Australia on fire

[Fake Messiah]

Finally, prequel to Mad Max.

Australia today: Penrith, near Sydney, was for a time the hottest place on earth: 48.9°C 4,000 km2 burned in Victoria state Third of Kangaroo Island burned (1700 km2) Some bushfires generating own weather, incl. tornadoes, thunderstorms “indescribable hell and devastation”

[ignoramus]

Cold and raining all day as I type this. Go figure

[Duty]

I just had another "God I love ignoramus's avater!" moment. However, back to this deadly serious and frankly tragic topic:

http://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1...e=5EA17CF7

"This is me, sheltering my kids on the beach at Malua Bay on New Year's Eve. (Three year old daughter in my lap and 6 year old son under that stripey towel).

I was angry and scared about our government's inaction on climate change before, but now I am furious and terrified. This disaster was exactly what I needed to snap me out of my funk, feeling like all of my activism and personal eco-choices were not achieving anything and thinking I needed to step back and regroup. This photo is my wake up call. All I could do down on that beach was protect my kids. And that's what climate activism is all about - protecting our kids. So feel free, if you are feeling down and helpless, to draw some rage and determination from this photo. It is going to fuel me through 2020, as we collectively take the wheel and swerve this country away from ecological suicide."

[Duty]

Australia fires: Royal Family sends 'thoughts and prayers'

[Peebothuhlu]

Temperature's been only in the low to mid 20's (Celcius) today in the Sydney area.

Rain (Showers) possible.

Spent the night looking after a building who's roof had had a significant emotional event.

So... wandering around making sure nothing else went wrong and looking up at the stars while inside a building. That was a... new... experiance.

Cheers.

Not at work.

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I just had another "God I love ignoramus's avater!" moment. However, back to this deadly serious and frankly tragic topic:

http://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1...e=5EA17CF7

"This is me, sheltering my kids on the beach at Malua Bay on New Year's Eve. (Three year old daughter in my lap and 6 year old son under that stripey towel).

I was angry and scared about our government's inaction on climate change before, but now I am furious and terrified. This disaster was exactly what I needed to snap me out of my funk, feeling like all of my activism and personal eco-choices were not achieving anything and thinking I needed to step back and regroup. This photo is my wake up call. All I could do down on that beach was protect my kids. And that's what climate activism is all about - protecting our kids. So feel free, if you are feeling down and helpless, to draw some rage and determination from this photo. It is going to fuel me through 2020, as we collectively take the wheel and swerve this country away from ecological suicide."

Well... really... All we have to do is dig some channels bewteen Adelaid, lake Torrents and thence lake Eyre.

Let the sea wash in (It'll take a while).
Plant LOTS of mangroves and such in the saltier water to start pulling the salt out of the place (Invest in 'natural' salt harvesting as well. Create possible employment) while evaporation now brings lots more rain across the place.



Cheers.

Not at work.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Australia fires: Royal Family sends 'thoughts and prayers'

[Brian37]

The long timers here know I had a best friend named Bob who lived in Brisbane. His brother and sister in law took care of him for years after financial setbacks, and economic decline in his industry. Bob ended up having a stroke. He ended up in a nursing home. I managed to visit him once for two weeks, a year before he died. Then last year I took Hillbilly Atheist there to see where our friend lived. 

What is frustrating today for me, is that his brother and sister in law, now think I am evil for pointing out the fact of climate change in that humans are causing it. They are huge coal and Trump fans. To this day I cannot explain to them that while I am deeply appreciative of what they did for him economically and especially after his stroke, he didn't think like them. Bob said nothing but good about how much they helped him. But he was not close to them on politics and science. They take offence to me saying this. But this is just as ignorant knowing I loved my late mother, and I'd be living on the streets if it were not for her, but even we had little in common regarding politics and religion. 

Point is, it is frustrating when you see otherwize decent people, cling to the past, and have this subconscious attitude that because they did better than you, or because they did nice things for you, that means they are right about everything.

[Fake Messiah]

In the meantime as bushfires rage, Australia is building a coal mine so big that it could push the world beyond the critical 1.5 degrees of warming. So there's a petition to try to stop Siemens who is working on Adani’s Carmichael coal mine project. https://www.stopadani.com/siemens

[Rev. Rye]

Well, this is way too easy a name-drop:

[Figbash]

Heartbreaking. I feel so helpless, donations just don't seem like enough

Are there any Aussies here? I hope you are okay.