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What disasters in 2019 outside of the normal standard deviation of weather events, makes this year any worse than any other, @basilio ?
 
wayneL said:
hat disasters in 2019 outside of the normal standard deviation of weather events, makes this year any worse than any other, @basilio ?
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The year started with a record-breaking heatwave in southern Australia with temperatures in the mid-40s, in some areas for 40 days in a row. Then followed the immolation of vast areas of moist Tasmanian forests, forests that date back to the last ice age. Approximately 3% of the state burned as a long-term trend of less rainfall and more evaporation was capped off by the driest January on record. On the mainland, who could forget those horrifying images of the Menindee fish kills?
 
wayneL said:
What disasters in 2019 outside of the normal standard deviation of weather events, makes this year any worse than any other, @basilio ?
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To our north, Pabuk, the earliest forming tropical storm in the north-west Pacific Ocean on record, smashed into the coastal resorts of Thailand, killing 10 people and causing almost US$160m in damage.

While Australia was sweltering, North America was freezing thanks to a disruption of the polar vortex that might, perversely, be linked to the warming of Arctic waters.

February brought little climatic relief with Townsville hit by devastating floods and Sydney lashed by storms.
 
wayneL said:
What disasters in 2019 outside of the normal standard deviation of weather events, makes this year any worse than any other, @basilio ?
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March saw fires continue to rage in Victoria, with over 30 homes lost. Meanwhile, Cyclone Idai, one of a record number of Indian Ocean cyclones, swept through south-eastern Africa, killing thousands in what some called the worst weather-related disaster ever to strike the southern hemisphere. Australia was not immune from cyclones, with Trevor and Veronica wreaking billions of dollars’ worth of damage.

Flooding in Iran claimed at least 70 lives in early April, while cyclones returned to south-eastern Africa, causing another 50 deaths.

In late April-early May Cyclone Fani lashed Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Bhutan, causing 89 deaths, capping off a season of very atypical cyclones likely triggered by uncommonly warm seas.
 
wayneL said:
What disasters in 2019 outside of the normal standard deviation of weather events, makes this year any worse than any other, @basilio ?
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June saw weeks of rain drown the midwest United States, on top of a near-record tornado season and the wettest 12 months on record.

Then hell came to Europe with a widespread heatwave that saw France record its highest ever temperature of 45.9C while climate scientists confirmed the link to climate change. In the US, a month of above-average temperatures baked Alaska and fuelled hundreds of fires.

As the tropical storm season started in the Gulf of Mexico in July, Louisiana and Mississippi braced for more floods. Across the Atlantic, Britain boiled while temperature records were also broken in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands during the planet’s hottest month on record.
 
wayneL said:
What disasters in 2019 outside of the normal standard deviation of weather events, makes this year any worse than any other, @basilio ?
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August saw record-low sea ice levels in the Arctic and, as August turned to September, Hurricane Dorian missed Mar-a-Lago but terrorised the Bahamas. There was scarcely time to take a breath before torrential rain submerged entire towns in south-east Spain and Imelda drowned Texas.

In response, millions of students once again took to the streets, as Scott Morrison chastised them for needless anxiety and Greta Thunberg “dared” world leaders to ignore them.

Rain towards the end of September brought some relief for the devastating fires in the Amazon, and Noaa confirmed the month as the hottest September on record.

October saw the fires move north to California, as Europe continued to swelter, parts of Australia choked on dust, and Japan was pounded by the costliest Pacific typhoon in recorded history.
 
wayneL said:
What disasters in 2019 outside of the normal standard deviation of weather events, makes this year any worse than any other, @basilio ?
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In November, a Venetian council rejected action on climate change only to have its council chambers flooded by record high tides, Cyclone Bulbul displaced millions in Bangladesh and India, and heavy rain triggered deadly flooding across central and eastern Africa.

In a terrifyingly symbolic bookend to another year of record temperatures, Australia is once again on fire and the country and sweltering through a record-breaking heatwave. Fires have been burning in the south-east for months, and all four southern mainland states have already experienced catastrophic fire weather. Smoke has choked our largest city for weeks. Like the Tasmanian fires that started the year, the lack of soil moisture means these fires are tearing through ecosystems that normally don’t burn. Small fires are conflating into megafires, resources are stretched, firefighters are exhausted, more than 750 homes have been lost and six people have already died. And still our “leaders” refuse to discuss climate change. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia’s record for its hottest day has tumbled for the second day running, with maximum temperatures reaching an average of 41.9C on Wednesday.
 
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What disasters in 2019 outside of the normal standard deviation of weather events, makes this year any worse than any other, @basilio ?
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The catalogue of climatic disasters that have unfolded this year is truly numbing. And a recently published letter by 11,000 scientists warns the climate emergency will only intensify. And yet despite all the scientific evidence, all the destruction, all the suffering, all the apocalyptic predictions, and all the strikes and marches, nothing happens. Global CO2 emissions continue to rise and the world leaders procrastinate.

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basilio said:
The catalogue of climatic disasters that have unfolded this year is truly numbing. And a recently published letter by 11,000 scientists warns the climate emergency will only intensify. And yet despite all the scientific evidence, all the destruction, all the suffering, all the apocalyptic predictions, and all the strikes and marches, nothing happens. Global CO2 emissions continue to rise and the world leaders procrastinate.

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It's hard to argue with all that, but I'm sure wayne will give it a go . :rolleyes:
 
How a 13year girl has responded to the Climate emergency.
Her story.


I'm the 13-year-old police threatened to arrest at the Kirribilli House protest. This is why I did it
My name is Izzy Raj-Seppings, and I dragged my dad on a one-hour bus trip on the hottest day of the summer to demand Scott Morrison act on climate change because I’m tired of watching my future burn before my eyes

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...kirribilli-house-protest-this-is-why-i-did-it
 
There was a heatwave in 1896 that people were dropping dead from. Apparently went across different locations of the world and lasted days.

Are they worse now according to the data?
I know they used different measurements back then.
 

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