Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Clarky of Oz; According to Michael Mann, Australia could soon be so hot and dry Australians will be forced to become climate refugees.
Hot and dry Australia could join the ranks of ‘climate refugees’
By Swati Pandey,
Reuters January 15, 2020By Swati Pandey
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“It is conceivable that much of Australia simply becomes too hot and dry for human habitation,” said Mann, who is director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.
“In that case, yes, unfortunately we could well see Australians join the ranks of the world’s climate refugees.“
Climate refugees, or environmental migrants, are people forced to abandon their homes due to change in climate patterns or extreme weather events.
Mann, the recipient of last year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, is on a sabbatical in Australia where he is studying climate change.
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“It’s possible to grow the economy, create jobs, and preserve the environment at the same time. These are things that all Australians could embrace,” Mann said.
“They just need a government that’s willing to act on their behalf rather than on behalf of a handful of coal barons.“
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/hot-dry-australia-could-join-221006927.html
Mann is right that Australia has climate refugees, but most of them are heading in the wrong direction. Tropical Queensland has climate refugees, just like Florida in the USA. Our climate refugees are southerners fleeing the miserable weather, crime and lunatic green energy heating bills in the South to retire in the tropical North.
While parts of Australia have experienced severe drought over the last 20 years, according to the CSIRO the Northern monsoon has substantially increased, bringing record rainfall to parts of Australia’s far North including some of our inland desert regions (see the rainfall map at the top of the page).
If global warming were to expand the tropical belt, pushing the Monsoon rains south, Australia would likely receive more rainfall overall, not less, though some extreme southern regions might need to capture and pipe in water from the North – a proposal which has been on the drawing board in one form or another since the 1930s.
But nobody in Australia expects politicians and government to act quickly to solve important problems; they’re mostly too busy blowing tax money on expensive vanity projects to provide resources to solve Australia’s water supply problems, vanity projects like questionable high speed rail proposals, more solar panels and wind turbines, and upgrading that big Tesla battery.
Please read the poem ” Said Hanrahan” 1919 about climate change extremes a hundred years ago,
Still relavent to day in Aus.
Cheers.
Did somebody say, “beclown”?
Also, and no disrespect intended to people in the areas that are suffering from low rainfall, Australia is a BIG PLACE.
To say ‘Australia is suffering from Drought’ is a massive generalisation. Parts? yes. All? No.
If all of Australia was suffering there would be water restrictions in place in all the big cities. Yes they do exist. Yes we do have them enacted from time to time. No they are not in place in my home city now and have not been for about 10 years.
Mann, in my opinion, can go and live with Malcolm ‘Australia needs a Green New Deal’ Turnbull until they both get jack of each other and stabbing each other with ethically sourced spoons. Win/Win for the world.
Lets see how crazy Nick and Loydo both being Australians .. so boys is everyone in Australia going to become climate refugees?
There’s an annual winter time exodus of Victorians north to Queensland that would rival the Haj.
Similar to North Americans heading to Florida & Mexico in the NH winter.
They are all climate refugees, except they have passports or other ID
I think its fair to say that most years somewhere in Australia is having a drought. Whether that is a significant thing at the national scale just depends on the region. I imagine North and South America viewed as a whole are much the same.
People lack a sense of scale when talking about Australia. There was breathless article on Vox that an area the size of Portugal had been burnt, GASP. Portugal 92,000 sq klms Australia 7,762,000 sq klms.
And finally Koalas. There are vast tracts of Australia that Koalas reside in. In some areas they have been a nuisance and have been relocated. They are in no imaginable way at risk of being extinct just because they have suffered from bushfires in the most media and social media centric State in Australia. That is a beat up of cosmic proportions.
“Australia is burning!”
People who say things like that need laughing at.
People in the 1980’s when moaning about the Amazon burning saying that the country the size of Belgium was burning every year in the Amazon forest. People said, “Why not burn Belgium?”
Fortunately the Amazon is still with us. Sadly, the other one is still here.
After all, Oz is about the same size and not a whole lot different in shape from the entire lower forty eight 😉 😉
Lucky Canada!
I keep wondering: if a degree or two in rising temperatures will create climate refugees, why did all those Indians, and all those on the Arabian peninsula— who annually endure temps much, much higher than we experience anywhere in the West— not flee long ago for more temperate climes?
Sure, maybe in the past they had neither the wealth nor the transportation means to pick up and move elsewhere, but why aren’t they doing so today?
“Climate refugees, or environmental migrants, are people forced to abandon their homes due to change in climate patterns or extreme weather events.”
I think he just changed the goal posts.
But people live in deserts, rainforest, tundra, polar regions, tropical highlands, tropical lowlands, rivers, coast, and even in Scotland.
So much for that argument. One thing I’ve noticed about all the alarmists is that seem to shoot their mouths off before thinking.
He needs to get into the queue, during the previous drought cycle one of our resident attention seeking climate parasites said that Perth would be unhabitable and dams nationally would never refill. The Bureau of Meteorology declared in the “new normal” (how often is that phrase trotted out).
Surprise, surprise it wasnt the new normal, Perth is stubbornly persistent and continues to build long term infrastructure (the beautiful Swan River has failed to engulf the City or Fremantle on the coast) and just to top it off amazingly the dams did refill.
Mann and his ilk are pompous , self serving , fools. Just my personal opinion.
“much of Australia simply becomes too hot and dry for human habitation”
3/4 of Australia is already too dry to grow enough fuel for dangerous bushfires.
The top 1/2 of Australia with the hottest climate does not generally have dangerous bushfires.
We won’t have any dangerous bushfires if their climate predictions are true.
Mann, who is director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University. 😐
Mann, the recipient of last year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 😐
How do such people get university positions and awards?
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement administered by the University of Southern California.
Worth $200,000!
Oh, and a medallion.
Nullius in verba
Did that abominable Mann say how many refugees he is going to accommodate in his villa? Did he say how much money he donates to support climate refugees?
Meanwhile, red Cindy keeps busy by banning guns, oil and gas exploration, hate speech, independent speakers she does not like, Christianity in schools, etc. while concentrating on producing her own falsified version of NZ history to brainwash our kids in school. Even this atheist says – thank god she will be gone later this year, along with her communistic Greenie sycophants!
I am starting to wonder if Mick the Mann suffered a catastrophic head injury, back in the days when he was playing about with hokey sticks? How else could you explain the ramblings he now issues, purporting to be reasoned thought?
We’ve been climate refugees for the last five years , going from a miserably cold Victoriastan to a sunny beach above Broome in Western Australia.
Around 33 Celsius everyday and on a remote pristine beach .
He did an interview on the taxpayer funded left wing climate catastrophe ABC. The interviewer read out the questions from a list in front of him and Mann gave the pre-arranged answers. All doom.
i missed it..but knowing aunty it will be replayed endlessly;-((
Now that the dead stuff has been burnt away Aussiland should start looking greener until the next time there adequate underbrush to burn again.
Ms Pandey’s qualifications to write about this?
“Reuters journalist for more than 12 years. Affiliate member of the International Compliance Association. I specialize in reporting on financial services, white collar crime including money laundering and terrorism financing. In my present role, I report on the economy and the central bank”
Over qualified IMO. She may need the crayons removed as she might start eating them,
It is conceivable that almost every thought that jumps into the very limited space in MM’s cranium is drivel. Why our media think this cerebral excrement is worth repeating seems to have something to do with advertising and lack of work ethic on the part of reporters.
These puppets belong to the same owner.
Can a clown, beclown himself?
Let me know when the next refugee boat is going from Australia to Monaco. I have been there and the place is dripping in money.