Australia never had a "catastrophic" fire danger rating until 2009. It was introduced in the wake of the then unprecedented Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. Catastrophic conditions were forecast for the first time in Greater Sydney last month – on November 12 to be exact.
On Thursday, a little over a month later, while parts of Australia experienced record heatwaves into the 40s celsius, catastrophic conditions were forecast for Greater Sydney yet again, coupled with extreme heat for the entire state. TheConnecting the dots ... the carbon we burn makes it hotter, and exposes us to more fire.This is the second time a catastrophic bushfire danger rating has been declared over such a densely populated area, covering almost 5 million residents across eastern NSW.
Already, it is estimated that more than 2.9 million hectares has been burnt in NSW and Queensland, with 2.7 million of that in NSW, where its perimeter runs to more than 19,235 kilometres. That's almost the equivalent of three return trips between Sydney and Perth.Scientists have been warning for decades that Australia is exceptionally vulnerable to risks from a changing climate, including reduced rainfall, extreme heat and bushfire.
In NSW and Queensland, world heritage areas including Gondwana rainforests have been damaged by fires. These rainforests are a living link to the vegetation that covered the southern supercontinent Gondwana about 180 million years ago. The Gondwana rainforests include the largest areas of subtropical rainforest on the planet, some warm temperate rainforest and nearly all the world’s Antarctic beech cool temperate rainforest.
The Gondwana rainforests had been considered too damp to burn. In other words, these rainforests have not burned in millions of years. It is yet unclear what areas have been burnt, and what level of damage has been done to the outstanding universal values of these areas. In any case, they won't recover well.
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Australia is facing a massive bill from unprecedented, deadly fires that have burned an area bigger than Belgium. Insurers have received claims worth A$240m since October, and they expect ... Medical bills from the fires and smoke ... 🤔
😏 Look at the apocalyptic fires in Australia – when will they start fleeing to NZ? via TheDailyBlogNZ
Tim Flannery is a known environmentalist. Anything written has heavy bias and is following the progressive socialist movement which he hopes gains popularity
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Mm. This is the Tim Flannery who overstates all his predictions. Move on
If we can’t show the world what happens when you reduce your emissions to 0% we can show the world what happens when you take no action
. The only truth that Flannery speaks here is in regard to things that have occurred. Any predictions will go the same way as his past predictions, nowhere! FAIL!
Yeah, Tim, stop lighting fires.
the best way to preserve the environment is to PROTECT BIODIVERSITY but hey, you australians won't do that, will you? (just looking at your recent history along these lines)
Considering that BOM is now compiling 'Average Tempreture' sets, I'm going to do one of my own. Hobart 22° Melbourne 22° Sydney 36° Brisbane 28° Adelaide 39° Australian Antarctic Territory -33° That means Australia's average temp is currently 19°c. Credit. AndrewAQld