Warning: this post might piss off parts of the Australian snow industry (if so, too bad).
I recently was discussing climate change with an Australian ski industry executive, who was confident of the season ahead due to Lake Eyre filling up (let’s leave aside the fact that Eyre may fill more often due to increasing tropical/subtropical storm activity in QLD and NSW).
Unfortunately, as conservatives like to point out when advocating doing nothing, we’re at best 2% of the world’s emissions.
Think about that for a moment. Australia faces perhaps total disaster in the next 100 years, but we have no control over it. The rest of the world does. Americans. Europeans. Chinese. Indians. Russians. Our fate is in their hands
Drove inland yesterday for an hour and a half. Took this pic city crossing a river out towards our destination.
It was the same as driving from the city down St Kilda Rd for 15 mind then turning around and coming back (in terms of population density). Non stop high rise apartments and factories.
And the air quality is absolutely shocking as you can see, it gets worse the further inland you go.
Good bye Australian snow season. Australia could stop consuming electricity all together and it be like walking down to the ocean and trying to empty it with a bucket (not that’s any reason not to try – you have to lead).
I am seriously stoked on Obama. Not only is he going to save our snow seasons (indirectly), he is going to save the world. Or, at least actually try. The last two years have seen a marked turnaround in leadership, especially in the US and Australia – 2 countries that could be badly affected by global warming and climate change.
Professor Barry Brook over at has a couple of great posts (and simple and easy to understand) on why a temperature rise of 2-6 deg C will be not-so-good for us all.
News of Switzerland and Italy changing their borders due to melting glaciers. Scientists are shocked over the rate of Siberian permafrost melt.
Kinda makes me being worried about being able to go snowboarding a little redundant at that point. When people are directly affected and lose their livelihoods and land, skiing and snowboarding kind of seems unimportant all of a sudden.
The woman says she checks every couple of hours to make sure her husband is not lying in his orchard with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head. When the meeting is over, the counselor adds their names to a suicide watch list.
The NSIDC has released the March figures for Arctic ice extent.
Importantly, they describe how the decline in older ice continues. This is important, because more 1st-year ice means more susceptibility to higher melt.
The Australian BOM analyses the recent SE Aust heatwave
