Australian Fires

Australians are not the world's biggest producers of CO2 per capita and as far as their nation goes they are well down the "polluters" order. Western Europe has reduced its per capita production of CO2 to a far greater extent than most of the other nations of the developed world but it is nothing to shout about.

Australia is not solely responsible for the catastrophic bush fires which have raged across their nation; all of the developed nations are. We have been pumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere and it is adversely affecting the the global climate and weather.

There is no God raining down brimstone and hellfire upon the earth. Nature has no care for any country that is affected. All of the climate and weather problems are self inflicted. Australians are hardy and resourceful people who will recover from the latest weather tragedy. But will their forests fully recover? Will whole species have been wiped out by the conflagration? Will there be another climate catastrophe inflicted upon the unique habitat that is Australia?

Recent scientific research has shown that the oceans are now 1 degree celcius warmer now than in pre-industrial times. This is a colossal amount of heat energy which drive global warming for centuries. Dangerous climate change could now be unavoidable but we are still pumping more and more CO2 into the atmosphere. The warming oceans and air are now causing the release of vast quantities of methane gas, which has been stored in the sea and tundra for millennia, to add further to the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere.

How will we be able to cool the global climate down? Block out the sun? What would happen to farming if we did that?  Put industrial sized refrigeration units into the sea? Where would all the heat go? Back into to the atmosphere.

There is now danger that the Amazon forest could suffer catastrophic fires. What would happen if the Amazon region becomes another desert? Anything is possible.

Calling climate change campaigners prophets of doom, will not help. We can no longer afford to propagate the myth that excessive production of CO2 gas is not warming up the planet. False optimism could easily see us off. The facts have been clearly laid out  climate change is already worse than what was predicted 30 years ago.

It will be of no use to put climate activists on police lists claiming that they are terrorists. We are all adding to the problems of global warming.  We won't need to risk terrorists to kill us off as the bigger risk is adverse climate change  and we could be committing climate suicide if we are not careful. It is time for politicians to wise up along with the rest of us.