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Climate change precipitates food shortages, unrest
Posted by Zee News: None Given on February 2nd, 2012
Zee News: Long-term climate change has often destabilized civilizations through food shortages, hunger, infectious disease and unrest, a study reveals.
Historical records foreshadow a grim picture for a future threatened by even greater climate change, says the study by the Australian National University (ANU).
Tony McMichael, professor at the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and population Health, examined climate change and its impact over the last 6,000 to 7,000 years, as documented in historical,...
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Australia braces for floods, threat to coal and crops
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2012
Reuters: Heavy summer rains across eastern Australia prompted authorities to issue flood warnings for vast areas of Queensland and New South Wales states on Thursday, including coal mining areas in the Hunter Valley.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued the flood warnings with heavy rain expected over the next 24 hours, following saturating rains over the past week which have already swelled rivers in New South Wales and Queensland.
Floods and wild weather last year inundated coal mines and damaged crops....
Climate change should remain at the top of the local government agenda
Posted by Guardian: Daniel Ratchford on February 2nd, 2012
Guardian: Four or five years ago, if you asked a gathering of local government chief executives what were the top three priorities for their councils over the next decade, a majority would have included climate change. Ask the same question today, and you'll get a very different answer.
Climate change seems to have fallen off the local government agenda. A recent Local Government Chronicle poll, based on research by Green Alliance, found that 37% of councils are de-prioritising climate change, and 28% are...