#bushfires
Rain dampens bushfire threatening key highway as storms batter outback WA
By Jarrod Lucas and Andrew Chounding
Heavy rain comes to the aid of firefighters battling a bushfire that has already burned more than 18,000 hectares in WA and has been threatening the main sealed road in and out of the state.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-07/bushfire-threatening-eyre-highway-rain/103200218
#Bushfires #RoadTransportIndustry #RegionalCommunities #JarrodLucas #AndrewChounding
'Trifecta' of severe weather predicted for South Australia the 'worst combination' for power outages
By Ethan Rix
A fire weather warning is in place for large parts of the state until Friday but the Bureau of Meteorology said that will be followed by more than a month's worth of rain on the weekend.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-07/south-australia-prepares-for-severe-weather/103199186
#Bushfires #Floods #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #WeatherForecasts #Weather #EthanRix
Reposting for Australian #Bushfire awareness
#TaylorSwift, Time magazine's 2023 Person of the Year, performed at the Sydney Cricket Ground for ‘Sound Relief’, a benefit concert held in March 2009 to help raise funds for those affected by the tragic Victorian bushfires.
Other artists at #Sydney Concert:
Coldplay, Hoodoo Gurus, Little Birdy, Architecture in Helsinki, You Am I, Josh Pyke, Marcia Hines, Eskimo Joe, Jet, The Presets, Icehouse, and Barry Gibb with Olivia Newton-John.
#Melbourne Concert, held simultaneously, featured:
Jet, Gabriella Cilmi, Kings of Leon, Paul Kelly, Augie March, Bliss N Eso with Paris Wells, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson with Troy Cassar-Daley, Liam Finn (Crowded House), Jack Johnson, Wolfmother, Kylie Minogue, Hunters & Collectors, Split Enz, and Midnight Oil.
Heavy storms hit both concerts. In Sydney, performances continued through thunder and lightning. Thousands danced in much-needed rain.
Caravan park owners risk it all during fires and floods, unable to pay insurance premiums
By Tamara Clark
Operators say they are facing an insurance crisis alongside the growing threat of natural disasters, with premiums up by as much as 300 per cent nationwide.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-07/caravan-park-insurance-cost-soars-natural-disasters/103194636
Playdates with firefighters help kids tackle fear of emergency services after Black Summer trauma
By James Tugwell
Sirens, smoke, windy days, and heatwaves can trigger a trauma response in children who lived through the devastating bushfires, but these crews are trying to lessen the fear.
#Bushfires #Children #DisastersAccidentsandEmergencyIncidents #FamilyandRelationships #DisasterandEmergencyResponse #Fires #JamesTugwell
More than 300 fires deliberately lit in WA over past two months
By David Weber
WA has been hit by 1,600 bushfires over the past two months, a 70 per cent increase on last year, and more than 300 of them have been deliberately lit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-05/300-deliberatly-lit-fires-wa-since-october/103191384
Suffering fires and multiple floods, Gippsland expects more after third bout of extremes in two months
By Natasha Schapova and Millicent Spencer
The Victorian community is resilient but experiencing fatigue as it battles multiple extreme weather events in a short time span, with more rain forecast in the state's east from Thursday.
#Floods #Fires #People #Bushfires #TravelPreparationandAdvice #NatashaSchapova #MillicentSpencer
Thieves 'badly damage' Drought Angels truck loaded with donations for Queensland farmers affected by bushfires
The truck was full of bedding, furniture and toys for a charity sale to support farmers affected by bushfires near Tara on Queensland's Western Downs.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-04/qld-drought-angles-truck-theft/103185308
Conservationists, scientists demand answers over prescribed burning of important swamps
By Mark Bennett
Environmental groups call for the federal environment minister to intervene over the burning of ancient peat swamps near Denmark in WA, just months after the area was listed as an endangered ecological community.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-03/review-demanded-denmark-peat-swamp-burn/103145754
Couple separated by bushfire furious over five-day mobile service outage during emergency
By Samantha Aishia
Annie and Allan were in the process of rebuilding the home they lost during the Black Summer bushfires when Allan had to defend it again without the support of RFS alerts or triple-0 calls.
