We’re please to announce that the second speaker of the day now also has their TEDxTalk up live on the TEDxDubbo website. Check out Ichsani Wheeler’s speaker page for her bio, photo’s of the day and her TEDxTalk video. Alternatively you can watch her TEDxTalk right now, see below:

DAIRY farmers face an average hike in energy costs of $7000 and the loss of up to 7.8 per cent of annual income because of the carbon tax. In a sombre outlook for Australia’s third largest rural industry, the dairy sector has warned the Gillard Government a carbon tax “will impose significant costs” – and [...]

LABOR has leapt on a letter from British Prime Minister David Cameron to Julia Gillard backing the carbon tax to attack Tony Abbott as being “out of step with just about everyone around the world” on climate change. But the Opposition Leader hit back yesterday, dismissing the government’s use of Mr Cameron’s letter as a [...]

FARMERS fear a new rush of environmental plantings for biodiversity and carbon offsets will accelerate the loss of land for food production. In an emerging trend, carbon traders are starting to buy farms to generate carbon credits for sale under voluntary schemes or – assuming legislation clears the Senate – the federal government’s Carbon Farming [...]

TOURING British climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton today told Tony Abbott to drop his Direct Action plan to cut carbon emissions. “The Coalition should in my opinion ditch it because there is no need to take any action about carbon dioxide at all,” Lord Monckton told the National Press Club during a good-natured debate. [...]

“I don’t mind paying a bit on carbon so long as I understand why we’re doing this and what we get.” Despite the misinformation and scaremongering going around, that dad and his family, like millions of others, are unlikely to be out of pocket under Australia’s scheme to cut pollution. It’s the 500 heaviest carbon-polluting [...]

ANGER against scientists involved in the climate debate is reaching dangerous levels and it’s only a matter of time before one is murdered, says leading German physicist Hans Schellnhuber. Professor Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change member, said he was amazed by the [...]

AUSTRALIA will keep spewing out more and more greenhouse gas emissions until the late 2020s even though Julia Gillard has promised to cut them before that. We’ll dig up twice as much coal in 2050 as we do now, even though Tony Abbott reckons coal will be a “goner” by then. Although our emissions are [...]

  The Australian government’s plan for a Clean Energy Future contains a number of measures aimed at supporting farmers and land managers to provide emissions offsets. The plan consists of a mix of market-based and directly funded actions, covering some of the territory put forward by the Coalition, but on a much larger scale. Farming and [...]

JULIA GILLARD has urged a hostile electorate to reserve its judgment on the carbon tax until the 2013 election, by when people would have had a ”lived experience” of the new regime. Acknowledging she was being punished in the opinion polls for breaking her promise to not introduce a carbon tax, Ms Gillard said that [...]