Wendy Miller from Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) addresses Climate Rally in Melbourne

Wendy Miller on Climate Change, speaking on the Government watering down its own CPRS legislation to get support from the Liberal Party for its passage through the Senate.

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) has grown in a matter of months to have more than 50,000 members. Wendy Miller will represent Australian Youth in Copenhagen at the COP15 climate negotiations.
http://www.aycc.org.au/

A Climate Emergency Rally in Melbourne was called at short notice for Wednesday, November 25 for 1pm. The Kevin Rudd Labor Government had announced the previous day the negotiations with Ian McFarlane of the Liberal Party to water down the Government legislation for an Emissons Trading Scheme - the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Additional compensation to industry of $7.01 billion, including handouts to Coal Industry doubling to $1.5 billion, and $4 billion more in free permits to coal fired power station owners, and $1.1 billion to mining and manufacturing sector for increased energy prices. Less compensation to households.

See Photos of Rally:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/sets/72157622872521016/

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[SirTorment]

@gensoholicar don't listen her, she's taking away your free spirit/

[SirTorment]

@takvera you're taking away his free spirit.

[takvera]

@gensoholicar abuse will not be tolerated

[gensoholicar]

you dont have a free spirit , your a drone

[littlejohnnyhoward]

To refer back to one of your previous comments, namely: "all indications are that warming is accelerating".

There are no such indications. Sure, the temperature may be rising slightly (0.7 degrees Celsius is the new anomaly for this month), but to automatically attribute this to human activities is wrong.

For instance, this sudden temperature rise recently is attributable to the perfectly normal phenomenon of El Nino, of which we are experiencing the warmest since 1998.

[littlejohnnyhoward]

Many, many times is animal extinction mistaken for climate change. In some cases it is natural, but in most cases, unfortunately today, it is man-made. However, this is not climate change that causes it.

Proof? I will provide.

Although I have to find specific and reliable data relating to koalas, I can provide a few of many examples where climate change has been wrong blamed on extinction/harm to animals.

[takvera]

What if you are wrong and global warming is substantially caused by human activity and is accelerating?

I know from my subjective experience there are more frequent heatwaves, more frequent and intense bushfires, fruit and crops are ripening over a month ahead of normal schedule. The hydrological cycle is heating up providing more intense storms and flash floods, while (where I live) total average rainfall is decreasing.

[takvera]

From Datasets maintained by 1. Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office and the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 2. NOAA under the US Department of Commerce, and 3. the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) operated by NASA as reported by the WMO.

Statement on Australia via WMO which sources data from Australian Bureau of Meteorology. See Trend maps - Australian Climate Variability and Change, Climate Data Online, and special climate statements.

[fotoshawt]

All indications? From which source?

Just checked a recent Russian Times interview, looks like theres been manipulation in russian climate data too.

Look it up....climategate.

I know youve been following global warming for a few years now, but i strongly suggest to look into it.

I dont think you checked out Timothy Ball did you?

[takvera]

I wish you were right, but all indications are that warming is accelerating. 2009 was the fifth hottest year on record globally, the third hottest year for Australia. The last decade was the hottest decade on record.