News & Views item - April 2007

 

 

While the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Malcolm Turnbull, Marches to the Prime Minister's Drumbeat CSIRO Starts Telling it Like it is. (April 4, 2007)

    While the Coalition's Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Malcolm Turnbull, berates the Labor opposition for not recognising that Australia's actual contribution to climate change (global warming) is miniscule (heaven forbid we should set an example), the journal Nature reports on the detrimental effects of local pollution on rainfall and CSIRO is becoming increasing visible.

 

A sampling from today's Google News.

Climate change poses threat to southern fisheries: CSIRO
ABC Online - Australia
The CSIRO study on the future of marine life, found climate change is warming up Australia's east coast waters. Report co-author Tom Oakey says it is ...

Warming sea to hit commercial fisheries: CSIRO
ABC Online - Australia
A new CSIRO report has warned that climate change is causing a significant change in the make-up of Australia's oceans. ...

Emissions can be cut, we just need the will
The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
As Graeme Pearman, formerly the CSIRO's top climate change scientist, declared frankly: "We don't know all the science. We don't know all the solutions. ...

Research tests stormwater harvesting
Brisbane Times - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The five-year plan, including $25 million over five years from the State Government, includes researchers from University of Queensland, CSIRO and Griffith ...

Study to investigate waste water irrigation of vineyards
ABC Online - Australia
The CSIRO has found that, on average, two litres of water is wasted for every bottle of wine produced. Researcher Anu Kumar says most of the water is used ...