Crocodile hunter killed!
The crocodile hunter is dead!
Steve Irwin, 44, was killed by a stingray while filming a documentary off Port Douglas, Queensland. Unconfirmed sources suggest that tv personality was impaled through the chest by a stingray barb and died on the way to hospital.
While many assume that he would one day be eaten by a crocodile, or potentially bitten by a poisonous snake, the death by stingray was not a likely scenario among his hordes of morbid fans.
Irwin about to be trampled by Indian elephants
Steve Irwin in happier days feeding babies to crocodiles
In other news...
Australian climate and the water crisis
Meanwhile, even the fossil fuel industry is warning about the implications of climate change.
The sentiment was echoed by the world's top climate scientists from the Intergovernment panel of climate change most recent report.
Australia's Prime Minister John Howard continues to complain about the cost of action, despite the vast accumulating costs of inaction in water shortages to major population centres in SE Queensland, Sydney, and Adelaide. The diversion of the Shoalhaven river for use of Sydneysiders is destroying the river, The Murray-Darling is recording all-time low influx threatening irrigation around the river and Adelaide's drinking supply. Meanwhile the Australian lungfish is heading for extinction as we hear that the studies into the effect the Traveston dam would have on its population were suppressed by the Queensland government.
And Victorians can't water their gardens.
Sounds spurious, but horticulture is a million-dollar industry, and farmers are fearing for their irrigation.
In case the economic subtleties of the worsening water crisis are not clear, another Hurricane is heading for Mexico, with the potential to cost far more in destruction than the cost of cleaning up our pollution.
Anthony Albanese, federal opposition environment spokesman, retorts: "Trying to meet emissions targets is like trying to reach a target in a one-day cricket final. That's why you send out Adam Gilchrist first and not block for the first 30 overs."
Maybe we will have more hope reaching Howard if we use more sports analogies.
Al Gore is reported as smugly saying "I told you so."
And in other, other news...
Some dude won Young Scientist of the year.
Steve Irwin, 44, was killed by a stingray while filming a documentary off Port Douglas, Queensland. Unconfirmed sources suggest that tv personality was impaled through the chest by a stingray barb and died on the way to hospital.
While many assume that he would one day be eaten by a crocodile, or potentially bitten by a poisonous snake, the death by stingray was not a likely scenario among his hordes of morbid fans.
Irwin about to be trampled by Indian elephants
Steve Irwin in happier days feeding babies to crocodilesIn other news...
Australian climate and the water crisis
Meanwhile, even the fossil fuel industry is warning about the implications of climate change.
The sentiment was echoed by the world's top climate scientists from the Intergovernment panel of climate change most recent report.
Australia's Prime Minister John Howard continues to complain about the cost of action, despite the vast accumulating costs of inaction in water shortages to major population centres in SE Queensland, Sydney, and Adelaide. The diversion of the Shoalhaven river for use of Sydneysiders is destroying the river, The Murray-Darling is recording all-time low influx threatening irrigation around the river and Adelaide's drinking supply. Meanwhile the Australian lungfish is heading for extinction as we hear that the studies into the effect the Traveston dam would have on its population were suppressed by the Queensland government.
And Victorians can't water their gardens.
Sounds spurious, but horticulture is a million-dollar industry, and farmers are fearing for their irrigation.
In case the economic subtleties of the worsening water crisis are not clear, another Hurricane is heading for Mexico, with the potential to cost far more in destruction than the cost of cleaning up our pollution.
Anthony Albanese, federal opposition environment spokesman, retorts: "Trying to meet emissions targets is like trying to reach a target in a one-day cricket final. That's why you send out Adam Gilchrist first and not block for the first 30 overs."
Maybe we will have more hope reaching Howard if we use more sports analogies.
Al Gore is reported as smugly saying "I told you so."
And in other, other news...
Some dude won Young Scientist of the year.
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