runner,

Are you telling me that you do not have a degree?

Burning of fossil fuels: 1'
WRONG !
Humans desiring excessively lavish lifestyles are cause # 1.
Wars due to Religion are # 2
These are fossil burning causes !

Hi Max Green,

You might be using explanations that are too high brow for the likes of runner, ALTRAV, Hasbeen, Loudmouth, mhaze, individual, etc.

We need to dumb things down for them otherwise it just goes straight of their head.

Hi FESTER,
yes, the IOD, the Pacific, even the wind systems around Antarctica all had to gang up on us together to produce this freakishly bad drought and fire season.

But the IPCC computer models indicate we'll experience more and more droughts like this. Sure, some areas of Australia will experience more floods. If 2 of the 3 ocean systems that drive our weather go into drought, maybe some parts of Australia will experience the opposite, floods, in the future.

For every degree water the atmosphere gets it can carry an extra 5% water which means more flooding.

Bottom line? I hope we have a lovely wet year next year, because this year has seen million-year-wet rainforests dry out and burn. Refuges from Aussie bush-fires for little critters have become ovens.

And if we keep burning fossil fuel and loading the atmosphere with CO2's DEMONSTRABLE WARMING EFFECTS (as shown by any Fourier Device in any good physics lab), the increasingly accurate climate models say the extra heat will push the 3 oceans more towards the drought cycle.

This year will become the new normal in 20 years.

And no, I don't think solar panels will change this. I'm with Dr James Hansen, the climatologist that diagnosed our climate crisis decades ago, when he prescribes NUCLEAR as the answer.

Max, I realise your name precludes you from seeing the bigger picture but I can assure you that just as you or I know little to nothing about the TRUTH of what is going on, I prefer to go with logic and reason.
Facts have no meaning on their own.
I CHOOSE to be pragmatic and focused because I have heard too many attempts of people trying to sell the GW, CC message.
You are entitled to your opinions, but you are not entitled to put others down or denigrate, vilify anyone who differs from your path.
I always give an example as to why this whole thing is an overkill.
Every time one of your lot want to make a point in selling your stance, you trot out the pics of all these clouds of, what you want us to believe is, toxic gasses emerging from nuclear plants, cooling towers.
But Max, that's a lie, isn't it?
Because if you are even half as smart as you assume, you know full well that the stuff spewing out of those "cooling towers", is, water vapour, or steam.
Yes steam, clouds, rain, water.
So for any reasonable person being told something is not what it actually is, has suddenly rendered that persons submission, MOOT!
So Max, if you want to sell GW or CC, you will have to do it by telling us the TRUTH, not the facts!

Blame it on a kid for having her say, she is now under control of atenborough.
Natural verses unnatural.