Gidday all,

Citizens of Australia have drafted a Climate Protection Bill that we
want passed in parliment.

http://climatemovement.org.au/component/option,com_fabrik/Itemid,418/

Please sign the bill to show support for it and forward the request to
all your contacts.

The contents of the bill will form an "Ask" at this years Walks Against
Warming.  Brisbane is holding one on Saturday 25th August.  Watch
http://climatebrisbane.com for more details.  All of Australia will be
holding a walk 2 weeks before the federal election.  Watch
http://climatemovement.org.au.  This site also contains a map to allow
you for search for a local climate action group (LCAG) in any region in
Australia.

The rest of the world will be holding their walk on the 8th December
2007.  See http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/.

Cheers,

Brooke



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Today, there is a great opportunity for you to grill Malcolm Turnbull on
all things climate change. Go to:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/yoursay/index.php/dailytelegraph/comment\
s/malcolm_turnbull_live_blog/
and post your question to the environment minister this morning.

He will be blogging from 12pm, attempting to answer your questions so
chuck a curve ball at Malcolm and let's see if he can hit it!

Cheers,

--
Julien Gronbach
Clean Energy Campaigner
Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Level 4, 39 Liverpool St
Sydney NSW 2000

Ph: 02 9263 0348
Mob: 0419 179 529

Want some good news? Sign up for Switched On - the Greenpeace Energy
team's monthly email update on clean energy solutions:
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/climate/index.html

Dear all,

You may be interested in this project.  Some volunteers are trying to
build a group of people interested in fitting PV (Photo-voltaics) to
their homes for local energy generation.  This will reduce costs and
will make the action of getting more renewables in place happen a lot
quicker.  This is in Brisbane and I'm not sure what is happening in
other cities, though it wold be worth looking out for.

Cheers,

Brooke

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  Local Power - PV solar newsletter #1
Date:  Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:53:26 +1000 (EST)
From:  <info@...>
To:  localpower@...



Hi.

Thank you for your interest in Local Power.  This is our first
email update and we promise we won't overburden your inbox
with too many email messages.

Going solar (the basics for new comers to the idea)
---------------------------------------------------
PV Solar panels installed on your roof will allow you to
generate green electricity and reduce your greenhouse gas
emissions and over time will pay for itself.  A PV Solar
system consists of a number of solar panels on your roof,
cabling, and an inverter (which converts the DC electricity
which the panels generate to AC which your lights and
appliances can use).  The inverter is then wired into your
circuit breaker box which powers your home.  An additional
electricity meter is also installed to measure how much
electricity is being "exported" to the grid, which you get
paid for, if you are not using it at the time.  At night you
continue to purchase electricity from the grid as normal.  In
rural areas where there is no grid, people also have batteries
which store the electricity allowing it to be used at night.
Batteries significantly increase the cost of the solar system
and also need to be replaced after a number of years.

Advantages of a buying group
----------------------------
As you know, Local Power’s first project is a PV Solar buying
group, so that we can save money through bulk buying.  In the
case of PV Solar there are several areas of savings for the
installation companies which can then be passed on to the
customers.  Firstly they can buy the panels in bulk from the
manufacturers.  Secondly they can spend less money on sales
and marketing.  Thirdly by installing the systems locally on a
suburb by suburb basis, their installers and electricians can
greatly reduce travel time and work together more effectively
to efficiently install the PV systems on a number of nearby
homes at one time.

Where are we up to?
-------------------
We have been very busy since we launched our website in
mid-June.  After starting with emailing friends and family, we
also began letterbox dropping the West End (4101) area.  After
issuing a media release about the project, 612 ABC radio
picked up the story and interviewed one of our founders and in
the same week we had positive coverage in the City South News.
  Many of you signed up to our website on that week.  Welcome!

We are all volunteers and are working in our spare time as
quickly as we can to get this initiative up and running.  We
are continuing the letterbox drop campaign in the West End
area.  We still rely heavily on word of mouth to get the word
out and would welcome your help.  Please talk with your
family, friends, neighbours and colleagues about your interest
in solar power generation.  For those of you who like to walk
in your neighborhood outside of 4101, Local Power is happy to
provide some fliers you can distribute in your suburb (while
stocks last).  A couple of people, after seeking permission,
emailed all the people in their workplace to get the word out,
which also generated a lot of registrations of interest for
us.  Thanks!

What's next?
------------
We expect to have our target of 500 people signed up to the
Local Power website by the end of August or before if current
trends continue (your assistance can help achieve this goal!)
We can then get an indicative saving and price for the various
sized systems from several suppliers based on the number of
people interested.  The actual price for your specific home
may vary as different types of roof and length of cables to
the inverter, switchbox, meters etc., can change the price of
materials and labour.

By that time we also plan to have a public meeting, for anyone
interested in attending, to outline how PV solar electricity
works, the buying group process going forward as we see it,
and also to answer any questions which may arise as a result
of that meeting.  Soon after that, we will then call for a
formal "expression of interest" where we can confirm your
street address, size of the system you would like etc.  In
some cases the suppliers may need to do a site inspection to
ensure you will have enough room on your northern roof, not
have too much shading etc..

If you have any questions, please email us and we will try and
answer them individually the best we can, but we will also
develop an FAQ (Frequently asked questions) section on the
website.  Unfortunately we can't speak to you all on the phone
to answer your questions at this time, due to the volume of
interest.

We look forward to working with you and perhaps meeting you at
the public meeting, where you will also be able to meet with
others like yourselves making a positive difference in helping
the environment for ourselves and future generations.

That's all for now.  Thanks again for your interest and support.

regards,
The Local Power team
email - info@...
web - http://localpower.net.au



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Dear All
I will be staging an overnight vigil 5th and 6th August Hiroshima day
outside the Indian Point Nuclear Reactor upstate New York. Creatively
express, greave, meditate and dance with me, for an end to a Nuclear mad
world.
Let us share a vision of a world without war, poverty and fear. One of love,
care and share.

