/*Example message arrays for the two demo scrollers*/ var pausecontent=new Array() pausecontent[0]='New findings from Hiroshima-Nagasaki study
Researchers from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) at Hiroshima reported this year in Circulation journal, the official publication of the Japanese Circulation Society, a new finding, that men with Brugada-like electrocardiogram (ECG) have higher risk of prostate cancer.' pausecontent[1]='TFE Aphasia Therapy download on the Freewares page
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A MELBOURNE company is developing the world\'s first commercial plant using solar energy to make hydrogen gas — a clean fuel that can run cars or generate electricity, without producing greenhouse gases. The $60 million project, based on an Australian breakthrough, aims to achieve science\'s elusive quest to convert solar energy into a fuel that can be stored and used when needed. - Feb 22, 2008' pausecontent[3]='Time running out on climate
AUSTRALIA may need to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 90% by 2050 as part of a massive global effort to avert the most devastating effects of climate change, the Rudd Government has been warned.- February 22, 2008' pausecontent[4]='Cost of oil passes $100, sets a new record - Traders bullish despite evidence of plentiful supplies, fall in demand - Feb.19,2008
NEW YORK - Oil futures shot higher Tuesday, closing above $100 for the first time as investors bet that crude prices will keep climbing despite evidence of plentiful supplies and falling demand. At the pump, gas prices rose further above $3 a gallon. There was no single driver behind oil\’s sharp price jump; investors seized on an explosion at a 67,000 barrel per day refinery in Texas, the falling dollar, the possibility that OPEC may cut production next month, the threat of new violence in Nigeria and continuing tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela.' pausecontent[5]='Get mega traffic to your website for FREE!!!
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Scientists in the US have developed novel brush-like fibres that generate electrical energy from movement. Weaving them into a material could allow designers to create "smart" clothes which harness body movement to power portable electronic gadgets. Writing in the journal Nature, the team say that the materials could also be used in tents or other structures to harness wind energy.' pausecontent[7]='A pardox - Oil rich countries are able to afford renewable energy cities - 2008
Construction work on the world\'s first zero-carbon city housing 50,000 people in a car-free environment will begin in the oil-rich Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi next month, the developers said on Monday.In Masdar City, which will be run entirely on renewable energy including solar power to exploit the desert emirate\'s near constant supply of sunshine, people will be able to move around in automated pods.' pausecontent[8]='Alaska oil exploration begins - 2 Jan 2008
The US government says it will offer exploration rights for oil and gas in a northwestern region of Alaska. The federal Minerals Management Service said it would take bids next month for concessions in the Chukchi Sea, which separates Alaska from Siberia. But environmental groups fear the effects on wildlife in the region, including the polar bear population. There have been no lease sales for over 15 years and the groups fear further exploration could damage marine life.' pausecontent[9]='Australia can afford carbon emissions reductions - 31 Dec 2007
Australia can afford to introduce tough pollution and carbon reduction targets as part of a commitment to curb global warming, a new report says. The Climate Institute today released findings which it says show there will be little economic impact if Australia establishes measures to reduce greenhouse gases. The report, prepared by the institute, CSIRO and Monash University, found that if Australia committed to reversing its pollution by 2012, reducing emissions by 20 per cent by 2020, and becoming carbon neutral by 2050, economic growth would not be hampered.' pausecontent[10]='Australia urged to sell uranium to India - Nelson Annabel Stafford - December 31, 2007
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has reiterated calls for Australia to sell uranium to India, despite fears of instability on the subcontinent following last week\'s assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. In August, the Howard government made an in-principle agreement to sell uranium to India on the condition that the uranium be used for peaceful purposes and that India sign a civil nuclear co-operation agreement with the United States. But Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has vowed not to proceed with uranium sales to India until it becomes a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.' pausecontent[11]='Sony unveils hand-powered digital camera - December 14, 2007
Sony has unveiled a prototype digital camera shaped like a pizza cutter with a wheel that can be turned to generate enough power to take pictures. The "Twirl N\' Take" camera generates enough electricity for one snap if the the wheel is moved for some 15 seconds, according to a Sony official. A digital camera similar to those used in mobile phones is installed in a handle attached to the wheel, which is equipped with a power-generating device, she said.' pausecontent[12]='Carbon market could outstrip foreign exchange - December 17, 2007
COMPANIES involved in voluntary carbon trading are pushing to make Melbourne the country\'s carbon trading capital. The newly installed Rudd Government has made a commitment to introduce a carbon trading scheme by 2010 and existing carbon traders are shuffling for position in preparation. Ken Edwards, who runs Australia\'s biggest trader of carbon credits, Nextgen, said carbon markets were established in Europe and in the US, but in the Asia-Pacific time zone, the market was fragmented. "If you think about the way the market has gone, it\'s all started in Melbourne," he said.' pausecontent[13]='Rudd pledges to forge 2009 climate deal - December 17, 2007
