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Is this to make us laugh? Getting rid of daylight savings won't actually remove a extra hour of sunlight. In relation to droughts, they can come and go... That article was in 2008, since then they have had an enormous amount of rain ending their drought. It shows that people shouldn't panic and should make most of the times when there is plenty of rain and set themselves up for the times when it doesn't.
Is this to make us laugh? Getting rid of daylight savings won't actually remove a extra hour of sunlight.
Re: Who here has changed their opinion that human CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming
It's all a conspiracy. CSIRO, the UN & every other credible institution must be working with the Muslims to install a new world order... Or something like that
I reckon it's gold the author put his name on it....I call bullshit.
Am I missing something???... all it says is ENVIRONMENTAL researchers say the end of Australia's ski culture is in sight.... why?http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...020-itll-be-gone/story-e6frg6nf-1226465074500
I think I can remember seeing these headlines in the early 90s, again in the early 00s and it has again resurfaced. We still have a ski season, based on the figures the amount of snow has actually been pretty constant over the last decade, yet we still give valuable column space to alarmists like Sophie Gosper.
Whilst I think Australian resorts are too expensive I rest easy knowing full well that we will still have a ski industry in this country in 2022.
That's my point we've kept getting the view of the environmentalists shoved down our throats for the last 20 years about how bad everything is going to be, yet their predictions are not coming true, so all they do is push the timeline out another 10 or 20 years.Am I missing something???... all it says is ENVIRONMENTAL researchers say the end of Australia's ski culture is in sight.... why?
I'd be pretty confident that it will still be going strong in 2122 let alone 10 years from now.
The only way they won't have snow at Perisher is if the ice melts at Antarctica and the temperature there goes up about 15 degrees... and that's not likely to happen for a very long time, if ever.
That's why they give long term predictions... because people forget or won't be around then.That's my point we've kept getting the view of the environmentalists shoved down our throats for the last 20 years about how bad everything is going to be, yet their predictions are not coming true, so all they do is push the timeline out another 10 or 20 years.
"We've predicted by 2020 to lose something like 60 per cent of the snow cover of the Australian Alps," Professor Pickering, from the Griffith School of Environment, said.
"Unfortunately because our current emissions and our current rises in temperatures are at the high end of the predictions, it's definitely coming to us sooner and faster."
Professor Pickering researched the effects of declining snow cover and hotter summers on the Australian Alps and says this year's better than average season has been a one-off combination of La Nina and a cold snap.
"We'll still occasionally have good years, but they'll become less frequent," she said. "A poor year in the past will be a good year now."
Researchers have found Australian skiers may need to head overseas in search of higher ground thanks to global warming.
Griffith’s Associate Professor Catherine Pickering has researched the effects of declining snow cover and hotter summers on the Australian Alps.
Snow cover is already declining in Australia’s alpine regions, and the trend is expected to continue. The average snow cover at Spencer’s Creek in the Snowy Mountains, the highest altitude snow course in Australia, has declined by 30 overall and 40% in spring over the last 50 years.
Associate Professor Catherine Pickering said the alpine region is one of Australia’s areas most threatened by climate change and reliance on snow-making is not financially or economically sustainable.
“We’ve predicted by 2020 to lose something like 60% of the snow cover of the Australian Alps,” she said.
“Unfortunately because our current emissions and our current rises in temperatures are at the high end of the predictions, it’s definitely coming to us sooner and faster.
“In a few years the amount of water that ski resorts will need to make snow is going to exceed the amount of water that’s used by Canberra. And it looks like we are heading back towards dry conditions, so where will they get the water?”
Changes we are already seeing including snow melting earlier in spring, increased risk of fires, migratory animals arriving earlier, plants flowering earlier and more weeds and feral animals.
“This region is already dealing with climate change. It’s not an abstract issue or a matter of debate. Its reality for those living and working in Australia’s snow country, said Griffith’s Associate Professor Catherine Pickering.
“For them, the debate is about the success of different strategies that are already using to deal with climate change, such as snow making, promoting summer tourism, fire management and dealing with feral animals and weeds. That’s what resorts, parks, local government and researchers are talking about.”
That's my point we've kept getting the view of the environmentalists shoved down our throats for the last 20 years about how bad everything is going to be, yet their predictions are not coming true, so all they do is push the timeline out another 10 or 20 years.
That's why they give long term predictions... because people forget or won't be around then.
What they need to do is black ban the people or groups who make these statements about the future and make them accountable. So called "Environmentalists" have caused more damage around the world than anyone. They should be called what they really are "Anti Humanists".
A growing body of research has found that when a person’s worldview is threatened by scientific evidence, they interpret the science in a biased manner. One issue where this influence is strongest is climate change.
For supporters of an unregulated free market, regulating polluting industries to reduce global warming is so unpalatable that they are far more likely to reject that climate change is happening.
The mechanism by which ideology such as this influences our scientific views is confirmation bias. We place greater weight on evidence that confirms our beliefs, while ignoring or resisting conflicting evidence. This can be a challenge when confronted with a convergence of evidence and a scientific consensus, but confirmation bias is up to the task. Let’s look at some examples.
The most common manifestation of confirmation bias is cherry picking, where one carefully selects a small piece of data that paints a friendly picture and overlooks any inconvenient evidence.
I'm a climate change skeptic. Sue me.
We have been through this before, much of the code for major past modelling is now open access.I'd just like the models to come close to matching the results before I concede they know what's happening well enough to get worked up about it. (releasing the code behind those models to open review would help too)
I know, crazy talk, and I'm clearly a denialist nutter.
We have been through this before, much of the code for major past modelling is now open access.
Why keep repeating the same lie, over and over and over.......