Benny Zable, for healing one self, one another, the earth.


http://greennuclearbutterfly.blogspot.com/2007/07/benny-zable-indian-point-overn\
ight.html

>From: Remy Chevalier <remyc@...>
>To: indianpointsec <indianpointsec@yahoogroups.com>, CTSOS
><ctsos@yahoogroups.com>, LuMag List <LuMag@yahoogroups.com>,
>FairfieldCountyGreens <FairfieldCountyGreens@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Benny Zable Indian Point Overnight Vigil ~ Aug 5th & 6th
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:58:16 -0400
>
>Benny Zable Indian Point Overnight Vigil ~ Aug 5th & 6th
>http://greennuclearbutterfly.blogspot.com/2007/07/benny-zable-indian-point-over\
night.html
>Join us in front of Indian Point
>Buchanan, NY
>August 5th & 6th
>for an overnight vigil!
>
>
>In solidarity with his nuclear free campaigners in the USA, Benny Zable
>Australian peace and environmental performance artist is available for
>photo opportunities outside the Indian Point Nuclear Reactor during an
>overnight vigil 5th and 6th August Hiroshima day commemorations.
>
>Friday the core of the new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights collapsed.
>
>US President Bush and Australian Prime Minister Howard are to sign a Global
>Nuclear Energy Partnership deal during the APEC meeting in Sydney.
>
>Good time to meet to talk .
>
>
>Benny Zable
>bennyzable@...
>http://www.bennyzable.com
>
>
>You can reach Benny at:
>West Side Cultural
>212-496-2030
>
>
>Alice Slater
>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
>446 E. 86 St.
>New York, NY 10028
>212-744-2005
>646-238-9000 (cell)
>aslater@...
>http://www.wagingpeace.org
>
>Posted by RemyC

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Gidday all,

Citizens of Australia have drafted a Climate Protection Bill that we
want passed in parliment.

http://climatemovement.org.au/component/option,com_fabrik/Itemid,418/

Please sign the bill to show support for it and forward the request to
all your contacts.

The contents of the bill will form an "Ask" at this years Walks Against
Warming.  Brisbane is holding one on Saturday 25th August.  Watch
http://climatebrisbane.com for more details.  All of Australia will be
holding a walk 2 weeks before the federal election.  Watch
http://climatemovement.org.au.  This site also contains a map to allow
you for search for a local climate action group (LCAG) in any region in
Australia.

The rest of the world will be holding their walk on the 8th December
2007.  See http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/.

Cheers,

Brooke


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

i realise this isn't GW/CC related but i think this police state
issue requires as much public awareness as possible.
[seems our officials require the authority to plant false evidence]  >

[Greens-Media]
Sat, 28 Jul 2007


  Crimes Legislation Amendment (National Investigative and Witness
Protection) Bill 2006-7


Greens call on Ruddock to Drop AFP Secret House Search Laws

28th July, 2007

Greens Leader Bob Brown says the Haneef fiasco underscores the dangers
of a new bill giving the Australian Federal Police power to secretly
search people's houses.  The householder would never be told of the
search.

"The Howard government should drop this proposal, due to be passed by
the government Senate majority next month.  It is a dangerous law
because it allows police to obtain a warrant to search a property and
  in
some circumstances take items from the property, and not let the owner
know for six months, or in some circumstances, ever.  These "sneak and
peak" powers are unconstitutional in the USA," Senator Brown said.
------------------------------------------------------------------
and a bit of related history >
Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005

Attorney-General portfolio  Bill number 05175

Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005 is available as a PDF file (141
pages)
http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/Repository/Legis/Bills/Linked/0311
0504.pdf

Thank you Kim
I am in NewYork City helping out ECOFEST <www.ecofest.com>
One of the presidential candidates which addresses this issue of money and
debt and is prepared to do something about it is Representative Dennis
Kucinich <www.kucinich.us>
Check out his policies on U TUBE.

Benny Zable

>From: "Kim Bax" <kim_bax@...>
>Reply-To: ClimateChangeAction@...
>To: ClimateChangeAction@...
>Subject: [ClimateChangeAction] Incredible DVD on money & debt . . .
>Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:01:47 -0000
>
>I've just watched this incredible DVD on-line, and now I'm going to
>network it in my local community, including speaking to my daughter's
>high school about showing it to students.  Maybe others getting this
>email could also think about doing the same, or even just pass the
>info on to friends/contacts - and ask them to do the same.  Here's an
>extract from the "Google" video link:-
>
><<Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt"
>tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and
>how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get
>the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan
>Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I
>recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and
>encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned
>with the present unsustainable monetary system . . .>>
>
>And here are the links:-
>
>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
>9050474362583451279&q=money+as+debt
>
>http://www.moneyasdebt.net/
>

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Please forward this around your contacts

Benny Zable


>From: "McLeod, Vikki (Sen L. Allison)" <Vikki.McLeod@...> (by way of
>John Hallam Nuclear Flashpoints)
>To: sydneynuclearfree@...
>Subject: [sydneynuclearfree] FW: LIES, STEALTH AND URANIUM
>Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:17:18 +1000
>
>FYI
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chvastek, Nicole (Sen L. Allison)
>Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 10:38 AM
>To: Chvastek, Nicole (Sen L. Allison)
>Subject: LIES, STEALTH AND URANIUM
>
>DEMOCRATS
>
>MEDIA
>thurs 26 july 2007
>
>SENATOR LYN ALLISON
>
>AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRATS LEADER
>
>energy and infrastructure spokesperson
>
>
>
>lies, stealth and uranium
>
>
>
>The Australian Democrats have condemned reported new moves by the
>Howard Government to sell uranium to India in what appears to be a
>dangerous break from existing policy.
>
>
>
>  "Anyone who thinks the nuclear industry is not going to be
>dramatically expanded under another term of the Howard Government is
>delusional", Australian Democrats Leader, Senator Lyn Allison said
>today.
>
>
>
>  "This is typical of the stealth tactics that we have seen used by
>this government over many years. It's a whispering campaign whereby
>leaks test the waters while allowing the government to deny any deal
>has been done".
>
>
>
>As recently as May Resources Minister Ian MacFarlane was categorical
>when answering questions about selling uranium to India thus:  "The
>answer is noŠThe Australian uranium industry can prosper without
>IndiaŠ.We have a prohibition on the basis that they have not signed
>the Non Proliferation Treaty".
>
>
>
>"So what's changed?" Senator Allison said today.   "The Howard
>Government is obsessed with cheerleading for a toxic and dangerous
>nuclear future.  Any deal to sell uranium to India will undermine the
>most fundamental international treaty on weapons proliferation and
>could lead to further escalation of tensions in South-Asia".
>
>
>
>Media contact -Nicole Chvastek 0417 613 610
>
>Paul Watson 0408 056167

