Climate change taking its toll in Australia - 22 Sept 09

[guodade]

It’s not that I don’t know this!

The trouble is that a wetter climate on Australia’s extraordinarily eroded (well, in geological terms, extraordinarily normal) soils will not improve productivity simply because the extremely limited nutrient reserves will be further depleted.

The soils of northern Australia, except the Burdekin Delta and most of the Wet Tropics, have been the most stubborn obstacle to the spread of agriculture ever since it began.

[WilliamTarkovsky]

Australia needs to take on board the eco-philosophy New Creationism...

Check out youtube eco-video The Book of New Creation!

[arachn1dinshoe]

Creationists are 'hell bent' on bringing an end to the world as per the dictates of their bible's 'Revelations' chapter.

We'd all be much better off trying everything for humanity to survive and find ways for our survival to be in harmony with nature. (ie. stopping our negative impacts on the environment).

Creationists want to kill you. They want to kill all humans, in order that they can go to their fictional heaven.

Only science (knowledge) can lead us to long term survival!

[ClimateAware]

Agreed.

Check out William Tarkovsky's youtube videos or on facebook.

He's powerfully pro-science and anti-creationist...

Share with the like-minded!

[sydneydoc]

Idiots. Temperatures have been falling in the Southern hemisphere. Antarctic sea ice has been increasing for 30 years.

[cannoir]

@sydneydoc It will do'em good. it is only true when it hits onem, global warming is real. they are going to leave all those nice homes across the coats ( cos nobody would buy em anyway ) ,why buy a house where the strong wind will keep you awake for 30 years. australians just like chinese eat up most of the ressources on earth . I am drinking milk right now cos I know they will get it that they are not the only ones on earth .

[sydneydoc]

Briffa is one of the ClimateGate conspirators . Read his 1998 paper. His fig 6 shows strong global COOLING since 1940 !.

[JesseKantstopolis]

Did AlJazeera jump on board the kool-aid mobile with the other global warmers? I'm looking at that unsubscribe button.

[cannoir]

@JesseKantstopolis

be gone lmao!

[ozzycriss]

Understand this people the warming cult are useing there data to invade every part of your life . What do you think carbon tax is for , its to manage and control you and your familys ,food , travel , water , etc , there saying you are now the enemy . Think people, reason for yourself , watch the propoganda patterns and read what the big boys are openly writing about . You and your family deserve everybit of whats coming down the pipe if you allow the warming cults aganda to go thru .

[MiLSeLrAhC]

eat the urchins then....

[EchelonMonitor]

CO2 makes up 0.03% of the earth's atmosphere, meaning it is a trace gas, and a very small part of that is related to human activity.

The primary greenhouse gas is water vapor. The primary driving force behind climate change is the sun.

Solar activity is reduced now, and arctic ice has been expanding over the past two years.

[EchelonMonitor]

CO2 is not a pollutant, and plants need MORE CO2, not less. The ocean's plankton, which feed the great whales and fish and provide much of the oxygen we need, depend on CO2 to survive, which means we need CO2 to survive.

Al Gore founded a carbon credits trading company in 2004, and he has been promoting his money-making scam since then so he can join the ranks of the world's billionaires. Sad that he received a nobel prize for promoting his own self interests.

[EchelonMonitor]

The CO2 tax is a tax on life itself, and benefits no one except the govrenments and global bankers who will collect it.

Don't be fooled into buying into the globalist agenda of global warming/climate change.

Fighting pollution is a noble cause. Lying about global warming/climate change to make big profits and raise taxes is as ignoble as you can get.

[AinEstonia]

Global warming can't be defeated with taxes, but with alternate energy sources, we depend on fossil fuels, we shouldn't. Most pollution is created by power stations and not by cars.

[thedevos1981]

@AinEstonia i agree stupid ass ozzy's think oh cap and trade will be a good thing what good is throwing money at it............?

How take some time and think. These global warming claims aren't even backed by all the world's scientists.

[MRMILO57]

@thedevos1981 ...oh how attitudes are changing towards all this man made climate change con, look at the result for the greens last weekend 27th of Nov 2010, Vic state election.

People are finally waking up to what the greens want to do, recent price hikes in electricity bills have proven this.

The fall of the greens political party has accelerated, the labour government have their green stain and that's why thay lost the state election.

