Guest essay by Eric Worrall
In early February Aussie Climate Scientist Mark Howden explained how Climate Change Robs Australia of Rain. In late February, Howden explained how Climate Change makes floods more likely.
Climate change robs Australia of rain
Tracey Ferrier
Published: Wednesday, 9 February 2022 7:13 PM AEDT
Vast swathes of Australia have already lost 20 per cent of their rainfall and the country’s fire risk has gone beyond worst-case scenarios developed just a few years ago, a renowned climate expert says.
Australian National University Professor Mark Howden is a vice-chair of the world’s leading authority on climate science and says despite dire, repeated warnings “our foot is not off the climate change accelerator”.
“There is no reason to feel comfortable about how fire is evolving at the moment,” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change vice-chair said on Wednesday, during a look back at the disasters climate change fuelled last year.
He warned that without urgent action, conditions that spawned the devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 could be the new normal by the end of this decade.
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Read more: https://7news.com.au/weather/environment/climate-change-robs-australia-of-rain-c-5634883
Just a few weeks later, and Mark Howden appears to be presenting a slightly different perspective on the “settled science”.
Climate scientists warn global heating means Australia facing more catastrophic storms and floods
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says climate effects expected to be more severe than initially predicted
Adam Morton Climate and environment editor @adamlmorton Mon 28 Feb 2022 22.00 AEDT
Catastrophic flooding on the scale of the disaster hitting Queensland and New South Wales is becoming more likely as the planet heats due to greenhouse gas emissions, climate scientists have warned.
The latest major assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found global warming caused by humans was causing dangerous and widespread disruption, with many effects expected to be more severe than predicted.
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Prof Mark Howden, vice-chair of the IPCC working group behind the report and director of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, said the evidence showed “climate change impacts are here, they matter, they are mostly negative but, if implemented, adaptation can take the edge off them”.
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“It’s more likely you’re going to see this in the future with climate change because of the warmer atmosphere, and the ability to hold more moisture in the warmer atmosphere,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/28/climate-scientists-warn-global-heating-means-australia-facing-more-catastrophic-storms-and-floods
I know this site has a lot of climate skeptics, but I think we all need to acknowledge that climate science finally got a prediction right for once, with their prediction that when Australia is dry it is dry, except when it is wet.
Here’s another example, re: US Great lakes
These stories were 1 week apart!
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/low-ice-coverage/
https://www.boreal.org/2022/01/25/388212/ice-on-great-lakes-is-expanding-expected-to-peak-in-typical-range
And take a look for yourself at what the coverage actually was
It rained so hard the day I left,
The weather, it was dry.
The sun so hot I froze to death
Susanna don’t you cry.
Nice pickup! I think the first lyric is “it rained so hard the day I left,”
With comments like “….adaptation can take the edge off them”.” the good scientist might just lose his present sinecure. A lashing with a wet noodle by Michael Mann, at least.
Article: with many effects expected to be more severe than predicted.
What good are the predictions when the expected effects are more severe than predicted.
Lawyers
Doctors
Climate scientists
Serial killers
Much more from these folks and they overtake serial killers
“It’s more likely you’re going to see this in the future with climate change because of the warmer atmosphere, and the ability to hold more moisture in the warmer atmosphere…”
Perhaps Dr. Howden should look however briefly at actual atmospheric water vapor data. The data show that it has been decreasing at every altitude since 1983, when measurements began. Do you think he might change is view if he did?
Inspired by Willis Eschenbach’s First Law of Climate, I have a new corollary,
“With Climate Change, anything can happen, but it usually doesn’t.”
“But don’t let that stop you from worrying about it anyway”
A poem by John O’Brien published in 1921 says it all about Australian weather.
“Said Hanrahan.”
Droughts, floods, bushfires – “we’ll all be rooned before the year is out”.
The only thing I have to say about Prof. Howden is that he is drunk with power and needs to go on the wagon. Twelve step program suggested.
Clearly everything changed in 3 weeks
According to 4 decades of settled science