#Bushfires #TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #EmergencyIncidents #SamanthaAishia
Couple separated by bushfire furious over five-day mobile service outage during emergency
By Samantha Aishia
Annie and Allan were in the process of rebuilding the home they lost during the Black Summer bushfires when Allan had to defend it again without the support of RFS alerts or triple-0 calls.
#Bushfires #TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #EmergencyIncidents #SamanthaAishia
"Every state is in the firing line for #bushfires this Summer according to the latest forecast released on Thursday by the National Council for Fire & Emergency Services (AFAC).
#Australia has already experienced “record-breaking dry conditions and warmer than average temperatures during early spring,” according to the AFAC summer bushfire outlook.
“Hot and dry conditions are expected to persist into the new year for many locations.”
Logging practices:
"It's basically dead" AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging in Victoria
"An AI-based analysis of 20 years of VicForests’ logging, researchers say, shows the scale of failed regeneration in Victoria’s state forests.The data, which has been shared exclusively with the ABC, suggests that 20 per cent of Victoria’s state forests have not regenerated after logging.... That’s almost 13,000 hectares of state forest the analysis found to be standing in a state of ruin."
"Now the state is shutting its native logging industry in a matter of weeks, and the forests that were once given to Victoria’s state-run logging agency, VicForests, are being returned to the public."
"By law, the logging agency is required to regenerate the areas it has logged and hand them back to the public in a healthy state. But until now, how much that has actually happened has largely been a mystery."
“VicForests is definitely doing a dodgy job, pretty much as they’ve done for the best part of the last 20 years.... We have a biodiversity problem, we have a carbon problem, we have a water problem, we have a fire risk problem,” Professor Lindenmayer
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/ai-analysis-finds-failed-forest-regrowth-after-logging-/103153614
#logging #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #VicForests #failure #destruction #compaction #machinery #TimberMining #regeneration #PublicOwnership #liability #StopLogging #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #Bushfires #ClimateEmergency #biodiversityCrisis #extinctions
A scorching summer is expected, so what can you do to prepare for potential bushfires?
By Selina Ross
The bushfire outlook for summer is warning of a scorching summer. Landowners in rural and urban areas are being urged to prepare their properties for the risk of bushfire.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/how-to-prepare-for-the-summer-bushfire-season/103172898
#Bushfires #CommunityOrganisations #Rural #EmergencyIncidents #SelinaRoss
It may be raining now, but the bushfire outlook for summer looks red for large parts of Australia
By Tyne Logan
Despite the recent deluges across eastern Australia, parts of every state and territory have been put on heightened alert for bushfire over the next three months. It comes as the country stares down the barrel of a hot summer ahead.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-30/summer-bushfire-outlook-2023-afac-bom/103160182
Experts surprised to find endangered bird species in animal refuge grounds
Wildlife experts are surprised to see some bird species re-emerge across Kangaroo Island after the devastating bushfires in 2019-2020.
#Birds #AnimalScience #AnimalsandNature #Bushfires #NativeSpecies
West Australian Christmas 'fire tree' signals an early threat
By Piper Duffy and Lauren Smith
Bright yellow flowers on an ancient tree have been a warning sign of impending bushfires for thousands of years, Aboriginal people on the WA south coast say, and it comes with fireys already fatigued from fighting big blazes.
#Trees #Environment #Bushfires #IndigenousCulture #PiperDuffy #LaurenSmith
From fires to floods — a wild 24 hours of emergency broadcasting at ABC Gippsland
By Laura Poole
The ABC broadcasts hundreds of emergency warnings each season, but for the first time in 24 hours the broadcaster transitioned from emergency fire coverage to emergency flood coverage in the same region.
#Floods #Bushfires #ABC #Journalism #RadioBroadcasting #TelevisionBroadcasting #LauraPoole
‘He doesn’t know how to feel’: Strawberry farmer speechless after bushfire ruins everything
By James Carmody and Blake Kagi
Mariginiup residents return to see the devastation caused by the bushfire that ripped through their community last week, and make a start on picking up the pieces.
#Bushfires #AgriculturalCrops #CommunityandSociety #HumanInterest #JamesCarmody #BlakeKagi
In troubled times, a bond between a French village and an Australian town makes the world of difference
By Sarah Krieg and Faith Tabalujan
More than a century after the end of World War I, the generosity of an Upper Murray community has come full circle in the form of a much-needed international donation.
