Have to say guys, I think the British and Australian system of government seems to work better. In Oz we have compulsory voting, in UK its not, both work OK. We just had a very close Federal Election (sorry Dr Who, our Federal election we all get an equal vote directly in our electorate and we have quite a few smaller parties and independents to vote for should we wish to) The Liberal/National coalition just beat Labor. The Senate (upper House) however did not provide an overall majority for Lib/Nats so they have to bargain with each other to fix the budget deficit.

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link to more bad news for our environment http://abcmail.net.au/t/2994843/3381254/11737\n1/0/

Watched a very interesting doco while ill in bed. It was on James Taylor and the Heartland Institute. What is incredible to me in Aus is the fact that you allow funding to be anonymous (in this case big global oil companies through a trust) to then get a suave, well spoken lawyer Taylor (he's really not a scientist) to get paid to see lobbyists (republican think tank) to go directly to lawmakers in States with legislature already written up for them to vote on removing 20% min targets for reusable energy. My question is, why is this allowed in the US? Worse still it appears to be business as normal. It's so politically corrupt it beggars belief, particularly when so much of what comes out of Taylor's mouth is garbage.

The other thing it highlighted is your terrible fracking industry that leaks methane at a rate 20 times that in Australia. And we still think it's too high here so the state of Victoria has banned it for now and strong environmental limitations are being put in place elsewhere. It was also rejected recently in Western Australia.

The rate of methane leaking actually makes your coal seam gas industry a worse polluter than coal! Some fantastic work is being done with wind and solar, it's now as cheap as natural gas, the US public seems to want it yet the Republican party only seems to want more fracking! Bizarre

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Good stuff, Phil. Especially since methane is twenty times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

We’ve seen a significant increase in methane clathrates, methane trapped in buckyballs of ice, being released into the atmosphere from the bottom of the seas, and again in the melting permafrost from Russia to Iceland. It was a major contributor and catalyst for the worst extinction event in the history of the earth, back during the Permian Triassic period, an event which btw lasted millions of years. It wouldn’t take much of an increase in average temp to trigger another cascading event like it – less than two degrees Centigrade. Once started, that’s all she wrote.

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