year
CLIMATE change was behind the country’s hottest year – and we’re to blame.
Coffs Coast Climate Action Group launch with Earth Hour film
FORTY people gathered at the Coffs Regional Community Gardens on Saturday to mark Earth Hour and make a public launch of Coffs Coast Climate Action Group.
“Incontrovertible evidence” of global risk to environment
THE latest report from the United Nations’ key climate change body has found “incontrovertible evidence” of serious risks to the global environment.
Australian agriculture unprepared for climate change
CROPS of wheat, beef, dairy and sugar across Australia could be hit by a 10% fall in production due to climate change.
Climate change will trash our surf, Bureau report warns
HANGING 10 will be harder in coming years as climate change decimates big waves throughout the Northern Rivers.
More than 150 temperature records broken through summer
HEATWAVES, drought and hot days dominated Australia’s last summer; with the Climate Council reporting more than 150 temperature records broken.
Strategy to preserve our water for the future on display
ROUS Water has been considering the options as to how to meet demand for the next 50 years as demand rises and reliability of rainfall falters.
Global warming could mean more stingers, scientist warns
RISING sea temperatures could make dangerous irukandji and box jellyfish a problem in Northern Rivers waters, a CSIRO scientist has warned.
Booze may have 10% more alcohol than on label
THE amount of alcohol in wine has risen around the world in the past 20 years, with a wine economist estimating there is 10% more alcohol in a standard bottle.
Vaccination and climate change deniers beyond persuasion
ANTI-vaccination activists are generally treated with disdain, yet climate change deniers who ignore evidence aren’t called into question, Clive Hamilton says.
$20 million more for farmers as Qld drought bites hard
UPDATE: FARMERS are being offered $20 million in new funding as the seemingly endless dry continues to hurt Queensland’s agriculture industry.
Coffs Harbour Climate Action Group respond to broken records
A CLIMATE Action picnic drew 330 people to the Jetty Foreshores last November and the members will meet again on January 30.
Heatwaves: longer, more severe and linked to climate change
HEATWAVES are longer and more severe, with an interim report from the Climate Council saying the increasing severity is linked to climate change.
Carbon polluters may not have to pay under new plan
COMPANIES that currently pay Labor’s carbon tax may not be punished for exceeding emissions targets under the Coalition’s Direct Action Plan.
Written in the clouds: The planet is warming faster
A BETTER understanding of cloud formations has scientists warning that the world is warming faster than earlier thought, and it could be our farmers who cop the consequences.
McArdle calls on Labor Senators to kill carbon tax
SUNSHINE Coast-based Energy Minister Mark McArdle has called on Labor senators to do the right thing for their constituents and kill the carbon tax out.
Council preparing for climate change with new policy
THERE are politicians in all levels of government who refute the science concerning climate change but a new policy shows none of those are at a local level.
Picnic petition calls for action on climate
A PASSIONATE posse of locals has called for stronger action on climate change.
More than 300 join national day of climate action at Lismore
AS PEOPLE came together for rallies across the country for the National Day of Climate Action yesterday, more than 300 gathered at Lismore’s Crowley Park.
Action day on climate change planned for Byron Bay next week
BYRON Bay event is part of a nation-wide action aimed at rallying support for the Federal Government to take action on climate change.
Councils are taking climate change threats seriously
HIGHER sea levels, more extreme storm events, longer fire seasons and more short-term droughts.
Government climate policy to feel heat at UN summit
THE Federal Government will face a key test on its approach to climate change policy during the United Nations Climate Summit in Warsaw next week.
John Howard dubs climate change crusaders religious zealots
FORMER Prime Minister John Howard has poured scorn on the “alarmist” scientific consensus on global warming, comparing those calling for action to religious zealots.
Third of newspaper coverage sceptical about climate change
AS MUCH as one-third of Australia’s newspaper coverage of climate change is “sceptical” about human-induced sources of the phenomenon, a study says.
Australia has to toughen emission targets to pull its weight
TOUGHER targets on reducing carbon emissions will be needed if Australia is to have any impact on climate change.
Special report: This season’s fire threat on Northern Rivers
WE look at the potential for severe bushfires heere, links between severe fires and climate change, and check in with Firies returning from the Blue Mountains.
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