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		<title>On Line Opinion - Science &amp; Technology</title>
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		<description>Australia's e-journal of social and political debate</description>
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		<copyright>Copyright 2000-2010, National Forum</copyright>
		<managingEditor>susan@onlineopinion.com.au (Susan Prior)</managingEditor>
		<webMaster>lachlan@onlineopinion.com.au (Lachlan Kuhn)</webMaster>
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			<title>Climate apocalypse postponed</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Mark S. Lawson)</author>
			<description>Seasonal weather forecasting has a dismal track record.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10915</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:51:20 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Save our seeds</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Tony Gregson)</author>
			<description>The Australian Plant Genetic Resource Collections and global food security: where to next?</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10905</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:22:40 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Internet piracy: a white elephant in a sea of static</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Tom Moore)</author>
			<description>Internet piracy is not seriously considered to be 'wrong': it is considered to be normal behaviour.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10858</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:15:12 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>1000Mbps is sexy, it&#8217;s cool, but is it worth $43bn?</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Jeff Hosking)</author>
			<description>There has been a lot of hype about the national broadband network but do we really need its speed and capacity now?</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10838</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:28:42 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The fox that wasn&#8217;t there?</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Clive Marks)</author>
			<description>When Winston Churchill spoke of a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' he may well have been describing the Tasmanian fox incursion.</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:14:20 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>High above the Earth, satellites track melting ice</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Michael Lemonick)</author>
			<description>The surest sign of a warming Earth is the steady melting of its ice zones, from disappearing sea ice to shrinking glaciers.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10678</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:27:07 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Can nanotechnology improve public health?</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Jayashree Vivekanandan)</author>
			<description>Nanotechnology's potential to improve public health will be maximised only with an environment conducive to its development.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:26:25 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Natural gas as panacea: dubious path to a green future</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Daniel Botkin)</author>
			<description>Many energy experts contend natural gas is the ideal fuel as the world makes the transition to renewable energy.</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:16:11 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Addicted to fossil fuels</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Martin Nicholson)</author>
			<description>The recent oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico could be an energy game changer.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 6 Jul 2010 08:40:58 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The CSIRO and the myth of progress </title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Cameron Leckie)</author>
			<description>Busting the myth of progress is a precursor to changing industrial civilisations' current unsustainable path.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 5 Jul 2010 11:21:06 +1000</pubDate>
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