#DisasterandEmergencyResponse #WorldWar1 #CommunityOrganisations #War #WarVictims #PostWarReconstruction #Bushfires #CostofLiving #DonationBasedCrowdFunding #Volunteers #SarahKrieg #FaithTabalujan
#Queensland #Bushfires #Redtape
Queensland landholders are blaming excessive red tape and "unmanaged" national parks for recent bushfire devastation.
More relief payments announced for Perth bushfire victims as firefighters continue to battle blaze
By Daryna Zadvirna
Victims of the devastating bushfires in Perth's north can access some much-needed financial aid, with two funds available to help people begin rebuilding their lives.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-26/mariginiup-bushfire-disaster-relief-payments/103152166
Excessive red tape and 'unmanaged' national parks blamed for Queensland bushfire devastation
By Megan Hughes and Abbey Halter
Sid Godwin says back-burning may have prevented a bushfire on his property where he lost 10,000 hectares of grazing land.
#Bushfires #BeefCattle #NationalParks #LivestockHealthandWelfare #EmergencyPlanning #EnvironmentalManagement #MeganHughes #AbbeyHalter
'Difficult times ahead': Firefighters contain Perth blaze but brace for 'severe' weather
By Lucy Martin
Firefighters have succeeded in containing a devastating blaze in Perth's north, but a severe weather warning has authorities on alert heading into Sunday.
Louise had seven addresses in two years after her home burnt down
By Briana Fiore
Bushfire victim Louise Lodge didn't receive state or federal government assistance as not enough collective damage was caused at her burnt-out home for it to meet disaster criterion.
#Bushfires #Homelessness #MentalHealth #EnvironmentalImpact #BrianaFiore
Facing up to natural disasters helps people mentally prepare for times of crisis
Mental health specialists say there are a number of steps people can take to give themselves the best chance of coming out the other side of bushfires, floods and cyclones.
#MentalHealth #Bushfires #Health #EmergencyPlanning #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyServices
The Eucalyptus Plantations of the Plantationocene
“Introducing monoculture stands of eucalyptus into other regions brings a new and dangerous flammability into ecosystems. Using exotic fire-prone trees for afforestation in tree-planting schemes under a heating and drying climate has the potential to literally backfire, releasing carbon while also risking local tragedy and ecological damage.”
"From the Amazon rainforest to California, Madagascar to Spain, monoculture forests are being grown over huge areas, with eucalyptus among the most popular species. A growing number of tree-planting schemes are allocated to carbon offsetting projects and government contributions towards the Paris agreement – with many countries looking to plant increasing swathes of forest to meet their obligations. According on one estimate, eucalyptus plantations cover at least 22m hectares (54m acres) around the world."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/24/eucalyptus-plantations-are-expanding-and-being-blamed-for-devastation-pedrogao-grande-aoe
#eucalyptus #monocultures #Plantationocene #ForestryCorporation #LoggingIndustry #bushfires #offsets #climate #biodiversity
Emergency threat passes for residents in line of fire as weather conditions ease
By Gian De Poloni
The massive bushfire that destroyed 18 homes in Perth's north is no longer being treated as an emergency level fire as the wind and heat eases across the city.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-24/perth-bushfire-emergency-warning-downgraded/103149330
#Bushfires #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyServices #CommunityandSociety #GianDePoloni
Residents left to pick up the pieces of their homes destroyed by ferocious Perth bushfire
By Cason Ho
Residents whose homes have been destroyed and lives turned upside down by a massive fire that's torn through Perth's north-east return to their properties to pick up the pieces.
Live: Fears more homes lost as aerial photos lay bare ferocious Perth bushfire's path of destruction
By Gian De Poloni
The bushfire emergency that has caused widespread destruction to homes and infrastructure in Perth's north-east continues as an unseasonal heatwave rolls into a fourth day. Follow live.
#Bushfires #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyServices #CommunityandSociety #GianDePoloni
Fire brigade forced to face another summer without water following baffling series of government decisions
By Emily JB Smith and Tara de Landgrafft
Firefighters in a rural community have spent years trying to secure a water supply. But a series of inexplicable government decisions have left them without the vital resource.
