Climate-Fueled Desperation in Australia
Few Americans understand the horrific impact that climate-fueled wild fires are having on the air quality in Australia. It’s hard to read the piece linked above and not taste the ash and see the pink sun that the author describes so clearly. Worse still is the sense of despair. From the piece:
Pollution levels are rising to 22 times the accepted safety levels. This week temperatures are soaring again. Friends say the fires will burn for weeks, maybe months. It’s likely there will be no rain till the end of January. On social media, everybody keeps taking pictures of the sky and the sun. Someone writes a note: “How long before the birds start dropping from the sky?”
Is there action? Not really. From COP25, the climate change summit in Madrid:
This process was designed to deliver global justice. This is a place where (soon-to-be-underwater South Pacific island nation) Tuvalu is as powerful as European Union or United States. But the constant bullying of these big countries are making this process worse than useless. Their bullying hasn’t stopped. They’re not letting us make any progress in this space. There is no substitute for action. And what rich countries are doing, they are creating an illusion of action by just talking. When we demand action, they offer reports. When we demand money, they offer workshops.
Despair, of course, is not an acceptable response to an emergency. We need to stay strong and resolute in the face of the most serious threat to humankind in its history on Earth.
Craig,
How is Mark Mordue and other hysterical media commentators helping by these inaccurate, wildly exaggerated and sensationalist claims help anything?
“Australia’s” air quality is not affected.
Australia is a vast continent, nearly as large as the whole continental USA. One city, Sydney has had a few days where air quality was slightly affected (the photo’s are enhanced) by the massive bush fires burning in NSW.
This sort of bush fire disaster is neither unusual, nor “unprecedented”. It is totally consistent with the unique nature of the Australian flora which evolved and adapted to fire as a means of propagation.
The fires are not the result of “climate change” !
The fires this season, like the the horrendous forest fires in the southern state of Victoria in the 1980’s and more recently are largely a result of increasing urbanization and poor fire prevention management.
This season, the Southern state of Victoria is remarkably free from forest fires as a result of a uniquely wet spring.
As an Australian land owner, I’m exceedingly conscious of the advent of drought and forest fires. I, like many farmers, invest in fire minimization technology. but it’s heart breaking to witness the appalling, ideologically driven policies of leftist/green governments that hamper and neglect fire prevention techniques in National Parks and Forests.
Ill-informed arm-chair experts like you, don’t help! Especially when you knowingly repeat falsehoods!
The islands of Tuvalu are not “soon-to-be-underwater”, over the last 25 years the South Pacific island nation has actually increased in land mass! In the three decades to 2016, Tuvalu’s total land area grew by 87 hectares, or 3.1 per cent. The rate of increase has been accelerating.
The increasing height and land area of South Pacific atolls has been scientifically established for more than 20 years.
But, hey, when you’ve can consult an oracle like Greta Thunberg who needs mere scientists!