_________________________________________________________________
http://liveearth.msn.com

I've just watched this incredible DVD on-line, and now I'm going to
network it in my local community, including speaking to my daughter's
high school about showing it to students.  Maybe others getting this
email could also think about doing the same, or even just pass the
info on to friends/contacts - and ask them to do the same.  Here's an
extract from the "Google" video link:-

<<Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt"
tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and
how it ... all » is being created. It is an entertaining way to get
the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan
Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I
recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and
encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned
with the present unsustainable monetary system . . .>>

And here are the links:-

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
9050474362583451279&q=money+as+debt

http://www.moneyasdebt.net/

[Greens-Media]
*Media Statement*
Wed, 25 Jul 2007

[b]Greens launch ad of Howard and Rudd in bed together[/b]

The Greens NSW Campaign Coordinator, Lesa de Leau, today released an
online advertisement - paid for the by The Greens - parodying Labor's
*Howard Asleep on Climate Change* ad.

The ad – *Howard and Rudd in Bed with the Coal Industry *– will go
online today on Myspace, YouTube, Facebook and Greens websites (see
URLs below).
The Greens will also seek donations to run the advertisement on
  television.

The ad shows John Howard and Kevin Rudd asleep in a double bed. Kevin
Rudd has fallen asleep with a copy of Al Gore's *Inconvenient Truth*
book on his face. The voiceover describes the failings of Kevin
Rudd's climate
  policy and ends with "Howard and Rudd in bed with the coal industry."

Internal party polling shows Greens supporters have high rate of
  internet use and increasingly people are getting their information
about politics from the internet. It is clear much of this election
will be fought online.

Release of the ad follows further steps this week by Kevin Rudd to
join John Howard in rejecting sensible policies on the environment
and climate change when he overturned Labor's Tasmanian forest policy.

Despite the threat of climate change, Kevin Rudd has refused to set
short term emission reduction targets and has committed to an
expansion of the coal industry. Unproven "clean coal" – that won't be
available for decades – is favoured by Labor over renewable energy
such as wind, solar and geothermal. Rudd and Howard have also both
ruled out a carbon tax to reduce emissions.

Labor and Liberal's polices will take us past the dangerous and
critical threshold of two degrees of global warming.

However, The Australian Greens have a real plan to tackle climate
  change:

·Immediate emission cuts of 30% by 2020 and 80% by 2050 from 1990
levels.

· Support for an emissions trading for stationary energy and a carbon
tax on transport emissions.

· Establish a National Sun Fund to fund research and
  development of renewable industries.

·Set the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target to ensure 25% renewable
energy by 2020.

·Redirect roads funding toward investment in public transport.

·End the logging of old growth forests.



  The ad can be seen at the following sites and a high res screen
image is available on request:

www.greens.org.au
www.nsw.greens.org.au
YouTube:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kahjxSuOqA
<http://www.nsw.greens.org.au/>MySpace: www.myspace.com/kerrynettle
Facebook: www.facebook.com/video/video
.php?v=2648028242<http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?
v=2648028242>


*For more information:
Kristian Bolwell 0411 638 320, Lesa de Leau 0413 581 603


Kind regards
El Gibbs
Greens NSW Lower House Campaign Coordinator
w: (02) 9519 0877 m: 0419 290788 f: (02) 9519 2177

i've been wondering when the veg nazis would use GW/CC as an excuse to
demonise carnivores/omnivores in their quest to enforce their dodgey
dietary regimes on everyone else and promote soy toxins as food.
if only they realised the forest destruction done so U$A's largest
agricultural industry - soy beans - can displace traditional foods with
their carcinogen and anti-nutrient laden gunk.

recently some veg fundamentalists who've managed to be appointed to a
UN committee, came out condemning meat production on methane/global
warming grounds.

yes cattle, sheep and pigs release methane [23 times worse greenhouse
gas than CO2]and have done so since before domestication. IMO it's the
scale/size and wastefulness of contemporary meat production which needs
addressing. and no amount of zinc deficient irrational fabrications
will alter my view or diet.

in times of plenty roos can breed like rodents, and in times of
scarceness they can postpone the birth of offspring. making them
enviromentally sound farm animals.
don't know how they'll deal with fencing and mustering issues, but a
recently published CSIRO study implies we may have to switch to
kangaroo farming for meat because roos don't produce methane.

http://www.kangaroo-industry.asn.au/media/Bulletin_24401.html
http://www.csiro.au/csiro/channel/ich3j.html
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/72/paper/EA03248.htm
http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=RJ9830035

Myths & Truths About Soy
http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtsoy.html

ajada haituka = sanskrit for 'goat-eating heretic'


  ---- In ClimateChangeAction@..., "Peter Bright"
<hobart_elf@...> wrote:
>
> http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19526134.500?DCMP=NLC-
nletter&nsref=mg19526134.500
>

This email sent via John Hallam, confirms what has been going on behind the
scenes of clearing the way for Nuclear Dumps and the railway links
Halliburton is building.

We need to highlight the ramification of what this deal is truly about, of
why produce more  radioactive waste products.

"Fueling a new breed of Nuclear Weapons."

I am heading off to New York City on Wednesday and will be discussing this
matter with Nanci Callahan who produces and directs ECOFEST at the Lincoln
Center. <http://www.ecofest.com/>

I will also be performing in New Jersey on Hiroshima Day.

Yours Benny Zable

US

Alice Slater
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, New York
446 E. 86 St.
New York, NY 10028
212-744-2005
646-238-9000(cell)
aslater@...
www.wagingpeace.org

-----Original Message-----
From: bananas-bounces@...
[mailto:bananas-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Alfred Meyer
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 7:13 PM
To: Bananas
Subject: [Bananas] Australia poised to sign onto GNEP with US

Australia poised to sign nuclear deal with US
Anne Davies, Washington
July 20, 2007

According to draft plans seen by The Age, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
and Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane want the deal announced when US
President George Bush comes to Australia in September for the APEC leaders'
summit.

The deal could advance Prime Minister John Howard's push for Australia to
embrace nuclear power, including providing access to the latest
technological advances.

