Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t IceAgeNow & Climate Depot – Australia’s capital city Canberra is being flooded by kangaroos desperately flocking to the irrigated nature reserves and Canberra’s urban heat island to avoid starvation and freezing temperatures.
Mobs of kangaroos take to streets of Australia’s capital over food shortages
By Samantha Beech, Mitchell McCluskey and Susannah Cullinane, CNN
Updated 0805 GMT (1605 HKT) July 30, 2018(CNN)Mobs of kangaroos have been raiding patches of grass in the Australian capital Canberra, driven to the city’s sports fields, back yards and roadsides by food scarcity.
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Canberra has more than 30 nature reserves, with most hosting hundreds of Eastern Grey Kangaroos, and it is not unusual to see them in the reserves or in roads or yards nearby, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Parks and Conservation Service Director Daniel Iglesias told CNN.
But he said this winter the animals were far more visible.
“Canberra is experiencing a perfect storm of hardship for its kangaroos. New records have been set in Canberra for very cold, frosty nights this winter. This, coupled with very dry conditions with very little rain at all in June and July, means there is very little food for kangaroos, ” Iglesias said, via email.
“Sports ovals, suburban yards, schoolyards and roadsides are the few places offering any green grass at all in Canberra at the moment and they act as magnets for kangaroos,” he said.
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Lots of spectators when enjoying your round of golf @goldcreekcc #canberra #australia #TheOpen2018 #openweekend #playgolf #golfspectator pic.twitter.com/4CGVbKAyja
— Goldcc (@goldcreekcc) July 22, 2018
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/30/australia/australia-canberra-kangaroo-boom/index.html
Canberra, which is part of the Australian Capital Territory, our version of District of Columbia, is a hotspot of Australian CAGW enthusiasts. The green obsessed ACT government funded the original production of the play Kill Climate Deniers.
No doubt the locals will blame global warming for the distress of ACT’s kangaroo population.
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Hubby is visiting our meteorologist son, who is stationed at the solar observatory at Learmonth. Luckily, they’d just left Perth day before yesterday to head north when the Perth temp hit -4C. Nobody’d packed the extra sweaters for THAT.
I live in Canberra. My girlfriend and I left her place to go out for dinner last Saturday night. As I turned the car in the street we saw a couple of kangaroos in the carpark in the school opposite us. As I drove up the road it was bouncing up the footpath next to us so I accelerated to get away from it, as I had to turn left and I didn’t want the thing keeping on going straight given they have very little street sense. I made the turn and had traveled about a mile when a small roo appeared from my right, jumped in front of the car and I hit it, bowling him over and into oncoming traffic on the other side of the road, which also meant it got a small knock. It managed to get up, stunned, and plonk itself in the middle of the road. My girlfriend got out and managed to shoo it away. When I got to the restaurant, I checked for damage and discovered the front of my car was quite knocked around with lights pointing the wrong way and distance sensors etc inoperable. On the way back from dinner we discovered a dead roo at around the spot we’d hit it and presume it was the same one that had jumped back into the traffic. They’re a serious menace early in the morning or at dusk anywhere near nature reserves in Canberra.
Jack is right. A few years ago ~2005 or so when the debate about culling was just getting under way, I drove to the airport one morning about 7.00 am and counted 17 dead roos along the way. since they were cleared daily, fair to say that most had been killed by traffic overnight.
No it’s the cold, just ask Eric. Its turning them into zombiroos.
Do you have a point, or are you just upset that Eric gets more attention than you do?
We have wild wallaby here they get knocked over as well, they mainly stay in one area, of swamp and tall shrubbery and swanp tree.
Thats in britain by the way,……. theres several hundred in the wild colony they can shot as vermin.
This one was going around today:
Q: What did socialists use before candles?
A: Electricity.
