Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

[icyfroth]

Australia’s surface air temperature has already increased 0.9C since 1910, with the number of extreme heat records outnumbering extreme cool records nearly three to one since 2001.

Australia experienced its third-warmest year on record in 2014, with 2013 its warmest year on record. The heat experienced in 2013 was “unlikely” to have been caused by natural variability alone, the report stated, with such temperatures now five times more likely due to humans releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Other findings of the wide-ranging analysis, the first such Australian climate projection made since 2007, included:

• The interior of Australia is set to warm more rapidly than coastal areas. Alice Springs will experience an average of 83 days a year over 40C in 2090, up from just 17 in 1995.

• Melbourne will swelter through an average of 24 days above 35C by 2090, up from 11 in 1995. Sydney will experience 11 days above 35C by 2090, an increase from three days in 1995.

• Australia is on course for a sea level rise of 45cm to 82cm by 2090, if emissions are not curbed. The report warned that if the Antarctic ice sheet was to collapse, sea levels would be a further “several tenths of a metre higher by late in the century”.

• Extreme rainfall events will increase but overall rainfall is expected to drop in southern Australia, apart from Tasmania, during the winter and spring months – by as much as 69% by 2090.

• There will be more extreme droughts, with the length of droughts increasing by between 5% and 20%, depending on how quickly greenhouse gases are cut.

• Rising temperatures will result in a “greater number of days with severe fire danger”. Meanwhile, soil moisture will fall by up to 15% in southern Australia in the winter months by 2090.

• Snow cover will decline, with the report stating there was “high confidence that as warming progresses there will be very substantial decreases in snowfall, increase in melt and thus reduced snow cover”.

Kevin Hennessy, a principal research scientist at the CSIRO, said it and the Bureau of Meteorology now had a greater confidence than ever in their forecasts of Australia’s climate.

“We expect land areas to warm faster than ocean areas, and polar regions faster than the tropics,” Hennessy told Guardian Australia.

Given Australia’s geographical position, that would mean much of the country was expected to warm faster than the global average.

“Australia will warm faster than the rest of the world,” Hennessy said. “Warming of 4C to 5C would have a very significant effect: there would be increases in extremely high temperatures, much less snow, more intense rainfall, more fires and rapid sea level rises.”

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What with rampaging deforestation, chemical run off and industrial emissions and pollutant, I have every reason to believe it. Especially with the freak storms and extreme heat we've been experiencing over the last decade or so.

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[idlewhile]

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@softail-joanie wrote:

how about this, we use Earth's own gravity, if we can direct it to move earth alittle futher from the sun, and bring the moon along with it, that's gonna be the tricky part though, if the rotation is off, it could make things worse.

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Brilliant idea softail, I like it and it sounds so much easier than what the warmists are trying to do, you know, change the planets weather patterns, adjust the climate and regulate the weather, all from their computer models sitting in their nice  armchairs.

Now if they wanted to help, really help, they would go to China and India and a lot of African countries and help them with a clean power source like nuclear, pull them out of poverty and clean the place up.

But sadly, that doesn't compute for these rent seekers.    

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

And yet, deniers have no explanation for the Pacific islands being inundated, the shrinking polar ice, and the diminishing glaciers.

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I find your use of the the word deniers offensive and insulting.

It has connotations and references of the holocaust deniers and is wrong on so many levels.

[idlewhile]

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@vicr3000 wrote:
We started a fire in NT that ended up probable 3 kms wide and burnt for at least 10 kms.
Thick black and White smoke for miles around.
And that wasnt the only one, by us or others.

It happens every year.

How much co2 do they produce ?

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Slow burns, fires and raging fires are a natural event, like volcano eruptions that spew millions of tonnes of ash and gas into the atomoshere and high into the ozone layer. 

[idlewhile]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

I wonder how those in the northern hemisphere feel about global warming while they dig their cars out of unusually deep snow....lol.

It hasn't been referred to as "global warming" for the last 10 years......it's "Climate Change", and snowstorms in the North East are the result of changes impacting both the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream.  Out west, it's dry as a bone.

The deniers will continue to deny until their basement is flooded by rising seawaters.........in fact, in Miami, high tides ofter result in flooding in the streets.

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You know when they stopped using the term "Global Warming"?? after Copenhagen and the complete fiasco that it was.

I remember Rudd coming back to Australia and he never uttered those words again, then....Ms Gillard knifed him and he and "Global Warming" was dead and buried.

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I cannot  believe we are still having this discussion.  It has been settled ages ago.  The only qualified people who still dispute the facts have connections to the industries that are the worst polluters, and cackle of nutters.  Even Abbott does not say that climate change is bleep anymore .  The only discussion we should be having how best phase out fossil fuels, and how we will be getting our energy in the future.

Such arguments as grass fires and volcano eruptions are not valid.  The amount of CO2 released in such events is minuscule in comparison to what we put out every day.  For instance, when the Eyjafjallajökull erupted and closed European airways for few weeks, the CO2 in atmosphere actually dropped due to the cancelled flights.  That is something to think about.

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If all the rent seekers and alarmist computer models ( mostly discredited) really want to save the planet, nuclear is the only answer, China and India need it but Africa needs it more.

All the weasel words from the Greens and Labor is just that. They would be happy if we were all sitting in the gutter, in the rain, in the dark and freezing like most of the worlds poor.

I won't be lectured by them or the hysterical left.

This is not a political issue but Rudd made it one and he died on the scrap heap of his ambitions.

Take the politics out of it, do the practical things that need to be done and fgs get on with it then shut up about it.

That is what the PM and the government of Australia is doing right now.

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@j*oono wrote:

No.  Some righties pretend they don't believe in climate change.  This will change with a new PM.

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Are we going to make this political, Joono?

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I thought the issue WAS political.

[i-need-a-martini]

Actually it seems to be it is only political and alarmist when the "lefties" bring it up.

When the right bring it up, it is science lol.

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

If you actually look at the chart you posted, you would see that, according to it, we are due for an average global temperature of around 75 degrees.........you think the glaciers will keep advancing under those conditions?  Do you think mankind should make an attempt to ameliorate that temperature increase, or just keep pumping toxins into the atmosphere and oceans?