"The proposed action plan would help to open the way for valuable nuclear
energy co-operation with the United States," a briefing note says.

"It would also be consistent with the Government's strategy for the nuclear
industry in Australia. An action plan on nuclear energy would also have
bilateral advantages further broadening our relationship with the United
States.

"While the US has not raised the possibility, the action plan may be a
possible 'announceable' for President Bush's visit in September."

But the proposal appears to stop short of recommending Australia sign up
with the controversial club of nuclear nations, the Global Nuclear Energy
Partnership (GNEP), being championed by Mr Bush.

An initiative of Washington, the GNEP is seeking to control the
distribution, reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel around the world.
Member nations include Russia, China, the US, Japan and France.

Mr Bush has said the initiative is central to tackling climate change, and
that its aim is to ensure the safe growth of the nuclear industry while
limiting the risk of proliferation of nuclear material for weapons.

US officials have indicated that Australia's status as a "totally reliable
and trustworthy" nation could allow its inclusion in the plan as a fuel
supplier.

But the proposal is controversial for Australia partly because storage of
nuclear waste by GNEP partners is an integral part of the arrangement.

The Federal Government has repeatedly said Australia will not take other
countries' waste.

The GNEP countries met in Washington in May and agreed to work on plans that
control the supply of all nuclear fuel and its reprocessing and waste
disposal. Non-partnership countries would be leased fuel only if they
complied with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Australia, the world's biggest exporter of unprocessed uranium, and Canada,
another big supplier, have expressed interest in GNEP.

But GNEP is seen by some developing nations as highly divisive, and
Australia's membership could alarm neighbours including Indonesia.

It would also rekindle heated debate in Australia over the development of
nuclear power, and would inevitably raise the spectre of a nuclear waste
dump.

Officials working on the US-Australia initiative flag this concern in their
note, saying that signing "a joint nuclear energy action plan would be on
the basis that this would not limit possible future choices regarding
Australia's nuclear industry. It will be important also to ensure there is
no misperception on the United States' part that conclusion of an action
plan could have implications for the Government's policy of not taking other
countries' radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel."

A US Energy Department spokeswoman, Angela Hill, said: "The vision of GNEP
is something we would hope Australia and other countries can support."

A spokesman for Mr Downer confirmed that discussions on an agreement were
under way, focusing on safeguards and research and development.

Alfred Meyer, Program Director
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
322 4th Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
202-544-0217
202-544-6143 fax
www.ananuclear.org
ameyer@...

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FYI incase you didn't know about this event.

Also, the Brisbane Walk Against Warming will be on Sat 25th August 2007,
starting at Queens Park in Brisbane City.  More details to come.

Cheers,

Brooke

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  [WalkAgainstWarming] Climate change climate action forum
Date:  Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:00:45 +1000 (EST)
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Hi all,
Here's an upcoming event you may be interested in.
Please forward to your networks.
Emma:)

Sunday | 29 July | 9:30am - 4pm
Ecocentre | Griffith University | Nathan Campus

Concerned about climate change and how to bring about
effective action? Want to get active in your community?

To address the urgent issue of climate change, we need to take action both
on an individual level and as citizens engaged in political
processes.

This event will give you the opportunity to connect and engage with other
people who are creating positive social change.

WORKSHOPS ON:
* Lobbying
* Clean energy
* Sustainable transport
* Strategising
* Non-violent direct action
* Climate justice
* Food
* Carbon offsets
* Climate change... and more!

INCLUDING PRESENTATIONS FROM:
* Trevor Berill | Alternative Technology Association
* James Wheelan | The Change Agency
* Kelly-Ann Wickham | Queensland Greens
* Tristan Peach | Community Action for Sustainable Transport

Entry by donation | Morning tea & lunch provided
Numbers limited | Registration essential

For more information email emma.brindal@...
<mailto:emma.brindal%40foe.org.au>
or 3846 5793/ 0411 084 727
Take the 120 bus from stop A4 under the Myer Centre.
This event is organised by a coalition of Brisbane environment
and climate action groups.




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WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com

World Gathering NEWS July 15, 2007
1) WORLD GATHERING 25/26 August 2007
2) 12 UFO Lights Point To World Gathering
3) Hopi Elder's Warning: Unite For Survival
4) Michael And His Angels Fight The Dragon
5) MAYAN Recluse Calls For Groups To Unite
6) Words of Inspiration To Change The World
7) Support World-Action And World Gathering

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'SOS - The Planet And Humanity Are In Trouble':
http://www.worldgathering.net/beacon.html

World Gathering NEWS Mailing List:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering

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1) WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007

World Gathering
- 25 & 26 August 2007
- Saturday and Sunday
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com

- WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007
- Global Meetings - Global Powwows
- SOS - The Planet And Humanity Are In Trouble
- Exchange The Information And Ideas You Have
- Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide
- Use Flashlights - Signal Other Hilltops
- 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 WORLD GATHERING
- www.worldgathering.net
- www.michael-irving.com

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"A very great vision is needed and the person who
has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest
blue of the sky." - Chief Crazy Horse
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WORLD GATHERING - August 2007
Saturday August 25 and Sunday August 26
Three Events In One .....
(1) Saturday - DAY: Meet with friends and contacts
and discuss the world situation. Share information.
(2) Saturday - NIGHT: Meet on a hilltop and shine
a beacon of hope through the evening and/or night.
(3) Sunday - DAY: Meet with friends and contacts
and discuss the world situation. Share information.

Main details for the World Gathering:
http://www.worldgathering.net/gathering.html

Arrange Meetings, Powwows, and/or Hilltop 'Beacon'
gatherings for Saturday and Sunday, 25 & 26 August.
Send your event details to the email on this page:
http://www.worldgathering.net/contact.html

Details of LOCAL 'World Gatherings' will be displayed
under fourteen 'World Regions'; then by Country/Nation;
then by area, state, etc. The main index for details
of LOCAL 'World Gatherings' is on this webpage:
http://www.worldgathering.net/events.html

ENGLAND - UFFINGTON WHITE HORSE And Castle
Noon Saturday 25 August, to, 6pm Sunday 26 August.
Dragon Hill - White Horse - Uffington Castle -
Ridgeway Path - Wayland's Smithy (1 mile walk).
Talking Circle / Powwow inside Uffington Castle:
3pm and 9pm on Saturday - Noon on Sunday.
http://www.worldgathering.net/events031.html

'What should I organise in my area for the World
Gathering?' - Ideas and suggestions on this webpage:
http://www.worldgathering.net/yourevent.html

Join our Google NEWS Mailing List:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering

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"We are at the final stages now. so as our prophecy
says. Then it must be up to the people with pure hearts
that will not be afraid to help us to fulfil our destiny
in peace for this world." - Dan Evehema, Hopi Nation
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World Gathering
25 & 26 August 2007
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com

Please forward to friends and contacts.
Thank you. World Gathering.

