Is Global Warming already happening in Australia?
Posted on April 25, 2009 by by scoop
Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness – the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived in Australia, scientists are saying. Report
Resent drought, deadly bush fires in the south, monsoon flooding and mosquito-borne fevers in the north, widespread wildlife decline, economic collapse in agriculture and killer heat waves are signs of global warning in Australia, they say.
But are scientists right about this? some reports are even linking Global Warming as the cause for depression and suicide in Australia.
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So you’re asking a bunch of lay people to pass judgment on scientific research? Sorry, but this smells of troll.
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I actually though it was an interesting topic as everything we do and hear about has something to do with the environment.
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Meh. ‘Global warming’ isn’t the right word – there’s lots of controversy over whether or not the planet is warming, and if it is, what impact it will have.
If you start thinking of it as ‘climate change’ you will find that there’s very little debate over whether or not it is happening, and how devastating the effects can be.
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Given that our scientists working in the meteorology field have difficulty in giving us an accurate weather prediction more than a week out, I have even less faith in those scientists that claim they are able to give accurate long term climate change forecasts.
Unfortunately climate change (or global warming as it was previously known until that term fell out of favour) is reaching an almost religious fervor. It is getting to the stage where anyone who dares to express a counter opinion to the climate change herd mentality is simply classed a nonconformist, heathen or simply ignored no matter what their qualifications to make statements on the subject may be.
I have great personal difficulty in believing that we have (or are on the brink of) anthropomorphic climate change. We seem to be expending a lot of time, effort and resources attacking the alleged symptoms (GHG emissions) without any proof that this will actually provide solutions that will definitively guarantee positive outcomes.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for using the remaining non renewable resources we have available on this planet in a more “economical” fashion (i.e. using less, using what we have in a smarter way). I am also in favour of reducing harmful waste emissions (remember when we used to call that stuff pollution?). But on both sides of the equation (business/environmental) there are groups that have a lot at stake and stand to make a lot of money pushing their own agendas and getting their own way. The amounts of money involved are just mind blowing.
I want to see proposals for guaranteed solutions to the anticipated and actual climate related issues and problems. More importantly show me tangible proof that there are significant benefits that will be achieved from these solutions. Blind faith simply doesn’t wash with me.
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It certainly isn’t scientific evidence, but having grown up in Cairns, I have witnessed the Great Barrier Reef deteriorate in the last 30 years (being able to say that’s a little scary).
In the early 80s, you could fall off the beach on Green and Fitzroy islands and land on the reef. The last time I went snorkelling, we travelled 5km off Green Island and even the reef there was bleached. Still plenty of reef wildlife, but the coral simply doesn’t look the same anymore.
Even the reef off the Daintree near Snapper Island is bleached. I don’t think it is reasonable to suggest that increased tourist traffic alone is the reason for the reef’s decline. Cheers, Michael.
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I came across this article recently:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271218
Sorry Michael, it doesn’t explain your coral bleaching, but simply reinforces the fact predictions with regard to melting of the Antarctic ice-cap may not be all doom and gloom as some are predicting.
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My original comment was intended to mean: we’re the uninformed masses, so any debate here is more than likely going to be nothing but half-informed opinion, rather than any informed discussion.
It’s nice to know I can predict the future.
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as canberra gets colder, and there is snow on them there mountains, I don’t really believe in global warming….
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Peter:
See this story and interviews that were on Lateline last night.
Story: Professor says no threat from global warming – http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2554128.htm
Interview: Ian Plimer discusses his book denying global warming – http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2554129.htm
Unfortunately at the time of writing this comment the transcript for the interview is not up yet.
Ian Plimer tries to get across what appear to be credible concepts and valid points but Tony Jones just wants to beat him down each time. Once again we see a media personality adopting the “herd mentality” with regard to global warming… if you are interviewing someone who has a case counter to the the “cult of global warming/climate change” then they automatically have to be wrong.
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Jon, I think that the problem is that there has been so many events that can be plausibly linked to global warming that the general belief is that if it is getting colder, we must have too much exposure to greenhouse gasses. Makes no sense, as it seems that the amount of dust and smoke would have the opposite effect – blocking the sun out and preventing the amount of heat and solar radiation to impact the earth that a warming event would have. certainly, there are differences in our temperatures, but on the most part, these are due to natural events…
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Andrew Bolt ran the following in the Herald Sun on 29/4/2009:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25402980-5007146,00.html
I also found the following in research I was doing with regard to the origins of the global warming movement. This is from the KUSI News (San Diego) website by John Coleman:
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/38574742.html
Colemans Wikipedia profile is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coleman_(meteorologist)
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Addendum: choose – John Coleman (news weathercaster), founder of The Weather Channel, WordPress appears to have truncated the URL at the “(” symbol.
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