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World clean energy investment outstrips that in fossil fuel technology - Australia lags last
Source: The Age

Key pre-Copenhagen international climate emergency economics report - AUSTRALIA ranks last among wealthy countries in being ready to compete in a clean energy future or play its part in a strong climate treaty

22 arrested at protest at Oz power station - one of dirtiest coal power plants in world
Source: ABC News

Climate Emergency - Victorian police have arrested 22 climate change protesters at Hazelwood power station, Latrobe Valley , Victoria, Australia today - it is one of the dirtiest coal-burning power stations in the world

NASA's Dr James Hansen: ca 300 ppm CO2 needed to restore energy balance, Arctic ice
Source: U.S. Green Recovery

NASA's Dr James Hansen says that an atmospheric CO2 concentration of about 325 needed to restore planetary energy balance and about 300 ppm CO2 is needed to restore Arctic sea ice to what it was 25 years ago.

National Climate Emergency Rally, Australia 13 June - thousands protest global warming
Source: Greenlivingpedia

National Climate Emergency rallies were held across Australia on Saturday June 13, 2009. Over 4,000 people attended the rally in the heart of Melbourne to protest the climate emergency afflicting the planet.

Rising Tide scale parliament house in Canberra
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

RAW VISION: Climate change protesters disrupt Treasurer Wayne Swan's speech and unveil a banner on Parliament House. (Sydney Mornig Herald, 16/5/2009)

Top climate scientists speak out: phase out existing & no new coal-based power stations
Source: MWC News

7 top Australian climate scientists have written to the owners of Australia's coal-fired power stations asking that existing coal-based power stations be phased out and no new coal-based power stations be built.

Letter to ALL Oz Federal MPs re Climate Emergency & LYING

Australia leads world in coal exports and per capita greenhouse gas pollution - but its Government, advised by lying, pro-Coal lobbyists, won't act. Read my letter to ALL Australian Federal MPs and do LIKEWISE in US, UK etc.

Thousands Walk Against Warming - Government Inaction over Global Warming Slammed
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Tens of thousands marched in Sydney 's CBD to protest Rudd Government inaction over global warming and the Climate Emergency that is threatening the Planet; protester view: "To not act now would be a disaster."

Global Avaaz.org Congrats & Wish List Letter to Barack Obama

Avaaz.org has asked people around the world to sign a congratulatory letter to President-elect Barack Obama urging action on the climate emergency, torture, poverty and withdrawal from war and occupation in Iraq.

Climate & Stop War Tasks for Obama, 7th "black" US President

Obama is probably the 7th African American-origin President of the United States. African American and anti-racist American joy is understandable but now Obama must stop economic collapse, wars and global warming.

What Top World Scientists Say About the Climate Emergency
Source: Green Blog

Here are about 2 dozen recent, Web-documented, expert statements from outstanding, world-leading climate change experts, other eminent scientific experts and top scientific organizations with expertise to make authoritative comments about the Climate Emergency and related matters …

Top Oil CEO: Peak Oil Trigger for Global Sustainability & Climate Emergency SOLUTION
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

we must establish an emergency, nation-building response plan to place the economy on a low-carbon footing, minimising the consumption of oil, akin to a 21st Century version of ... the Marshall Plan, which reconstructed Europe

Melbourne "Climate Emergency!" human sign in Australian & Tuvalu climate PROTEST
Source: Australian News Network

Wearing red, members of more than 60 environmental groups protested in central Melbourne, marched to the Alexandra Gardens where they formed a 140m-long human "sign" spelling Climate Emergency.

Huge thaw could yield summer ice-free Arctic by 2013
Source: The Scotsman

Sea ice is melting at a faster rate than last year, despite a cold winter, according to scientists from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) - they say the Arctic could be ice free by 2013.

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