Rising Levels of Carbon Dioxide Increasing Extreme Weather Events in Australia, Report Finds (theguardian.com) 43
Australia's climate has entered a new era of sustained extreme weather events, such as dangerous bushfires and heatwaves, courtesy of rising average temperatures, a new report by the nation's two government climate science agencies has found. From a report: Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, mostly from fossil fuel burning, has driven more dangerous bushfires, rising sea levels and a rapid rise in the days where temperatures reach extreme levels, the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO said in Australia's latest State of the Climate Report. "What we are seeing now is beyond the realm of what was possible previously," said Dr Jaci Brown, director of CSIRO's Climate Science Centre.
While 2019 was Australia's hottest on record that helped deliver unprecedented bushfires, those temperatures would be seen as average once global heating reaches 1.5C, the report said. Among the key findings, the report said Australia's climate had warmed by 1.44C since 1910 with bushfire seasons getting longer and more dangerous. Australia's oceans had warmed by 1C and were acidifying. In a briefing to reporters on Tuesday, Dr Karl Braganza, manager of climate environmental prediction service at the bureau, said conditions in Australia were in line with projections over recent decades. But he said: "What we are seeing now is a more tangible shift in the extremes and we are starting to feel how that shift in the average is impacting on extreme events. So we don't necessarily feel that 1.44C increase in average temperature, but we do feel those heatwaves and we feel that fire weather."
While 2019 was Australia's hottest on record that helped deliver unprecedented bushfires, those temperatures would be seen as average once global heating reaches 1.5C, the report said. Among the key findings, the report said Australia's climate had warmed by 1.44C since 1910 with bushfire seasons getting longer and more dangerous. Australia's oceans had warmed by 1C and were acidifying. In a briefing to reporters on Tuesday, Dr Karl Braganza, manager of climate environmental prediction service at the bureau, said conditions in Australia were in line with projections over recent decades. But he said: "What we are seeing now is a more tangible shift in the extremes and we are starting to feel how that shift in the average is impacting on extreme events. So we don't necessarily feel that 1.44C increase in average temperature, but we do feel those heatwaves and we feel that fire weather."
Nothing to worry about (Score:2, Funny)
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Nice troll, but stupid. There's no rolling back the damage the alleged president has caused.
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Doing nothing is still better than actively making things worst, you fucking idiot.
Re:Nothing to worry about (Score:5, Informative)
They didn't do "nothing". Actually CO2 emissions increased under their rule. I thought we we were going to die of climate change and it was a critical problem. I'll ask again: why didn't Biden/Obama (or any of your political "heroes") fix it? Don't bother responding: we already know the answer. Congrats. You have Biden again.
Neither Biden nor Obama, as fundamentally corporate, fundamentally oligarch aligned politicians are my heros. They are merely less bad than "Orange Man" who is an actual oligarchic psychopath. I will answer on their behalf, however because in this case it's not difficult to understand:
Changing the direction of an entire economy is not easy and takes time. The moves that Obama made, like sponsoring solar panels and putting in place regulations on cars made a huge difference and that difference is what makes it possible to change now. Without Obama's (and other's) moves on reducing car emissions and subsidies for electric car purchases Tesla would never have existed and the entire modern car industry would be in China.
In 2008 when Obama was elected Tesla was producing no cars. In 2016 when Obama left, Tesla was the world leader in electric cars, but still producing a tiny fraction of the yearly deliveries of cars. Now Tesla is producing around 400k cars a year. This difference in status means that it's now possible to discuss decarbonizing the entire car industry. When Obama started as a president Solar and Wind power were massively expensive. Obama managed to kick off carbon free electricity [environmentamerica.org] and together with the massive progress made in Europe and Asia, these are now becoming the cheapest most effective energy sources available.
So, the situation is that, before the Obama/Biden administration green energy was impractical. Based on the work done in Europe and Asia and some input from them, Green energy is now the cheapest and best available source of energy. Before Obama electric cars were an oddity. Now America leads the world in electric cars. Although Trump tried to destroy that legacy he didn't succeed.
Based on the work done in his previous administration, Biden now has an actual chance to transform both America's energy supply and energy use in a way that Trump failed to do. He could not have done that before because the basics - cheap stable green energy and largely electric transport - were not in place.
