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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.8.3 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:41:25 GMT--><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"><rss:channel rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/"><rss:title>Opinion</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/</rss:link><rss:description></rss:description><dc:language>en-AU</dc:language><dc:date>2009-11-27T02:41:25Z</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Site Server v5.8.3 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</admin:generatorAgent><rss:items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/6/30/pollies-cool-on-warming-fixes.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/26/as-oil-prices-rise-nations-revive-coal-mining.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/26/sunspot-cycles-may-hold-key-to-global-warming-cooling.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/12/australian-state-governments-insane-water-grid-experiment.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/28/the-mary-river-where-fish-breathe-air-and-turtles-breathe-th.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/27/temperature-monitors-report-widescale-global-cooling.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/26/this-has-been-my-perfect-week.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/9/the-sun-also-sets.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/1/30/chinas-growth-could-spark-political-tensions.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/1/13/the-planned-destruction-of-canada.html"/></rdf:Seq></rss:items></rss:channel><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/6/30/pollies-cool-on-warming-fixes.html"><rss:title>Pollies Cool on Warming Fixes</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/6/30/pollies-cool-on-warming-fixes.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-30T01:06:22Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Environmental Global Warming</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week the US Senate debated a 500-page global warming bill known as the Warner-Lieberman Cap-and-Trade bill.   The Democrats knew it would likely be vetoed by President George Bush, but they hoped to push it through the Senate anyway and in this way build further momentum for reducing America’s greenhouse gas emissions.   But they weren’t successful: some Democrats refused to support it on the basis that it would push up petrol prices.

It was perhaps the worst possible time to introduce the legislation with oil prices doubling in the past 12 months and fear of a global fuel supply shortage.

Emissions trading is based on the theory that, by forcing up the price of fossil fuel, alternatives will be found.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/26/as-oil-prices-rise-nations-revive-coal-mining.html"><rss:title>As Oil Prices Rise, Nations Revive Coal Mining</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/26/as-oil-prices-rise-nations-revive-coal-mining.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-26T00:28:43Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Environmental Global Warming</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Soaring commodity prices have had distorting effects across the global economy, driving up food prices and prompting fears of future energy shortages. But they have been an unanticipated boon to the coal producing regions of countries like Japan that had written off coal mining as a relic of the Industrial Revolution.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/26/sunspot-cycles-may-hold-key-to-global-warming-cooling.html"><rss:title>Sunspot cycles may hold key to global warming, cooling</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/26/sunspot-cycles-may-hold-key-to-global-warming-cooling.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-26T00:23:07Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Global Warming</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[From January 2007 through the end of January 2008, the average global temperature fell by nearly a degree Fahrenheit, based on data obtained by the MET Office in Great Britain and other international temperature monitoring networks.

What are we to make of this? The recent climate conference held in New York City, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, provides some answers. Several hundreds climatologists in attendance dispelled notions that the global warming debate is over. Most attendees, who readily acknowledge the existence of post-Little Ice Age warming, believe man-made emissions are unlikely to cause major climate change and signed a declaration to that effect.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/12/australian-state-governments-insane-water-grid-experiment.html"><rss:title>Australian State Government's Insane Water Grid Experiment</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/5/12/australian-state-governments-insane-water-grid-experiment.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-12T23:26:22Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Recycling</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[A CORPORATE-government conglomerate in the so-called ‘Smart State’ of Queensland, Australia, plans subject some three million citizens to a dangerous experiment that will inject so-called purified sewage directly into a dam supplying household water.

Against the wishes of residents and ignoring the most basic law of hygiene to separate human bodily waste from food and water, the government will conduct the experiment in league with multinational water corporations including Veolia Water and Haliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown Root (KBR).

The bureaucrats says it’s safe because it’s been happening in western Sydney for 17 years, where waste water is dumped into the Richmond River and used again 17km downstream by another community. In London, where this also happens, there is an alarming rise in male infertility and breast development.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/28/the-mary-river-where-fish-breathe-air-and-turtles-breathe-th.html"><rss:title>The Mary River… where fish breathe air and turtles breathe through their bums.</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/28/the-mary-river-where-fish-breathe-air-and-turtles-breathe-th.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-02-28T11:45:41Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Not long after he’d announced plans to dam it, Queensland’s ex-Premier Peter Beattie labeled the Mary River as “hardly pristine”. At a superficial glance, and in selected places, one would have to agree. Just on a century and a half of logging and farming have taken their toll, but surely the real test would have to lie in either the biodiversity or the uniqueness of today’s river, still the least developed in south-east Queensland.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/27/temperature-monitors-report-widescale-global-cooling.html"><rss:title>Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/27/temperature-monitors-report-widescale-global-cooling.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-02-27T22:41:55Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Global Warming</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.
Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile &#8212; the list goes on and on.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/26/this-has-been-my-perfect-week.html"><rss:title>This has been my perfect week</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/26/this-has-been-my-perfect-week.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-02-26T01:24:44Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Global Warming</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, plans for a wonderful new coal-fired power station in Kent were given the green light and I was very pleased.

This will reduce our dependency on Vladimir’s gas and Osama’s oil and, as a bonus, new technology being developed to burn the coal more efficiently will be exported to China and exchanged for plastic novelty items to make our lives a little brighter.

It’s all just too excellent for words, but of course galloping into the limelight came a small army of communists and hippies who were waving their arms around and saying that coal was the fuel of Satan and that when the new power station opened, small people like Richard Hammond would immediately be drowned by a rampaging tidal swell.

They argued with much gusto that if Britain was to stand any chance of meeting Mr Prescott’s Kyoto climate change targets then we must build power stations that produced no carbon emissions at all.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/9/the-sun-also-sets.html"><rss:title>The Sun Also Sets</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/2/9/the-sun-also-sets.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-02-09T00:02:29Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Global Warming</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore&#8217;s mythical &#8220;consensus.&#8221; Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.


Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.

To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better &#8220;eyes&#8221; with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth&#8217;s climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/1/30/chinas-growth-could-spark-political-tensions.html"><rss:title>China's growth could spark political tensions</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/1/30/chinas-growth-could-spark-political-tensions.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-01-30T00:14:44Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Global Warming</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[China’s booming economy is expected to consume more than half of the world’s key resources within a decade, according to Rio Tinto.

The rapid industrialisation of China’s economy means that it is likely to consume a majority of the world’s supply of all the major metals and minerals, potentially leading to clashes with other countries over access to resources. Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest miner, said last week that China already accounted for 47 per cent of all iron ore consumption, 32 per cent of aluminium and 25 per cent of copper.
]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/1/13/the-planned-destruction-of-canada.html"><rss:title>The planned destruction of Canada</rss:title><rss:link>http://swampnews.squarespace.com/expert-opinion/2008/1/13/the-planned-destruction-of-canada.html</rss:link><dc:creator>stevem</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-01-13T22:51:49Z</dc:date><dc:subject>Politicians and Privatisation</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Kealey: We know we cannot control the sun, nor can we control the air. But we can control water. On the scale of things that are required for human life, it is the most important element that can be controlled.

Kralik: What do you mean when you say “control”?

Kealey: In GATT, the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs, it says that free-flowing water is not a “good”. The key wording is “free-flowing”. If you construct a dam, it is no longer free-flowing, and therefore it becomes private property, owned by somebody, capable of being sold to others, or mortgaged.

Kralik: If it is dammed?
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