Iraqi Girl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq Edited by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, developed by John RossHaymarket Books, Chicago, 2009206 pp, $24.95
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Bob Lutz, senior General Motors executive, thinks global warming 鈥渉as nothing to do with CO2鈥 and 鈥渆verything to do with solar activity鈥, the January 21 Sydney Morning Herald said.
Since the balance of forces within the Coalition shifted rightwards with the one-vote win by 鈥渕ad monk鈥 Tony Abbott over Malcolm Turnbull for leader, the media have been wondering whether his line of frenzied warfare against the Rudd Labor government can succeed where the millionaire merchant banker failed.
A new study has revealed that a major glacier in Antarctica could collapse because of warmer seas caused by climate change, ScienceDaily.com said on January 18.
A group of activists known as the 鈥淣ewcastle 23鈥 went before the Newcastle Local Court on January 19. The 23 are charged with 鈥渞ail safety offences鈥 on December 20, after they stopped a coal train in response to the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks to agree to adequate binding emissions cuts.
In a disgraceful dismissal of the findings of a six-month parliamentary inquiry, the New South Wales Labor government will continue the legal ban on same-sex couples being able to adopt children.
During the United Nations Copenhagen climate summit in December, fresh allegations emerged that unscrupulous carbon traders were buying up the rights to the carbon stored in forests in Papua New Guinea from indigenous landowners.
The Native Title Market
By David Ritter
UWA Publishing, 2009
120 pages, $19.95
The December United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen ended without achieving any binding agreement to cut carbon emissions. Extreme actions were taken by Denmark to ensure that protests were stifled and voices not heard.
About 100 people gathered outside the Embassy Suites in the heart of New York鈥檚 financial district on January 13 to rally against the Second Annual Carbon Trading Summit. The summit was organised for the most powerful institutions and industries to discuss new opportunities at profit in the pollution market.
EM>Socialism & Modernity
By Peter Beilharz
University of Minnesota Press, 2009
225 pages, $47.95 (pb).
Right-wing columnist David Brooks began his January 15 New York Times piece by reminding his readers that when, in October 1989, the San Francisco Bay Area was hit by an earthquake similar in magnitude to the one that devastated Haiti on January 12, the death toll was 63.
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