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2) 12 UFO Lights Point To World Gathering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPIXu6hzF8

In this short video from Santiago, Chile, South
America, the 12 aerial objects: (a) Gather together,
(b) Head towards three, low hills, (c) And towards
a hill with a beacon on the top - These are many of
the key features of World Gathering: Gather together;
go to hilltops; shine a light through the night.
The three low hills in the Chilean UFO video look
very similar to the three hills of WG's logo.

More information here:
http://www.worldgathering.net/news02.html

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3) Hopi Elder's Warning, "Unite For Survival"

"... a warning that we must reform, telling us that
people of all colour must unite and arise for survival,
and that we must uncover the causes of our dilemmas."

http://www.worldgathering.net/news05.html

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4) Michael And His Angels Fight The Dragon

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and
his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their
place found any more in heaven.

http://www.worldgathering.net/news06.html

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5) MAYAN Recluse Calls For Groups/People To Unite

As he met with audiences in Santa Fe, Mr. Barrios
told a story about the most recent Mayan New Year
ceremonies in Guatemala. He said that one respected
Mam elder, who lives all year in a solitary mountain
cave, journeyed to Chichicastenango to speak with
the people at the ceremony.

The elder delivered a simple, direct message. He called
for human beings to come together in support of life.
Right now each person and group is going his or her
own way. The elder of the mountains said there is hope
if the people of the light can come together and unite
in some way.

More here:
http://www.worldgathering.net/news01.html

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6) Words of Inspiration To Change The World

"We must do what we conceive to be the right thing
and not bother our heads or burden our souls with
whether we will be successful. Because if we don't
do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing
and we will just be a part of the disease and not
a part of the cure." - E. F. Schumacher

"Each of us is put here in this time and this
place to personally decide the future of humankind.
Did you think you were put here for something less?"
- Chief Arvol Looking Horse

"To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and
day, to make you just like everybody else - is to
fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight,
and never stop fighting." - e. e. cummings

"We are at the final stages now ... so as our
prophecy says. Then it must be up to the people
with pure hearts that will not be afraid to help
us to fulfil our destiny in peace for this world"
- Dan Evehema, Hopi Nation elder

"Learn to listen to the voice of truth which is
within you and will lead you onto the path of
evolution. This is our message to you, our dear
friends. We have watched you growing for many
years, just as you have watched our lights in the
sky. You know now that we are here and that there
are more beings on and around your Earth than
your scientists care to admit. We are deeply
concerned about you and your path towards the
light and we will do all that we can to
help you."
- This is the ending of the 1977 'Voice-Over
Message' in the UK. Millions of TV viewers
in southern England heard a voice give this
message while normal TV pictures were shown.
TV engineers struggled to stop the audio
broadcast, but failed. A similar TV voice-over
happened in the USA within a year or two
of the above message.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter." - Martin Luther King

"The most courageous act is still to think for
yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel

"The world is now too dangerous for anything less
than utopia." - Buckminster Fuller

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7) Support World-Action & World Gathering

I am asking people who have benefited now or in
the past from inspiration, information and events
organised through the various websites I have had
over the years, to make a donation.

Even $5 is a help and encouragement.

Please go to this webpage:
http://www.worldgathering.net/news03.html

Please pass this request to friends who know about
World-Action, Stop-Chemtrails, World Gathering,
Inspiring Times, Words Waken World, etc.

Sincerely, Michael Irving
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com

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World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com

Please forward to friends, contacts and mailing lists
- Thank you

http://www.ata.org.au/home-page-items/the-abc-swindle/

http://www.alternet.org/environment/56125/

Dear People of climatechangeaction@... ,

Just to let you know that the SEVENTH year of my ezine Bobbing Around has
started. I had way too much excellent material for the first issue. It's
over-size, and I still have lots of good writing for the next one.

All the same, I managed to squeeze in a little bit of my own writing. :)

To have a look, please go to http://mudsmith.net/bobbing7-1.html
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17. The Swindle: play spot the difference
By Dr Paul Tregoning from Earth Physics, ANU Research School of Earth
Sciences



The Great Global Warming Swindle was first shown in Britain in March
2007 and an edited version will be shown tonight on the ABC.

The original version presented scientific arguments that were topical
in the 1990s but, in many cases, subsequently shown to be incorrect --
often by the same scientists that suggested them in the first place.
Science has moved on substantially since then. The documentary does
not show how these early arguments have since been discredited and
replaced.


This is deceitful journalism, but very well presented and therefore
capable of hoodwinking viewers who have not had the more recent
scientific evidence presented to them. Why not do a little "homework"
first, then watch the documentary and pick out the flaws?

How many of the following errors and misrepresentations will be in the
version shown in Australia that remain from the version shown in England:


The temperature record for the 20th century that is attributed to
"NASA" bears no resemblance to the actual global mean temperature
curve from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA). Readers can
check the NASA source themselves and decide which graph is correct.
The use of an incorrect temperature curve makes for good comparisons
with some other data sets .... plotted against the correct global mean
temperature curve the comparisons are not convincing.
The documentary claimed that temperature changes are caused by sunspot
activity and has nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions. Not even
the scientist, upon whose work the graph shown is based, agrees with
this anymore: the more recent science and conclusions of Eigil
Friis-Christensen, who made comments in the documentary, were excluded
from the documentary.
John Christy makes comments that the warming of the troposphere was
less than the surface of the Earth, contrary to predictions if
greenhouse gases were causing the warming. However, he was a lead
author on a US Climate Change Science Project report in 2006 that
stated "This significant discrepancy no longer exists because errors
in the satellite and radiosonde data have been identified and
corrected. New data sets have also been developed that do not show
such discrepancies."
The documentary says that, in the past, temperature increases preceded
CO2 increases; therefore, present-day CO2 increases cannot be causing
global warming. This is nonsense - no one uses this evidence to show
that CO2 is causing global warming. Every good climate model
represents not only the past temperature/CO2 offsets but also the
present changes where increasing CO2 is the driving force causing
current temperature increases.
It was argued that global mean temperature actually fell for a while
during the 1940s-1970s but CO2 levels in the atmosphere were still
rising; therefore, they cannot be causing temperature increases if the
temperature was decreasing. The driving force for the decreases was
the increase of aerosols in the atmosphere, something that is well
understood and is modelled well by the global climate models.

