A little extreme.....We get the point!!!!
October 3rd 2007 00:54
Do we think this is an exaggeration.....??? Possibly, maybe just a little hysterical?????
This guy is telling stories of Doomsday for Sydney by 2070......it is going to be uninhabitable.
Now I think we all get the point that we need to do something about Global Warming, we don't really need Chicken Little running around telling us the sky is falling in.....even as a kid we were taught that such scaremongering no matter how well intended isn't very constructive or productive to achieving a solution.
Have a read of this if you feel like a bit of a scare on a Wednesday morning....it feels a bit hysterical and properganderish to me........each to their own I suppose......
CLICK here or read below
Sydney: from spectacular to uninhabitable
Doomsday reports are flooding Australia. They could be correct, says nicholas shakespeare
Within less than the span of a lifetime, Sydney could resemble a desert town like Alice Springs, or even the apocalyptic landscape from Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Road.
Scorched by temperatures five degrees higher than today, lacking drinking water and yet battered by rising seas and ravaged by bush fires of the ferocity that last month blackened huge areas of Victoria and Tasmania, one of the world's most spectacular cities could be virtually uninhabitable.
So suggests a scientific report on climate change commissioned by the New South Wales government.
The report, which forecasts a 40 per cent drop in rainfall by 2070, presses hard on the heels of the shock announcement by Queensland's Premier that from next December state residents stand to drink recycled sewerage.
Along with the US, Australia still refuses to sign the Kyoto protocol
Tomorrow, Australia - which along with America still refuses to sign the Kyoto protocol - receives a further doomsday warning, with the publication of a UN study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This predicts that in 30 years the Barrier Reef could well be dead, a victim of rising sea temperatures coupled with bleaching of the fragile coral.
Much as I'd like to accuse these reports of hysterical misrepresentation, I find I can't. Arriving last week in Tasmania, I'm able to vouchsafe that this normally temperate state is enduring its most savage drought in living memory.
The fields and vineyards are the colour of the camels I once saw near Ayer's Rock. Snakebites are on the rise, as copperheads and tiger-snakes creep closer to human habitation in search of water. Last night, coming out to watch a comet that had appeared from nowhere, I scattered ten wallabies cropping the grass. A year ago, these timid creatures never came near the house.
This guy is telling stories of Doomsday for Sydney by 2070......it is going to be uninhabitable.
Now I think we all get the point that we need to do something about Global Warming, we don't really need Chicken Little running around telling us the sky is falling in.....even as a kid we were taught that such scaremongering no matter how well intended isn't very constructive or productive to achieving a solution.
Have a read of this if you feel like a bit of a scare on a Wednesday morning....it feels a bit hysterical and properganderish to me........each to their own I suppose......
CLICK here or read below
Sydney: from spectacular to uninhabitable
Doomsday reports are flooding Australia. They could be correct, says nicholas shakespeare
Within less than the span of a lifetime, Sydney could resemble a desert town like Alice Springs, or even the apocalyptic landscape from Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Road.
Scorched by temperatures five degrees higher than today, lacking drinking water and yet battered by rising seas and ravaged by bush fires of the ferocity that last month blackened huge areas of Victoria and Tasmania, one of the world's most spectacular cities could be virtually uninhabitable.
So suggests a scientific report on climate change commissioned by the New South Wales government.
The report, which forecasts a 40 per cent drop in rainfall by 2070, presses hard on the heels of the shock announcement by Queensland's Premier that from next December state residents stand to drink recycled sewerage.
Along with the US, Australia still refuses to sign the Kyoto protocol
Tomorrow, Australia - which along with America still refuses to sign the Kyoto protocol - receives a further doomsday warning, with the publication of a UN study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This predicts that in 30 years the Barrier Reef could well be dead, a victim of rising sea temperatures coupled with bleaching of the fragile coral.
Much as I'd like to accuse these reports of hysterical misrepresentation, I find I can't. Arriving last week in Tasmania, I'm able to vouchsafe that this normally temperate state is enduring its most savage drought in living memory.
The fields and vineyards are the colour of the camels I once saw near Ayer's Rock. Snakebites are on the rise, as copperheads and tiger-snakes creep closer to human habitation in search of water. Last night, coming out to watch a comet that had appeared from nowhere, I scattered ten wallabies cropping the grass. A year ago, these timid creatures never came near the house.
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Comment by katyzzz
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I'm so glad I'll not be living in Sydney in 2070. And you'll be lucky to make it too.
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Comment by Louie
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Comment by Rosemary
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Species disappear from the earth all the time, why do we think we're different.
Who'd want to live in Sydney anyway - Ooh Ahh!
Comment by Louie
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I am a Sdney sider......well can't say I disagree too mch tho..
Comment by Rosemary
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I've been to Sydney for a visit. I liked the restaurants and the harbour best.
Bit too fast paced for this little country bumpkin though, I like the laid back lifestyle. Cheers.
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Comment by Lara M
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That's a great pix...