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I can take a cold shower!
Did you mean: hot apocalypse
I was worried about my garden!
As it turned out, I lost this year's stone fruits.
And thus far, little else.
You once told me you didn't worry about things you couldn't do anything about. ...
I think you were worried there for a while about the hotapocolypse.
You don't make statements about global warming based on one summer and the scientists in the US are the same as here, seeking funding by whipping up a scare.
Thr climate will/has changed and will continue to do so over time but the juries out on whether humans are responsible.
to reduce the essenetial carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Mr. Burns, I would say from the attached link the sceptics are on a roll of support and all this crap about AGW will die of natuaral death along with the GREENIES,
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...t-stop-and-think/story-fn558imw-1226553109233
Rising seas may put $300b of property at risk: scientists
Where is your link buddy or is it just your say so?You are wrong, in fact the increasing number of new posters concerned at GW arriving on this threat would indicate the contrary.
Where is your link buddy or is it just your say so?
Or perhaps wishful thinking!!!!!!!!!
Essential carbon dioxide!!!!!!!! Plant life can't survive without it.
Would you say noco that motor cars and coal fired power stations are having no ill effects on the environment.
The attached link does provide the connection between the cold air from the Himalayas and the extreme heat in Australia. I will probe more for the bush fire connectionCorrect me if I wrong, but don't cars emit carbon monoxide?
From what I have observed with coal fired power stations, the majority have carbon resistant devices and what you see is steam coming from the wide concrete chimneys. Please ignore the Green/Labor propaganda on that advertisment with Kate Blanchett standing in front of smoke billowing out of tall chimneys as that photo was purported to have been taken 50 years ago. Infact I understand that particular power station does not even exist anymore
If you are a GREENIE, I guess you will be turning a blind eye to all the fossil fuel being burnt in all the bush fires around the counrty. I would imagine that the current bush fires would be emitting enough to equal coal fired power station emmissions for the next 100 years.
I also learnt many years ago that the bush fires in Australia link up with cold air streaming south from the Himalays east via Indonesia to create the monsoonal system in the northern part of Australia. If I can find a link I will post it.
I would imagine that the current bush fires would be emitting enough to equal coal fired power station emmissions for the next 100 years.
Perhaps this link may help the Alarmists to understand CLIMATE CAHNGE a little better or will it?
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm
.would be emitting enough CO2 to equal coal fired power station emissions for the next 100 years
Passenger car emissions summary
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates of average passenger car emissions in the United States for July 2000 [25] Component Emission Rate Annual pollution emitted
Hydrocarbons 2.80 grams/mile (1.75 g/Km) 77.1 pounds (35.0 kg)
Carbon Monoxide 20.9 grams/mile (13.06 g/Km) 575 pounds (261 kg)
NOx 1.39 grams/mile (0.87 g/Km) 38.2 pounds (17.3 kg)
CO2 - Green house gas 0.916 pounds per mile (258 g/km) 11,450 pounds (5,190 kg)
Bingo...suggest that we are far better off spending resources on preventing bush fires than on trying to combat the problem with what are obviously ineffective taxation policies?..
If true, wouldn't that suggest that we are far better off spending resources on preventing bush fires than on trying to combat the problem with what are obviously ineffective taxation policies? I'm not saying the claim is true, its just that I haven't heard it disputed.
Well Logique our country does put many efforts into reducing bushfires. Public education, quick response teams whatever.
Bushfires will always be a problem of course. It goes with the territory of hot summers, lightening strikes accidents and human activity.
What will make the problem far worse will be hotter summers, and more extreme heat waves which will be the inevitable result of global warming. The Black Saturday bushfires demonstrated that what might have been just manageable fires in a certain temperature setting become totally monstrous with a few extra degrees.
Climate change damage can be limited by carbon cuts: study
Date
January 14, 2013 - 1:16PM
The world could avoid much of the damaging effects of climate change this century if greenhouse gas emissions are curbed more sharply, research shows.
The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first comprehensive assessment of the benefits of cutting emissions to keep the global temperature rise to within 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, a level which scientists say would avoid the worst effects of climate change.
It found 20 to 65 per cent of the adverse impacts by the end of this century could be avoided.
"Our research clearly identifies the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions - less severe impacts on flooding and crops are two areas of particular benefit," said Nigel Arnell, director of the University of Reading's Walker Institute, which led the study.
In 2010, governments agreed to curb emissions to keep temperatures from rising above 2 degrees C, but current emissions reduction targets are on track to lead to a temperature rise of 4 degrees or more by 2100.
The World Bank has warned more extreme weather will become the "new normal" if global temperature rises by 4 degrees.
Extreme heatwaves could devastate areas from the Middle East to the United States, while sea levels could rise by up to 91 cm (3 feet), flooding cities in countries such as Vietnam and Bangladesh, the bank has said.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/environmen...-cuts-study-20130114-2covq.html#ixzz2Huf6XkWd
Mitigation to reduce the worst effects of climate change is apparently still possible.
Climate change set to make America hotter, drier and more disaster-prone
Draft report from NCA makes clear link between climate change and extreme weather as groups urge Obama to take action
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 January 2013 21.26 GMT
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Future generations of Americans can expect to spend 25 days a year sweltering in temperatures above 100F (38C), with climate change on course to turn the country into a hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone place.
The National Climate Assessment, released in draft form on Friday , provided the fullest picture to date of the real-time effects of climate change on US life, and the most likely consequences for the future.
The 1,000-page report, the work of the more than 300 government scientists and outside experts, was unequivocal on the human causes of climate change, and on the links between climate change and extreme weather.
"Climate change is already affecting the American people," the draft report said. "Certain types of weather events have become more frequent and/or intense including heat waves, heavy downpours and in some regions floods and drought. Sea level is rising, oceans are becoming more acidic, and glaciers and Arctic sea ice are melting."
The report, which is not due for adoption until 2014, was produced to guide federal, state and city governments in America in making long-term plans.
By the end of the 21st century, climate change is expected to result in increased risk of asthma and other public health emergencies, widespread power blackouts, and mass transit shutdowns, and possibly shortages of food.
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