We're having some just lovely climate change this morning - a really warm mid-autumn day, the birds taking dives in the bird bath and dappled sun rays rocking too and fro through the oak tree. Damn I love climate change :D Zen On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:05:51AM +1000, Gil May wrote:
4 Billion years of climate change
Dear Politicians, as you appear to have missed many important lessons at school, we would like to let you know the earth has had an eve- changing climate for billions of years, it is not anything new and within the normal range. Once north Africa and central Australia had forests, there were ice ages and drought were in 1878 over 50 million people died of starvation — more than double Australia’s population died. In 1991 Mnt Pinatubo erupted for a year spewing out more greenhouse gasses than man has ever made. In 1915 the Murray River dried up, never happened since: Explorer, Charles Sturt’s Records show in 1828 it was a blistering 53.9 °C. The death toll reached 437 people in the eastern states, in Bourke the heat approached 120°F (48.9°C) on three days. The Mayan civilization collapsed due to many decades of drought proven by tree growth rings.
They were REAL climate changes long before modern induztrialisation and the puppy-brains were born. How did you handle that bit of historical reality, chuck-a-wobbly, weep and wail, go into denial: Or smile as you already knew world history—that many have never learnt and don’t want to.