GOODBYE air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter days. That's been the trend in Europe for the past three decades - but unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred.
New Scientist Environment: 'Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators quietly published a draft study on Thursday that linked global warming to higher levels of smog that could harm human health, a report green groups said stood in contrast to the Bush Administration's slow movement on climate change.
The draft report published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register said, "Climate change has the potential to produce significant increases in near-surface (ozone) concentrations in many areas of the U.S."
Reuters Environment: 'Study links global warming to more smog'
No Steve - all just a whopping big cop-out and pox of word games. So you've walked away when confronted with a real problem - which I've found almost universally on this blog. Thanks we'll do our best without you - just don't complain what you get then. And so endth the lesson.
Ah acronyms e.g. EC for 'Exceptional Circumstances' and new-speak e.g 'this does not address the issue at hand on determining a rationale for future EC and water allocation processes in the nominated region'.
Rationale - is this not the base of meaning for a course of action? So you'd like me to help you build yet another construct of warm chair waffle on top of a tissue-thin base of meaning and thus solve the problems of the nation's agriculture?
Those who can, do, those who can't, write memos to their higher-ups. The skeletons of Franz Kafka and George Orwell are thus enabled to spin ever so very slightly faster in their graves.
But thank you for your memo revealing you are likely just another little bureaucrat embedded way down there somewhere in 'the great pyramid of all bureaucrats'.
Dear Nominated Policy Officer On Watch,
Thank you for your emotional brief and concern for my deteriorating mental condition, including alarmism-o-philia.
However this does not address the issue at hand on determining a rationale for future EC and water allocation processes in the nominated region.
I shall inform the Minister that your first attempt was "less than perfect".
Failure to produce a better brief by COB will necessitate termination of your consultancy.
Regards
Chief Policy Wallah
When the predicted future climatic variation is hardly different from that which has applied in just the very recent past i.e. since Europeans came here and kept records, not to mention the greater variations of the last few thousand years, it is very hard to take your gimme 'policy response to EC' seriously.
It is all a question of mindset. You embrace 'concern', 'alarm' and 'fear of catastrophe' like a long lost cuddly toy. One would think that you'd been raised exclusively on a diet of Woody Allen movies!
It amazes me how the poor of the world couldn't give a damn about the 'impending climate catastrophe' while back in the unreal developed world such as Australia there is veritable host of AGW alarmists seemingly hell bent on turning (Mel Brook's 😉 "High Anxiety" into global religion!
From the perspective of a somewhat older man, I say humans have been intimately engaged in a precarious relationship between agriculture and natural climate variation ever since the rise of civilization, a history which, by comparison, does rather make the concerns of your current mindset rather transient.
But whatever.
If there really are going to be significant elevations of temperatures, reductions in rainfall and soil moisture over a number of major regions of Australia this is going to have to be a subject of lengthy informed debate, not just endless hand wringing.
It also means we should be exploring major land use changes such as broad scale reforestation, the use of kangaroos etc for range farming, regional shifts in crop cultivation to e.g. the Gulf country.
If they are such useful tools as you say this should also mean the systematic application of climate models to exploring ways of ameliorating this such as a river re-directions and maybe even a permanent reflooding of Lake Eyre with seawater.
However, you can bet most of these notions will run into more hailstorms (sorry, sand storms) of greenie nay saying. More neuroticism..... The people will eventually become completely exhausted and that will be that.