Will Australians be served up the same falsified and outdated
scientific misrepresentations as were shown to the British public in
March 2007?

With just a few minutes spent reading original source information
available on the internet, Australian viewers can inform themselves
first, then sit back and watch the show.

have a watch - it's pretty clever
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/epuron-ad/


Julien Gronbach
Clean Energy Campaigner
Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Level 4, 39 Liverpool St
Sydney NSW 2000

Ph: 02 9263 0348
Mob: 0419 179 529

Want some good news? Sign up for Switched On - the Greenpeace Energy
team's monthly email update on clean energy solutions:
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/climate/index.html

5. Global warming, big oil and silicone breasts: the links
Ben Oquist, political consultant and former Greens staffer, writes:



The ABC's screening and treatment of The Great Global Warming Swindle
documentary would be funny if it wasn't so serious.

Since when has ANY documentary on the ABC received such an extensive
promotion and thoroughgoing coverage? A special Tony Jones interview –
recorded in London; a live studio panel discussion; endless
advertising; news radio etc etc.

All this would be funny except that the effect of Swindle is serious.
Deadly so. The aim of the program and its lackeys is to create doubt,
any doubt, about climate change.

Because even a little amount of doubt helps persuade the public and
politicians that the really substantial action needed to address
climate change should be put off until we are more certain about the
science.

This is the strategy so helpfully exposed in 2003 through a famous
memo from US communications guru and advisor to US Republicans, Frank
Luntz, who wrote:


The scientific debate remains open. Voters believe that there is no
consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should
the public come to believe the scientific issues are settled, their
views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you
need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary
issue in the debate...


"Doubt is our product," stated the legendary tobacco industry memo
from 1969. So it is again today with the climate skeptic industry. And
it is an industry – an industry funded clique of self promoters.

Those interviewed in Swindle are portrayed as "leading climate
scientists" when in fact they are far from it. They are part of the
skeptic network working with organisations funded by the fossil fuel
industry.


This best way to demonstrate this is to use the superb Exxon Secrets
website. Here you can put in an individual's name and see which think
tanks they are connected to and which of those receive funding from
Exxon.

Incredibly eight people who appear in Swindle are connected to 26
separate think tanks, policy centers and organisations that receive
funding from Exxon. You can see in this map (to access it, click
launch and then skip intro) the people who appear in Swindle and the
grey lines show which organisations they are connected to. Those
institutions with the dollar signs are those that have received money
from Exxon.


Unfortunately the right wing climate change deniers within the ABC and
the nation's opinion pages have successfully convinced some that the
debate about Swindle is a debate about free speech and the suppression
of dissent and ideas. But the real issues not being discussed are the
links of those in this film to the fossil fuel industry. To talk of
such things is to risk being labelled "extreme" and a "conspiracy
theorist".

But perhaps the best guide is film maker Martin Durkin's previous film
efforts. In 1999, Channel 4 in the UK broadcast in its Equinox series
(which claimed to be a series of science documentaries) a film
produced by Durkin called "Storm in a D Cup", which argued that
silicone breast implants were beneficial to a woman's health.

The Swindle documentary does contain a great story. But it is a story
that hasn't yet been told.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6290228.stm

But - on the other hand - Phillip Adams'  Late Night Live re-broadcast of
the Adelaide Festival of Ideas
does something to counter this - admittedly, perhaps. preaching to the
choir, as they say (and it will have no real effect on TV ratings!!) - but
it is quite hard hitting.

Hugh

There were 4 speakers - including James Lovelock and Peter Cullen

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/lnl_20070709.mp3




>Has anyone read anything so far about the swindle linking it to ratings?
>That's all I can see this as being about - the ABC knew they were buying
>the rights to a highly controversial documentary, spouting the opinions
>mainly of scientists with Exxon-Mobil dollars in their wallets, using
>flawed science and manipulating the views of some in the program to the
>extent that Channel 4 issued a public apology.
>
>Ratings, people... ratings!!!
>
>That said, I do acknowledge the potential for what is actually a very
>slick looking piece of work to undermine the great work done by the
>movement in convincing the public that the debate is over and provide
>fodder for the deniers, but for all the talk about freedom of
>expression, keeping a balanced view, keeping the right of the ABC happy
>blah blah, Auntie has got a hell of a lot of free publicity fro the
>pre-screening outrage! Ratings!
>
>Yours in cynicism,
>
>Julien Gronbach
>Clean Energy Campaigner
>Greenpeace Australia Pacific
>
>Level 4, 39 Liverpool St
>Sydney NSW 2000
>
>Ph: 02 9263 0348
>Mob: 0419 179 529


end


"As we peer into society's future, we - you and I, and our government -
must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease
and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the
material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their
political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all
generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow".


    Dwight Eisenhower Farewell Address, January 1961
____________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Hugh Spencer    Director of Research  |
Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station |   Phone/Fax (61)07 4098 0063

Australian Tropical Research Foundation    | http://www.austrop.org.au/

"The Bat-House", Environment Centre.       |
PMB 5 Cape Tribulation via Mossman         |     Hugh@...

Queensland 4873 Australia                  |
___________________________________________|________________________________

Has anyone read anything so far about the swindle linking it to ratings?
That's all I can see this as being about - the ABC knew they were buying
the rights to a highly controversial documentary, spouting the opinions
mainly of scientists with Exxon-Mobil dollars in their wallets, using
flawed science and manipulating the views of some in the program to the
extent that Channel 4 issued a public apology.

Ratings, people... ratings!!!