[guodade]

@MRMILO57 The reality is that Australia’s outer suburbs cannot tackle climate change because they are afraid of hurting their families. People in large houses with established families would, to be ecologically sustainable, have to give up their three cars for public transport, and to achieve decent public transport would require mass protest that is extremely disruptive to the lives of these working people.

[MRMILO57]

@guodade ..The people in all suburbs and the country side, are the majority of the population. So you're asking the majority to totally change their very comfortable, well earned lives to give up all that for a very small inner city fringe manority, so they can have it all their way politically. This is not democracy, this activism being forced onto population (the tax payers).

Lets face facts, the rain is back, the weather is cooler, their is no threat to our lives. Any greenie should move on

[guodade]

@MRMILO57 In southwestern Australia, the rain is anything but back. In fact, rainfall in Perth over the past five years have been 56 percent of the average from 1876 to 1967 and runoff about 3 percent of the average. Although these declines have been known for thirty years, it has taken a very long time to accept that this is 100 percent due to man-made global warming.

The fact is that suburbanites would lose little apart from affordability if every car journey was replaced by mass transit.

[MRMILO57]

@guodade ...over the entire continent of Australia, you happen to mention the only area which currantly matches a dooms day destruction of earth. Meanwhile the rest of Australia is cooler and wetter, much wetter :o)

The climate activists (BOM, Australian media, Greens etc..) are using these weather conditions to persuased and put meaning to the weather, wanting us to be affraid, the origins of primative religion was that same fear.

The majority won't let Your fears ruin their lives.

[MRMILO57]

Sorry....the correct spelling is ...TREMORS

[MRMILO57]

Your climate change freaks are real nutters.

NOW THERE SAYING THIS CLIMATE CHANGE THEORY IS CAUSING EARTH TREAMORS!

That is funny!

[bbnemesis123]

Oh god....Obama makes a climate change speech at the U.N....so here comes the media propaganda on climate change again.

[kelsbackonyoutub]

I, too, am sick of the media propagating the notion that climate change isn't happening. It'd be like denying the theory of gravity, or evolution. Absolutely preposterous and silly, yet for some reason the American media choose to continue to perpetuate intensely damaging lies about climate change.

Al Jazeera is the only network to be consistently objective in its reporting. Please keep up the wonderful work.

[WilliamTarkovsky]

Perhaps humanity needs a change of heart. Check out youtube eco-video The Book of New Creation...

[StigmataBOB1]

Thank you for the good work. We can not all know this from personal expierance so we apricte that you cover this. Well done.

[TurtugaBlanku]

'Holes in the Poles' is a music video on this subject.

Check it out if you feel like it:

watch?v=TrEs-CH8uG4

Cheers

[mess4opana]

KILL THE SEA URCHINS!! Looks like a beautiful place, I hope to visit one day, before the landscape changes forever.

[krum369]

lol, at 00:13 the bird poops, but yeah, even thou Humans are extremely destructible and cause a lot of damage to this earth, global warming would happen with or without humans on earth, but instead of helping, we are doing nothing.

[mjrtom999]

Farm the lobster to size and let them take on the urchins....

[nkosev]

We can't stop is with local measures. Only a global shift in the consciousness can change the outcome of a global problems we created.

I am not talking about NWO , i am zeitgeist movement activist and i realy think that only when the global thinking changes - then we will see a major shift, because actually we created the problem, with our current mindless acts - short term profit now , long term dammage later. Well now is "later".

[munib1000]

Global warming is BS

[MustacheVerra]

Correction, man made global warming is BS. It's quiet possible the planet is getting warmer.

[kelsbackonyoutub]

you're both stupid as hell

[munib1000]

sorry is that stupid being directed at me and

MustacheVerra because then you need to look up the fact about the planet before opening your mouth like that.

[MustacheVerra]

Don't you see the underlying message is that human are bad? That we will have to have less baby and stuff? And that maybe some of us need to be killed because we are harming the planet? It's insane.

Man made global warming is a ploy by the elite to scare us into accepting their plan for the world. The green movement mean well but they have been deceive. Stuff like that happened all the time.

[munib1000]

sorry about that, i mean mad made global warming is BS

just another way to tax the world and make money off billions instead of millions.

[MustacheVerra]

Yup! You're absolutely right. It's about taxing the whole world. And it's also about fear, control and world governance.

[munib1000]

all true