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Australian Wildfires

Lisa Miles
Moving some posts re the Australian wildfires to a separate topic Luciano Bacco‍ 

Luciano Bacco:


Climate Crisis. The reason Australia is red. Australian wildfires have cloaked the country in a demonic red glow. As the new decade begins underneath a blood-red sky, the need for solutions is even more pressing. 
https://www.inverse.com/article/62058-why-do-wildfires-turn-the-sky-red?link_uid=9&utm_campaign=inverse-daily-2020-01-03&utm_medium=inverse&utm_source=newsletter 


And:
https://interestingengineering.com/a-magpie-in-australia-mimics-emergency-responder-sirens-because-things-are-that-bad?_source=newsletter&_campaign=a0bglamBn02qr&_uid=YQdJzWvdOG&_h=c5182a5a087e2b004ca4aca7c1e307f54e8a1507&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mailing&utm_campaign=Newsletter-04-01-2020

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/australian-bushfires-new-south-wales-koalas-sydney-a4322071.html#spark_wn=1



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    This is more a cynical response than a skeptical response.


    If you compare the amount of talk to the amount of action I don't think many, if any, of the 'stop climate change' proponents really believe in what they are saying. The high profile ones still fly around the world and buy beach houses. Governments and Councils declare 'Climate Emergencies' but don't actually do anything. They all say we must be 'Carbon Neutral' (whatever that actually means) by 2030 or 2050 or some when. Where is the real work behind this? Where are the feasibility studies? Where are the action plans with dates and costs? The technical and scientific institutes produce 'position statements' but don't come up with anything more. The paper from the I Mech E that you linked in a previous posting just says 'it's difficult'.


    I think that once you study what is the problem and what are the solutions you realise that 'Carbon Neutral' by 2050 is not possible and also not necessary. Reducing our consumption of fossil fuels by 2100 is sensible and feasible.

    Who in the current media climate is going to stand up a say that? Ms Thunberg will send them off for forced labour in the battery factory (to quote OMS ? ).


    For my views on why all this is happening have a look at the 1984 thread:
    https://communities.theiet.org/discussions/viewtopic/807/24015


    Best regards


    Roger


    P.S. When I spell checked this it tried to change Thunberg to Thinker, maybe not.
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    This is more a cynical response than a skeptical response.


    If you compare the amount of talk to the amount of action I don't think many, if any, of the 'stop climate change' proponents really believe in what they are saying. The high profile ones still fly around the world and buy beach houses. Governments and Councils declare 'Climate Emergencies' but don't actually do anything. They all say we must be 'Carbon Neutral' (whatever that actually means) by 2030 or 2050 or some when. Where is the real work behind this? Where are the feasibility studies? Where are the action plans with dates and costs? The technical and scientific institutes produce 'position statements' but don't come up with anything more. The paper from the I Mech E that you linked in a previous posting just says 'it's difficult'.


    I think that once you study what is the problem and what are the solutions you realise that 'Carbon Neutral' by 2050 is not possible and also not necessary. Reducing our consumption of fossil fuels by 2100 is sensible and feasible.

    Who in the current media climate is going to stand up a say that? Ms Thunberg will send them off for forced labour in the battery factory (to quote OMS ? ).


    For my views on why all this is happening have a look at the 1984 thread:
    https://communities.theiet.org/discussions/viewtopic/807/24015


    Best regards


    Roger


    P.S. When I spell checked this it tried to change Thunberg to Thinker, maybe not.
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