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If You Were Not Worried Before - Then be Afraid Now
Environmental
science is still maturing and a large part is basically a
stocktaking exercise that is descriptive and obsequential - the
counting of species numbers that make up specific community levels
in designated areas.
This is crude, basic data subject to observer bias and a host
of non-included variables.
Not
from the Disney production company, but from our own homegrown
plethora of professors and academics spewing from our very
universities waving parchment paper accreditations that government
and greens treated as the ultimate resource of irrefutable facts we
find - Prof Amanda Lynch - an orator of
“True Green
Fairytales”.
This what she had to say in this article by
Anna
Salleh - ABC Science Online - Friday, 30 March
2007
Australians
could face fines if they don't protect their properties against the
predicted increased threat of bushfires, says an expert in light of
the latest UN climate change report.
Professor
Amanda Lynch (pictured), of Monash University's climate program,
says fines for people who don't reduce their land's fuel load by
clearing or burning could be one way of managing the increased risk
of bushfires as the planet warms.
Her
predictions follow the second in a series of Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, which says rising temperatures
will cause more intense and frequent fires in
Australia.
The
IPCC working group II report also suggests actions that can be taken
to reduce the damage from climate-induced changes, such as
this.
But
Lynch, a contributor to the report, says Australia is already very
good at dealing with bushfires and sadly, this makes it harder to
find ways to adapt.
"It's
hard to know what else we could do in the face of worse fire," says
Lynch, who has worked on fire management in the US and
Australia.
She
says Australia might have to become a lot stricter on private
property owners to ensure they do their best to protect themselves
from bushfire.
"You
can do it with a stick, which would be to introduce fines," she
says. "Or you could introduce a carrot. You could subsidise people,"
she says, to protect their homes through burning or clearing the
land around them.
Lynch
says another option would be to dampen forests to reduce their
flammability, a difficult option given the nation's severe
drought.
And
then there's the option of reducing undergrowth in forests by
eradicating weeds, she says.
Heatwaves
The
IPCC report also predicts increasing severity and frequency of
heatwaves, says Lynch, who suggests people could be warned in
advance of potentially fatal ones.
And,
following the lead of France, where over 10,000 people died after
heatwaves in 2003, there could be more community support for the
vulnerable, such as the elderly.
Coastal
impacts
The
report also predicts an increase in storm surges affecting
Australia's coast, says Lynch, and suggests adapting in ways that
does not depend on engineering.
"The
old method of managing coasts is to build a big wall, or a big levy
or big engineering structures to protect what's there from storm
surges and rising sea levels," she says.
"The
more modern way of talking about it is to let nature decide," she
says. "Nature will win that battle."
She
says small sea walls and levies may be appropriate initially, but as
surges become more extreme and sea level rises further, settlement
would have to "back away" from the coast.
"The
final stage is retreat," she says.
Reef vulnerable
Lynch
says that in some areas there is almost no room to adapt. This
applies to the Great Barrier Reef, which is very sensitive to
changes in temperature.
She
says a key strategy is to reduce nutrient run-off onto the
reef.
"A
healthy reef, one that is not overloaded with nutrients from
run-off, can withstand a higher temperature range," she
says.
Other
impacts and suggested adaptations include:
1.
enforcing
fishery quotas as waters warm
2.
lowering
the number of livestock per hectare
3.
improving
water efficiency
4.
making
artificial snow to keep tourists at ski
resorts
5.
improving
quarantine and vaccination programs to ward off the spread of
tropical diseases.
While
responding to climate change will require the appropriate allocation
of resources, there's much more to it, says
Lynch.
"It's
an intellectual challenge; it's not just the money. We need to
choose wisely as well," she says.
"We
have to be prepared to adapt but we have to be doing this at the
same time as we're mitigating [emissions]," says
Lynch.
The
first 2007 IPCC report, which was released in February, included the
science of climate change and global predictions of its impacts; the
second report, due to be officially released next week, covers
regional impacts and adaptions; and the third report, due out in
May, will canvass the relative economics of adaptation to and
mitigation against the effects climate
change.
Editorial
Recent global warming by DSE and National
Parks mismanagement in NSW, VIC from massive fuel loads allowed to
remain on public land to appease radical greens resulted with
massive infernos that not only destroyed our heritage flora and
fauna to near total extinction while polluting the atmosphere were
not mention in the professors suggestion of “fines for people who don't reduce their
land's fuel load by clearing or burning” it
was just THE PEOPLE.
Farmers for years have been fighting the
government to reduce fuel loads on public lands adjoining their
properties to no avail, and we have seen the results of this in the
2003 and 2006-7 infernos.
Again missing the source of the problem –GOVERNMENT
MISMANAGEMENT - “She says Australia
might have to become a lot stricter on private property owners to
ensure they do their best to protect themselves from
bushfire.”
As we wade into this “Once Upon A Time” with Prof
Lynch, who represents the modern day wearer of the “Sandwich Boards
quoting dooms day” as seen in the 1930’s (pictured), now
using controlled media - PLUS !- government funding while receiving
a substantial salary all from your taxpayer dollars as her sandwich
board.
This airhead article reveals a much larger
problem of world doom rather than global warming, it is academia
graduates who are unable to distinguish between - Productive and
destructive conservation and generate illusions of Environmental
concern to maintain their existence.
Again quoting from the professor with one of
her answer to solving these so called problems: “making artificial snow to keep tourists at ski
resorts”
An agenda driven repository for alleged
practitioners of critical inquiry has produced the likes of
professor Lynch plus NSW Parks Dr Fleming - Science mercenaries and
academics lacking job security outside the square.
From
this green gene pool of knowledge we see daily the demise of this
nation to where now we are out of water, power grids collapsing,
farmers being removed from the land under false information of
environmental myths, but the public service and government supported
bodies are alive, thriving as we see that steady increase of members
which never falters.
When
attracting attention to ones agenda, and wishing to maintain
government financing, it is time to include in your media releases a
statement like this one used by Professor
Lynch
“While
responding to climate change will require the appropriate allocation
of resources, there's much more to it, says
Lynch”.
Professor Amanda Lynch is located at School of Geography and
Environmental Science and holds the position of Federation
Fellow.
Maybe we have it all
wrong?
If you need clarification of the professor’s findings,
etc you can contact her at;
Email: amanda.lynch@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone Numbers: Business Phone +61 3 9905 8291
Mobile Phone 0412 092 980
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Do You Think ?
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