Thread: Climate Change and our Land of Fire, Flood and Drought.

I would suggest next years fire season will be a mild one.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

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Nobody here denies the climate is changing.

The causes are still up for debate by such luminaries as Judith Curry who states that we still do not know enough about the causes .

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Kind'a sorta agree.
My main gripe is (apart from the hysteria) .. is more about who cares what's causing it. Lets just accept that humans cause it .. really, who cares.
More to the point .. is why we worry so much about fixing what's still a natural evolution(irrespective of the point that humans are causing it).
Other life forms have caused climate change over the billions of years the earth has been an earth.

This is my argument .. don't care what's happening nor why .. how is this going to impact anything(in real life terminology .. not hysteria driven rhetoric!) .. do we need to adapt, if we don't what happens .. etc.

But the fact still remains .. earth climate has changed pretty much continuously for eons, long before any humanoid species lived, and will long after we're all gone .. etc.
But during all the time since any humanoid lifeforms, and while the climate had changed, they always progressed.
And our current understanding of history .. the ice ages were always the changes that caused more hardship than any warming stage.

So once again, if there is any proof that climate change is going to cause our extinction in any way .. would really love to read about it(but not some hypothetical hyperbole garbage again! )
Actual historical evidence that shows that during the warming phase change, civilisation(s) became extinct.

Originally Posted by Tombie

I would suggest next years fire season will be a mild one.

And I'm going to predict that this years average temp values will be quite a bit lower than previous 3-5 years too.
Interesting that so far in Jan, we're (here in Melb) struggling to hit mid 30's temps. The forecasts get continually revised .. lower and lower each week to 3 day period.
Mid last week, we were looking at mid to high 30's yesterday(Mon 13th) through to tomorrow(15th), by weekend, they revised Mon to 29(not 33 as they initially predicted) and 33 for Tue(today) and 34 on Wed(tomorrow).
So far till the 23rd, Melb maxes are in the mid 20's .. not a single 35 or more in sight yet(and I get the feeling it ain't either) .. in the month most notorious for hitting 40's(historically speaking) .. it's looking pretty grim argument for the climate change extremists.

It is also looking a bit grim to try & breath there today Arthur. TV footage shows it is really really crap. Blame the New South Welshmen/persons.

Originally Posted by 4bee

It is also looking a bit grim to try & breath there today Arthur. TV footage shows it is really really crap. Blame the New South Welshmen/persons.

I live in Gippsland and its quite thick today. Sun looks like a blood moon.

Originally Posted by Tombie

I would suggest next years fire season will be a mild one.

Of course Mr Tombs you are presuming that there will be something left to burn?

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Of course Mr Tombs you are presuming that there will be something left to burn?

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Exactly. There has now been a massive, all be it, horrendous and uncontrollable burn off.
New growth will begin and there will be little fuel to feed anything next year.

Having said that, if they don’t keep on top of it like the previous 10 years it will build up again and we will end up with a repeat of this season in 2030.