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		<title>Uncertainty overdone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Earlier this month James Hansen wrote a trenchant op-ed in the New York Times.  He reiterated the warning that the exploitation of the Canadian tar sands will be game over for the climate, spelt out some of the long-term drought consequences for the US of continued warming and identified notable heat waves of the last [...]<br/>
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		<title>A sunnier outlook from the ground up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The NZ Herald business supplement recently carried a thoughtful feature by Peter Huck in which he described moves to combat climate change at lower levels than the floundering international negotiations. He begins with a report on Desertec Industrial Initiative, the German-led consortium which this year hopes to trial in Morocco a concentrated solar power plant [...]<br/>
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		<title>Murderers, tyrants and madmen (and me)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Peter Sinclair&#8217;s latest video in his This Is Not Cool series for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media picks up on Heartland head honcho Joe Bast&#8217;s allegation that: &#8220;&#8230;the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen.&#8221; Bast remains unapologetic, despite the steady loss of financial [...]<br/>
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		<title>Big coal coughs up for climate denial “conference”, takes NZ sceptics along for the ride</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As US corporate donors step away from the Heartland Institute following their ad campaign likening climate change believers to mass murderers and terrorists, big coal &#8212; in the shape of the Illinois Coal Association, supported by all the major US coal companies &#8212; has stepped in as a &#8220;Gold Sponsor&#8221; to support Heartland&#8217;s climate &#8220;conference&#8221; [...]<br/>
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		<title>Alphabet soup in Bonn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Emma Renowden is attending the first few days of the UN climate change conference in Bonn. In this guest post she looks at how negotiations are progressing, what the major issues are likely to be, and what New Zealand&#8217;s up to. After the near-failure of Durban in December last year, the current Bonn Climate Change [...]<br/>
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		<title>Stuff unstuffed (a bit)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fairfax New Zealand&#8217;s news web site Stuff has responded to criticism [Hot Topic, The Atavism, From the Morgue] of its &#8216;Solar minimum&#8217; could trigger Ice Age [WebCite#1] story last week by posting a substantially revised version [WebCite#2], now titled Research considers solar cooling period. The latest version gives a much better picture of the paleoclimate [...]<br/>
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		<title>Bangladesh: on the front line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 21:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Guardian’s environmental editor John Vidal is a journalist who takes opportunities to report the adverse effects of climate change already being experienced by some of the world’s poorer populations. In earlier posts I’ve drawn attention to pieces he’s written about Peru and some of the countries of Africa.  This week he tells of the [...]<br/>
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		<title>Stuff stuff up (another bloody ice age)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a major fail today for the new science section of the Stuff.co.nz news web site &#8212; the web portal for Fairfax NZ, home to The Press (Christchurch) and the Dominion Post (Wellington) newspaper web presences. A front page teaser &#8212; &#8220;Could cooling sun cause ice age?&#8221; (see image at left) &#8212; leads to a [...]<br/>
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		<title>2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Club of Rome has launched a new report, 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, written by Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors 40 years ago of their famous publication Limits to Growth. I’ve been listening to Randers speaking at the launch this week at Rotterdam. It’s a striking address, delivered with [...]<br/>
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		<title>NZ govt dumps national environmental standard for sea level rise</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The New Zealand government has ordered officials at the Ministry of Environment to stop work on the development of a national environmental standard (NES) on sea level rise, enquiries by the Science Media Centre have revealed. Lack of an NES for future sea level increases will force each local authority to make up its own [...]<br/>
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