BREAZE

BREAZE ran a series of articles in The Courier from April to June 2009 around the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. You can read the articles here and find references and further reading around each of the topics.

Scheme Will Fail the Test (5 June 09)

It is BREAZE's opinion, shared with 77 climate action groups across the country, that this historic legislation fails the test." Read the article

References

• Interview with Tim Flannery about his Quarterly Essay, 'Now or Never'
• Garnaut Slams Climate Plan
• Innovest report - Recipients of CPRS Assistance

Energy Savers Merit More (29 May 09)

"many people do their bit for the climate by taking measures over and above any financial benefit they receive." Read the article.

References

• Choice campaign for voluntary abatement in CPRS
  
• Richard Denniss at Senate Select Committee hearing (p47 onwards)
  

It's Time for Clean Electricity (25 May 09)

"People don't want electricity. They want hot showers and cold beer" Read more...

References

• Environment Victoria – What is Brown Coal?
• Dept of Climate Change - Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2006
• WWF Report - Hazelwood tops international list of dirty power stations
• U.S. coal power plants scuttled, Sierra Club cheers
• Scientists' letter to Rudd calling for end to coal-fired power plants
• Ross Garnaut on the CPRS
• McKinsey Institute report on Low Carbon Futures
• Guy Pearse - Quarry Vision - Quarterly Essay No. 33
  

You've gotta be in it to make change (15 May 09)

'It got me thinking of similarities between Australia's carbon pollution problem and Norm, the "Life Be In It" character from the 1970's." Read the article.

No jobs on a dead planet (7 May 09)

'Isn't the point of climate change legislation to fix climate change? No jobs on a dead planet, after all' Read the article.

References

• Climate countdown. How the world might look with different levels of temperature rise
• Ian Plimer.
  • 'If the book was handed to me as an assignment in my undergraduate earth science classes, it would have failed— not because I don't agree with the answers, but it doesn't support the answers with sources," says Melbourne University climate change expert Professor David Karoly. Read more...
  • List of more articles discussing Ian Plimer
• Murray Darling, heat waves:

• • 'The changing climate will threaten agricultural production. Irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin could decline by up to 92 per cent.'

  • Temperature rises, combined with an ageing population, are projected to see 3000 to 5000 more people die each year from heat-related illnesses by 2050, with those living in temperate cities at greater risk'

• Climate Code Red: Details of how we can reach a safe climate with 300ppm carbon levels.
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Shift to 'green-collar' work (30 April 09)

'As industries Ballarat has traditionally relied upon are tanking, huge opportunities are opening up in new industries, many of which could readily to accomodated or expanded in Ballarat.' Read the article.

For more information about green collar opportunities in Victoria, try this excellent report from Environment Victoria