#Bushfires #WaterManagement #WaterPollution #WaterSupply #LocalGovernment #StateandTerritoryGovernment #EmilyJBSmith #TaradeLandgrafft
Bushfire emergency continues in Perth's north-east as firefighters seize on 'favourable' change
By Garrett Mundy
Fire crews spend a second night battling a large bushfire in Perth's north-east, with better conditions offering some respite for residents and authorities.
#Bushfires #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyPlanning #GarrettMundy
Bushfire emergency continues in Perth's north-east as firefighters seize on 'favourable' change
By Garrett Mundy
Fire crews spend a second night battling a large bushfire in Perth's north-east, with better conditions offering some respite for residents.
#Bushfires #EmergencyIncidents #EmergencyPlanning #GarrettMundy
Fire brigade forced to face another summer without water following baffling series of government decisions
By Emily JB Smith and Tara de Landgrafft
Firefighters in a rural community have spent years trying to secure a water supply. But a series of inexplicable government decisions have left them without the vital resource.
#Bushfires #WaterManagement #WaterPollution #WaterSupply #LocalGovernment #StateandTerritoryGovernment #EmilyJBSmith #TaradeLandgrafft
Reading reports of #bushfires I am always concerned for the critters that can't just jump into cars and flee like we can.
But take some comfort, #WA has no #koalas apart from a small introduced colony at Yanchep 😥
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-23/bushfire-wanneroo-tapping-homes-razed-banksia-grove/103139376?utm_campaign=newsweb-article-new-share-null&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
Burning fossil fuels " left the wet tropics “at a real risk of losing the very things it was made a world heritage area to protect”.
"Queensland’s wet tropics see 25% rise in threatened species in three years as climate change bites. The number of listed threatened species in Australia’s world heritage northern rainforests has increased by 25% since 2020, as ecologists say they are now clearly observing the long-predicted impacts of global heating."
Wet Tropics of Queensland
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/486/
“We also found the (native) bees (Tetragonula hockingsi) had diminished tolerance of heat stress after non-lethal exposure to the insecticides. Even bees exposed to miniscule amounts of insecticide, certainly not enough to kill them, were more susceptible to the effects of heat.The combination of heat stress and insecticide exposure may put this stingless bee at increased risk of decline."
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/northern-bees-at-risk-from-insecticide
#FossilFules #insecticides #heatwaves #droughts #bushfires #rainforest #WetTropics #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #WorldHeritage
Overnight showers helped crews trying to contain a fire on the Darling Downs west of Brisbane.
However Queensland Fire and Emergency Services say the blaze at The Pines near Millmerran is still not under control with 11 crews on site on Monday.
A “not safe to return” warning is current for residents in the area.
“The fire near Flamingo Road is still burning. It is travelling towards The Pines,” the QFES warning said.
“If you left the area, it is not safe to return. Firefighters are working to contain the fire.”
Overall there are 39 fires burning across Queensland on Monday.
But the Bureau of Meteorology believes assistance may be on the way for Darling Downs firefighters with showers forecast for the southeast for the rest of the week.
Ruling leaves koala populations exposed but door opens to further legal action
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https://www.edo.org.au/2023/11/20/ruling-leaves-koala-populations-exposed-but-door-opens-to-further-legal-action/
North East Forest Alliance laments Land and Environment Court loss, says koalas will suffer
"The Land and Environment Court has rejected an application to stop logging in two bushfire affected forests in north-east NSW."
"This was our last official legal attempt to try and save the koalas. "They're going to take out most of their feed trees."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/nefa-court-challenge-nsw-forestry-corporation-dismissed/103127218
#NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #koalas #wildlife #Bushfires #law #lawfare #NSW #Braemar #MyrtleStateForests #NEFA #EDO #EPA #court #vidence #ForestryCorporation #NorthEastRegionalForestAgreement #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity
Rural Fire Service (RFS) confirms the death of a volunteer firefighter in the Walgett region.
The RFS volunteer was working on the Hudson Fire in the Walgett region when he was struck by a falling tree.
Fellow RFS members rendered first aid until ambulance crews arrived - the patient was then transported to a Lighting Ridge medical facility where he tragically passed away.
Commissioner Rogers has expressed his sincere sorrow at the passing of a dedicated volunteer who was helping to protect the community.
