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Burning, Flooding and 1000 Year Weather Events...Happening Every Day

2023 and some people still believe Climate Change is a ‘hoax’.

We are just going through a ‘warm’ moment.

Governments say they are going to take certain steps to achieve global climate goals to avoid the so-called tipping point.

Words don’t seem to equate to the correct actions.

The picture at the top of this article sums up the insanity of our times. This woman is shown in Death Valley this week. I assume she is wearing fur because the Air Con in her BMW was blasting so she needed it to stay warm. Or maybe she just has a perverse sense of humor, and I applaud that if that is the case.

Meanwhile, the planet, our climate, is heaving with weather that none of us has ever experienced. From the simple fact that ocean temperatures are up this winter in Australia to the wildfires in Greece and flooding in many locales around the globe, these are just the tip of the climate iceberg.

El Nino has arrived and the strength of this weather pattern has been predicted to be high. This means that different parts of the world will experience wilder weather events from drought in one area to increased strength of storms in other areas.

One thing is certain. Rising global temperatures, boosted in El Niño years and bringing worse extreme weather, will not end until carbon emissions are reduced to net zero.

We may be too far gone and they may never end.

Time will answer that one, there is no doubt.

Donald Trump does not adhere to Climate Science. My American friends, that is one reason you should get out and speak to people about voting for someone else next November.

We can only hope he is convicted of a crime between now and then, which MIGHT just slow his chances of being back in the White House again.

I sit here on a chilly morning in Melbourne. Many people have been talking about this El Nino for this year down here. Some of our worst bushfire seasons have been during El Nino years. Due to a good amount of rainfall over the last year, it has enabled the forests to grow and create quite a bit of fuel for the summer ahead.

Planned backburning has begun around Australia and that activity will bring smoke.

Let us hope the smoke we see and smell and deal with now will help us move through the next year without a tragedy like Black Saturday in 2009 or the more than 16 million acres that were destroyed in 2019-2020.

Those memories are not that distant for those impacted directly and for all of us that live here in Australia.

We are not alone.

We are the voices that need to be heard.

And just in from the weather people:

Spring could be warm.

Summer could be a pizza oven.