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Professor Flannery said in a statement that it was critical for emergency and health services, as well as the public, to have the best information from scientists.
''Ignoring it or shooting the messenger will not reduce the threat of climate change, it will just mean that Australia is less prepared,'' he said. ''We'd be living in the past to think that Australia did not need to prepare for a changing climate.''
Professor Flannery, a palaeontologist and author who was Australian of the Year in 2007, has been seen as a polarising figure by some because of his calls to phase out large-scale use of fossil fuels.
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Palaeontologist, Dr Steve Salisbury from the University of Queensland, Goolarabooloo Lawman, Richard Hunter and Scientist and former Australian of the year Tim Flannery on the Goolorabooloo coast early morning over Easter examining dinosaur footprints in collaboration with Broome Dinosaur Trackers.
A Climate Commission report released on Wednesday examined links between Australia's extreme weather and human-induced climate change. It found natural events were being influenced by climate change, because greenhouse gases are accumulating and trapping extra energy in the Earth's atmosphere and oceans.
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THE federal government will put in $22.3 million to help indigenous land managers investigate the carbon farming possibilities.
ReplyDeleteAnnouncing the measure yesterday, federal environment minister Tony Burke said the money would be handed out over five years and help indigenous land managers participate in the Carbon Farming Initiative.
"The fund provides practical financial support for indigenous land managers who either have a carbon farming business ready to go and just need some seed funding to get it off the ground, or have a good idea for a project and want to investigate its feasibility," he said.
The federal government is hoping for a win-win situation, with land managers helping to reduce the amount of carbon in the air while distributing proceeds from selling potential carbon farms to local communities.
Round one of the program will see $1.3 million handed out in the form of $50,000 grants to help investigate carbon farming opportunities, with a $30,000 to help build a business with an existing project plan or completed feasibility assessment.
So far the federal government has identified four carbon farming methods, with another 40 now going through the assessment process.
The methods outline the rules for undertaking a carbon farming project, and parliamentary secretary for climate change Mark Dreyfus said two might be suitable for indigenous projects.
In addition to the $22.3 million put aside, the federal government will also kick in a further $5.2 million into the development of carbon farming methods suitable for indigenous land managers.