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Activist comedian, Rod Quantock, promises you’ll be “apoplectic with fear” (or just plain “scared shitless”) as he takes you with him through the gates of hell into the catastrophic world of runaway global...
17 May, 2013 1:36 pm / 36 comments
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While nuclear energy has no direct carbon footprint, it is still a contributor to global warming; we know this, because Einstein tells us so. Guy Lane explains.
Cooling towers at a nuclear power plant. Nuclear energy produces vast amounts...
14 May, 2013 5:26 pm / 17 comments
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It’s not wind turbines that affect human health and the economy, says Dr David Suzuki, but fossil fuels.
Wind power provides clean renewable energy.
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24 April, 2013 7:50 pm / 11 comments
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The case of the increasingly vocal lobby groups against wind farms in populated areas is based on the idea that widely accepted scientific principles are wrong. Stephen Luntz busts the myths.
ONE OF the first questions science writers...
21 April, 2013 7:34 am / 29 comments
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The University of NSW has exploded the myth that renewables can’t do 24-hour base load. Dr Mark Diesendorf reports.
Clean, renewable energy.
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13 April, 2013 12:48 am / 46 comments
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With news today that Fukushima has sprung another radioactive leak, Noel Wauchope reports on two very different nuclear symposiums held last month.
The Japanese public have fallen out of love with nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster...
12 April, 2013 1:00 pm / 5 comments
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In spite of 17 reviews and a new landmark study, Sarah Laurie defiantly continues her propaganda campaign against wind farms. Mike Barnard reports.
A LANDMARK STUDY by Fiona Crichton at the University of Auckland recently showed that...
9 April, 2013 7:30 am / 20 comments
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What does moving to a low carbon economy mean for the future of coal-generated power? Environmental lawyer and scientist Dr Ted Christie considers this crucial question.
THE KYOTO PROTOCOL was adopted in 1997 as a global approach for...
2 April, 2013 12:39 pm / 6 comments
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Award winning Australian filmmaker, David Bradbury, describes in chilling detail his visit to the epicentre of the Kudankulam anti-nuclear struggle in India – the beautiful seaside town of Idinthakarai.
Villagers protesting at Idinthakarai
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16 March, 2013 6:00 am / 5 comments
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Last week, the Australian Senate rejected the second attempt by Senators Nick Xenophon (Independent) and John Madigan (DLP) to introduce an Excessive Noise from Wind Farms Bill. Mike Barnard’s comprehensive analysis of infrasound delivers...
6 March, 2013 5:15 pm / 33 comments