Climate Change

I have been writing on the effects of human induced climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification, environmental and social Impacts of global warming, and climate protests for the Indymedia Network since 2004 contributing primarily to Melbourne Indymedia (now defunct), Sydney Indymedia, San Fransisco Bay Area Indymedia, Australia Indymedia, Climate Indymedia and features to the Global Indymedia site The articles have been wideranging from latest scientific reports to climate protests.

Climate Change and Heatwaves in Melbourne

I published in February 2015 the literature review I started preparing during Higher Education Diploma of Tertiary Studies single subject study (Academic Research) at Melbourne Polytechnic in 2014. Climate change and heatwaves in Melbourne - a Review can be read on my blog, or downloaded as a PDF. The other two assessments of the subject were an annotated bibliography containing over 100 annotations and a formal classroom presentation, which was also published at slideshare. I received a high distinction for the subject overall.

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2010 articles

Many of these links are now dead. They are kept here for archival reasons. Nearly all these articles going right back to 2004 have been included on my climate blog.

• Brumby acts to neutralise climate change issue for Victorian election (Sep 5, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
  
  
• Award for groundbreaking research in capturing carbon dioxide (Aug 29, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• ACT government takes the lead in climate action emission reduction targets (Aug 27, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• Negotiating climate action in a hung parliament (Aug 23, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Environmental Scorecards: Climate action missing in action from Major Party policy (Aug 20, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Australian Academy of Science outlines Climate Change Facts (Aug 20, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Farmers and conservationists protest coal and CSG expansion (Aug 05, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• Election Scorecards on Environment and Climate change policy (Aug 03, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Queensland Conservation organisations urge a vote for the Environment (Aug 03, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
  
  
• Pioneering solar photovoltaic centre of excellence loses research funding (Jul 30, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• Coal is hazardous to health: Residents blockade coal trains in north Queensland (Jul 28, 2010 - AusIMC)
• European Climate Exchange website hacked (Jul 25, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Environmentalists: Fuel emission reduction policy well behind world's best practice (Jul 25, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• Climate activists protest Julia Gillard over ALP climate change policy (Jul 24, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• Victoria targets solar energy as new report shows renewable energy potential (Jul 21, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• How to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2020 (Jul 15, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• Prime Minister avoids climate protest and talk of climate change (Jul 15, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• Call for Gillard to install solar panels on the Lodge (Jul 11, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Brumby considers partial closure of Hazelwood while climate activists urge full phase-out (Jul 10, 2010 - AusIMC)
• IPCC scientist: Action on climate change urged by scientists since 1990 (Jul 02, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
  
  
• Penny Wong speech at Climate Adaptation Futures Conference (Jun 29, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Renewable energy target: 20 by 2020 or zero emissions by 2020? (Jun 28, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• G20 countries reject Robin Hood Tax, continue subsidies to Big Oil and Coal amid street protests (Jun 27, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Xstrata Wandoan coal on hold due to poor planning not tax, say environmentalists (Jun 04, 2010 - AusIMC) | A Climate for Change
• New study estimates economic value of wetlands conservation (Jun 02, 2010 - AusIMC)
  
  
• Coal Mines can be stopped - Bickham Coal mine defeated by Thoroughbred Industry and community action (May 16, 2010 - A Climate for Change) | AusIMC
• "Why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" (May 15, 2010 - Aus IMC)
• Rising carbon emissions threaten crop yields and food security (May 14, 2010 - Aus IMC)
• Koalas face starvation, extinction due to climate change (May 14, 2010 - Aus IMC)
• Scientists outline health limits of heat stress with climate change (May 11, 2010 - Aus IMC)
• A Stark Choice between climate justice and climate war (May 09, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Replace Hazelwood - people demand climate action from Victorian Premier (May 07, 2010 - A Climate for Change) | AusIMC
  
