around 10 yrs ago, approx.. maybe 20
it was so hot here for a couple of days that the spiders living in my eaves were dangling dead on their webs. Never seen that before, or since, here in SEQ,, but ... have no doubt I'll be seeing it again.
I pay little real attention to statistics, they're too easily manipulated to reflect points of view.
That anyone could deny the reality of climate change eludes me. Well ..intelligent anyones anyway.
As for the snow in the UK etc... the Earth must balance these things out... isn't that obvious??
The hotter it is in one hemisphere, the colder it'll get in the other.
That's obvious to me... why is it hard to grasp>?
The Earth is still striving to mitigate the effects of our human growth.... and , as we are only just beginning to see the fruits (poisons) of our labors,
you can only expect it to get worse.
Emissions from human activities, right now, won't come to fruition for many yrs to come.... in terms of ecological impact on our home.
Seems we won't go out with a bang.....
more like ...dying of lymphoma.
You want dead animals as proof to climate change. Here is a weather event in Australia in 1790's, but because weather is climate to the cult, we will just call it climate event.
An account from Dawes journal extracted from Gergis et al 2009:
By September 1790,
the settlers were fast realising just
how unpredictable Australia’s weather could be. Watkin
Tench remarks ‘it is changeable beyond any other I ever
heard of… clouds, storms and sunshine pass in rapid succession’.
But by the middle of 1790, Tench (1793) describes
the impact of dry conditions on the colony’s food supplies:
‘vegetables are scarce…owing to want of rain. I do not think
that all the showers of the last four months put together,
would make twenty-four hours rain. Our farms, what with
this and a poor soil, are in wretched condition. My winter
crop of potatoes, which I planted in days of despair (March
and April last), turned out very badly when I dug them about
two months back. Wheat returned so poorly last harvest’
(Tench 1793).
It appears that the summer of 1790–91 was a hot and dry
summer. Tench comments that, at times,
it ‘felt like the blast
of a heated oven’. He goes on to describe the heat endured
during summer: ‘even [the] heat [of December 1790] was
judged to be far exceeded in the latter end of the following
February [1791],
when the north-west wind again set in, and
blew with great violence for three days. At Sydney, it fell
short by one degree of [December 1790] but at Rose Hill [Parramatta],
it was allowed, by every person, to surpass all that
they had before felt, either there or in any other part of the
world…it must, however, have been intense, from the effects
it produced.
An immense flight of bats driven before the
wind, covered all the trees around the settlement, whence
they every moment dropped dead or in a dying state, unable
longer to endure the burning state of the atmosphere. Nor
did the ‘perroquettes’, though tropical birds, bear it better.
The ground was strewn with them in the same condition as
the bats’ (Tench 1793).
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