"This gentleman made the ultimate sacrifice. His tragic and untimely death is a solemn reminder about the dangers faced by our firefighters.”
“Our thoughts are with his family, friends and firefighting colleagues at this terrible time. We are offering every assistance to his family and fellow brigade members.”
#RFS #Walget #NSWFires #NSWRFS #NSW #bushfires #Austrailia
#NSW #austraila
Total Fire Bans will be in place tomorrow, Wednesday 15 November, for the Northern Slopes and North Western areas.
Hot and windy conditions are forecast across the state, increasing the fire danger, with several areas forecast to experience high fire danger.
visit the #RFS website: www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fdr
#NSW #australia
A Total Fire Ban will be in place tomorrow, Saturday 11 November for the Northern Riverina area.
Hot, dry and windy conditions are forecast with high fire danger.
Landholders undertaking harvest operations should stop harvesting regularly to check the weather conditions against the Grain Harvesting Guide before deciding whether to continue due to the increased risk of fire.
For more information visit the #RFS website: https://brnw.ch/21wEjT5
For information on Harvest Fires and the Grain Harvesting Guide check: https://brnw.ch/21wEjT6
Rain reprieve temporary as more than 40 bushfires burn across Queensland https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-southern-downs-region-bushfires-firefighters-race-to-get-on-top-of-fires-as-cool-change-weather-offers-crews-reprieve/f044bc04-2c3a-4faf-9b41-7b6ca4efbd17 #bushfires #climate #Queensland Such an early, vicious fire season this year - and its only just November.
#NSWfires #austalia
As of 5pm, there are 67 fires burning across NSW, with 30 not yet contained. All fires are currently burning at Advice level, with over 600 firefighters and incident management personnel working to contain these fires.
Though there is still a large amount of fire in the landscape, milder conditions have allowed firefighters to establish and strengthen containment lines before elevated fire danger returns next week.
Stay up-to-date with the latest information through the Hazards Near Me app and #RFS website: #NSW #bushfires www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fnm
RFS warns: As of 8am, there are 89 #BushFires burning around NSW, with 27 not yet contained. There are currently 9 fires burning at a 'Watch and Act' level. It's important you monitor the changing conditions and stay up-to-date through Hazards Near Me and #RFS website
Yeah, I noticed a tear in his eye when his government signed off on the last lot of coal mines
https://aus.social/@drrimmer/111327574799758767
drrimmer - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Queensland bushfire losses are 'heartbreaking' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-31/extreme-weather-conditions-return-fire-risk-queensland/103041684 #climate #bushfires #Queensland
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Queensland bushfire losses are 'heartbreaking' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-31/extreme-weather-conditions-return-fire-risk-queensland/103041684 via @ABCaustralia Authorities have confirmed 53 homes have been destroyed along with 32 sheds, all in Tara, during the bushfire emergency. #climate #bushfires #Queensland
The Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb
How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?
"If it is allowed to proceed, this single project could undo all of our efforts to cut emissions. Beetaloo and Middle Arm are a climate bomb. They will produce vast volumes of emissions which cannot be offset. The atmosphere doesn’t respond to clever accounting, overly optimistic projections and reliance on offsets – only on how many tonnes of emissions end up there."
"The International Energy Agency has shown we have to slash demand for fossil fuels 25% by 2030 and 80% by 2050 to keep heating under 1.5°C and limit the worst effects of climate change." >
https://theconversation.com/the-beetaloo-gas-field-is-a-climate-bomb-how-did-csiro-modelling-make-it-look-otherwise-215711
#FossilFuels #Australia #ExtremeHeatwaves #bushfires #Darwin #MiddleArm #Beetaloo #NT #offsets #CleverAccounting #ClimateEmergency
Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures
"...Deforestation causes warming at distances up to 60 miles away. The greater the forest clearance, the higher the temperature. This is in addition to the wider climate impact of global heating."
“We show that regional forest loss increases warming by more than a factor of four with serious consequences for the remaining Amazon forest and the people living there.”