  
• The Rudd retreat on climate policy: scientists and conservationists react (Apr 29, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• New solar power station to run on sun and air (Apr 28, 2010 - Aus IMC)
• Whales and Climate Change: the role of Whale poo in absorption of CO2 (Apr 26, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Proposed Eden Biomass Power Station an Environmental and Climate Disaster (Apr 18, 2010 - Aus IMC)
• On coal company fines, reef shortcuts and environmental justice in Queensland (Apr 17, 2010 - Aus IMC)
• Palaeo-perspectives on ocean acidification - marine ecosystems under threat (Apr 06, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Conservationists criticise government over coal ship grounding on Great Barrier Reef (Apr 05, 2010 - Aus IMC)
• Ocean Acidification is theatening marine ecosystems (Apr 05, 2010 - Climate IMC)
• Arctic Sea Ice Extent returns to average trend (Apr 04, 2010 - Climate IMC)
• Video: James Hansen at Sydney University on 'After Copenhagen: Looking for real solutions' (Apr 03, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Exposing Koch Industries web of climate denial (Apr 03, 2010 - AusIMC)
• UK Parliamentary Enquiry into Climategate exonerates Scientist (Apr 01, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
  
  
• Brian Walters on Emission permit property rights and the CPRS (Mar 31, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Chris Breen on Government Greenwash, Hypocrisy and the Mildura Solar Power Plant (Mar 31, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Climate activists picket Peter Batchelor calling for climate jobs not new coal (Mar 29, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Bayswater carbon pollution under legal challenge by NSW climate activists (Mar 28, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Climate protest fleet attempts blockade of Newcastle coal port (Mar 28, 2010 - AusIMC) (Climate IMC)
• Coal power up: Victoria fails to diversify electricty generation (Mar 27, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Global public embraces Earth Hour for action on climate change as denialists respond (Mar 27, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Butterflies herald global warming for Melbourne in Landmark research (Mar 23, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Climate protest disrupts new Newcastle coal loader (Mar 23, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Coal targeted in climate protests in Scotland, Czech Republic and Australia (Mar 23, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Australian climate activist on trial in Copenhagen (Mar 21, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Youtube censors Greenpeace parody video at food giant Nestl\E9's behest (Mar 20, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Scientists affirm Australia's climate already changing (Mar 16, 2010 - AusIMC) A Climate for Change)
  
  
• Marine extinction looms with ocean acidification increasing (Feb 21, 2010 - AusIMC) (A Climate for Change)
• Sigourney Weaver highlights threat from Ocean Acidification in Video Documentary (Feb 21, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• World's largest coal mine another nail in the coffin of climate change (Feb 08, 2010 - AusIMC) (A Climate for Change)
• Two year Interim Carbon Tax as a compromise to break Senate Deadlock? (Feb, 04, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Coalition Climate Policy just "tinkering at the edges" say academics and scientists (Feb 04, 2010 - AusIMC) (A Climate for Change)
  
  
• Mildura Solar Power Plant languishes while Coal gets funding (Jan 24, 2010 - AusIMC) (A Climate for Change)
• Climate and Himalayan Glaciers (Jan 22, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Climate Justice Activists confront New York Carbon Trade Summit (Jan 18, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Greenwash: Investors push Governments for Cap and Trade Action (Jan 17, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• The Arctic Oscillation, the Northern Hemisphere big freeze and Climate Denial (Jan 14, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Australia's Climate is sizzling (Jan 13, 2010 - A Climate for Change)
• Logging protest in East Gippsland enters second day (Jan 12, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Climate tipping point: Global Atmospheric Methane on the rise (Jan 08, 2010 - AusIMC) (A Climate for Change)
• Two climate prisoners released but still facing charges (Jan, 05, 2010 - AusIMC)
• Something is rotten (but not just) in Denmark (Jan 04, 2010 - A Climate for Change)

