When will people realise climate change is a real thing?
Over the last 3-4 years, Australia has seen several natural disasters, one being the Black Saturday bush fires, with the aid of high winds and intense heat, and the recent flooding of Queensland and Victoria. Heck, even the local area has experienced some sort of flooding late last year. I find it strange that around this time a couple years ago bush fires were the main threat, today it is flooding.
What really stood out was a comment made on the afternoon news during a weather segment. They said something along the lines of Melbourne has experienced it's Summer Weather and there will be no more heat-waves for the season. This was made after a miss-prediction, where they predicted the weather to be "another scorcher" but ended up with a cool change.
At the time of writing this sentence, I am 13 minutes away from February, so there is still another month of official summer weather. However, everybody knows it takes a few weeks into March before the intense heat just goes away. With that in mind, I find it troubling that some people believe climate change is a "myth" or something along those lines.
I'm not going to throw up all these stats from websites, article quotes and all that jazz, because a) I don't want to bore you, b) they get confusing, and c) to be honest, I can't be bothered looking them up.
The last couple days have been predicted around the area to reach tops of 38 degrees, 39 degrees, and tomorrow is forecast to be 40 degrees. Then I saw a Facebook status where the person said they checked the thermometer on the veranda, and it read 44 degrees. A couple factors could affect this, such as the design of the veranda, however most verandas are cool spots and block out a lot of the heat, so to have 44 degrees in the shade, could mean the direct sunlight temperature could have been 2-3 degree hotter.
So are things heating up? Well it is usually hot around this time of year, so it isn't unusual for 40 degree days, last summer we experienced a few of them. What I find troubling is the rainfall lately, especially during the spring. We do get some summer rainfall, and again, without pulling up stats, I think we have had a lot more rainfall this summer than recent years.
As for stopping climate change, I don't have the answer. We all know about recycling, careful use of water, water your car on the lawn, water the garden after 6pm and all that jazz. Then we have tips like turning appliances off at the power point, install solar panels, drive hybrid cars and everything like that. Would these factors affect (effect? Not sure) the climate? I've been told there may be some truths to it, well truth be told, I think we better start evolving fast to adapt to the new climate. Something with wings, or maybe gills, that would be adventurous.
The point about this blog is, it's 11:57pm, and I am walking outside.......... Damn, not what I was expecting. I was expecting disgusting humid warmth, but it was actually kind of nice outside. Now with that ruined, let me back track, it was 9pm, and I was sitting right where I am now, however only earlier I was dripping with sweat, from just sitting. Today I went outside, and it was quite warm, and visited a ice-cream shop and to my dismay, it was probably hotter inside the shop! What kind of ice-cream shop is hot, it should be like a freezer! However, it didn't help with the hot girl (well actually she was more cute than hot, but hot works better in this analogy) working behind the counter heating things up. Just to summarise, it's bloody hot, and it needs to cool down! In about 6 months I will most likely be blogging about how cold it is.......
From The One They Call Anthony, This Is The Life & Times
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