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by Actual News Geezer | June 17, 2007 at 08:50 am
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It's hard not to connect the dots when all over the world, citizens are reporting wild weather outbreaks.
Take a look at the photos sent in by Nowpublic member Rikx from Newcastle in New South Wales in Australia. Click here to see the slideshow.
The dots of course run from mounting evidence about the impacts of global warming to freakish storms. But the final dot of course is where you live. NowPublic contributor, like Rikx , are helping bring awareness of climate change to people everywhere.
And weather scientists are not shy about connecting the dots either.
“Essentially the [climate] response to climate change is quite uncertain”, he warned. “If you nudge a system you cannot always predict the consequences. A small nudge may lead to a small change in the behaviour of El Nino, while a bigger nudge may well change the nature of El Nino altogether.” The 2006 report implies that an event of this magnitude was likely to occur when the La Nina cycle began. But no-one seems to have restated this fact since the storm.While this doesn’t make climate change directly responsible for the damage wreaked in NSW by the storms, it does mean that climate change may have made the weather shift more sudden than it would have been otherwise, and it may make the next storm even more severe.
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at 11:29 on June 17th, 2007
This reminds me of a famous quote from Wallace Broecker, renown climate scientist and oceanographer at Columbia, "Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks"
at 16:55 on June 17th, 2007
Actual News Guy, you've convinced me you've done the work - it's authentic. I also think that you've been fair and thorough. I didn't get the sense that you were hiding your biases, or passing off other's work as your own. Or worse -- getting paid by those you cover -- so it's transparent and independent. I also think you deserve praise for being an eyewitness, and for your investigative efforts. Good stuff.
at 03:33 on June 18th, 2007
Interestingly, one of Australia's most eminent climate scientists and a friend of mine says the Australian storms of the past 2 weeks have nothing to do with global warming, but everything to do with typically uncertain weather events following the breakdown of an ElNino. As they say here we are a land of droughts and flooding rains - which is pretty true....