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The psychopaths eugenicists are in control, forget the political theatre, no capitalist sides are better than the other, all just as corrupt as each other. There is a solution, it will generate a profit (not just savings), they have ZERO interest, I will not bother detailing it again, there is no point, simply below sea level desalination, vertical axis wind turbines and artificial reefs (water for irrigating deserts and transpiration spreading that water further and absorbing CO2 as well as altering albedo
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Nothing is actually being done about climate change it is just the excuse to divert funds and degrade living standards is western countries for the peasants.
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Biden Derangement Syndrome
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I believe it would be more accurate to call this PTSD, Post Trump Stress Disorder.
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Idiot, you seem to think a senator has dictatorial powers. I mean really, are you stupid? A senator is only in a slightly better position to make laws than a homeless guy on the street.
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The swastika symbol is an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. You have nothing to apologize for, my neutral friend.
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What are you doing about it, I have repeatedly attacked Germany on social for it's abuse of the symbol and it's arrogance in banning it, after they abused it. Why the hell have you not launched a class action law suit in Germany, to force the German government to apologise and rehabilitate the symbol to the original pre Germany must dominate globally era.
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To tackle a big problem,you start by admitting you have a problem. Then you stop digging the hole you're standing in.
Just those two things would go a long way to preserving our current ways of life. If you ignore a problem, the problem won't ignore you; it will force you to change faster than you can adapt. It's still feasible to dial back the rate of change to something people can adapt to.
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President Elect Biden will take office on Jan 20 2021 and the US tax dollars will start flowing world wide again and Climate change will have been solved.
Trump supporters are amazing if they think this is how the world works, or even if they think that anyone has ever even suggested that any of the above would happen. Get a clue.
Re: Nothing to worry about (Score:2)
This has nothing to do with your countries idiotic politics. It's a story about Australia , and frankly wit. The way your economy has been tanking and ya probably not long before you'll be coming us for money....
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Could very well be
Summer is coming (Score:3)
Looking out at the bush behind my house and on the single road coming in covered in tons of dry leaves either side, not a single burn back has been done since the last horror bush fire season.
Many of my friends agreed, "Fire, flood, global pandemic - what's next", well a government that has done nothing to prepare whilst no-one was on the roads and they had the ideal opportunity to do so.
Time to update the bush fire plan.
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Well, you can't characterize every last person who considers himself "green", but support for controlled burns and fire breaks is pretty mainstream in the environmental movement.
Greenpeace's position on wildfire management is to control the excess accumulation of fuel, and over time to prioritize firefighting efforts towards preserving property and human life. This would allow areas where fires don't pose an immediate threat to humans to return to a more natural fire regime.
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Why are you waiting for the government to do something? Get out there and rake the forest. Like Trump told us.
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I'm not qualified to do hazard reduction burns.
Help is on the way (Score:1)
Take a breath, but best not exhale.
oh well (Score:3)
Tax CO2 now. (Score:4, Insightful)
Frankly, it's sad that we're in the midst of a mass extinction event but don't have the resolve to actually tax the cause of it. Humanity is no longer being shortsighted about the problem, humanity is in denial of the problem.
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To be fair the mass extinction event we're in the midst of is not really humanity's problem
... yet.
Is it getting worse everywhere? Must we all lose? (Score:2)
Global warming is bad. But just by chance this has to be good for some places in the world.
Someone is benefiting from this. Just like even in the Great Depression there were people becoming millionaires.
Maybe even Australia will benefit. With stronger winds they can get cheaper wind power. With drier air there's less clouds to block solar panels. They'll have to do some better management of wild fires, find crops that are suited to the change in climate, but that could be a long term benefit. This cou
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Correlation is causation now? (Score:2)
Correlation is causation now? Because the C02 levels are up and the climate is changing, one must have caused the other..
Yea, I know, it's common knowledge about greenhouse gasses, but can we PLEASE stop with this using a logical fallacy in all these stories? I know it is fashionable, but it leads to illogical thinking in the long run.
Oh no! (Score:2)
Quick, let's give all our money and freedom to globalist organisations!