BPSDB When I went to Google News this morning the “Top Stories” are about some skiers and the beginning of the Federal election campaign.
Only much lower down do I find anything about floods in Australia and Sri Lanka, or mudslides in Brazil.
Apparently there is nothing new about climate change here in the Industrialized West. In the Anthropocene (era of human dominated biosphere) disasters of epic proportions are not “news.”
“The cost of cutting back emissions is more than we estimated, but that is because the consequences of climate change are already here.” Nicholas Stern
Just over one year ago Australian blogger MothIncarnate posted his first piece “Business as Usual; The Dead Horse and Juggernaut of Climate Change.” An area of Queensland the size of France and Germany combined is flooded; the Juggernaut has arrived.
As people die or lose everything they have, the climate change Deniers want to quibble semantics. The flooding is exactly what was predicted and is completely consistent with climate science, but can we categorically say that it has been caused by climate change?
“It’s not the right question to ask if this storm or that storm is due to global warming, or is it natural variability. Nowadays, there’s always an element of both.” Trenberth
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