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Carbon Trading – Steps Backward And Forward …

  • March 1st, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

eu-oil-refinery.jpgAustralia 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 »

Cyclone Yasi

  • February 3rd, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

yasi-3.jpgThe 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 »

Night Vigil in Australia: Cyclone And The Cricket …

  • February 2nd, 2011
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

yasi.jpgWednesday 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 »

Germany: Rail Crash in Bad Weather

  • January 31st, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

german-rail-crash-30111.jpgTen people have died with more than 20 others hurt, some seriously, in Germany’s  weekend train crash. … Read More »

World Weather: Floods, Climate Change, Torrid Times …

  • January 22nd, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

storm-bom-australia.jpgThe 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 »

Brits Minding Relations In Asia-Pacific

  • January 19th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

haig-2.jpgBritain’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 »

Torrid Times

  • January 14th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

floods-brazil-2011-resize.jpgHeavy 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 »

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