What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia

Reporting from The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia - Frank Eddy pulled off his dusty boots and slid into a chair, taking his place at the dining room table where most of the critical family issues are hashed out.

[reality]

"Generations of hardy castoffs tamed the world's driest inhabited continent"

Seems like it was already dry!

[TAKH]

WOW!! This is scary. Come on people we need to change our ways now! Governments in all industrialized countries need to start massive investment in solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro power. We need to get off the coal and other fossil fuels or we will be on the extinction list!

[Jason]

If only I could read this with the perspective of a Republican, where smirking at real issues, making fun of Al Gore, shouting "Drill Baby Drill" at the top of my lungs, and not caring about anyone but myself would be my preeminent thoughts.

I say we frame global warming in a way Republicans can care about, as in, "Global Warming means more abortions, less guns, less war, and health care for everyone"!

Trust me: you'd have every Sean Hannity know-it-all-wanna-be lining up at the door to fight climate change for the rest of their lives.

[Foo-e]

Leave it to the "Goracular" chicken-littles to spin this into doomsday. Yeah, like a drought has never happened before anywhere on this planet. What makes this one so uniquely tied to global warming? How abut some actual science instead of this yellow, special-interest-group press release regurgitation? Are droughts happening with more frequency, intensity, or longer duration? Umm, no.

[Jason]

Foo-e wrote:

Leave it to the "Goracular" chicken-littles to spin this into doomsday. Yeah, like a drought has never happened before anywhere on this planet. What makes this one so uniquely tied to global warming? How abut some actual science instead of this yellow, special-interest-group press release regurgitation? Are droughts happening with more frequency, intensity, or longer duration? Umm, no.

What proof do you need that you're not seeing? You seem like a smart enough person - what scientific evidence do you need to see that would make you believe? Or do you also doubt gravity and evolution?

[VOTE DALEY OUT]

Some people tend to believe everything they hear without questioning anything. Some people believe politicians are scientists and the authority in every subject. Some people will willingly give up everything if a politician says it's what needs to be done. Wake up, f00l, it's not a partisan topic. It's about thinking for yourself and acknowledging the fact that scientists around the world have declared this "warming" debacle a lie.
It's like the current administration's economic policy... You bought into it because Obama's a Nobel economist, right?

Jason wrote:

If only I could read this with the perspective of a Republican, where smirking at real issues, making fun of Al Gore, shouting "Drill Baby Drill" at the top of my lungs, and not caring about anyone but myself would be my preeminent thoughts.
I say we frame global warming in a way Republicans can care about, as in, "Global Warming means more abortions, less guns, less war, and health care for everyone"!
Trust me: you'd have every Sean Hannity know-it-all-wanna-be lining up at the door to fight climate change for the rest of their lives.

[Marine]

Liberally perpetuated B.S.! And if by chance it is true, bring it on! Good way to snuff out this liberal crap world gone to hell.

[Kevin]

Where is the consistency and logic? How is it that global warming is responsible for a drought in one city and also responsible for heavy rains in another? Is global warming now just responsible for all extreme weather?

[not surprised]

Oh come on "vote Daley out" you see Global Warming as a liberal issue and therefore automatically wrong or untrue. This isn't about Republican or Democrat its about the welfare of the world and everything on it. Think with your own brain not just the one used to write the script for Fox news.

[RamRod]

It's the "dust bowl" of this decade. The last was, what, Darfur, Somalia, whatever.

What are you hystericals thinking should be the case with Australia or any other region for climate? It's always the average temperature every day, without variances for centuries at a time? Nonsense and you know it!

Our planet's climate is cyclical in nature. Always has been, always will be AND MANKIND CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!

So, if you're really concerned and want to do something about it, your only recourse is to get on your knees and ask for some respite for our Aussie friends.

Note that in my little corner of the world, I've gone (2) decades without feeling true, season long, summer heat! Can't get the temps above average to save our lives.(3) and (4) decades ago, we had sustained summer heat and cold winters. It's a cycle; here like everywhere on this perfect planet. Get used to it, it's natural and it's not predictable and it's not going away.

[Bluebell]

Jason wrote:

I say we frame global warming in a way Republicans can care about, as in, "Global Warming means more abortions, less guns, less war, and health care for everyone"!
Trust me: you'd have every Sean Hannity know-it-all-wanna-be lining up at the door to fight climate change for the rest of their lives.