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has pledged to work closely with Chinese leaders, India and the US to get a climate-change agreement by the end of 2009. But as the Bali "road map" was broadly welcomed, despite its limitations, the US attacked it for not doing enough to commit developing economies to hefty emissions cuts.' pausecontent[14]='Tempers fly as countries object to climate deal Saturday Dec 15, 2007
Tensions rose to the surface today as China and developing nations raised objections to a hard-fought draft agreement at a UN conference on climate change. The marathon talks in Bali were mired by friction between the United States and European Union, which appeared to be resolved with a compromise watering down EU demands on future curbs in greenhouse gas emissions. But developing nations led by China, India and Pakistan were upset with the language of the deal, particularly on how wealthy nations would transfer green technology to emerging economies.' pausecontent[15]='US agrees to back global warming pact -December 16, 2007
UNITED Nations-led climate talks in Bali agreed last night to launch talks on a new global warming deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, after the US dropped last-minute opposition. The talks in Bali came to a tense climax as angry disagreements broke out between nations. The US representative was booed from the floor for refusing to accept the final draft worked out with Europe, China and India. But an hour later the US delegation backed down and promised to come to a consensus, opening the way for the Bali road map to be signed.' pausecontent[16]='UN closer to climate deal as US holds out - Bali December 15, 2007
THE United Nations climate change meeting stumbled towards a compromise last night on a road map to guide the world to a new global climate agreement. The United States fought a trenchant battle to the eleventh hour to stop the declaration referring to the UN\'s scientific advice on the need for developed countries to make deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.' pausecontent[17]='Targets to be taken out of pact - December 13, 2007<>A REFERENCE to non-binding targets is likely to be stripped from the road map for global climate change negotiations to be launched by the UN conference at Bali. The US, Japan and Russia are reported to be pushing hard for the removal of any reference to developed countries needing to make cuts of between 25 and 40per cent by 2020. The US is also opposing any quantified national emission commitments by developing countries, saying this could turn the new global deal after 2012 into another Kyoto Protocol, which it refuses to ratify.' pausecontent[18]='Sceptics put their case to UN chief - December 14, 2007
A LETTER signed by 103 scientists who are climate change sceptics has been sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. At a press conference at the Bali meeting today, the scientists will release the letter publicly and outline their case downplaying the seriousness of global warming. Their letter, a copy of which has been obtained by The Australian, says climate change is natural. "It is not possible to stop climate change," the letter says. "It is a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages."' pausecontent[19]='Carbon capture key for coal -December 12, 2007
COAL-FIRED power has no future in Australia unless ways are found to reduce its carbon emissions, while nuclear energy will be too expensive, according to the man drawing up a climate change strategy for the Rudd Government and the states. On the eve of departing for the Bali conference, economist Ross Garnaut said it could be three years before Australia knew what post-Kyoto emission targets it would have to meet beyond 2012.' pausecontent[20]='Great Barrier Reef will be annihilated - report - December 14, 2007
The Great Barrier Reef will inevitably turn into an "eroding rubble bank" and any action to reduce greenhouse gases will prove futile, an environmental analysis report says. Marine scientists have predicted a "terrible future in front of us for reefs" in the paper published today in the journal Science. The paper presents three possible scenarios for the future of coral reefs under different climate conditions' pausecontent[21]='Gore blasts US obstruction - December 14, 2007
FORMER US vice-president Al Gore has made a dramatic 11th-hour intervention at the faltering climate change talks in Bali, accusing his own country of obstructing progress and calling on other nations to forge a new deal without Washington. With less than 24 hours to today\'s conference deadline, the newly-awarded Nobel laureate last night made an impassioned plea to conference delegates to leave an "open space" in a new climate change deal, and to hope it will be filled later by President George Bush\'s successor. "I am going to speak an inconvenient truth: my own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali," Mr Gore said, to rapturous applause.' pausecontent[22]='Rudd takes aim at the US over warming - Bali December 13, 2007
KEVIN Rudd has sent a pointed message to the United States that it must pull its weight in the international effort to combat climate change. In a speech to the United Nations climate change conference — his first international address as Prime Minister — Mr Rudd also pledged that Australia would set "robust" targets for cutting emissions by 2020. But he still declined to endorse the plan for a Bali conference declaration in which rich nations would nominate a target of 25% to 40% cuts by 2020.' pausecontent[23]='Greenpeace takes on gaming giants - 12 December 2007
Greenpeace has called on gamers to persuade Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo to make their consoles greener. According to the environmental campaign group, game console makers have so far "failed to reduce the toxic burden of their products". It accuses Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony of lagging behind mobile phone and PC manufacturers.' pausecontent[24]='US House approves energy bill - but veto threatened
The US House of Representatives approved a sweeping energy bill December 6 that includes a national renewable port folio standard and an extension of wind and solar tax incentives. But its fate looks uncertain as it makes its way tothe Senate and to President Bush, who has threatened a veto.'