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A new study based on satellite observations, just released globally by Australia's science agency the CSIRO, is likely to cause a stir among anti-carbon dioxide global warming alarmist circles. According to the study, over the past three decades the rise in atmospheric CO2 has contributed significantly to the greening of our planet.

Regional ICT specialist Pacnet is more than quadrupling the size of its CloudSpace1 data centre in Sydney, apparently unfazed by the likely impact of the carbon tax and resulting electricity price rises estimated to be as high as 16 per cent.

Global software giant Microsoft has turned to a Sydney software company for the smarts to track and manage its carbon footprint and energy and resources usage worldwide.

The passage of the Government's carbon tax bills through the lower house could be enough to unleash a fresh torrent of green IT initiatives and also place additional demands on the public service to urgently develop the information systems needed to administer and monitor the new regime.

As Australia readies itself for the imposition of a Carbon tax and renewed calls ring out from Bob Brown and the Greens to shut down all of Australia's coal fired power stations, the question remains as to whether the Greens vision of Australia going 100% renewable energy by 2020 is actually feasible or just a dewy-eyed impossible dream.

Australia's climate and tax-obsessed Federal Government says the environment is important and that Australians need a tax to be forced into reducing carbon emissions, yet that same Government has just cut solar panel subsidies raising questions over whether it truly is environmentally minded, or simply money-minded.

Without a National Broadband Network many of Australia's green initiatives will stall according to an Australian Information Industry Association white paper presented to the Government today.