Australia Hit Hardest With Climate Change

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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.

[idlewhile]

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@vicr3000 wrote:

Quite a storm in Sydney.

Was up NT was a few years back and the Trough rolled in from the north, very much like this in that

a great cloud bank was evident, followed by torrential rain.

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Fantastic picture.

[idlewhile]

I know quite a lot about farming. To blame your unfortunate circumstances on "Global Warming" beggars belief.. What? didn't you hop into the carbon credits policy under labor that saw millions handed to farmers for NOT farming their land, then you wouldn't have to lift a finger, so I can underatand your underlying self interest.

[vicr3000]

Idle

I used to do a lot of shooting up Jerilderie way. Farmer had moved from Eildon.

Apart from the creek, it was a bleak place to farm. Then Rice came, that was OK, then on and off again water, drought. Eventually it became too much and in 20 years, very few good one's.

[idlewhile]

Farming on marginal country is a risk they want to take but it goes against all environmental ideology. 

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"Dr Peiser, from the Global Warming Policy Foundation says that the poles are "much more stable" than climate scientists once

predicted and could even be much thicker than previously thought.

For years, scientists have suggested that both poles are melting at an alarming rate because of warming temperatures - dangerously

raising the Earth's sea levels while threatening the homes of Arctic and Antarctic animals.But the uncertainty surrounding climate

change and the polar ice caps reached a new level this month when research suggested the ice in the Antarctic is actually

growing.And there could even be evidence to suggest the polar bear population is not under threat."

[vicr3000]

Yep.

Even with Irrigation it failed. That says a lot.

I must say though that we did have the worst droughts in a long while during that period.

[idlewhile]

Marginal country like central NSW is more prone to less rain, that's why it's called marginal.

[vicr3000]

The Greenies didn't help much.

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@chameleon54 wrote:

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@idlewhile wrote:

Nah, its much easier to blame global warming than raping the land for generations.

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Its a bit unfortunate that you choose to make such stupid, derogatory & uneducated comments when you now nothing of my personel circumstances. It reflects very poorly on you that you should judge others and jump to completely wrong conclusions in such an ignorant and arrogant way.

Just to enlighten you a little bit. The current farmer who is leasing the property is one of a young generation who is at the fourfront of modern broad-acre organic and biological farming practices. He has a semi trailer with 30,000 litres of biological siol activator ( good bacteria ) that he carts around the farm. He uses a 5000 lt. tank on wheels behing the seeder to inject the siol biota into the soil in the seed rows.  He also practices green manuring when appropriate, legume break crops ( vetch )  and uses a number of natural organic rock phosphate and liquid seeweed based fertilisers which contain micro nutrients that conventional superphosphates lack. 

He does all of this while also utilising the best of the new seeding technologies, basically mixing the latest technology with organic and biodynamic systems. You would be hard pressed to find another farmer who is more committed to sustainable agriculture than this young man.

Might I respectfully suggest that you save your glibb, reactionary comments for something that you at least have some sceric of pracrticle knowlege about.

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    There is a reson he needs to add bacteria to the soil. That alone will not improve his situation.

    Nature is about balance. 

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

C02 is not **bleep**......it is the elixer of life........... without it, life would not exist.

Are you really so ignorant that you think CO2 is the only toxin spewed into the atmosphere by industry?  Tell you what, go into a room where the CO2 concentration is 75%, see how alive you feel after about 20 minutes.