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Industry Pollution, Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect

Information on links between pollution produced by businesses and industry, and how this contributes to Global Warming, the Greenhouse Effect, and other climatic factors.

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National
International

Queensland

Clean Coal station; Queensland will build the world's first clean coal power station

Queensland newspaper The Courier Mail online article published 10 February 2007, stating the Premier Peter Beattie’s plan to start construction of a clean coal station in six or seven years. The site includes links to related articles and a blog where you can have your say.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21204946-501
2321,00.html

Climate change and Australia’s costal communities

[PDF] Brochure focusing on costal areas, including Queensland’s coast. Global warming, sea-level rise, projected changes in weather extremes, costal impacts, uncertainties and challenges are issues in this booklet, which was published in 2002.

http://www.cmar.csiro.au/e-print/open/CoastalBroch2002.pdf

National

4604.0 - Energy and greenhouse gas emissions accounts, Australia, 1992-93 to 1997-98

Section of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website providing the latest information and statistics on Australia’s supply and use of its primary and secondary energy products and green house gas emissions compared to other countries in the world.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/productsbyCatalogue/
3C48092D51139CD6CA256A4E000198B7?OpenDocument

Air Pollution

CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) website section on air pollution. This website category features information on research conducted on the pollution caused by energy developments on air quality, land and water and the technology developed to tackle these environmental issues. CSIRO is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and doubling the efficiency of Australia’s future energy generation technologies.

http://www.csiro.au/csiro/channel/ich1s.html

International

About IPCC

The user guide to the IPCC website gives links to detailed information about scientific basis for climate change, climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, climate change mitigation, synthesis of the latest findings and more information about related topics.

http://www.ipcc.ch/about/faq.htm

A Global Overview of Renewable Energy Sources (AGORES)

This website includes links to a range of renewable energy sources available throughout Europe with information on the technologies, community programmes, publications, market studies and summaries of successful projects.

http://www.agores.org/default.htm

Climate change and population

Climate Change section of the Optimum Population Trust website, displaying indepth the link between Climate Change, global warming, and the world’s overpopulation. There is also a focus on the United Kingdom. A large list of websites with information on Climate Change is also included within the page.

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.more.climate.html