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Sutherland Climate Action Network presentation Presented to Sutherland Shire Environment Centre Annual General Meeting 20th September 2007. A 10-minute personal perspective on climate change - the urgency of action, the global and local effects and the Australian and NSW political response so far. Ends with a call to action. To see the ...

Article published in Sutherland Shire Environment Centre newsletter: Climate change is real and we must act. But what targets should we aim for? And by when? Jonathan Doig from Sutherland Climate Action Network argues the case for “beyond zero emissions”.

NASA's James Hansen pieces together a fascinating and compelling paleoclimatic history with alarming implications for our times. An edited version of his address to the Zero Emissions conference in Melbourne in July. The audio is also available as 23 short segments in this zipfile. 

The Earth today stands in imminent peril ...and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in ...

Earlier this year, prominent international climate advisor, Professor John Schellnhuber, spoke in Canberra on the topic: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change. Steve Davidson was there, and reviews the background to the widening discussion on this scenario. Published in ECOS, April-May 2006. ECOS, ''Australia´s most authoritative magazine ...

Climate change impacts mean different things to different people.

7m sea level rise would occur if Greenland's ice sheets melt completely.This has already started and will accelerate with the warming of the Arctic Sea due to loss of sea ice in summer.