'Sad' - funding withdrawn from NCCARF at critical time

The demise of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility [NCCARF] is personally distressing for many reasons.

First, at precisely the time when the Australian Government should be plunging money into a project whose role it to understand climate change adaptation, it is heading in the opposite direction cutting NCCARF’s funding.

Storms of unprecedented intensity rage in parts of Australia, presently in Queensland and New South Wales, and other parts are in climatic disarray as they struggle with human-induced weather changes that have produced fires and conditions so dry that it would be a brave person prepared to declare we are not in drought.

Secondly, and personally, NCCARF gave me my “15 minutes of fame”, so to speak, in that it allowed me national exposure of my climate change mitigation idea – the “Four-hour Work Day”.

Although unable to attend the 2011 annual NCCARF conference in Melbourne as I was in Queensland with my brother who has cancer, the conference organizers were good enough to permit the showing of a poster about my idea.

Being unable to attend the conference and speak to my poster, I created a blog explaining the idea, but sadly I haven’t paid it much attention over the past several weeks, but the idea seems to be even more important now – here is the blog address: http://fewerhours.blogspot.com.au/?view=classic.

Concern for the demise of NCCARF was raised following a story on the ABC headed: “Key climate change body loses Government funding”.