That said, I do acknowledge the potential for what is actually a very
slick looking piece of work to undermine the great work done by the
movement in convincing the public that the debate is over and provide
fodder for the deniers, but for all the talk about freedom of
expression, keeping a balanced view, keeping the right of the ABC happy
blah blah, Auntie has got a hell of a lot of free publicity fro the
pre-screening outrage! Ratings!

Yours in cynicism,

Julien Gronbach
Clean Energy Campaigner
Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Level 4, 39 Liverpool St
Sydney NSW 2000

Ph: 02 9263 0348
Mob: 0419 179 529

Want some good news? Sign up for Switched On - the Greenpeace Energy
team's monthly email update on clean energy solutions:
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/climate/index.html



Peter Bright wrote:
>
> From today's Crikey:
>
> 2. Aunty would sell its grandmother to appease the Right
>
> Andrew Dodd writes:
>
> It's just as well we humans have nothing to do with global warming
> because the amount of carbon the ABC is emitting to promote this
> apologia to right-wing conspiracy-thinking would thaw the Arctic tundra.
>
> The ABC will simulcast The Great Global Warming Swindle tomorrow night
> on ABC TV and ABC 2 while pumping out debate on News Radio, local
> radio and online.
>
> The investment might have been worthwhile if the program was any good
> or if there was some PR value in running it.
>
> But there is neither. The documentary is a polemic. It raises some
> interesting points but it's so wound up in whacko conspiracy theories
> as to make it laughable.
>
> No-one is disputing that the ABC should air programs that are
> contrary. As ABC broadcaster Quentin Dempster told Crikey, "the
> freedom of expression argument wins. We all agree that a public
> broadcaster's role is to inform and engage and to wade into
> controversies because we're not here for partisan propaganda."
>
> The problem is that the ABC's embrace of this show demonstrates how
> Aunty would sell its grandmother at the moment to appease the right
> and that, as a consequence, the editorial barriers to entry are lower
> for producers peddling programs that set out to attack the shibboleths
> of the left.
>
> I once marvelled at a freelancer's bright idea of writing an article
> about "the twenty best newspapers in the world." It was pure genius
> because, when you think about it, there is no better way of ensuring
> one article runs in the twenty best newspapers in the world. The
> author must have known that each of the featured papers simply
> couldn't resist publishing an article that ranked them in such elite
> company.
>
> Well, now there is an equally clever way of having your pedestrian
> journalistic efforts embraced. Just find a public broadcaster that's
> been beaten into almost complete submission by accusations of bias and
> offer it a get-out-of-jail-card in the form of a left-bashing diatribe
> about one of the most troubling issues on earth. The beauty of this
> idea is that the value of the program is inversely proportional to its
> journalistic credibility. The more nutty, the better it is at
> offsetting some of the criticism about left-wing bias.
>
> But for this PR to work there should be no dissent in the ranks about
> the presentation of the program. The ABC's head of factual
> entertainment, Denise Eriksen, should get out of the way and let
> talented professional journalists like Tony Jones get on with the job
> of questioning the program's writer with all the rigour this topic
> demands.
>
> Meanwhile, why wait for the ABC, check out the swindle here .
>
> Send your tips to boss@... <mailto:boss%40crikey.com.au> or
> submit them anonymously here .
>
> Back to Top
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> 3. Temperatures rise at ABC ahead of Swindle
> An ABC insider writes:
>
> There have been some amazing scenes at the ABC this week as it
> prepares to broadcast the controversial The Great Global Warming
> Swindle film tomorrow night.
>
> Research by ABC appointed journalists has revealed serious flaws in
> the film's claims, to the point that the film seems to be willfully
> misleading -- if not downright fraudulent. The problem is that in
> allowing an 'answering' program to follow the documentary, and getting
> Rottweiler Tony Jones to present it, the ABC ends up looking foolish
> for showing the film in the first place.
>
> Apparently Jones conducted a searching interview with the film's
> director, professional contrarian Martin Durkin in London last week.
> Perhaps too searching.
>
> Outgoing head of popular factual programs, Denise Eriksen, unused to
> the rigorous standards of Jones and the News and Current Affairs
> Department, has been fighting a rearguard action to try and water down
> the tough approach. Insiders say she is acting on specific
> instructions from head of TV Kim Dalton who doesn't want to look
> foolish for agreeing to run the flawed film in the first place.
>
> Eriksen was personally dispatched to London too, and behind Jones'
> back apologised to Durkin for the rough treatment and insisted on
> stacking the panel to discuss the film with climate denialists like
> Bob Carter.
>
> The ABC's own science unit -- which Eriksen controls -- had been all
> but cut out of involvement in the preparations for the answering
> program. This despite Kim Dalton claiming its award-winning unit was
> up to the task of answering Durkin's claims.
>
> Edit suites have been resounding all week to screams of outrage from
> Eriksen demanding that tough responses be cut out. Jones has more than
> once needed to make clear he will 'walk' rather than agree to a
> sanitised show. Eriksen has even gone as far as demanding a written
> rundown from Jones as to how he intends to conduct the live to air
> discussion after the Swindle film airs. He has refused to comply ...
> the stand-off may lead to a sudden change of presenter on Thursday
> night, so stay tuned.
>
> Jeff McMullen has been asked to be on standby in case Jones refuses to
> be associated with Eriksen's intended whitewash. Meanwhile the ABC's
> own discussion board for the film is already full of dozens of
> complaints about the decision to screen the program. And official
> bodies, like the Bureau of Meteorology, so outraged at the film, are
> refusing to cooperate. Should be an interesting night!
>
> Send your tips to boss@... <mailto:boss%40crikey.com.au> or
> submit them anonymously here.
>
>

From today's Crikey:

2. Aunty would sell its grandmother to appease the Right

Andrew Dodd writes:


It's just as well we humans have nothing to do with global warming
because the amount of carbon the ABC is emitting to promote this
apologia to right-wing conspiracy-thinking would thaw the Arctic tundra.

The ABC will simulcast The Great Global Warming Swindle tomorrow night
on ABC TV and ABC 2 while pumping out debate on News Radio, local
radio and online.

The investment might have been worthwhile if the program was any good
or if there was some PR value in running it.

But there is neither. The documentary is a polemic. It raises some
interesting points but it's so wound up in whacko conspiracy theories
as to make it laughable.