2009 articles

• We already gave the Danes a princess - give us back our protestor! (Dec 31, 2009 - AusIMC) (A Climate for Change
• Insurer invests in Solar Power, calls for fast action on Climate Change (Dec 30, 2009)
• Australia: Kate Jones spins Climate Destruction of Great Barrier Reef (Dec 28, 2009 - IndyBay) (AusIMC)
• Australia: Christmas Elves deliver coal to Queensland Premier in climate protest (Dec 24, 2009)
• Brisbane: Coal 1, Planet 0 - time to take action on climate (Dec 20, 2009 - A Climate for Change) (AusIMC
• Geologists say expect extra degrees from Climate Sensitivity (Dec 20, 2009)
• Australia: Activists take Climate action by Blockading Coal Port (Dec 19, 2009 - Indbay) (AusIMC)
• Climate Shame: Copenhagen agreement fails UN processes and the planet (Nov 19, 2009 - Indybay) (AusIMC
• Australia coming home strongly as one of the worst climate Fossils (Dec 18, 2009)
• UN Leaked Document verifies world heading for 3 degree plus temperatures (Dec 18, 2009)
• Climate Colonialism: Clinton's $100 billion in funding comes with colonial strings (Dec 18, 2009)
• Australia Collects Second Fossil Award over Climate financing (Dec 18, 2009)
• IUCN report: Koalas threatened by Climate Change (Dec 16, 2009)
• Greenpeace evade security for Climate banner on Sydney Opera House (Dec 15, 2009)
• Australia's obstructionist role causes developing countries to walk (Dec 15, 2009)
• Perth Indymedia reporter arrested with other journalists in Copenhagen climate protests (Dec 14, 2009)
• Australians send a climate message to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (Dec 13, 2009) | Photos | Video
• Bolivia responds to US on Climate Debt: "If you break it, you buy it." (Dec 12, 2009)
• Tuvalu makes a Stand at Climate Talks (Dec 10, 2009)
• Scientist: Extinction threatens coral reefs unless CO2 limited to 350ppm (Dec 10, 2009)
• Global weekend of action on climate: Walk Against Warming (Dec 10, 2009)
• Australia shares in a Climate Fossil award over carbon capture and storage (Dec 10, 2009)
• 2009 set to become the fifth hottest year on record, in the hottest decade (Dec 9, 2009)
• Union calls for 40% emissions reduction target and abandonment of CPRS (Dec 7, 2009)
• Can Perth become the first geothermally cooled city? (Dec 7, 2009)
• Police Files on Desalination protestors given to Private Corporations (Dec 6, 2009)
  
