Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

[russtafa]

russtafa why are you so cynical? Even if you don't think carbon emissions over nearly 200 years, climate change, global warming or the wrath of God are to blame, you know yourself that livelihoods have been lost in northern Queensland over more than 200 years because of periodic droughts -do you think those farmers and herders just shrugged their shoulders and said, lets move south, I can drive a taxi? The issue is resource management, whatever the cause of local/global climate patterns: how we maintain the land so that it doesn't dry out and die out; how we protect precious water resources, and how we have alternatives for ventures that don't fail. Over the next 5 years on current rates of production, food prices are set to rise dramatically -China now needs so much Pork, for example, it is importing it from the UK, which means the dear old Pork Pie makers in Meltron Mowbray are competing for the raw product, and finding the cost in the last year has gone up by nearly 30% -sugar, wheat are following this trend. Its a devilish mixture of market forces and nature. And whether you care or not, at some point in the future, you will pay.

Australia has had climate change for thousands of years .Australia has always had extremes of climate well before European settlement

[trish]

Australia is a continent with a deserts, coasts, mountains and forests. It has regions that exemplify all diverse extremes of climate. Moreover Australia has had it appropriate share of one-hundred year droughts, rains and floods. That is not climate change; though I don't doubt, if you say so, that Australia has seen climate change over the last century and an increased frequency of one-hundred year weather events.

Warmer air holds more water vapor. So it takes longer to reach saturation (i.e. the time between rains tends to increase, creating more droughts). When the warmer air reaches saturation, there's a greater a volume of precipitation (i.e. heavier rains and heavier snows).

[russtafa]

Professor Tim Flannery the government spokesman for climate change told Australians that if they had houses on the coast that they could loose their homes to the seas rising and he then turned around and brought a house on the coast,go figure

[russtafa]

Australian company has invented a process to convert waste into jet fuel.I have just read this in the Daily Telegraph today

[trish]

What elevation is the house?

[russtafa]

What elevation is the house?

i dont know or care the man brought a home on the shore

[russtafa]

What elevation is the house?

i dont know or care the man brought a home on the shore and scamed Australia with his mad predictions that have been so far off that they are are insane

[trish]

If you don't know the elevation you don't know he bought a home on the shore. What time scale did he give for these predictions?

http://flood.firetree.net/

[russtafa]

If you don't know the elevation you don't know he bought a home on the shore. What time scale did he give for these predictions?

http://flood.firetree.net/

2100 is when he predicted it could rise by 14 feet.what a dickhead

[trish]

Got a link to that prediction? Most estimates(IPCC's for example) are much more conservative (from 0.5 ft to 2 feet by the century's end). You probably know Tim Flannery is a biologist and a climate activist, but not a climatologist. In any case he's got 89 years to enjoy his home. Think he'll live that long? BTW did you take a look at that interactive map. Pretty cool eh? If you're going to make a very long term investment (centuries long) on coastal properties, I recommend consulting the map.


http://flood.firetree.net/