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Al Gore: Climate Skeptics Are Peddling ‘Bulls–t’
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The climate change movement is bigger than any one man or woman, but like it or not, no one is more associated with global warming than Al Gore. He's spoken with a prophetic voice for decades now about the importance of action, but the country has yet to heed his advice. Climate skeptics and deniers often take shots at Gore, but it was he who shot back this past week at event hosted by the Aspen Institute's Forum on Communications and Society.
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Australia has put a price on carbon dioxide. $23 AUD a tonne. The country's 500 biggest polluters will, as off 1 July 2012, be required to pay effectively a tax on the CO2 they create. They will, of course, pass on this encumbrance to their customers, which government modelling suggests will end up as $9.90 weekly impost on household budgets. To get the populace on side in the transition to a lower carbon economy the government will take 15 billion from the taxes collected and funnel that back to households as compensation equal to an average of about $10.10 a week. Unless, you earn more th...
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Confronting the world's climate crisis is going to be hard. Getting developed nations to agree with still-industrializing ones on the amount of pollution they can emit, convincing the rich world to cut down on energy use and consumption, and forging any kind of agreement between 190 nations with very different ambitions are among the most Herculean feats humanity has ever faced.
But what if solving the climate crisis were as simple as playing a video game? If you could make all the strategic decisions yourself? How would you beat it then?
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Every year there is massive fluctuation in water levels on the River Ganga in Varanasi. Now, in June, in some places you can more or less walk all the way across the river but at high water all the sand you see will be covered by meters and meters of water. The fluctuations discussed below are in addition to this age-old variation. Photo: 
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