DEAR News Of The Area,
RAIN, rain, go away, come back another day!
While I never suggest that all weather is linked to global warming, weather events that set new records are made worse by human-induced climate change.
The science can explain why, but the National Party, Sky News and News Corp papers never will, because it plays to their gullible base.
The fact is, climate change is influencing our weather.
Take the recent high intensity and persistent rainfall.
If there are just two things everyone needs to know about the link between climate change and rainfall, it is that the planet is warming, and a warmer atmosphere holds more water (10 percent more now than when Robert Menzies became prime minister in 1949).
So when conditions favour rain, sometimes it’s going to be much heavier than we are used to, more than we have ever seen.
And this is only the beginning.
The rate the world is warming, we have lifetimes of record-breaking extreme weather ahead of us.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “The era of delays is coming to a close – we are entering a period of consequences”.
Regards,
Harry CREAMER.
