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Big coal is watching you

by Michael Rynn
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on Wednesday, 11 January 2012
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While Australias minerals and fuel exports boom, the Labor government has run out of trust, Australia is running out of sustainable resources, apart from wind and sunshine, and we are all running out of time. Everything is measured in short term liquidity and money convertability, little is measured in long term value. Climate activists and Greens are spied apon for the purposes of money politics.

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Kill Joy was here for new years fireworks

by Michael Rynn
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on Saturday, 31 December 2011
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This new years eve fireworks glows and bangs, for we live yet for another orbit around our sun. The rising light exploding, and in seconds hangs, d
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International climate negotiations - Adult themes

by Michael Rynn
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on Monday, 28 November 2011
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  With the 2011 international climate change negotiations beginning in Durban, South Africa, the warm-up rhetoric and mud is being flung a
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Act 1 Scene V: An out of body experience

by Mangomop
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on Thursday, 24 November 2011
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We return to find Bloom and Clacks hovering in the corner of a room looking down on a private conversation among Ministers, Flip and Flop and Maxtor Seagate, a hard driving lobbyist for BHP.  Naturally, our clandestine protagonists are invisible to the officials and VIP, but not to us.

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2 degrees now, expecting at least 4

by Michael Rynn
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on Tuesday, 15 November 2011
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Or how governments are dragging with the information chain anchored in the past   ParraCAN will be working hard to host a Community Climate Net
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Climate Committee Terms of Reference: Rules designed to fail

by Michael Rynn
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on Saturday, 05 November 2011
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  Here we are in the richest country in the world by per capita wealth. And also in the high carbon emissions per capita. Its now 2011, another
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Death to Fossil Fuels - Life after death - Beyond Zero Emissions

by Michael Rynn
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on Thursday, 06 October 2011
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The death of Fossil Fuels (FF) is immanent. It is now foolhardy and anti-environment in the extreme to invest in new coal mines, or coal seam gas frac
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Moving Along ActI Scene II-III/IV

by Mangomop
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on Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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We move through quartz of time to the gates outside Olympic Dam.

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The Great Artesian Basin Robbery III+: The play: about how ewes got woollied: Now In Three or more Acts

by Mangomop
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on Sunday, 18 September 2011
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Act I Scene 1

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Who has the biggest lie in the Carbon Tax debate?

by Michael Rynn
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on Wednesday, 14 September 2011
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  The most signficant policy point Tony Abbott is capable of making is that Julia Gillard lied. Wow, a politician turned out to be wrong on a pr
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Arctic Death Spiral

by Michael Rynn
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on Monday, 12 September 2011
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Civilisation is on the path to insane climate suicide. Arctic ice reduction is an earth climate system tipping point. The behaviour of the climate sys
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Part III: GABR: What Barry and Baz didn't see from that great height

by Mangomop
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on Friday, 09 September 2011
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He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by a wolf. - Italian proverb

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Coal Seam Gas Companies creep, sneak, and leak towards environmental disaster

by Michael Rynn
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on Friday, 09 September 2011
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Another 'game-over' scenario for climate change. Those here watching and cheering those determined protestors against the Keystone Dilbit pipeline fo
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Carbon Tax debate on ABC: A front for IPA fogies

by Michael Rynn
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on Monday, 29 August 2011
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The Insititute of Public Affairs (IPA) had a carbon tax debate on August 2nd. It was shown on TV in the ABC Big Ideas program on August 27th. I heard
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Part II The Great Artesian Robbery: Or how to fleece and sell wool back to sheep Chapter 1

by Mangomop
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on Monday, 29 August 2011
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"Four legs, two legs better" - Animal Farm, George Orwell, or 

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. -Jacques Yves Cousteau 


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The Great Artesian Basin

by Mangomop
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on Sunday, 28 August 2011
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I was going to jump straight into my story but I think I need to provide some background first.

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Cherry Pickin' Premier

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on Friday, 26 August 2011
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Shame on Barry O Farrell! The front page of the Weekend Sydney Morning Herald reads that our new Premier cherry picked the research that jobs in NSW would fall by 31,000.

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The world is but a broken toy

by Michael Rynn
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on Friday, 26 August 2011
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Heroic carbon price to fix a breaking world. Princess:The world is but a broken toy,Its pleasures hollow false its joy,Unreal its loveliest hue, Al
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Bah Humbug from Climate Scrooges

by Michael Rynn
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on Sunday, 21 August 2011
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I know I have a very basic problem with communicating with other people, especially those that do not accept that climate change is real.  My problem is that I am unsympathetic because have never had the privilege of having had strong disbelief. I have had a good science education from high school onwards, and have read many books on science.

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How serious is water?

by Mangomop
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on Monday, 08 August 2011
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This morning in the SMH 8 August 2011, I read that the Barry O Farrell government and ALP cut 9 NSW water saving schemes. The effect of the loss in wa
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A Good Start on Reclaiming our Water

by Mangomop
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on Thursday, 21 July 2011
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I'd like to thank Natasha Watson who posted on Sydney Residents Against Coal Seam Gas facebook page. It was her post on Legal Reform - NSW Office of Water that caught my eye.

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Colorado Mud

by Mangomop
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on Tuesday, 19 July 2011
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Last week I read a NPR online news article about the sorry state of the Colorado River.

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Why I love water

by Mangomop
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on Tuesday, 12 July 2011
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It helps to know why one starts a journey. I hope this introduction helps you to know me better and understand why I care so much for water.

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The Start of Something New

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The first trepid steps into the unknown are always exciting. With hope for a better world we begin.

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