  
• Marine Scientists call for climate action over Ocean Warming and Acidification (Nov 28, 2009)
• Polluters subsidised under emissions trading with households footing the bill (Nov 26, 2009) Also includes Links to 4 videos + Photos
• U.S.: Activists stop blasting on Coal River Mountain (Nov 24, 2009)
• Coal protestors appealing damages order over Brisbane climate direct action (Nov 23, 2009)
• Australia: Climate Civil Disobedience on the rise (Nov 23, 2009)
• Climate civil disobedience action in Canberra for 40% carbon reduction target (Nov 23, 2009)
• USA: Climate Change likely to severely damage U.S. crop yields (Nov 22, 2009)
• Walkers mark the dangers of rising sea level for Melbourne (Nov 21, 2009)
• USA: Medically defensible energy policy on climate: phase out Coal (Nov 20, 2009)
• Firefighters turn Climate heat on Canberra (Nov 20, 2009)
• Scientists: Climate Treaty more urgent with Global carbon emissions still increasing (Nov 18, 2009)
• South Australia faces Catastrophic Fire Danger (Nov 18, 2009)
• Scientists call for Emissions slashed to save Great Barrier Reef (Nov 15, 2009)
• Report assesses climate risks of sea level rise for Australia (Nov 15, 2009)
• Climate Activists call on Obama to stop Indonesian Deforestation (Nov 13, 2009)
• It's getting hot in here - November Heatwave 'classic climate change weather' (Nov 11, 2009)
• Vulnerable Countries call for Ambitious Emissions Targets for Climate Treaty (Nov 11, 2009)
• G20 Finance Ministers fail to agree on Climate Change Finance Package (Nov 8, 2009)
• Report: Children are already dying because of climate change (Nov 7, 2009)
• Canada shamed at Fossil of the Day Awards - Barcelona (Nov 7, 2009)
• End CO2lonialism - Activists disrupt Barcelona climate talks final plenary (Nov 7, 2009)
• Industrialised World Intransigence on CO2 emissions dooms Climate Negotiations (Nov 6, 2009)
• Climate Defenders Camp established to preserve Indonesian Rainforest Peatlands (Nov 4, 2009)
• Copenhagen Climate treaty may Subsidise Forest Destruction (Oct 30, 2009)
• Impacts of Rising Sea Level a wake up call on Climate Change (Oct 2009)
• Climate protest 350 by cyclists in Melbourne | Photos | Video (Oct 2009)
• Arctic ice feeling the heat of Climate Change (Aug 8, 2009)
• U.S.: Dr. James Hansen and Daryl Hannah Arrested in Protest on Mountaintop Removal (Jun 25, 2009)
• Climate Emergency: Thousands march for action across Australia (June 2009) | Photos | Video: Rally Video, Damien Lawson video
• Australia: Scientists call for Protection of world's most carbon dense Forests (June 2009)
• Australia: Human Sign spells out demand for action on Climate Change (May 2009)
• Climate protest highlights environment funding in the Australian Budget (May 16, 2009)
• Antarctic Warming: Wilkins Ice Bridge Collapses (Apr 4, 2009)
• Polar Regions feel the heat of Climate Change (April 2009)
• Australia: Earth Hour Direct Action - Hazelwood Power Station (Mar 30, 2009)
• Australia: Climate Protestors Close Down World's Largest Coal Port (March 21, 2009)
• Civil Society says "No" as geo-engineers mount shock bid to hack the planet (March 2009)
• Scientists confirm Rising Sea Levels may exceed one metre this century (March 2009)
• Scientists: Rapid Sustained Effective Action required to avoid Dangerous Climate Change (March 2009)
• Marine Scientists report: Ocean Acidification Accelerating; Severe Damages Imminent (Feb 13, 2009)
• Climate Change contributes to Catastrophic Australian Bushfires (Feb 2009)
• Australia misses the boat on Renewable Energy as Global Warming Accelerates (Feb 16, 2009)
• Triabunna 13: Gunns sues climate and forest activists (Jan 9, 2009)
• Coral Reefs and Ocean Biodiversity threatened by Climate Change (Jan 3, 2009)

2008 articles

• Greenpeace steps up pressure on NSW and Federal Governments on Climate Change (June 30, 2008)

2007 articles

• La Ni\F1a brings some rain, as Global Climate hots up (Dec 27, 2007)
• Climate Change Road map Agreement Reached in Bali Meeting (Dec 16, 2007)
• Melbourne now Freeway capital of Australia - a Disaster for Climate and Sustainability (Dec 15, 2007)
• Activists close Power station As Evidence mounts on Climate Change Accelerating (Nov 2007)
• Thousands march for Action on Climate Change (Nov 2007) | Photos
• Climate activists blockade Newcastle Coal Port (Nov 2007)
• Carbon Sink crisis: Uptake of CO2 by North Atlantic Ocean slows (Oct 25, 2007)
• Climate Change: Marine Scientists Demand Action on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Oct 2007)
• Scientists say Ocean Acidity Increasing at Faster Rate (Oct 18, 2007)
• Climate Change: Arctic Sea Ice heading for Rapid Disintegration (Oct 2007)
• APEC: The Sydney Declaration a Climate Distraction (Sep 2007)
• APEC Climate Change protest shuts down Victorian Coal Power Station (Sep 2007)
• Australia: Greenpeace activists arrested at APEC coal protest (Sep 2007)
• Online Petition sites join to Demand Climate Targets from APEC (Sep 4, 2007)
• Newcastle: Greenpeace activists highlight Climate Change on Grounded Coal Carrier (June 28, 2007)
• World Environment Day highlights global climate change (June 6, 2007)
• Australia: Activists confront NSW Premier over Doubling of Coal Exports (March 21, 2007)
• NASA Climatologist Predicts Disastrous Sea Level Rise (March 2007)
• 700,000 Australian buildings at risk from Sea Level Rise (March 16, 2007)
• Catastrophic Climate Change may be Inevitible unless Drastic Steps are Taken (Feb 11, 2007)
• Climate Activist Fines to assist CFA (Jan 21, 2007)

