The target's clear and there is no doubt, but in the minds of most climate change doesn't rate

Just a few of those who gathered on
the streets in response to
the possible execution of Andrew
Chan and Myuran  Sukumaran.

Response to the potential execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in Indonesia has rippled through Australian society and impacted thousands.
 

The potential death of just two men at the hands of the State is terrible and to be decried, but insignificant compared to societal disarray that awaits as climate change worsens.
 

Will we, I wonder, march on the streets, see intervention from living former Prime Ministers and along with that, nation-wide calls for leniency and change as our disrupted climate worsens and the wellbeing of all plummets?
 

Dynamics explained by George Marshall in Shepparton on Monday are there for all to see.
 

The climate change communication expert explained that we react best to something that is immediate, to which there is a clear target and which there is no doubt.
 

Climate change, George pointed out, has the odds stacked against it as in the minds of most, it is remote, not easily identifiable as there is no clear enemy and it is wracked with doubt.
 

Meanwhile talking about George Marshall, he was on a panel on Friday night at the Sustainable Living Festival’s “Great Debate” – ‘To collapse of not to collapse’.

'Sad' - funding withdrawn from NCCARF at critical time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”.