By Rosslyn Beeby From The Canberra Times, November 26, 2007 Australia’s northern Aboriginal communities will bear the brunt of climate change, with increases in water-borne diseases and loss of traditional food sources, an international report says. In the Torres Strait Islands, at least 8000...
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Rich Nations Renege on Promised Climate Change Aid
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Indonesia: Biofuel Threatens Indigenous Farmers and Tropical Forests
From The Australian, November 24, 2007 Elderly ethnic Dayak farmer Hussin sits on the raised timber floor of his home, a shack on 6ha of mixed forest, itself nestled in thousands of hectares of oil palm plantation.Hussin (“I’m probably 65 or 70, I’d say”) and his wife...
The Public Route to Sustainable Homes
Glyn Robbins is a member of Unite, the largest manufacturing union in Britain, and a supporter of Defend Council Housing. This article is a contribution to the discussion at the coming Trade Union Conference on Climate Change, to be held at the University of London on February 9, 2008. For more...
How Can an Effective Climate Change Movement be Built?
From Green Left Weekly, Nov. 16 2007 by Kamala Emanuel (Kamala Emanuel is a Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate in New South Wales, in this week’s election in Australia) November 11’s national Walk Against Warming was an important initiative for the climate change movement. It was...
Droughts, floods, hunger, malnutrition, disease, extinctions, fires, storms ….
The IPCC Synthesis Report, published November 17, describes these as “some examples of projected regional impacts.” Bear in mind that IPCC reports are consistently conservative. Quoting pages 10 and 11 … Africa • By 2020, between 75 and 250 million of people are projected to be exposed to...
Conference Report: "From Climate Crisis to Climate Justice"
By John Riddell John Riddell is co-editor of Socialist Voice NOVEMBER 17 — Today the Toronto Climate Campaign organized a teach-in called “From Climate Crisis to Climate Justice,” a building action for the December 8 global day of environmental action. About 100 attended —...
IPCC: "Abrupt or Irreversible Climate Changes and Impacts"
From Agence France Presse The UN’s Nobel-winning panel on climate change on Friday completed a draft report that said the consequences of global warming could be far-reaching and irreversible. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) encapsulates a massive review of...
"Climate Sceptics" Whine About Bias — But Where is the Evidence?
By Richard Black From BBC News Of all the accusations made by the vociferous community of climate sceptics, surely the most damaging is that science itself is biased against them. That was a view I put forward nearly a year ago now in another article for the BBC News website, and nothing has...
Australians Walk Against Warming
November 11, 2007. The article below is from news.com.au THOUSANDS of people have marched through Australia’s streets today for the second annual Walk Against Warming, calling for greater action on climate change and renewable energy targets. In Sydney, organisers said crowd marshals counted...

