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"The Story of Easter Island"

"This page is a resource for information on the Internet about Easter Island, also known as "Rapa Nui" and "Isla de Pascua". "

"The Mystery of Easter Island - transcript"

"The first sod was turned this week for what will soon become home to Australia's largest battery. The battery is an important component of the King Island Renewable Energy Integration Project (KIREIP), which aims to reduce the island's reliance on diesel fuel and increase use of renewable energy to supply the island's power needs."

"The Lucky Country has experienced a major spike in extreme weather in the past few years, with a string of devastating incidents just since January. That has people wondering if the island continent is somehow a perfect bellwether for the Earth's changing climate. So scientists are bearing down on the problem with intensity, investigating Australia's increasingly violent weather patterns and trying to figure out what they might portend for the rest of the world as our climate changes."

"Bjorn Lomborg has a plan to help poor low-lying countries from Kiribati (featured above) to Bangladesh threatened by rising seas and worsening storm surges. Delay real climate action, but invest in R&D to develop artificial floating islands for them to live on. OK, that isn't literally his plan, but it is figuratively. Lomborg argues that: 1) there is a trade-off between efforts to fight poverty and efforts to fight climate and 2) the best way to fight climate change is to let emissions keep rising while spending gazillions of public dollars on R&D."