The combination of the Indian Ocean Dipole, La Niña, and volcanic ash high in the atmosphere probably were the major contributors to heavy rain in much of Australia in 2022. This rain also increased natural methane emissions due to accelerated plant debris decomposition. The past shows us that after heavy rains in eastern Australia, the undergrowth in eucalypt forests grows rapidly. When followed by hot dry windy weather, forests become incendiary bombs. This is known by arsonists who ignite some 75 per cent of all grass and forest fires.

Recently I was in Leura in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Huge rains in 1955-1956 built up the forest fuel load and were followed by massive bushfires in 1957. Vacant blocks, lonely chimneys, and burnt-out relics remain today in Leura to remind us of these catastrophic bushfires. Massive bushfires will be repeated after the 2022 heavy rains because of the inability to learn from history. Of course, the next inevitable catastrophic fires in eastern Australia will be claimed as unprecedented and blamed on Climate Change rather than on ideological neglectful forest maintenance.

It was the same 1955-1956 rains that flooded towns on the flood plains along the Murray, Darling, Murrumbidgee, Hunter, Manning, Hastings, Clarence, Richmond, Wilson, and Brisbane Rivers. Flood plains have fertile sediment that has accumulated from thousands of large floods over millions of years and, for millennia, were the perfect place for agriculture and settlement. Maybe, before Climate Change is blamed for floods in 2022, the history of flooding of the great rivers such as the Nile and Ganges where humans have lived and recorded flood history over thousands of years should be studied. Sometimes there is too much rain, other times there is not enough. Modern floods, droughts, and bushfires are certainly not unprecedented.

Humans have grazed cattle on flood plains since the first domestication of docile animals during an exceptionally cold period 12,900-11,700 years ago. Cattle emit methane and, if a carbon balance calculation is performed, cattle are already at Net Zero. The increasing attacks on the farming industry are yet another attempt by the Greens to stop productive industry. Bacteria comprise the largest biomass on Earth and emit more methane than any other life form hence the Greens should focus on reducing bacterial methane emissions. Don’t wait up.

The first time it rained on planet Earth was unprecedented.

Running surface waters 3.8 billion years ago at Isua (Greenland) left the oldest preserved gravels in the world which, when dissolved in acid, yield a carbon-rich residue with the chemical fingerprint of bacterial life that lived in a world without oxygen gas. At that time, the Earth’s atmosphere was rich in methane, carbon dioxide, and ammonia. On Earth since that time, water and life have always been hand-in-hand. Mars had water before Earth and lost most its water and atmosphere with the loss of the Martian magnetic field. Water-bearing minerals and water-worn structures are on Mars and it is only a matter of time before fossil and even modern bacteria are discovered in its rusted rocks.

Climate change cannot be understood using computer models that attempt to predict the future with incomplete information and invalid assumptions. The past is the key to the present and destruction of history, archaeology, and geology in the climate wars can only lead to hardship.

Emeritus Professor Ian Plimer.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/rain-rain-go-away/

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 19^th, 2022 at 7:37pm:



You are even thicker than John 'plankers' Smith.  The title of Emeritus is granted by the Senate of a university, it doesn't just mean retired, ya thick pissant Baldrick.

Go get a turnip, ya thick bastard. Get two. Anything else is beyond your comprehension. You understand absolutely nothing put before you. Your mind is like that carpet of yours, soiled, sticky and stuck in the 70s.

You understood absolutely nothing about what Plimer said. You are just stupid defensively.





Look how you live in filth! You can smell that carpet!

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The U.S. has been hit by severe drought and heatwave.
The situation is so dire, that in some states farmers are destroying their own crops.
In Las Vegas, authorities have banned lawns because they consume too much water.
Palki Sharma tells you more.

thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2022 at 2:27pm:

Bobby. wrote on Aug 18^th, 2022 at 2:58pm:


YOU were an idiot who was on his knees in front of conman David Dubyne! Climate science is basically just physics:

1. Radiation

2. Convection

And a bit of atmospheric chemistry. Climate science is not meteorology so all your weather reports are useless as are you.

You couldn’t understand what I posted as “evidence of AGW” could you?

Why not ask FD to make you Mod of Fringe? You can move all your nonsense threads there—they fit better under Fringe than under Environment. Blight might even come back.

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 26^th, 2022 at 3:58pm:



You forgot Conduction. The ability to transfer heat between objects. You know like air to water, air to steel, and of course the reverse.

to lee the bunny frightened by change:

Conduction does not work in a vacuum and Earth orbits the sun in a vacuum.