Comments on: Australian Report: The dry will get drier http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/03/australian-report-the-dry-will-get-drier/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:22:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: CL http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/03/australian-report-the-dry-will-get-drier/#comment-5965 CL Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:07:20 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/03/australian-report-the-dry-will-get-drier/#comment-5965 First, for an summary of a newly-released (and updated) report on changes in bushfire weather in southeast Australia, see this <a href="http://planetdoom.blogspot.com/2007/09/bushfires-and-climate-change-in-se.html" rel="nofollow"> post.</a> Second, climate change is becoming a big issue in the upcoming Australian federal elections (rumored to occur at the end of November). This report should serve as a reminder to Australians, and indeed all citizens of the world with the option, to <a href="http://planetdoom.blogspot.com/2007/10/australia-and-climate-change-official.html" rel="nofollow"> make the environment a priority </a> in the next election. What we do now really makes a difference and we are running out of chances. First, for an summary of a newly-released (and updated) report on changes in bushfire weather in southeast Australia, see this post.

Second, climate change is becoming a big issue in the upcoming Australian federal elections (rumored to occur at the end of November). This report should serve as a reminder to Australians, and indeed all citizens of the world with the option, to make the environment a priority in the next election. What we do now really makes a difference and we are running out of chances.

]]> By: Jay Alt http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/03/australian-report-the-dry-will-get-drier/#comment-5966 Jay Alt Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:09 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/03/australian-report-the-dry-will-get-drier/#comment-5966 Here's another article explaining how AU climate change is expected to play out. The lead author discusses why they're so concerned. Previous droughts tended to be in el Nino years. So, just wait for the change to la Nina and the rain came back. But this 6 year drought seems to be a combination of el Nino plus changes in Walker Circulation: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/25/2043238.htm And the slowing Walker Circulation pattern is one of the detection-attribution (fingerprint) studies that show global warming is caused by human emitted greenhouse gases: http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/walker.shtml Here’s another article explaining how AU climate change is expected to play out. The lead author discusses why they’re so concerned. Previous droughts tended to be in el Nino years. So, just wait for the change to la Nina and the rain came back. But this 6 year drought seems to be a combination of el Nino plus changes in Walker Circulation:
http://www.abc.net.au/ news/ stories/ 2007/ 09/ 25/ 2043238.htm

And the slowing Walker Circulation pattern is one of the detection-attribution (fingerprint) studies that show global warming is caused by human emitted greenhouse gases:
http://www.ucar.edu/ news/ releases/ 2006/ walker.shtml

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