Very cool graphics showing Australia gradually getting hotter, on average, since 1960:

The last time anywhere in Australia was properly cooler than the average was around 2012.

Since then it’s been a bit of a barbecue.

In 2019, the mean national temperature was 1.52°C above average. Considering that the currently planetary myth is to keep the worldwide temperature bump to 1.5°C above average, Australia has already lost the cricket.

A quote on Australia’s recent climate adventure:

“ ‘I think the size and the intensity of these fires, coupled with the drought, have really just pushed Australia into a place that just doesn’t feel like home anymore’, said Linden Ashcroft, lecturer in climate science and climate communication at Melbourne University’s School of Earth Science. ‘It doesn’t feel safe anymore’. “

Signs of resistance to the pathetic outpourings of Australia’s “leader”:

“Last week, more than 400 climate, weather and fire scientists signed an open letter calling on Australia's leaders and policymakers to take "genuine concerted action to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases." The scientists unequivocally link the bushfires to human-induced climate change.

Abram, one of the signatories of the letter, said it had been "disheartening" as a climate scientist to have correctly made predictions for years and for governments to have basically ignored them”.

How bad could it get?

“There probably needs to be some discussion about where it is safe to live or where it is safe to build," Ashcroft said. "(But) I don't think that Australia will get to a point where it'll be a Mad Max anarchy kind of thing. I believe that we have the ability to adapt and to change what we do”.

One thing that gets clearer and clearer to me over time: the Mad Max anarchy stuff just happens when it’s ready to happen, and probably won’t be predicted in advance. It’ll just happen.

Then basically we all die from diarrhoea due to tainted water.

The end.

[Ps: If you want to geek-out, there are cool graphs and statistics galore over at the Australian Government’s Bureau of Meteorology website. Not on diarrhoea, thankfully.]