Browsing: Adaptation, science

• NSW coal mine submits EPBC Act referral for waste gas generator
  
• Uranium miner seeks clearance for acid leach trial
  
• UK climate scientists 'slightly disorganised' but honest

A UK parliamentary inquiry has cleared Professor Phil Jones, the climate scientist at the centre of the 'climategate' leaked emails controversy, in a report that refers to his refusal to supply raw data to a 'freelance earth scientist from Australia' and to a complaint from an academic who has fronted a Senate inquiry for the climate-sceptic Lavoisier Group.

• Silex finalises Solar Systems purchase
  
• House of Representatives finalises 'farmers and climate change' report
  
• WA to install nation's first 'permeable' contamination barrier
  
• Electrical contractors urge inspections of all insulated homes
  
• IEA and WBCSD issue joint call for climate action

As public confidence in climate change science falters, CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology today jointly issued a snapshot setting out the facts about what is really happening to the climate, while ANU's Professor Will Steffen says in a new video lecture that warming is 'unequivocal'.

As the UN launches an independent review of the IPCC, the prestigious journal Nature today warned that scientists are in a 'street fight' with climate deniers whose real purpose is to 'stoke the angry fires' of ill-informed talk radio, cable news and blogs.

Emissions trading can't work, coal must be phased out and nuclear must be part of the world's energy mix, says renowned NASA climate science James Hansen, who warns those opposing climate change action are perpetrating a 'great hoax' about the validity of the science.

• Climate change adaptation grants on offer
  
• Victorian barristers aims to boost pro bono climate advice
  
• Carbon price will be lost in 'background noise' for small businesses
  
• CSIRO warns of reduced rainfall in south-west WA

Institute of Public Affairs free trade director Tim Wilson today deemed comments about climate sceptics by climate envoy Howard Bamsey as 'grossly inappropriate' and hit out at Bamsey's department for what he termed an 'attack' on sceptics and UN critics such as Lord Christopher Monckton.

• Xstrata denies Mount Isa mine breached lead levels
  
• Hamilton: 'Denialists launching cyber-bullying campaigns against scientists'
  
• Green Building Council steel credit set to shift focus from recycling

A CSIRO storm surge study has found a likely $4bn damages bill could be more than halved by strong adaptation action, says Department of Climate Change chief Martin Parkinson, as the Rudd Government announces regular national stocktakes of the effectiveness of adaptation action.