Extreme heat waves you say? Now what on earth could possibly be causing that?
This is the ABC off RNZ…
Heatwave in southern states one of the most intense on record as Queensland braces for cyclone
…no where do they talk about climate change.
This is the ABC off RNZ FFS!
The disconnect between news stories on the extreme weather events we are seeing and their connection with the global warming future we are locked into thanks to human pollution continuing the warm the planet beyond tipping points that once breached can’t return from – is a chasm.
The reality vs our weaponised apathy.
The distance between what is actually happening in an age of consequences vs deliberate ignorance.
Human pollution since the steam age has spiralled global temperatures beyond points that the biosphere can come back from.
We are seeing the reality of that in real time.
In 1980, the time between billion dollar climate destruction events was 3 months.
It’s now 18 days.
There is a point where the next destructive weather event strikes before you can rebuild from the last one.
We are meeting an Age of Consequences with a culture of wilful blindness.
These heatwaves are going to become the normal background of an ever warming planet, Climate Change is here and now, the ramifications of our denial only exacerbates the damage.
Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.
Here’s the ‘no gaslighting’ Ai answer to your headline:
“Heatwaves are a natural weather phenomenon, but the extreme heat events experienced today are a clear symptom of global warming, intensified by human activity.”
My question is what are you doing about it? And your fellow climate warriors as well as your friends in the Green Party? Because your article has a distinct accusatory tone towards ‘climate change deniers’. So it would be really good to know how you folks lead by example so we can take instructions. For example, has every climate warrior given up their cars? Do you all have solar panels on your roof? Have all of you stopped being hyper consumers? Have all of you stopped flying around the globe?
Well Jonzie Dahling some of here in the leafy suburbs are doing our very best. I had the air conditioning on cold and all the widows open doing my part and ma husband now takes the E type to work as it doesn’t need as much parking space as the Raptor. The sacrifices we’re making to do our part. I’ve even switched to locally made gin. With the amount I drink I’m saving lots of those carbon miles thingies.
Hahaha beautiful.
Fabulous Jonzie.
Jonzie I was waiting for your critique as seen in other of your comments. I think your ‘pass the parcel’ approach is a very effective method of dealing with the harsh reality of climate change and how it affects us all. Keep it up and you will live long and remain untouched by any disturbing thinking. You are wise in self preservation.
Thanks Warbler my thoughts exactly, Jonzie a very wise person.
I too look forward to his very wise comments.
Good Heavens Martyn! Why are we not discussing real issues here? Like who will be the next All Blacks coach? What are house prices doing? Who is the latest celebrity and are they he/she or something else?
People generally only listen or watch things that they want to hear or see and broadcasters need revenue to stay in business so the advertisers have influence on what is presented also. That’s my explanation for why climate change will be ignored until life starts becoming very difficult and then some BS excuse will be used to blame something else for the problem.
The nice young Indian who has just finished bis business degree here is still planning his future in years of this and that, and then with a CV returning to India with its bigger economy. My family are happily doing their missle class thing. I’m a bit eccentric, true. But eccentric is a word with multiple meanings, and it’s time we all became eccentric in some way, while still relating to other practical and brave people. It really is cowardly to retire to gated communities at this time, and with out level of education and technical and reasoning, enquiry skills.
Google – eccentric – meaning
adjective: eccentric
1. (of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange.
“he noted her eccentric appearance”
Similar:
unconventional uncommon abnormal irregular aberrant anomalous
odd queer (and on – so much choice for you but I think it id necessary to
adopt behaviours that fit one othese google language words. The era requires,
change or die. Further there is – quirky, capricious, whimsical which could enable some fun as you contort your mind!))
2. technical
not placed centrally or not having its axis or other part placed centrally.
“a servo driving an eccentric cam”
(A bit of information to know. And then, some thoughts about water and how the planet is affected by it and also politics and wealth and last of all we living things needing it as well.)
Water tilts the Earth
Fundación We Are Water
https://www.wearewater.org › insights › water-tilts-the-e…
6 Sept 2023 — The Earth’s rotation axis moves slowly but steadily. As the globe rotates, it wobbles slightly on its axis, like an off-center spinning top, the …
and further
https://www.rocaceramica.com.br/en/sustainability/water/we-are-water-fundation/
(It’s a non-profit organisation started in 2010 by Roca Group – Barcelona from 1917.
*****
Roca (company)
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Roca_(company)
Roca Corporación Empresarial is a Spanish company dedicated to the design, production and marketing of products for bathroom spaces.
[When very rich people start doing things about water, it might be good, partially good, or bad, for ordinary people and animals, plants. There was out a NZAO connection with water needed in Sicily, Italy – Sir James McNeish and Danilo Dolci in Sicily in 1960s.]
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › James_McNeish
James McNeish – Wikipedia
He spent three years in Sicily with Danilo Dolci, the non-violent anti- Mafia reformer,
[This was all about trying to get a dam to hold seasonal water to provide for the dry season which was dire for some poorer people. But the place was under mafia control. The dam was started eventually but not finished at the time, if ever.]
Further in 2020s having drought problems again because of climate change. Many people have left the area over decades. We should take note of this as an example of the difficulties we might all face.
A report from 1971 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/25/archives/a-dam-for-sicilys-peasants.html
A paper on the Partinico people 1955-1978. https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/6-Peter-Jones.pdf
https://blue-community.net/2024/12/italy-water-war-in-sicily/
Good heavens, what’s that all about?
The fact that a map of land with maximum surface temperatures shaded various colours of the embers of a bonfire just show how anthropocentric we are when it comes to climate change.
We can only express those aspects that affect us, even though the temperature of Oodnadatta has SFA relevance.
What are relevant are ocean temperatures, but more specifically the amount of heat that has been stored in the oceans due to warming.
When those oceans form thermoclines then you will see massive die off of phytoplankton equivalent to the Amazon rainforest every few days, and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will begin growing exponentially, along with sea temperatures and the inevitable sweaty armpits of Oodnagatta.
And that’s ignoring the methane which will be released from the ocean floor.
The time line for this is not centuries, not decades, but a matter of years.
The fact that climate science mostly ignored the impact of the oceans until 2017, and still barely credit their impact, is a sad indictment of how stupid the human race really is.
Serious Warbler, what are you doing about it other than being sarcastic? Enlighten us. I’m sure you’ll be a shining beacon!
The ramblings of the Warbler are more predictable by the day, as they get sillier by the day.
This might be interesting. I remember seeing a documentary, the title of which I can’t remember, about a young AO/NZ climate scientist who suspected that the earths climate was not only changing but in decline so he developed a very clever way of measuring CO2 levels in the air currents coming off the Tasman sea and reaching the lower sou west coast of the North Island. He proved himself correct in that there was very measurable increases in CO2 over the course of his studies. That was in the late 60’s or early 70’s. That’s more than 60 or so years ago.
Youtube.
Hot Air full documentary by Alister Barry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGf4maDU7Ps
The politics of climate change in New Zealand. In precise, documented detail we see how, over twenty years, National and Labour government ministers, supported by advisers and scientists, presented their Cabinet colleagues with proposals for nation-wide action. With similar clarity, we see how big business recruited climate change deniers and spin doctors to manipulate public opinion, frighten politicians and remove climate change from voters’ attention and governments’ agendas. As the film takes us behind the scenes we begin to see exactly why and how we are allowing corporations and their executives to subvert democracy.
I think countryboy and the Warbler are related.