Hilarious!

[Bluebell]

reality wrote:

"Generations of hardy castoffs tamed the world's driest inhabited continent"
Seems like it was already dry!

Seems like someone else figured out how to live in the world's driest inhabited continent BEFORE the "hardy castoffs," i.e., criminal riffraff.

[moreofthesame]

Why is this a bad thing?
There are too many people on this planet, why not let nature take it's course. If man is causing the problem, it's common sense (which I know is in short supply nowadays) that less men will create less of a problem.

[moreofthesame]

Jason wrote:

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What proof do you need that you're not seeing? You seem like a smart enough person - what scientific evidence do you need to see that would make you believe? Or do you also doubt gravity and evolution?

What proof do you have that this is man made? and if so, the "final solution" is to have less people.
In fact, if you really cared about this planet, you'd invite all your barry worshiping buddies to a party and drink the jimmy jones kool aid.
Do you doubt evolution? Do you realize that once this planet was molten? How on earth did this planet exsist for 4.5 Billion years without the help of that fat man gore, and all the tree huggers? Why do you people feel the need to interfere with nature?

[Earthling]

It doesn't surprise me that some of the goons who bother to comment here at the Topix GW forum have either done no research whatsoever on the subject of AGW or GW, so they either agree with it or oppose it without thinking.

I'd say that fairly typical of us humans.
Many of us go to polling booths at election times, with the idea of appointing a leader who we believe will do the best for us and the country as a whole, some just like the face.

[Jerry]

I mean, how much more evidence do you need? What is wrong with these head in the sand Republicans? Why is this a partisan issue?

Same way they made teaching evolution an issue. A bedrock, scientific principle, but they dispute it, because the great fairy tale known as the Bible, tells them so. Republicans - the party of Sarah Palin types. Yikes.

[Kristah]

Foo-e wrote:

Leave it to the "Goracular" chicken-littles to spin this into doomsday. Yeah, like a drought has never happened before anywhere on this planet. What makes this one so uniquely tied to global warming? How abut some actual science instead of this yellow, special-interest-group press release regurgitation? Are droughts happening with more frequency, intensity, or longer duration? Umm, no.

How do you explain the bleaching of the Barrier Reef off the coast? The rising temperature of the water will cause the reef to become "functionally extinct" by 2050. Is it that it's easier to pretend all this isn't happening? I just can't pretend. However, I dont live in La La Land as you seem to.

Whether global waming exists or not, it would be naive to think that what we do as humans does not have an effect on our delicately balanced atmosphere. This is the only planet we can live on, and I hope the day does not come when we seriously regret our foolish actions.

[Kristah]

moreofthesame wrote:

<quoted text>
What proof do you have that this is man made? and if so, the "final solution" is to have less people.
In fact, if you really cared about this planet, you'd invite all your barry worshiping buddies to a party and drink the jimmy jones kool aid.
Do you doubt evolution? Do you realize that once this planet was molten? How on earth did this planet exsist for 4.5 Billion years without the help of that fat man gore, and all the tree huggers? Why do you people feel the need to interfere with nature?

Aren't we already interferring with nature when we pump 80 billion pounds of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year? Or would you call that 'natural'?

[Monty]

Jason wrote:

If only I could read this with the perspective of a Republican, where smirking at real issues, making fun of Al Gore, shouting "Drill Baby Drill" at the top of my lungs, and not caring about anyone but myself would be my preeminent thoughts.
I say we frame global warming in a way Republicans can care about, as in, "Global Warming means more abortions, less guns, less war, and health care for everyone"!
Trust me: you'd have every Sean Hannity know-it-all-wanna-be lining up at the door to fight climate change for the rest of their lives.

I hear it makes people gay too!

[looking deeper]

VOTE DALEY OUT wrote:

Some people tend to believe everything they hear without questioning anything. Some people believe politicians are scientists and the authority in every subject. Some people will willingly give up everything if a politician says it's what needs to be done. Wake up, f00l, it's not a partisan topic. It's about thinking for yourself and acknowledging the fact that scientists around the world have declared this "warming" debacle a lie.
It's like the current administration's economic policy... You bought into it because Obama's a Nobel economist, right?
<quoted text>

That would only make sense if politicians actually had some interest in this crucial cause of protecting the environment - but they actually stand in the way of averting the catastrophe because they are protecting the entrenched interests of the coal and petroleum industries.