Are we at war with the planet, as the experience of being 'weather bombed' suggests?
America is being bombarded by weather that seems intent on destroying the barricades erected by the climate-change deniers and I expect it won't be too much longer before the bulwarks of ignorance begin to crumble there, letting in both the light of understanding and the destructive winds of reality that will see that continent hammered into submission by Tawhirimatea and his rough brothers. It's happening here too and while there are those who will still declare 'it's La Nina' or whatever else they can draw between themselves and the obvious, realization is setting in that we're in for a long-term thrashing. How quickly we can adapt to that will be the question. I'm asking that now and looking at the farmers. In fact, I asked it of them several years ago, through the 'letters' column and tried to extract from the Federated Farmers president some declaration on what he and his federation were doing in preparation for climate change. Nothing, was his reply. Guess the weather doesn't have any affect on the business of farming and needn't be taken into account.
We shall see.
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I wonder why we get ‘weather bombs’ instead of storms these days? There are suggestions that to deal with the severity of global warming we need to take urgent action, as if in wartime. “Your country needs you to fight the weather bombs- cut fossil fuel use now!”
It is a damn shame that people seem to need to wait for the results of their actions to be staring them in the face before they can consider taking action, it’s like waiting to see the tumour on the chest x-ray before stopping smoking. Sadly that does seem to be the situation with climate change.
Re; farming -There was an interview on Nine to noon feb 3 “farming and climate change”, Kathryn Ryan talked to Anthony Clark (formerly NIWA) who works for Dairy NZ.
Now I must remember not to have a quick look at my favourite online pages at morning tea and get sidetracked when there is so much to do outside. North Otago was outside the bomb zone, it’s a bit damp underfoot and there is a chilly southerly, but the sun isn’t far away. I’ll load up my mp3 with pod casts & get out there.
Thanks Viv - yep, it's going to have to have get pretty dire before most people look to the skies and think, 'sh*t!'
I'll seek out that interview - sounds good. The weather down here is mild and pleasant enough. No one's getting sunburned, but the plants are loving the conditions. My corn 'cluster' is going ape.
Yes it is going to be tough living in a much colder planet as we slip into the next ice age. Otherwise what a load of .....
On a lighter side, whilst the media love the idea of a 'weather bomb', insurers are very careful when presenting claims to their reinsurers not to mention a 'weather bomb'. The reinsurers would be concerned about a terrorist action.
Paranormal
You couldn't be more wrong, paranormal.
Even if you tried.
I wonder why we get ‘weather bombs’ instead of storms these days?
Well Viv they are called satellites and jet airliners and they give us a tremendous amount of real time data to forecast 'explosive cyclogenesis ' (google is your friend)
Once upon a time we only new there were nasty storms around when we were in one, now we can watch them form and measure the levels of input energy.
If the air around the Antarctic warms up too much it is possible they will become much less frequent in the Tasman.
Shunda, we have been able to forecast storms for a long time, my comment was a bit tongue in cheek- we get “weather bombs” because it sounds more dramatic in the news bulletins.
Had another listen to the Farmers & climate change nine to noon interview , it also had Bruce Wills from Fed F on it. I now remember not being very impressed with it at the time, thinking the billion dollar costs of drought Wills talked of was the only useful information. He is apparently new to farming and his talking of a 30 degree day followed by snow the next, just sounds like weather to anyone on the SI east coast, not climate change.
On a 2nd hearing, it amazed me how all three people could talk about climate change causing weather disruption without anyone once mentioning the cause of climate change or discussing what farmers or the rest of us might do about it. I guess that’s “adaption” for you, doesn’t seem to involve much joined-up-thinking though.
Au contraire RG. It is you who is so wrong. Have a look at the global temperature record on a long time scale. We are in an interglacial warm period that lasts approx 10 - 20,000 years. Soon (give or take a few thousand years) we'll be slipping into the next ice age.
Sorry to question your faith like this. I wonder if you have ever considered why you are so like Keeping Stock in a lot of respects around your faith?
Paranormal
"I wonder if you have ever considered why you are so like Keeping Stock in a lot of respects around your faith?"
Oh yes, I'm well aware of the synchronicity. My saving grace is the fact that he's wrong and I am right :-)
My position however, is based upon the gathering of information and opinion, constantly up-dated, rather than one old book :-)
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