According to Roy Spencer of UAH, Australia just had its warmest July since the satellite temperature record began in 1979. It was 1.37 C warmer than the 1981-2010 average for the month. Hopefully this helped the ‘freezing kangaroos’.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2018/08/uah-global-temperature-update-for-july-2018-0-32-deg-c/
DW, Australia is roughly the size of continental USA, often when we have wetter than average (flooding) there will still be small areas that are in drought and the same in the big roughly 60 year cycle of drought years, when most is in drought, some small areas will show as wetter than usual, and of course, Canberra our Capital Territory is notoriously cold, but all the well fed, well housed public “servants” ?? have heating and cooling and abundant salaries while they are working assiduously on making Diesel cars and trucks unaffordable due to Paris trickery we signed (heaven help us!) and Europe declaring Diesels “dirty” but don’t worry as those PS’s get to drive Government fuelled cars while the rest of us pay through the nose for ever higher fuel and heating/cooling costs. Pensioners and self funded retirees, are just a budget nuisance to them…we can vote out the politicians but the PS troughers remain playing their games in Cold Canberra. Also I would point out we have a lot of hot desert in Australia, and like the Death Valley high temperatures in the USA, the warmers use those areas to average higher temperatures on the East Coast… Just a game these days..
“the warmers use those areas to average higher temperatures on the East Coast…”
BS.
Right is wrong, up is down. It’s all the same when you are on a mission from God.
Are you a troll or a troll cop? Or are they the same thing? I can’t tell
There hasn’t been much cloud cover, which causes cold night time temperatures. The drought in Australia is very widespread, and seems to be mirrored by below average rainfall in many parts of the world… Possibly related to current solar minimum? IDK, but seems likely. CO² has nothing to do with it
Wouldn’t it be nice if climate models had predictive power and could predict large seasonal rainfall deficits, floods etc…?
“Possibly related to current solar minimum?”
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Svensmark’s theory is that a weak sun should lead to ‘increased’ global cloud cover and hence rainfall. He contends that the reduction in the intensity of the solar wind that accompanies solar minimums should permit the accumulation of cloud-forming cosmic rays in the atmosphere.
IDK, but whatever the cause, “CO² has nothing to do with it”. IDoK that because I read it somewhere, on the internet, I think.
Do you have any evidence that CO2 does anything to the climate?
Wow, you’ve just gone through and replied to every comment I made in a creepy, whiney, trolly sort of way.
What? Does that mean its troll feeding time?
Kangaroos breed when there’s water available. Because there are now dams everywhere, kangaroos are out-breeding the amount of feed available. Hence the need for regular culling. There are professional hunters in the outback with mobile abattoirs to process the meat. Russia used to be a big market, but that’s collapsed because of sanctions and import bans. As other commenters have pointed out, the meat is similar to venison – a bit dry and gamey, so suitable for recipes with added fat, like bacon or cream.
Queensland Kangaroo Situation 2016 – Agistment for running kangaroos was around $A 340,000,000 per year
Sheep Equivalents (1.5K = 1S)
Kangaroo Population * 26 ,162 ,000 (Sheep Equivalent 17 ,441 ,333****)
Human Population – Total 4 ,824 ,400
Rural Population ** 516 ,694
Urban Population 4 ,307 ,307
Kangaroos per Urban Person 6.1 (So if each urbanite is not feeding those)
Agistment/K/person/Yr *** $70.20
Total Qld K Agistment/Yr $340,106,000.00
Share of Agistment Owed to Rural Population ***** $303,680,647.00
Qld Sheep Population 1 ,800 ,000
* http://www.qld.gov.au/environment/assets/documents/plants-animals/macropods/quota-submission2016.pdf
** Rural population of Australia (2014) 10.71% = 516 ,694 for Qld
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/rural-population-percent-of-total-population-wb-data.html
*** Agistment Calculation $3/head/week for dry cattle, 8 sheep = 1 beast, 1.5 kangaroos = I sheep
$3.00 *1/8 (sheep:cattle ratio))*(1/1.5 kangaroo:sheep ratio)*52 (weeks/year) = $13/kangaroo/year
Total kangaroo agistment cost = $340,106,000.00
**** http://www.livestocklibrary.com.au/handle/1234/4936
***** Method of payment:- due to very poor internet service available to most rural producers, communication as to most appropriate method of payment will have to be by telephone or the very poor Australia Post mail service.
