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Worried about climate change? Furious about the carbon tax? Confused about the science? Walkley-award winning journalist Michael Bachelard will lead The Sunday Age team investigating the 10 most popular questions on OurSay which will be featured and updated on The Age's Climate Agenda website.
This OurSay is now closed. Scroll down below to see responses to our questions as The Sunday Age answers them each week.
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Considering that the opposition has the same plan to cut emissions by 5% by 2020, I would like to know more about this plan. What is their plan, how effective will it be, how much will it cost and how will it be paid for?
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Do the media think they are partly responsible for the amount of climate change skepticism that exists amongst the people of Australia (due to their presentation of the skeptic's arguments as equal to the scientists' arguments), despite an almost complete consensus on the issue among scientists since the late 1990's??
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That Climate Change occurs is not what the debate is about - it is whether human activity has caused unacceptable accelerations in the changes that can be observed to two key aspects of Climate which are temperature (such as ocean and surface) and the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. Even though it is a relatively small component of the total atmospheric gasses, is the current (and, as has been proven, increasing) atmospheric concentration of CO2 a cause for concern and if so, is this concern independent of its effect on potentially raising temperatures?
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Natural gas will run out in less than 20 years making all the infrastructure redundant. Renewable technologies can be used to generate Hydrogen that can be blended into the remaining dwindling gas supplies, extending its useful life. Hydrogen can be used with fuel cells as demonstrated using fossil Hydrogen made by cracking oil in urban bus trials in Perth - very popular with commuters as the output is steam. Why has Hydrogen Economy dropped off the media radar?
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Why don't the Tasmanian people create a sustainable future without dioxins by switching the proposed paper pulp plant to fuel ethanol at 300 litres yield per tonne? Using only plantation timber, they could help supply Australia's liquid fuel requirement that exceeds 50,000,000,000 litres per annum. No paper was used in this transmission
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The latest IPCC report says investment of 1% of GDP (small in comparison to gambling and tobacco) would allow the ENTIRE WORLD to source over 80% of power requirements from renewables by 2050, so let's get going!! Why not reduce military hardware imports to pay for it?
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What are the health impacts of climate change, are we already seeing them in Australia and what should we do to protect our health from the effects of climate change?
What are the health impacts of climate change, are we already seeing them in Australia and what should we do to protect our health from the effects of climate change?
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Now that we have wide spread use of (highly toxic) energy efficent, compact fluro light bulbs, when we will be provided with safe disposal facilities?
Now that we have wide spread use of (highly toxic) energy efficent, compact fluro light bulbs, when we will be provided with safe disposal facilities?
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Considering that lots of people seem somewhat misinformed about climate change and the carbon tax, for instance saying "carbon dioxide is not a pollutant", and considering that they probably pick such lines up from media outlets, what is the best way to actually educate people about how climate change works?
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Why is it that Julia Gillard and for that matter the Fairfax press continually fail to mention the miniscule contribution to world CO2 by Australians and avoid answering any question about the expected reduction in world temperatures arising from the implementation of a carbon tax? Could it be that both are aware that the proposed carbon tax will do absolutely nothing for world temperatures?
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