2006 articles

• Global Warming: Rising Seas creates 70,000 Climate Refugees (Dec 2006)
• Australian Government Gagging Climate Refugee Issue (Dec 2006)
• Greenland Ice Sheet melting faster than expected (Jan 4, 2006)
• Soaring temperatures set new Melbourne and Victorian record (Jan 1, 2006)

2005 articles

• The Temperature is Rising (Dec 21, 2005)
• Global Warming may halt Ocean circulation (Dec 20, 2005)
• Nuclear Power PR campaign debunked by report (Oct 7, 2005)
• Wonthaggi turns on Wind power (Oct 6, 2005)
• Rising Sea Levels Create first Climate Change Refugees (Jan 12, 2005)
• Global Warming major factor in Drought increasing globally (Jan 2005)
• Climate Change and Development Issues for Island States (Jan 2005)

2004 articles

• 2004 the Fourth Warmest Year Globally (Dec 24, 2004 as Vera)
• USA continues to obstruct Climate talks (Dec 23, 2004 as Vera)
• CSIRO warns: Australia to get hotter, wetter, with more extreme weather (Nov 20, 2004 as Vera)
• Escalating global species extinction crisis (Nov 17, 2004 as Vera)
• Warming In Antarctica: cause for concern (Nov 7, 2004 as Vera)
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions cause Arctic to Melt, Sea Levels to Rise (Nov 6, 2004 as Vera)
• Kyoto is not enough says UK Chief Scientist, while Australia sticks with the USA (Oct 16, 2004 as Vera)
• Global warming threatens to reverse human progress (Oct 26, 2004 as Vera)
• Global warming fears rise with Carbon Dioxide increase (Oct 12, 2004 as Vera)
• Climate Meltdown: Greenland ice cap to raise sea levels (April 2004)

Want to read more?

Visit some of these sites for more information on the sceptic campaign against climate science and climate action:

• RealClimate blog - a blog by climate scientists discussing science in a very scientific way.
• Climate progress by Joe Romm
• Skeptical science: blog by John Cook, that answers the main denier arguments.
• Deltoid: An Australian blog by scientist Tim Lambert - exposes the scientific holes in denier arguments.
• Desmogblog - a Canadian blog exposing climate denier junk science and business links
• Hot Topic - New Zealand science writer Gareth Renowden on climate science and denial arguments.
• Grist 'How to talk to a climate sceptic'
• Climate Science Watch: Former 'gagged' US climate scientist Rick Piltz follows the abuse of climate science
• James Hansen is one of the world's foremost climate scientists - Read his 2009 book on climate science and climate policy: Storms of My Grandchildren The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity or to read his latest papers, articles and research visit Dr James E Hansen website at Columbia University

or try these books:

• Climate Cover Up by James Hoggan, Greystone Books 2009,
• 'Science as a Contact Sport' by Stephen H Schneider (intro by Tim Flannery) - a scientist's account of years of denier attacks, Random House, 2009. Visit Prof Stephen H Schneider's website on Climate Change, Climate Science, Climate Impacts, Climate Policy.

I now do a substantial amount of my soapboxing through photoessays on flickr and short videos of events on youtube. You can see my latest videos on Youtube below, and a random selection of photos from my flickr site. I sometimes add significant text descriptions and links to photos and videos to give contextual substance.

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So where are we headed with current climate negotiations?