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Keep Badgerys Creek for Sydney’s Food Supply

Start clearing for buildings: developers’ call to Canberra

“THE Federal Government should immediately begin planning to sell the 1700 hectares of land it bought for a second Sydney airport in the city’s west, developer groups say.”

http://www.smh.com.au/national/start-clearing-for-buildings-developers-call-to-canberra-20091215-kuo1.html

No, don’t do it. Sydney needs this area for food production. We still have rain in the Sydney basin and it’s [...]

Aviation White Paper argues debt crisis down, ignores peak oil, means a flight path to a stormy future

The  Aviation White Paper released 16/12/2009 adopts outdated air traffic growth projections done by BITRE before the global financial crisis and ignores peak oil 2005-2008. While BITRE went to great lengths in its modeling to account for past events like 9/11, SARS and the Asian financial crisis by introducing dummy variables, the aviation white paper [...]

Oil crunch delayed by 11 days since Oilympic peak in July 2008

It’s very easy to calculate. The monthly oil peak was in July 2008 at 74,735 mb/d of crude oil. The average during an 8 month period preceding that spike was 74 mb/d.

Since then, production dropped by an average of 1.6 mb/d over a period of 14 months. Compared to an assumed level of 74 mb/d [...]

James Hansen: Storms of My Grandchildren

ABC TV Lateline’s Tony Jones had an interview with NASA’s climatologist James Hansen

Hansen just published a book entitled “Storms of My Grandchildren, The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity”

http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com

Here are some extracts from the Lateline interview:

Climate Scientist discusses Copenhagen summit

TONY JONES: Now you’re accusing governments of lying [...]

New Liberal leader Tony Abbott did not know what peak oil is

Does he know it now?

In July 2008, at the Writer’s Festival http://www.themonthly.com.au/taxonomy/term/176?page=1

Hardly noticed at the time, this is the video of the day in crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/02/peak-oil after Tony Abbott has now become new leader of the opposition. Here is a transcript of an excerpt:

  Q: “Does the Liberal Party have a policy on peak oil?”

Tony [...]