No-one is disputing that the ABC should air programs that are
contrary. As ABC broadcaster Quentin Dempster told Crikey, "the
freedom of expression argument wins. We all agree that a public
broadcaster's role is to inform and engage and to wade into
controversies because we're not here for partisan propaganda."

The problem is that the ABC's embrace of this show demonstrates how
Aunty would sell its grandmother at the moment to appease the right
and that, as a consequence, the editorial barriers to entry are lower
for producers peddling programs that set out to attack the shibboleths
of the left.

I once marvelled at a freelancer's bright idea of writing an article
about "the twenty best newspapers in the world." It was pure genius
because, when you think about it, there is no better way of ensuring
one article runs in the twenty best newspapers in the world. The
author must have known that each of the featured papers simply
couldn't resist publishing an article that ranked them in such elite
company.

Well, now there is an equally clever way of having your pedestrian
journalistic efforts embraced. Just find a public broadcaster that's
been beaten into almost complete submission by accusations of bias and
offer it a get-out-of-jail-card in the form of a left-bashing diatribe
about one of the most troubling issues on earth. The beauty of this
idea is that the value of the program is inversely proportional to its
journalistic credibility. The more nutty, the better it is at
offsetting some of the criticism about left-wing bias.

But for this PR to work there should be no dissent in the ranks about
the presentation of the program. The ABC's head of factual
entertainment, Denise Eriksen, should get out of the way and let
talented professional journalists like Tony Jones get on with the job
of questioning the program's writer with all the rigour this topic
demands.

Meanwhile, why wait for the ABC, check out the swindle here .

Send your tips to boss@... or submit them anonymously here .


Back to Top


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3. Temperatures rise at ABC ahead of Swindle
An ABC insider writes:



There have been some amazing scenes at the ABC this week as it
prepares to broadcast the controversial The Great Global Warming
Swindle film tomorrow night.

Research by ABC appointed journalists has revealed serious flaws in
the film's claims, to the point that the film seems to be willfully
misleading -- if not downright fraudulent. The problem is that in
allowing an 'answering' program to follow the documentary, and getting
Rottweiler Tony Jones to present it, the ABC ends up looking foolish
for showing the film in the first place.

Apparently Jones conducted a searching interview with the film's
director, professional contrarian Martin Durkin in London last week.
Perhaps too searching.

Outgoing head of popular factual programs, Denise Eriksen, unused to
the rigorous standards of Jones and the News and Current Affairs
Department, has been fighting a rearguard action to try and water down
the tough approach. Insiders say she is acting on specific
instructions from head of TV Kim Dalton who doesn't want to look
foolish for agreeing to run the flawed film in the first place.

Eriksen was personally dispatched to London too, and behind Jones'
back apologised to Durkin for the rough treatment and insisted on
stacking the panel to discuss the film with climate denialists like
Bob Carter.

The ABC's own science unit -- which Eriksen controls -- had been all
but cut out of involvement in the preparations for the answering
program. This despite Kim Dalton claiming its award-winning unit was
up to the task of answering Durkin's claims.

Edit suites have been resounding all week to screams of outrage from
Eriksen demanding that tough responses be cut out. Jones has more than
once needed to make clear he will 'walk' rather than agree to a
sanitised show. Eriksen has even gone as far as demanding a written
rundown from Jones as to how he intends to conduct the live to air
discussion after the Swindle film airs. He has refused to comply ...
the stand-off may lead to a sudden change of presenter on Thursday
night, so stay tuned.

Jeff McMullen has been asked to be on standby in case Jones refuses to
be associated with Eriksen's intended whitewash. Meanwhile the ABC's
own discussion board for the film is already full of dozens of
complaints about the decision to screen the program. And official
bodies, like the Bureau of Meteorology, so outraged at the film, are
refusing to cooperate. Should be an interesting night!

Send your tips to boss@... or submit them anonymously here.

Hi all...

The ABC have the audio for the "Big Ideas Symposium" held last weekend in
Adelaide on line for downloading

There were 4 speakers - including James Lovelock and Peter Cullen

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/lnl_20070709.mp3

I would strongly recommend you do so and listen to the issue from a
slightly different perspective...
the Australian one - where despite the best attempts of the PM Howard, the
issue is definitely in the public eye.

Hugh

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  [climategroups] Public Meeting : Climate Change and Global
Poverty: the need for greenhouse development rights
Date:  Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:48:42 +1000
From:  Lawson, Damien (Sen K. Nettle) <Damien.Lawson@...>
To:  Climate action <climateactiongroups@...>



  <please circulate>

  Public Meeting

Climate Change and Global Poverty: the need for greenhouse development
rights

with US climate advocate Tom Athanasiou

6.30 - 8.30 PM, Tuesday August 7, 2007

Gallery Function Centre, Lvl 6, Tower Building (CB01) University of
Technology, Sydney, No. 1 Broadway, Sydney.

The world must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we are to
avoid dangerous climate change. But how can we do this while also
facilitating a fair go for the developing world?

Historically the industrialised nations have benefited from a
disproportionate contribution to total atmospheric carbon pollution:
three-quarters of all emissions so far. So how can we bring a sense of
international equity to the climate change debate? How can a rise in
prosperity in the developing world be facilitated while reducing global
emissions?

Hear Tom Athanasiou speak on why the real climate change challenge is,
as he says, "holding global warming below a catastrophic level while at
the same time preserving the right of all people to more than merely
bare-bones 'human development'."

Tom Athanasiou is executive director of EcoEquity (_www.ecoquity.org_
<outbind://45/www.ecoquity.org>), a US-based climate think-tank which
works closely with church, aid agencies and environment organisations on
greenhouse development rights. He is the author of books and essays on
poverty and the environment including 'Divided Planet: The Ecology of
Rich and Poor',' Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming' and the
forthcoming 'Justice Within Limits: A New Deal for the Greenhouse
Century'. He also recently completed a report for the German Henrich
Boll Foundation, "An Evaluation of Some Prominent [Post-Kyoto] Climate
Policy Frameworks and Proposals."

Sponsored by: AIDWATCH, UTS Research Initiative on International
Activism and the Carbon Equity Project.

Please RSVP: media@... : Entry by donation.

For more information: 0419 253 342 or _www.carbonequity.info_
<outbind://45/www.carbonequity.info>


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Clean Energy Campaigner
Greenpeace Australia Pacific

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