Comments on: CNN, ABC, WashPost, AP, blow Australian wildfire, drought, heatwave “Hell (and High Water) on Earth” story — never mention climate change http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:47:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Melissa http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-83941 Melissa Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:32:58 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-83941 I live in the bushfire affected area you are talking about. As our town didn't burn down (but was surrounded on three sides for a month by towns that did and by 80,000 ha of fire,) we still have a lot of unburnt fuel. You don't need to be a scientist to notice that the snow doesn't come down closer from the mountains anymore, that frost doesn't build upon the windows and need to be washed off with a bucket of warm water in winter - a regular occurrence in my childhood. I've never lived through so many extreme days of heat and each summer feels worse. These fires were like no one had ever known. The rule book has to be re-written. They did things that we never anticipated they could. This is why I am training to be a firefighter. Because I know that we are in for hotter, drier summers from now on. I am worried, and I want to be as prepared as I can. I believe in fuel reduction burning, and I also believe that the Royal Commission has become a witch hunt targeting on the few people that tried to do anything, rather than being a constructive forum to develop new answers for the future. I live in the bushfire affected area you are talking about. As our town didn’t burn down (but was surrounded on three sides for a month by towns that did and by 80,000 ha of fire,) we still have a lot of unburnt fuel. You don’t need to be a scientist to notice that the snow doesn’t come down closer from the mountains anymore, that frost doesn’t build upon the windows and need to be washed off with a bucket of warm water in winter – a regular occurrence in my childhood.

I’ve never lived through so many extreme days of heat and each summer feels worse. These fires were like no one had ever known. The rule book has to be re-written. They did things that we never anticipated they could.

This is why I am training to be a firefighter. Because I know that we are in for hotter, drier summers from now on. I am worried, and I want to be as prepared as I can. I believe in fuel reduction burning, and I also believe that the Royal Commission has become a witch hunt targeting on the few people that tried to do anything, rather than being a constructive forum to develop new answers for the future.

]]> By: paulm http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-30930 paulm Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:58:30 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-30930 Ah ha. So wind speed observation <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29552" rel="nofollow">here....</a> is backed up by some science.... Stronger coastal winds due to climate change may have far-reaching effects http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/uoc--scw121208.php This is also directly related to fires on the coast. Ah ha. So wind speed observation here…. is backed up by some science….

Stronger coastal winds due to climate change may have far-reaching effects
http://www.eurekalert.org/ pub_releases/ 2008-12/ uoc–scw121208.php

This is also directly related to fires on the coast.

]]> By: Gail http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29648 Gail Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:54:14 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29648 Now will someone link this? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/us/12drought.html It is going to spread and there will be food shortages and panic in the US very soon. Now will someone link this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/us/12drought.html

It is going to spread and there will be food shortages and panic in the US very soon.

]]> By: Greg N http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29586 Greg N Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:15:36 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29586 Just followed a link from CNN.com to a Time article that quite strongly links future fires to AGW: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1878220,00.html?cnn=yes Maybe there's some hope for CNN after all? Just followed a link from CNN.com to a Time article that quite strongly links future fires to AGW:

http://www.time.com/ time/ health/ article/ 0,8599,1878220,00.html?cnn=yes

Maybe there’s some hope for CNN after all?

]]> By: Asteroid Miner http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29584 Asteroid Miner Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:58:45 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29584 It IS happening here, in Oklahoma and California. It IS happening here, in Oklahoma and California.

]]> By: Bob Wright http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29583 Bob Wright Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:11:38 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29583 Random goofy stuff: Northern Ireland environment minister bans GW ad campaign. Another guy deferring our fate to God. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/sack-sammy-call-after-climate-change-ad-ban-14180328.html I read someplace the aborigines once used controlled burn-offs, I suppose to at least protect villages and plantations. Us white guys are so smart! I watched abc News that night. Charlie left out the GW part, and looked like he didn't like what he was saying. Maybe abc is just tired of the denier cranks lighting up the switchboard and jamming the website. Random goofy stuff:

Northern Ireland environment minister bans GW ad campaign. Another guy deferring our fate to God.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ news/ local-national/ sack-sammy-call-after-climate-change-ad-ban-14180328.html

I read someplace the aborigines once used controlled burn-offs, I suppose to at least protect villages and plantations. Us white guys are so smart! I watched abc News that night. Charlie left out the GW part, and looked like he didn’t like what he was saying. Maybe abc is just tired of the denier cranks lighting up the switchboard and jamming the website.

]]> By: jorleh http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29578 jorleh Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:43:32 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29578 Your journalists have some education? Seems don´t. Your journalists have some education? Seems don´t.

]]> By: plover http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29576 plover Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:54:07 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29576 FYI Professor Barry Brook's blog is www.bravenewclimate.com and his email address is barry.brook@adelaide.edu.au FYI
Professor Barry Brook’s blog is

http://www.bravenewclimate.com

and his email address is

barry.brook@adelaide.edu.au

]]> By: paulm http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29574 paulm Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:26:17 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29574 well joe, this is evolving in to quite an unpleasant thread.... well joe, this is evolving in to quite an unpleasant thread….

]]> By: Richard Pauli http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29571 Richard Pauli Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:17:03 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/10/cnn-abc-washpost-ap-blow-australian-wildfire-drought-heatwave-hell-and-high-water-on-earth-story-never-mention-climate-change/#comment-29571 Bruce Sterling summed it up nicely: 1. The climate. People still behave as if it's okay. Every scientist in the world who isn't the late Michael Crichton knows that it's not. The climate is in terrible shape; something's gone wrong with the sky. The bone-chilling implications haven't soaked into the populace, even though Al Gore put together a PowerPoint about it that won him a Nobel. Al was soft-peddling the problem. It's become an item of fundamentalist faith to maintain that the climate crisis is a weird leftist hoax. Yet, since the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, an honest fear of the consequences will prove hard to repress. Since the fear has been methodically obscured, its emergence from the mists of superstition will be all the more powerful. Unlike mere shibboleths of finance, this is a situation that's objectively terrifying and likely to remain so indefinitely. http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01/2009_will_be_a_year_of_panic.php Bruce Sterling summed it up nicely:

1. The climate. People still behave as if it’s okay. Every scientist in the world who isn’t the late Michael Crichton knows that it’s not. The climate is in terrible shape; something’s gone wrong with the sky. The bone-chilling implications haven’t soaked into the populace, even though Al Gore put together a PowerPoint about it that won him a Nobel. Al was soft-peddling the problem.

It’s become an item of fundamentalist faith to maintain that the climate crisis is a weird leftist hoax. Yet, since the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, an honest fear of the consequences will prove hard to repress. Since the fear has been methodically obscured, its emergence from the mists of superstition will be all the more powerful. Unlike mere shibboleths of finance, this is a situation that’s objectively terrifying and likely to remain so indefinitely.

http://www.seedmagazine.com/ news/ 2009/ 01/ 2009_will_be_a_year_of_panic.php

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