Exactly.
Problem solved.
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Gosh, this looks ominous. The El Niño region starting to show off now, and I’m sure that massive cold blob below Greenland is nothing to worry about.
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Also, what’s going on to cause the warm water in south-east Australia?And aren’t all the salmon farms in southern Tasmanian waters, you know, the ones that are sensative to warm water?
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Yeah, that’ll learn them
The Senator needs a follow up question of why do fruit growers buy nitrogen gas generators to eliminate oxygen from their crop, to keep it fresh and live ?
I suggest that if the senator thinks CO2 is so beneficial, he could try breathing pure CO2 for 24 hours to see if it changes his mind…
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Except I always thought he could be an alien from some outer galaxy. He might thrive.
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Some crazy temps in that region the last month or so, and more on the way this week.
I’ve seen it being reported that El Niño is a factor, but we are yet to see the real effects of what that will bring.
Global SST in 2026 (red curve in Fig. 7) is now at a record high for the date. We compare 2026 with the record warm 2024, shown by the heavy grey curve in Fig. 7. Correlations of land, ocean, and global temperature anomalies (Fig. 8) show that the land anomalies lag the ocean anomalies by three months. This is the expected sense of the lag, as the El Nino/La Nina cycle is the principal source of global temperature variability and its influence on continental temperature grows over a period of several months. Global (land plus ocean) temperature lags SST by about 1.5 months, as the maximum correlation is 0.92 at both 1-month and 2-month lags. The 2026 global SST surpasses the 2024 global SST by mid-June; thus, given the lag, 2024 might remain warmer than 2026 in July, but the final five months of the year should have 2026 as warmer than 2024. We expect the gap in the stretch run (November, December) to be so large as to (unfortunately) make 2026 the hottest year – until 2027, which will be even hotter.
It’s a big call to say that this year will be the hottest ever, we would need to average about 1.85⁰C from here on in. But Hansen hardly ever gets it wrong, so we need to prepare for a very hot summer and some crazy weather in some places. It’s going to all be a bit of a raffle and I guess we’d all hope that the major bread baskets of the world aren’t the losers. But I do see that Midwest America is in for a horrible week this week.
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In NSW, the independent Net Zero Commission last year warned the Minns government that extended or expanded coalmines were inconsistent with the state’s legislated climate targets of a 50% emissions reduction by 2030, 70% by 2035 and net zero by 2050.
This week, it warned NSW had slipped further from reaching its 2030 and 2035 targets and needed to work 2.5 times faster to achieve them.
The Minns government has banned greenfield coalmines – a move the Net Zero Commission said “is more symbolic than material” given no mines of that type had been approved since 2018 – but the new state coal strategy supports extensions and expansionshttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/26/hunter-valley-operations-biggest-coalmine-extension-nsw-planning-commission.
There are almost 20 such projects proposed in NSW. HVO’s is the largest and the first of that group to come before the planning commission for a determination.
Whichever way the commission decides, it will have significant implications not just for the Hunter and Newcastle, but for the state.
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Renewable energy delivered its strongest quarter on record over April to June 2026, with renewables supplying a record 42.1% of the National Electricity Market (NEM) and average wholesale power prices crashing 47% year-on-year, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Quarterly Energy Dynamics report released today.
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Anthony Albanese in 2005:
"Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community and one of the greatest threats to Australia’s way of life.
“It is time to act. It is time for procrastination to end … We cannot any longer afford to be complacent on this issue.”
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We’ve opted to be proactive, not complacent, in the encouragement of the biggest threat to our existence. It’s all in the context. This thread is hauntingly quite except for your input, says something, I’m not sure what
It’s not as sexy as posting about politics or the previous 15,000 posts have said pretty much all that “needs” to be said without being repetitive I’d suggest.
Apart from a few cookers, we know it’s happening and there isn’t anything we can do as individuals that will make a significant difference.
Many people on Blitz post about installing or planning to install solar and batteries and buy EV’s. It’s pretty much what we can do as individuals.
I have said a few times that projected temperature changes by popular climate models are underestimating how much temperatures will increase. SA’s posts of latest data keep supporting this.
By chance just saw this front page of an British newspaper while writing this.
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We’re all waiting not so patiently for the appointment of The Messiah
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