An extreme heatwave has afflicted the nation since Saturday, causing wildlife deaths, bushfires and an increase in hospital admissions.
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said preliminary readings showed daily national temperature highs of 40C.
The town of Noona in New South Wales meanwhile recorded a night-time temperature of 35.9C.
Temperatures on Friday will soar above 42C in "broad areas", the bureau predicted."
Just want to say Stay Safe and try to get some respite from the heat. I'm sure it's not doing the extended drying times in your paints any good..
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Sorry that Australia and NZ good people are having a bad time.
This winter weekend we are heading to -50 cold for the next 3 to 4 days at least, very windy, very dangerous, frostbite in 2 to 3 minutes. I hope none of our water pipes burst.
The inland is nudging 50c or 122f. It’s so dry the cows are giving powdered milk.
Denis
@Julianna, I hope those delightful tourists stay away from Tassie.
Painted the second coat of foundation stain on 15 canvases last night. Dry now.
A farmer speaking on radio about the heat said that 46c was too hot to go out to the shed to tidy up a few things. But tomorrow was forecast to be cooler at 41c. He said he might need to take a jacket.
Denis
Hope you aren't getting too cold up there.
Hope everyone down under is ok..
I meant that the heat reduces the extended drying time so you have less time before the paints dry when painting.
In recent years Tasmania has experienced an influx of climate refugees who are fleeing the heat of mainland Australia. I'm one of them. This has pushed up population and land values down here. This is a tiny foretaste in a farflung corner of the world of the wordlwide climate refugee crisis ahead.
If we'd taken action to cut CO2 emissions 20 years ago the worst could have been avoided. Now, it's too late. We've reached a tipping point and earth's climate is flipping over into a new state not seen on earth since the Eocene.. The Anthropocene will not be congenial.
With the help of Faux News and the billions of advertising dollars of lying multi-national polluting fossil fuel companies they are cajoled into disputing the reality of anthropogenic climate change, denying responsibility for it and putting their heads in the sand so as not to see how awfuly this is going to end.
What can you do?
It does't help that Australia's current government is pro-coal, and against curbing emissions.
What can one do?
The art of the Anthropocene, if there is any, will be an accusatory, hot, firery red, refreshed only by the cool spirit of Greta Thunberg who will be its diminuative, saintly, young hero. Her plaintive cry will echo down through the swealtering, struggling, generations. If there are any.
My point is, as the weather becomes even warmer, this structure will catch fire in a similar fashion as any tree would, spontaneous combustion. We have no control over it, and Canadian weather over all is quite harsh and taxing on such places long before globing warming. And we occasional suffer small earthquakes strong enough to take down the building, we experience tremors regularly. I know I am not alone at all on this matter, everyone who are similar everywhere, are vulnerable. Thank goodness for non smoking in designated buildings too.
No, I'm not doing this. The science is rigorous and available for all who can (and care to) read it. Those with vested interests in fossil fuel extraction, and conspiracy theorists, will ignore/try to distort the science but the facts remain the facts. And those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s have personal experience of a warming climate that reinforces the science. The world is warming and doing so because we've changed the composition of the atmosphere. And why this warming happens with a rise in greenhouse gasses is comprehensible with basic high school physics.
Future generations will curse us and we'll not rest in peace.
Naomi Oreskes
John Cook
Maggie Kendall Zimmerman and Peter Doran
Finally, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—which claims to speak for more than 2,500 scientists—is probably the most frequently cited source for the[97%] consensus. Its latest report claims (2014) that "human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems." Yet relatively few have either written on or reviewed research having to do with the key question: How much of the temperature increase and other climate changes observed in the 20th century was caused by man-made greenhouse-gas emissions? The IPCC lists only 41 authors and editors of the relevant chapter of the Fifth Assessment Report addressing "anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing." Joesph Bast and Roy Spencer WSJ May 26, 2014
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joseph-bast-and-roy-spencer-the-myth-of-the-climate-change-97-1401145980
Mr. Bast is president of the Heartland Institute. Dr. Spencer is a principal research scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite.
So I agree with @tassieguy I'll go with the science (but the real science) The rest is nonsense. I'm still for reducing emissions and the carbon footprint I just don't think we need to give up beef, lawnmowers and air travel to accomplish it. The part of climate change that bothers me most is that drinking water is getting scarce. We need to start building saltwater desalination plants along our coasts and a network of pipelines to carry the fresh water to the interior. Railroad beds could be used as right-of-ways for the pipes.
The Heartland Institute? You've got to be kidding! You couldn't find a more biased organization. It's the leading promoter of climate change denial. It rejects the scientific consensus on global warming just as it rejected the science liking cancer and smoking. It’s the world’s most evil lobbying organization.