WELL DONE!!!! thread winning effort;-)
Having mobs of kangaroos move in to Canberra should significantly increase the IQ of the city’s population.
Global Warming Cultist Prof Tim Flannery was declared “Australian of the Year” in 2007 as a reward for telling Australians that they should expect permanent drought as the result of global warming. As a result his reckless acolytes deliberately retained an excessively high level of water in the Wivenhoe Dam, cancelling its value in flood mitigation. That foolishness exacerbated the floods which began in November 2010 and cost 36 lives and at least a billion dollars in property damage. Not a word of repentance from Flannery.
The ABC has now trotted out a fellow named Prof Seth Westra who tells us that heavy rain is caused by climate change. When will these clowns get their story straight?
I watched it unfold on radar and to chararacterise it as Flannery’s fault is a despicable slur and absolute bollocks. Zero shame.
Do you read for understanding, or just to find something to whine about?
What was Flannery’s fault had to do with retaining too much water behind the dam. Nobody ever claimed that the rain was his fault.
It is his fault that we now have little used de-sal plants in Australia that were built on his advice that it would never rain again. The Wivenhoe dam was built after the much worse flooding of 1974, which struck mainly industrial land. It was built specifically for flood mitigation. But Flannery stated, repeatedly, that it would never rain again, but it did, in a cycle not unusual for Queensland. Because Flannery stated it would never rain again, when the rains came, there was way too much water already stored in the system with nowhere to go but downstream to the flood plain. This time, unlike 1974, much of that industrial land had been converted to urban dwellings and got consumed.
Ever wonder why a “Queenslander” is a house on stilts in Queensland? That isn’t bollocks at all!
*Fully expects the NYT to publish an article claiming that computer models have been validated because … climate refugees*
Dan Evans reckons “This current drought in Australia is one of the worst in living memory.”
A few months with low rainfall is called a “dry spell” in Australian parlance. The worst Australian drought in living memory (unless you were born yesterday) was the decade long permanent drought caused by global warming:
https://www.theage.com.au/environment/no-more-drought-its-a-permanent-dry-20070907-ge5rqp.html
It ended abruptly with floods – caused by global warming:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-australia-floods-idUSTRE70B1XF20110112
Before the global warming cult was established to make the climate system orbit around the sins of humanity, Australians used to celebrate a “sunburnt country” with “droughts and flooding ranges.”
south-east Australian dam levels:
Canberra ~ 75%
Sydney ~ 67 %
Melbourne ~ 60% (that’s roughly 6 years of supply during drought conditions)
”Well tie yer kangaroos down sports”
“A few roos in hjs/her/any other personal pronoun top paddock” is an old Aussie saying meaning ‘crazy’.
Perhaps a few of these eacaped from the many ACT greens
So one starving kangaroo laying on the grass – which coincidentally just happen to have a full belly of grass – since it evidently didn’t even try to eat the grass – and no steam coming out of its mouth after its trek – not even close to ice age – in one stadium is the evidence of what – other than one animal in the one stadium during a match on a balmy afternoon?
I guess when one animal runs into a stadium it’s international news.
Not even a link to the temperature record?
Just a sound bite by ?
And who listens to CNN?
Poor kangaroos…instead of blaming global warming I hope they will come up with more solutions to prevent this from happening again..
The roos are definitely on the move. Drove to Thredbo and back earlier this week and the highway south of Canberra was a killing field. Two or three road kill per 100m for km after km.
I’ve certainly never seen it so bad.
What a load of rubbish Eric. Australia is experiencing autumnal temperatures when it should be winter. There is a severe drought in Eastern Australia. Let’s focus on the serious over the trivial issues …
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45043299
latest Australian snow report 6/8/2018 http://www.weatherzone.com.au/weatherpulse/player/Weatherpulse-Snow-inbound/5817406772001 and they said our kids will never see snow again