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.
Sorry Timbo - fact is that for at least 40 years moron greenies have prevented controlled burning of our burgeoning national parks, leading to massive fuel loads. Behind our street in Forster is a park not burnt for 40 years! God help us when it goes.
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One of my best memories of 2018 was attending a environmental talk at Glover Cottage Kent Street Sydney. I remember it colourfully because the QnA section quickly devolved to an episode of parksandrecnbc. But mostly because the speaker seemed so defeated.
bencubby Is Tim on the spectrum, like Greta? Notwithstanding, we should not knock him too much. He is entitled to his religious convictions and we can tolerate diversity of opinion on the impact of fossil fuel combustion and solar radiation on global seasonal climate variations
Go away Flannery...you are a nothing. All talk...no substance
JoanHoppe1 Unfortunately people will only realise when it affects them directly ... maybe Melbournians will be reminded at this very moment .... when smoke with a distinct eucalyptus smell fills the suburban air... danger is not that far away... should we all pray Mr Morrison?
Without rain the fires will just burn till they run out of bush
Why would anyone repeat what flimflam says... he has no clue... if he said the sun was shining outside, i would go outside myself and look
If Tim Flannery said it, there is a big chance it’s 🐂💩.
We love a sunburnt country.
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