The rise of a new political dynamo?
A powerful autumn storm smashed into Australia’s east coast, battering the fatal shore and nearly wiping Sydney’s iconic Bondi from the face of the earth. The ocean water, tinged brown and angry, covered the entire beach and even washed up onto the promenade where I used to sit and eat McDonald’s breakfast sandwich and McCafe coffee.
According to The Guardian:
The Bureau of Meteorology had a hazardous surf warning in place for the NSW coast after a night of huge gusts in Sydney, including one at 74 km/h inside Sydney Harbour.
Across NSW, State Emergency Service crews performed six flood rescues in the 24 hours up to 5am Saturday, with the agency also receiving 468 calls for help over that period.
Elsewhere in the state, flood victims were picking up the pieces for the second time in little over a month.
Byron Shire’s deputy mayor said locals had little warning about the damaging conditions that flooded the region for the second time in a month earlier this week.
The paper, like most others, shared social media images of the damage with most choosing to use World Surf League Senior Vice President, Tours and Head of Competition Jessi Miley-Dyer’s as top of the heap.
Miley-Dyer captioned her post thusly:
Bondi Beach this morning … There are some wild ocean conditions around Sydney today following a run of abnormal weather events on the east coast of Australia. Climate change and it’s effects are fast becoming one of the biggest talking points for the upcoming election for many young Aussies, including myself (and all of us here in the electorate of Wentworth).
A powerful message amplified extraordinarily by the press.
But do you think this might be a paradigm shift for the onetime professional surfer? Young Aussies coalescing around their new bold leader, one who has already shown bravery under fire by taking down the caustic champion of professional longboarding?
Young Aussies has a nice ring to it.
Very Atatürk-esque.
Can I get reparations when President Lincoln frees me?
I need AT LEAST 40 acres and a mule.
“You’re the only one making that contention, your laziness”
You’ve nailed the gaslighting section of your Leftie training, Young Che!
Well done!
Fair enough. Good point. I felt bad using it at the time but was too tired to come up with a better word.
Sigh…the climate has always changed and will always change. The idea that literally every severe weather event is because of climate change is disingenuous AND intellectually lazy.
And the idea that increasing taxes will stop climate change just makes people look…stupid.
But hey…the government is always never right, right?
Absolutely!
It does not rely on belief.
I am not sure at the moment what other term to apply to my limited understanding of the process.
Since I am not an actual, academically trained scientist, but only observed them on a daily basis for many years, I rely on my osmosis of the concepts and basic groundwork rather than a working knowledge of the statistical tools.
Nice copy and paste by the way. Haha
So there were two bad storms in 50 years?
Hysterical much?
Are “fossil” fuels from fossils? “Climate change”? Is it bad for the climate to change? Are you scared? Chicken shit lily.
Fossil fuels is the blanket term for the petrochemical / ‘natural gas’ sources which derive from hundreds of millions of years of dead organisms, likely primarily algae and other plant-type species which absorbed the energy from the sun and combined that with various other things like CO2, and various mineral-based elements to form their living body, structure and types of biological energy storage (namely sugars and oils).
The ‘fossil’ part refers to the remnants of these living things in the form of coal seams, and trapped pockets of the highly concentrated oils which leached out under time and pressure.
Literal, visible fossils of plants and animals can be found associated with some of these deposits, but more often than not the living sources of the oil etc is far too old and delicate to leave any trace apart from the oil and gas itself.
Once extracted from the ground and burned as fuel, a predominant by-product is CO2, reformed in the basic chemistry of oxidising the complex molecules under heat.
Yes plants use CO2. Yes it’s present in the atmosphere anyway. However, the intense release of the CO2 from humans burning HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS of accumulation by those organisms in such a short space of time is causing an ‘unnatural’ concentration in the atmosphere which traps more solar energy, which heats the ocean, which in turn affects the extremes of weather and also coincidentally helps accumulate more CO2 into the water itself, causing it to become more acidic, which affects the life forms which rely on it.
Now… all this ultimately affects humans. Not to mention every single other species on the planet.
Is ‘The Planet’ in danger? No. The Earth will keep spinning and existing for billions more years until the sun expands to melt it to slag.
Is everything we understand as the unique living skin (the ecosystem) on this rock in danger? Yes. Insofar as most of the creatures we know about will be radically affected and likely die off. This includes humans.
This too is change, and not special to the Earth’s history as we understand it.
Many species will survive and go on to evolve in ways to adapt to the climate and new biological dependencies.
The climate will eventually cease ‘wobbling’ quite so much as the CO2 is reabsorbed into things like limestone and trees.
Humans will be long, long, long gone.
