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myshkin press: Democracy v2.0
http://myshkin-press.blogspot.com/2008/09/democracy-v20.html
Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Hey, check it out, pretty cool website this. It's all about keeping representatives accountable and all that. It's hot stuff. But the best part is just about anything Bill Heffernan says. The Heff is a veritable treasure trove of wacked-out, moonbat-crazy ramblings. And now I can get it in a weekly mailing. I love it. Disclosure: I am not entirely unassociated with the website above-linked ;). Labels: democracy representative Heffernan projectdemocracy GetUp.
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why the CPRS is a *maximum* abatement target | civilisationshift
https://civilisationshift.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/why-the-cprs-is-a-maximum-abatement-target
Why the CPRS is a *maximum* abatement target. Richard Denniss nails the CPRS with this piece. Absolutely correct: the whole Green Power scheme, for instance, will become totally meaningless in terms of reducing overall emissions. I suppose the best it does it work towards building the infrastructure momentum we ultimately need, but no abatement is realistically going to occur with such a criminally low target operating under standard energy demand growth. That the reality is hopelessly compromised….
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The Fantasy Country | civilisationshift
https://civilisationshift.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/the-fantasy-country
Yes, I realise that ‘The Lucky Country’ was an ironic term and one of the most widely abused/misused in Australian culture. But trust me, I’m being at least ironic.]. Apart from a need to just write something, anything, before 12 months elapses since I last did, this has been bugging me more and more lately. Australia has become a fantasy land. Up is down, black is white; climate change doesn’t exist and we best burn more and more of that lovely coal. But it gets better and better. Going backwards is what.
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any ETS is both an emissions floor and an emissions ceiling | civilisationshift
https://civilisationshift.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/any-ets-is-both-an-emissions-floor-and-an-emissions-ceiling
Any ETS is both an emissions floor and an emissions ceiling. I’ve updated my thinking on the importance of Richard Denniss’ exposition of the futility of voluntary action under the CPRS. I think Denniss’ expression of this reality of the CPRS as proposed was a reasonably novel perspective. The fact that it represents a. Ceiling as well as a floor. For abatement is not something I’d really seen stated explicitly before. But it’s not a flaw of the CPRS per se, it’s how. But the key factor in all of that is.
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Kevin Rudd has sold us out to the coal lobby | civilisationshift
https://civilisationshift.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/kevin-rudd-has-sold-us-out-to-the-coal-lobby
Kevin Rudd has sold us out to the coal lobby. So, my loyal readers (… hah! It’s been a while. I won’t bother linking to the storm of condemnation of the Australian Rudd government’s betrayal that is the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. I might write up my own take on the White Paper when I can control the rage enough to read it. Don’t sell our future to the coal lobby. Words can barely express my dismay and outrage at your government’s grossly inadequate greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Austr...
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did anyone expect this? Arctic sea ice extent has hit record low for November | civilisationshift
https://civilisationshift.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/did-anyone-expect-this-arctic-sea-ice-extent-has-hit-record-low-for-november
Did anyone expect this? Arctic sea ice extent has hit record low for November. I’d stopped looking at the Arctic sea ice extent. Since it became pretty clear that September — the summer melt peak — was coming in third place and not breaking the previous low of 2007 (or 2008). But thanks to David Spratt. I’ve just seen that. The NSIDC extent is linked below (this image changes daily). And similar data from the US-Japan IJIS. So why does this matter? I’m not in the least qualified to write anything s...
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Rudd government already worse than Howard? | civilisationshift
https://civilisationshift.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/rudd-government-already-worse-than-howard
Rudd government already worse than Howard? Perhaps that should be ‘in general’, but I was thinking primarily of climate change policy and fostering renewable energy in particular. Now that Wong has so ‘masterfully’ tacked the expanded 20%-by-2020 RET (expanded MRET) bill to the fate of the CPRS legislation, it seems both will fail to pass the senate. Certainly in this round, and possibly this. How can the CPRS bill get up before 2010 at this rate? Laquo; why the CPRS is a *maximum* abatement target.