World failure to act on climate change a cause of raging wildfires
The Australian Government is wondering how to stimulate the economy. It is planning to give away much of the surplus from boom times in handouts. It has made the usual token allocations to climate change mitigation, allocations that will in no way deflect the coming climate holocaust.
Australian Climate Tragedy Ignites
Australian Bushfire disaster, drought strangling Argentina, drought emergency in China and worst drought California has ever seen – all happening in early 2009
Too darn hot in Australia at 43 degees Celsius, or 110 Fahrenheit
The worst heat wave to strike Australia in a century is due to climate change. That was the blunt message from their government this week as the country struggled to cope with the heat-related chaos, including buckling rail lines, numerous heat related deaths and sweeping power blackouts. The searing heat has topped 43 degrees Celsius (110 Fahrenheit) in Melbourne for the third straight day – and the first time in recorded history.
A Dismal Climate Forecast from NOAA
Editors note: there have been several hundred articles printed on this subject in the last two days, sources such as the New York Times, ABC News Australia, and the Globe and Mail, plus countless blogs. Our elected officials can’t pretend they haven’t heard this news. You can click on the title of this article for the direct link if you want to copy it [...]
The “Big Dry” Sucks the Life from Australia
The hot and parched conditions in Australia are almost certainly the early symptoms of global warming. And this extreme weather is very likely the ominous precursor of other forms of planet-wide climate transformations that will radically alter ecologies, disrupt human settlement and set in motion political turmoil in countries that are less socially stable and disciplined than Australia. If the Australian experience is just the beginning, then our most pressing need is the best of current scientific information unedited by political agendas.
