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Australia is to have another try at setting up a carbon trading scheme, but the announcement last week (24.2.11) has provoked opposition as well as good public backing.
The European trading system, with flaws and problems of its own, looks to remain in lonely leadership for some time to come. … Read More »
The massive tropical cyclone codenamed “Yasi” struck the North Queensland coast at midnight local time on Wednesday, at Mission Beach near the towns of Innisfail and Tully, bringing devastation during six hours of darkness. … Read More »
Wednesday night 2 February 2011 in Australia.
After the months of tropical downpours, floods making two-thirds of the State of Queensland a Disaster Area, with dramatic scenes of rescue and loss of life, then more flooding in the South of the country, and even bushfires beginning in the drier South; this night, a yet greater calamity was confronting the battered North-east coast and the communities inland.
Called Cyclone Yasi, it had begun its inexorable drift westwards from the Pacific Ocean three or more days before; an enormous storm, up to 300 kilometres across, generating destructive winds more powerful than any in living memory. … Read More »
Ten people have died with more than 20 others hurt, some seriously, in Germany’s weekend train crash. … Read More »
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) added to debate this week over climate change and the recent catastrophic weather in the Southern Hemisphere (see EUAustralia Online, “Torrid Times”, 14.1.11), affirming 2010 was one of the hottest years ever. … Read More »
Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Haig (picture) today (19.1.11) was touring some of the worst affected flood zones in Queensland as part of a visit to Australia in company with the Defence Minister, Liam Fox. … Read More »
Heavy rain, mudlsides and floods have claimed the lives of at least 470 people in Brazil in the last two days; with the floods in Queensland and a heavy storm in Sri Lanka, dramatising an eerie climate pattern in the Southern Hemisphere. … Read More »