The basic argument at the heart of the ‘problem’ is that we can try to help humans (and other creatures) stay a little longer on the planet, and mitigate the suffering that future generations will be facing as wars, starvation and rampant disease become more and more prevalent and unchecked as desperation eclipses basic civilisation.
EDIT: I’m proud of this mini-TED talk which I typed whilst on the toilet. (alliteration FTW!)
You lost me at hundreds of millions of years. Bye
Righto. Can you tell me roughly how old you think the Earth is?
Nice work CB….Inspiration comes in many places.
Plant seeds, grow plants.
When is it going to get out of control, exactly?
Al Gore has been predicting the end of the world for almost 20 years now.
And yet we’re all still here and a former POTUS bought two waterfront properties.
We have natural climate records in ice cores, tree rings, soil profiles. the list goes on.
Why did Obama and Bill Gates buy ocean front mansions if the sea levels are rising to dangerous levels?
Are they climate change deniers?
Oh, and last I checked….you guys shit the bed when it came to The Science™️ on Covid.
Come to think of it…there have been some pretty good lies with The Science™️ on Climate Change, as well.
They could do something. Like 10 recyclable boards per competitor a season. And something to reduce flights. ATM the sum total is a dumb reusable hydro flask and some minimal plastic picking up. PS interesting about the f1, I don’t follow so I’ve always taken it as a gigantic greenwash.
I’ve got a memory like a sieve. But I’ll never unsee that
You’d think a guy who believed it 33 years ago would recognize that it may take a bit longer to see the undoubted change to the climate patterns across the globe. But, you’ve probably done your own research lol
This weekend was crazy. Came up quick, and now it’s back to flat today!
But yeah, no dunes and beach greenery to protect the beach and erosion becomes an issue. That happens and gets worse each time..
All the climate action shills better sell their beach front homes then. Although, if owning a beach front home is good for Obama/Gore et al given what they know about climate change – it’s good enough for me.
Fuck cunts go on.. biggest storm since 74.. pigs ass. I’ve got pics of bigger waves on my phone/in my iCloud which has been around since what.. 07/08?
*edit.. these “events” seem to be happening more often though, I definitely think that’s correct.
” i am better than u.”
Undoubtedly sir.
Not superstition, science.
Yes we have adjusted ‘lifestyle’ in ways that many other may not: no AC despite the kids’ moans during the height of summer heat, No chopping the trees down over the house (= free AC + carbon soak + lots of cool wildlife), Single car, ride bicycle where I can, lower meat consumption, recycling and re-use of stuff where possible including fixing stuff for as long as possible rather than throwing it out to buy new stuff. Buying local produce to decrease travel-miles.
The biggest Co2 culprits are large industrial practices though. Private individuals can only make a small difference.
Thanks.
Never argue with a fool my friend. They will always take it to their level, and beat you with experience.
Email me boyo. The satirical vinyl decals are calling.
Maybe you should email him?
What’s the email again legend?! I keep losing where it is…….
Extra CO2 into atmosphere from a century and a half of increasing industrial / agricultural / war = increasing ability to trap solar radiation as heat = more energy in ocean / atmospheric system = increased extremes at both ends of weather and more chaotic swings.
Any particular storm or event is not easily attributable to climate change, but the overall trend for wilder weather, and ‘predictable unpredictability’ (Chaotic systems spazzing out with more energy) fits the models easily.
It’s like he’s almost being deliberately … obtuse
What??? Never!!
Channel bottomless pit of believing all the lies. CO2 is a trace gas son and it is a vital necessity in the earths atmosphere. It is not a pollutant. Man you are dumb. Just like most of this stupid world. There, I said it. Idiots everywhere.
Debating climate change with deniers is like debating about the existence of god. No way to officially determine the truth, no matter the evidence or lack thereof.
p.s. religion is make believe and human influenced climate change is going to wreck us all… dumb dumb. PROVE me wrong
God will prove you wrong. Yes your p.s. is dumb and dumb.
lol which god? LOL
Ouch… just have faith, right? lol
Got a degree in climate science?
A degree in climate science is a degree in pushing an agenda. It has nothing to do with a search for truth.
You don’t know how Science works. Get an education or STFU.
Come on CB, let’s not pretend it’s possible to have a robust debate in good faith round here.
I keep trying. I’m stubborn. I believe in the science (seen it in action growing up around various universities) and do not have anything to lose to keep saying it.
Our kids are really going to cop it and their kids even worse and so on. I do kinda regret having them, if only for the suffering I’ve thrust upon them by making them exist. Perhaps they’ll solve it with crzy inventions.
I’m a technological optimist also. Not so much an optimist about human-kind.
The climate has always been changing and always will. The great lakes were once glaciers.