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Whaa? lungs take in oxygen and respirate CO2. That's what Brazil and Russia are doing and Oz will do this summer. same as cars and China's coal . Where do they get these poets from?

When the population booms to triple today's 8bn then the CO2 will calm everyone down and put out the fires. No Smoking- you can't.
 
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Water licences were given out with abandon in NSW.There was no thought about the future.SA stopped giving out water licences in 1967,not so NSW.Water trading meant that licences were transferred to the head of the Barwon-Darling water systems.Water was,and is, taken out for industrial scale farming before it could flow down the Darling.Flood water is allowed to be harvested without licence ,and this happens in the upper catchments especially.As has been said ,water licences should have stayed with the land they were allocated on,not being able to be transferred upstream .I always suspected that some would steal water that their licences did not cater for,and so it has been demonstrated.Having lived in the Riverina for two years ,about ten years back,the attitude that I observed was that rivers were irrigation ditches and environmental flows were not even considered.
 
With the focus on fires here in qld, i use the sentinel website a lot
I noticed a few days ago you can also see fire elsewhere
Have s look at Borneo
And the fire locations can tell you where the Indonesian side stops
It is terrible, and while we have a focus on brazil...of course, a trump wannabee can only be evil, i have not seen a mention of Borneo
Bye bye urang outangs
 
Yes warnings in Klang Valley (kuala Lumpur) about air quality from these fires.This has been going on for years from Indonesia.As they say, Indonesia is not a good neighbour.
 
As the temperature warms ancient peat decomposes into nitrogen for the Antarctic hairgrass (Deschampsia antarctica). Hairgrass is able to absorb that nitrogen up to 160 times faster than their mossy competitors. "Recently, as global temperatures have increased, and Antarctic summers have become longer and warmer, hairgrass has become increasingly widespread."

Argentina has bases on Antarctic Peninsula but fired a firey:
Argentina’s National Fire Management Service (SNMF) of the Environment and Sustainable Development Ministry director Jorge Barrionuevo has been fired by newly appointed Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández. Fernández fired Barrionuevo and called him “useless”.
 

We can also include QLD in this, Cubbie Station springs to mind as an example.

The Warrego River used to be the main source of water in the Upper Darling then it was virtually dammed so that no water reached the Darling.

Obviously, there should have been a federal management authority for the whole system a very long time ago
 
Sobering and terrifying. Perhaps the first group of Climate Change refugees in Australia will be people from our own drying country towns.
November is 6 weeks away.

'Critical': parts of regional NSW set to run out of water by November

WaterNSW warns without significant rain, Macquarie River will run dry, wiping out supply to Dubbo, Cobar, Nyngan and Narromine

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ional-nsw-set-to-run-out-of-water-by-november
 
"The report says there are a number of positives for Australian prices, including demand interest from the world’s single-largest cotton importer China (as it seeks to secure non-US supply), weakness in the Australian dollar and current local drought conditions.
“Rabobank sees short-term basis remaining strong at 1200 points through Q3, but softening later this year ahead of the arrival of Brazil’s predicted six million bale exportable new crop,” he said. Brazil, Aral Sea and Murray-Darling are expected to be major desert tourist attractions, boosting inland NSW towns.
 
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Nice article about someone doing real environmental work and improving the planet
A quick look at the before and after photo and it is obvious how good it went
Well done
 
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