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Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

donnashuggy — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 03:52:40 GMT

I don't think so, what do others think?

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

lakeland27 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:28:20 GMT

no. there's always someone yelling 'fuel reduction' etc . or people who insist that increases in the numbers of extreme weather events isn't related to climate change..

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

freshwater-2 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:43:35 GMT

It is the perfect time to really get minds focused on what is happening now with the weather changes worldwide

Although bushfires have always been part of our climate...... they are becoming more severe and escalating.

Nothing focuses the mind more than personal threat.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:10:06 GMT

On the 6th of February 1851, 5 million hectares, were burnt during a bush fire in Victoria. Anyone heard of a larger bush fire in Australia.?

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

icyfroth — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:12:19 GMT

"Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?"

No.

When it's happening year after year instead of once every decade or so, you know there's an imbalance of nature.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

lakeland27 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:18:15 GMT

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:
On the 6th of February 1851, 5 million hectares, were burnt during a bush fire in Victoria. Anyone heard of a larger bush fire in Australia.?

and how big were the MFB and CFA at the time ? theres so many more reasons you cannot make a comparison 'siggy reported by realists'

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

crystal-gems — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:24:05 GMT

A silly comparison.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:26:52 GMT

Comparisons have been made. It was the largest.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

cherry*135 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:50:15 GMT

When it's happening year after year instead of once every decade or so, you know there's an imbalance of nature.

The current NSW bushfires are being compared by fire officials, with the 2001 ones for severity.. that was over 10 years ago.

Global warming is called Climate change now isn't it?

I think there probably would have been just as many bushfires hundreds of years ago in Aust as there are now, ones caused by natural causes (not caused by dropped cigarette butts or arson).

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:58:39 GMT

Bush fires have been a part of the Australian landscape for approximately 60 million years.... According to the Australian University of Canberra.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

joz*garage — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:05:43 GMT

Global warming is called Climate change now isn't it?

global warming is the cause of climate change

mebbe they should re-name it to 'global climate change'

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:07:09 GMT

You are right am3, more people, more arson, more careless smokers........we can't blame them for 60 million years of history though.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

cherry*135 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:07:43 GMT

The effects of bushfires are not all detrimental to the environment, as fire generates regrowth and new life. In some eucalypt species, for example, fire is an essential part of the life cycle. For these plants, fire splits open seed pods, allowing them to germinate. Without fire, these species are unable to reproduce. Fire also encourages the growth of new grassland plants.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

cherry*135 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:10:44 GMT

@joz*garage wrote:

mebbe they should re-name it to 'global climate change'

Perhaps they should.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

lakeland27 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:11:55 GMT

c'mon siggie, fires are a feature of every landscape. i'm sure nth and south america, africa and other landmasses where there was natural vegetation burnt on a variable basis too. this information in isolation means little.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

joz*garage — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:13:21 GMT

The current NSW bushfires are being compared by fire officials, with the 2001 ones for severity.. that was over 10 years ago.

i heard the current bush fires had an extremely dangerous element - strong warm dry winds

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

cherry*135 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:15:26 GMT

joz...

But temperature change itself isn't the most severe effect of changing climate.

Changes to precipitation patterns and sea level are likely to have much greater human impact than the higher temperatures alone.

For this reason, scientific research on climate change encompasses far more than surface temperature change. So "global climate change" is the more scientifically accurate term. Like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we've chosen to emphasize global climate change on this website, and not global warming.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

cherry*135 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:16:45 GMT

@joz*garage wrote:
The current NSW bushfires are being compared by fire officials, with the 2001 ones for severity.. that was over 10 years ago.

i heard the current bush fires had an extremely dangerous element - strong warm dry winds

So did the 2001, NSW bushfires.. I remember them well.. very hot, dry, strong gusty winds. Started on Christmas Day 2001.

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

joz*garage — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:22:41 GMT

@am*3 wrote:
joz...

But temperature change itself isn't the most severe effect of changing climate.

Changes to precipitation patterns and sea level are likely to have much greater human impact than the higher temperatures alone.

For this reason, scientific research on climate change encompasses far more than surface temperature change. So "global climate change" is the more scientifically accurate term. Like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we've chosen to emphasize global climate change on this website, and not global warming.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

arh! great minds think alike

Re: Should global warming be a hush topic when there are severe bushfires?

cherry*135 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:32:24 GMT