Kevin is entertaining, isn’t he? ‘Record high temperatures in southern Australia are evidence of global warming’. Right-o Kevin. Up here we’ve had what must be record cool temperatures for the last couple of months. Today I have been able to wear a t-shirt with short sleeves, and I can’t ever remember being able to do that in Townsville in mid November, without risking death due to heat exhaustion. Normally at this time of year I’m sitting in my togs at the computer, periodically getting in and out of the pool to liven up the brain – the heat is usually atrocious.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the northern cool weather and southern hot weather is incontrovertible evidence that all the hot air that pollies spread about, from Brisbane around to Perth, is the true cause of global warming?<\/p>\n
I’m so over these grandstanders, who choose climate statistics to suit whatever barrow they happen to be pushing, whilst decrying as idiots people who are brave enough to question the panic-mongering and ask for a balanced discussion.<\/p>\n
One big volcanic eruption will cool the average temperature of the whole planet by up to several degrees. Doesn’t sound like much, but actually that’s a massive – and sudden – drop, causing all sorts of huge flow-on effects. Check out the figures on Mount Tambora, Indonesia’s largest volcano, that erupted in 1815. Little known, but even larger and more catastrophic that Krakatoa. There’s lots of information on Tambora on the internet, eg NASA<\/a>. Volcanic eruptions such as Tambora and Pinatubo cause signifcant temperature drops.<\/a> The year after Tambora erupted was called ‘the year without summer’. Tens of thousands of people were killed – it was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.<\/p>\n The best sunset images I ever took were in the 3 years or so following the eruption of Pinatubo – the spectacular boab sunset images on postcards I produced in the mid 1990s were taken near Derby (WA) a year after the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo. The fine ash stayed in the upper atmosphere for an amazing length of time – several years at least.<\/p>\n The only good thing about the global warming panic is that hopefully it will encourage some environmental vandals to mend their ways. In the meantime, we have to tolerate the sanctimonious pontificating of idiots treating the rest of us like idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kevin is entertaining, isn’t he? ‘Record high temperatures in southern Australia are evidence of global warming’. Right-o Kevin. Up here we’ve had what must be record cool temperatures for the last couple of months. Today I have been able to wear a t-shirt with short sleeves, and I can’t ever remember being able to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}