The East Coast of Australia is suffering unprecedented fire outbreaks on Friday. In NSW alone, at least 100 homes have been destroyed on that day. Three people are are dead. More than 30 people have been injured. By early Saturday there were 77 NSW bush or grass fires with 42 uncontained. Meanwhile by Saturday night a state of emergency was been declared for 42 Queensland local government areas. Authorities say that it could be several days before thousands of residents who were forced to evacuate on Queensland's Sunshine Coast will be allowed to return home.
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The Bureau of Meteorology State of the Climate 2018 report for Australia noted strong land surface temperature increases and a 10%-20% decline in cool season rainfall across southern Australia since the 1970s. These changes are closely associated with increasing human greenhouse gas emissions, as well as natural variability.
Elaine Johnson @ElaineEDO the lawyer who pursued and won the Rocky Hill case made it clear that the NSW is not responding very well
And the NSW Govt response to the unfolding #ClimateCrisis?
Next week it will rush a Bill through Parliament that REMOVES a requirement to assess downstream emissions from coal.
And PROHIBITS regulation of development in relation to climate
The despair continues with the Sydney Morning Herald playing a double game. They write an excellent report but then push it to page 7. According to the article, NSW residents have been told to brace for 'unprecedented' conditions as fatal bushfires persist. The story that replaces the coverage on the front page is about a TV host's tribululations.
Trying to get people to realise just how serious this is and how it is linked to Climate Change, Federal Green MP, Adam Brandt tweeted on Saturday
‘Just to recap.
Today’s fires are “unprecedented”.
fires in Qld earlier this year were “unprecedented”.
Townsville flood was “unprecedented”...
The central Qld fires last year were “unprecedented”.
The drought is “unprecedented”.’
It’s an emergency.
Nationally, our PM, who so proudly bought a lump of coal into Parliament last year, saying fossil fuels were Australia's future, tweeted
....useful.
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