Current Affairs Australian Bush Fires

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Kiwi said:
A Ah South Island, that's probably why. 12h+ drive away. Madness really that the smoke has travelled that far
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Back a couple of years ago there were crazy fires in the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest USA and British Columbia, Canada. Smoke from Canada planted itself over Seattle. I had a meeting on like the 55th floor of a building there with the city during this. It was a surreal thing being above the smoke layer.
 
WA Toffee said:
apparently the smoke from the fires is covering new zealand. For reference, that would be the equivalent of the smoke from a fire in Romania being visible in Liverpool
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Yeah mate. Am Christchurch-based but am on holiday in Nelson Lakes National Park at the moment. The whole day has been eerie - hot 30 degree plus day, high pressure over the South Island, but the amount of haze in the atmosphere means we’ve been able to look at the sun no problem at all. Amazing sunset currently now too, the sun is virtually blood red, still so much haze in the sky. I’ve never seen anything like it in New Zealand. Can’t imagine what it’s like over the Tasman. Thoughts with our Aussie mates.
 
We have been warned that we're on track for an increase in the Earth's temperature of 1.5 degrees this century. I spoke to a marine biologist in northern Queensland in October and she said that the ocean temperature there had increase by .5 of a degree in the last 90 years - (these are approximate figures
drawn from memory, but won't be wildly wrong). The climate has been changing for thousands of years, we know, but at this rate?

We're all familiar with bushfires in Australia and have been since European settlement, but these have been flaring since late Winter into Spring. That's
different, and while climate change is historically natural, how can it be argued that pollution of Earths atmosphere hasn't mightily speeded it up.

We have to try and stop polluting the atmosphere. To those who don't think it makes any difference, I ask, what if you're wrong?
 
Jeff Jones said:
We have been warned that we're on track for an increase in the Earth's temperature of 1.5 degrees this century. I spoke to a marine biologist in northern Queensland in October and she said that the ocean temperature there had increase by .5 of a degree in the last 90 years - (these are approximate figures
drawn from memory, but won't be wildly wrong). The climate has been changing for thousands of years, we know, but at this rate?

We're all familiar with bushfires in Australia and have been since European settlement, but these have been flaring since late Winter into Spring. That's
different, and while climate change is historically natural, how can it be argued that pollution of Earths atmosphere hasn't mightily speeded it up.

We have to try and stop polluting the atmosphere. To those who don't think it makes any difference, I ask, what if you're wrong?
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My missus old man, 76 years young and worked on the land his entire life from Victoria to Qld was just saying he has never seen it like this before.

Some of the footage on the news tonight is insane.
 
summerisle said:
Some frightening videos coming out of Australia. What's the general opinion in Australia regarding the current emergency, and the government's policies regarding the domestic coal industry and climate change ?

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From what I gather the states are phasing out coal powered electicity where they can...but not if it causes power cuts and not too many if it cuts states revenue
Yet the states will sell coal to India and China to burn, probably not very efficiently, hand over fist.
The Govt. pays lip service only to climate change...and some members are pure deniers.
Short version; they haven't got a clue and will keep kicking the problem down the road...until somebody makes them
There are more than a few copy caat arsonists about too.
 
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