stevco123 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:20 pm
Macedonian wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:01 pm
Lol! One below average summer month means nothing.
Very true, but no doubt our seasons are getting more and more distorted however. The only reason why we were only JUST above the average for summer is because of three or four spike days above 40 degrees the whole season. It's very easy to go back to articles online from 10 years ago that insist that by 2013 our dams will be dry, there will be no snow in Australia, glaciers will be gone by 2020- none of which has come true.
Let's leave it at that as this isn't the thread for it.
Were you out of the country this past summer? Yes, parts of Victoria and coastal fringes have been average, but the country as a whole is only just exiting one of the driest and hottest summers in history. Dams were running dry. Some dams across parts of the country had been empty for 2 years! Lest we forget the worst fires in history, not in terms of human casualty - this country and its emergency response plans saved many - but in terms of destruction of habitat and wildlife (made even more remarkable due to the fact so much forest and wildlife has already disappeared since white settlement, meaning the acreage lost is relative to a much smaller extent of habitat).
You're right, though, this isn't the thread for it, but you can't expect to keep making climate change remarks, then hoping to have final remarks. I get it, you're a skeptic. But for the sake of anyone else perusing this thread: don't forget the bigger picture. Remember the fires. Remember the extreme drought. Remember that part of the reason some places are average is due to persistent, above average and extreme rainfall events which cap daytime highs.
There's a lot of hyperbole in articles relating to climate change, this is true. But news articles aren't science, they're not data or peer reviewed studies. There's is a big difference.