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  • Jeanette Fitzsimons

    OPEN LETTER to Paul Lennon, Premier of Tasmania - by Jeanette Fitzsimons



    Jeanette here. This evening I had this letter delivered to Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon at a parliamentary function. The Premier is here researching New Zealand climate change initiatives, and I felt there was one thing in particular he could learn from our experience in New Zealand: 22 May 2008 OPEN LETTER to Paul Lennon, Premier [...] read more
    May 22, 2008 8:34 pm - 23 Comments
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    Are the Wheels Falling Off the ETS? - by Jeanette Fitzsimons



    What started off as merely a flawed and highly complex system is getting progressively worse. After weeks of intensive hearings the implications are crystallising and the flaws becoming more apparent. At the same time the Government is engaged in a process of pandering to vested interests and watering down the scheme, notifying the select committee [...] read more
    May 14, 2008 1:19 pm - 48 Comments
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    Debating climate change - by frog



    I’ve returned from across the road at Rutherford House where the ISCR was holding a public debate on ‘should New Zealand fight climate change‘. The two debaters were Victoria University’s Prof. Jonathon Boston and ISCR’s Research Principal, Richard Meade. Meade said for the purposes of the debate he would take as a given the IPCC [...] read more
    April 15, 2008 3:12 pm - 17 Comments
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    Can the media cover climate change? - by frog



    There is an interesting debate going about whether the media can and is reporting climate change effectively. The Committee for Sceptical Inquiry notes of news coverage in America: according to data tracked by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, climate change failed to crack the top twenty most covered news stories of the year. [...] read more
    March 6, 2008 3:29 pm - 7 Comments
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    A healthy climate or a new runway? - by frog



    Britain, like the rest of the world, is scrabbling to be seen to be doing something about the issue for our times: Within days of Gordon Brown’s address to the conservation group WWF, in which he pledged eye-wateringly tough reductions in British emissions of Co2, the Government has announced its support for the construction of [...] read more
    December 5, 2007 9:42 am - 38 Comments
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    How petty can Nick get? - by frog



    Nick Smith posted a press release today calling the government’s climate change initiatives a failure because the Ministry for the Environment’s emissions grew from 735 tonnes CO2e in 2005/06 to 897 tonnes in 2006/07, mostly as a result of increased air travel associated with, <shock & horror>, their climate change and environmental work. Yaaaaawn. Is [...] read more
    November 16, 2007 5:24 pm - 16 Comments
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