# Thanks for nothing, Australia!

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**Created:** [January 7, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/thanks-for-nothing-australia/278920 "2009-01-07T16:04:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanontheMoon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/danonthemoon/32/7436_2.png) [@DanontheMoon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DanontheMoon)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/thanks-for-nothing-australia/278920/1 "2009-01-07T16:04:23Z")

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[http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24880012-29277,00.html](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24880012-29277,00.html)

> **Australia ‘destroying life on Earth’**

By Sean Plambeck  
NEWS.com.au  
January 06, 2009 05:15pm

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                                                                               [IMG]http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6429283,00.jpg[/IMG] 'Life-threatening' ... steam and carbon emissions come from the brown coal Morwell Power Station in Latrobe Valley, east of Melbourne / Reuters

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[LIST]  
[_]NASA scientist writes to Obama  
[_]Attacks our coal, climate policies  
[\*]Will destroy much life on Earth  
[/LIST]

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               AUSTRALIA&#8217;S use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the &#8220;destruction of much of the life on the planet&#8221;, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama.

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Give them one whole continent to themselves, and we’re all still doomed. \</sarcasm\> In all seriousness, thank God I never met this guy while being employed there. :doh:
