The Clog from OzWorrying Weather, Global Warming and a Whinge
November 26th 2006 22:22
“If you don't like the weather in Sydney, wait 15 minutes.” – RachDegab
I altered this quote from one I found featuring St Louis instead. Now I don’t know what the weather is like in St Louis, but current Sydney weather is awful! If it’s not drizzly and crap (especially on a Monday morning of course) it’s hot and suffocating. And when I say ‘hot’ I’m not talking about the sunny, surfy beach-hot with a cool wind that’s loved by everyone because it means the exciting arrival of summer along with thongs and barbecues. No, I’m talking about the dry, sun-less, high 30’s extreme hot that hinders everybody’s weekend plans and makes walking outside to put the washing on the line a near-death experience.
It’s global warming I tells ya: this rise and fall in temperatures, humidity, cloud cover and the minimal rainfall, ranging from 5 to 10 monthly droplets per square metre is all our fault. We’ve upset the earth and now it’s having a go at us. It’s fighting back, saying “You’ve peeved me off now! So I will show you how big and powerful I am now and annoy the crap out of you with random, inconsistent weather that will leave you with hyperthermia, hypothermia and possibly an Armageddon all in the one day!”
I feel sorry for my generation. We have to pick up the mess that the baby boomers created. But what are we going to do? We can always do it American movie-style and build some extravagant high-tech machine in 3 months, operated by inexperienced drill-operators and place humanity on the line with an American flag flapping in the wind behind us. Or maybe we should just start planning for the inevitable and mine shelters under our houses for when earth just becomes to unbearable to live on? We can form cities and build roadways underground and evolve to live like Antz from that Dreamworks film. What do you say?
No matter what we do, we’re in for a hell of a summer. If it’s reaching 37 degrees Celsius in November (spring) I just wonder how stinking hot it’s going to be in January or February, the hottest months of the year. Christmas is going to be spent inside with blaring air conditioners and I can only guess the amount of strain that’s going to put on our already inadequate power supplies. I suppose we’ll just have to chuck in some more coal, and build a few more power stations, all adding to the already ridiculous amounts of carbon dioxide emissions we’re pumping into the earth’s atmosphere. It’s a vicious cycle. And the world knows about the effects of coal-burning: the Economist recently labelled the process as "Environmental Enemy No. 1.”
So it looks like we’re buggered unless we find something that’ll save us from the crap we’ve created for ourselves. Alternative forms of energy such as nuclear power have been discussed in the media recently, but is something going to eventuate soon? Or will we have to wait until everyone over 70 dies form heat exhaustion and acid rain destroys all of the earth’s crops? And what on earth is going to happen in regards to Sydney’s water crisis?
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I altered this quote from one I found featuring St Louis instead. Now I don’t know what the weather is like in St Louis, but current Sydney weather is awful! If it’s not drizzly and crap (especially on a Monday morning of course) it’s hot and suffocating. And when I say ‘hot’ I’m not talking about the sunny, surfy beach-hot with a cool wind that’s loved by everyone because it means the exciting arrival of summer along with thongs and barbecues. No, I’m talking about the dry, sun-less, high 30’s extreme hot that hinders everybody’s weekend plans and makes walking outside to put the washing on the line a near-death experience.
It’s global warming I tells ya: this rise and fall in temperatures, humidity, cloud cover and the minimal rainfall, ranging from 5 to 10 monthly droplets per square metre is all our fault. We’ve upset the earth and now it’s having a go at us. It’s fighting back, saying “You’ve peeved me off now! So I will show you how big and powerful I am now and annoy the crap out of you with random, inconsistent weather that will leave you with hyperthermia, hypothermia and possibly an Armageddon all in the one day!”
Shows the increase in temperature from the 1940-1980 period to the 1995-2004 period.
I feel sorry for my generation. We have to pick up the mess that the baby boomers created. But what are we going to do? We can always do it American movie-style and build some extravagant high-tech machine in 3 months, operated by inexperienced drill-operators and place humanity on the line with an American flag flapping in the wind behind us. Or maybe we should just start planning for the inevitable and mine shelters under our houses for when earth just becomes to unbearable to live on? We can form cities and build roadways underground and evolve to live like Antz from that Dreamworks film. What do you say?
No matter what we do, we’re in for a hell of a summer. If it’s reaching 37 degrees Celsius in November (spring) I just wonder how stinking hot it’s going to be in January or February, the hottest months of the year. Christmas is going to be spent inside with blaring air conditioners and I can only guess the amount of strain that’s going to put on our already inadequate power supplies. I suppose we’ll just have to chuck in some more coal, and build a few more power stations, all adding to the already ridiculous amounts of carbon dioxide emissions we’re pumping into the earth’s atmosphere. It’s a vicious cycle. And the world knows about the effects of coal-burning: the Economist recently labelled the process as "Environmental Enemy No. 1.”
So it looks like we’re buggered unless we find something that’ll save us from the crap we’ve created for ourselves. Alternative forms of energy such as nuclear power have been discussed in the media recently, but is something going to eventuate soon? Or will we have to wait until everyone over 70 dies form heat exhaustion and acid rain destroys all of the earth’s crops? And what on earth is going to happen in regards to Sydney’s water crisis?
Image under GNU Free Documentation License
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