“More and more, we are demonstrating the big benefits the forests bring to surrounding regions. For farmers, they bring cooler air and more rainfall. Until now, studies on the impact of forest clearance on heat have concentrated on local effects with a clear correlation between loss of tree cover and higher temperatures in the area where the trees were cut down. The new research went further by looking at whether there is also a warming effect over a wider area." >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/30/deforestation-has-big-impact-on-regional-temperatures-study-of-brazilian-amazon-shows
Amazon deforestation causes strong regional warming
"Tropical deforestation warms the climate with negative impacts on people living nearby." >
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2309123120
#drought #Bushfires #risks #NativeForests #evapotranspiration #deforestation #heatwaves #ExtremeHeatwaves #LoggingIndustry #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob
Am I in a minority? Whenever i read coverage of developing #bushfires I'm disappointed not to see a map showing where it is and what direction it's heading.
To me a map is the best way to communicate this, not a list of often-obscure place names.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-30/qld-western-downs-fires-division-in-tara/103036534?utm_campaign=newsweb-article-new-share-null&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web #ABCNews #news
Claims against emitters responsible for large-scale greenhouse gas emissions
"Climate contribution science can potentially be used to quantify the cumulative contribution of greenhouse gas emissions from each emitter. By identifying the individual emitter’s contribution and using modelling to compare and observe climate data with global climate simulations that include and exclude its influence, causation of severe weather events may be established. This could lead to findings in favour of the insurer when stepping into the shoes of the insured to recover costs for property damage caused by climate related fire weather events resulting from greenhouse gas emissions of major emitters."
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https://www.edo.org.au/2023/10/30/is-attribution-science-the-silver-bullet-that-could-help-hold-greenhouse-gas-emitters-accountable/
#law #litigation #FossilFuels #CarbonMajors #GHG #accountability #Bushfires #floods #AngryWeather #ExtremEventAttribution #ClimateEmergency
Putting minds at ease in a climate emergency with a six-tonne concrete bunker
"The lowest income countries produce one-tenth of global emissions, but are the most heavily affected by climate change. Bunkers are for the people who can afford it. We are externalising the cost of climate change and it is unequally distributed."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/29/escaping-underground-the-eerie-new-age-of-bushfire-bunkers
#FossilFuel #shelters #Bushfires #concrete #bunkers #ClimateEmergency #externalisation
As Queensland residents reflect on homes lost in 420 #bushfires this week, experts say there is more to come
Hundreds were evacuated across the state, while 130 fires burned over 5,000 hectares in NSW and four properties were lost in Western Australia
Exhausted #Queensland #fire crews battle 420 #bushfires in a week amid warnings of worst fire season in 70 years #globalwarming #climateemergency
ABC Sunshine Coast
/ By Amy Sheehan, Owen Jacques, Bree Dwyer, and Kirra Grimes
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-28/qld-bushfire-season-worst-in-70-years/103032562
Health professional are “demanding all governments end the expansion of any new fossil fuel infrastructure and production, phase out existing fuels, remove subsidies and invest in renewable energy...Climate change has been identified as potentially the greatest health challenge of the 21st century."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/28/doctors-from-around-the-world-unite-to-call-for-urgent-climate-action
#Energy #FossilFuels #subsidies #pollution #OneHealth #GHG #roads #PrematureDeaths #Bushfires #governance #ClimateEmergency
Two dead and 16 homes lost in Tara as Queensland bushfire emergency continues https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-26/qld-bushfires-homes-destroyed-tara-deaths-fire/103023352 via @ABCaustralia #climate #bushfires #qldpol
#Bushfires #Tara #QLD #Fatalities
So so sad, another life lost in the fire grounds.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/qld/2023/10/25/tara-bushfire-fatalities-houses
Queensland fires: evacuation centre evacuated as raging fire heads toward Tara township https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/25/queensland-fires-qld-bushfires-tara-death-emergency-level-fire-cypress-gardens-millmerran-downs #bushfires #qldpol
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory: "Time is up."
“Life on our planet is clearly under siege...The statistical trends show deeply alarming patterns of climate-related variables and disasters. We also found little progress to report as far as humanity combating climate change.”
"Fossil fuel subsidies roughly doubled between 2021 and 2022 globally, from $US531 billion to just over $US1 trillion.
This year Canadian wildfires have pumped more than 1 gigaton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, greater than Canada’s total 2021 greenhouse emissions.
In 2023, there have already been 38 days with global average temperatures more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The highest average Earth surface temperature ever recorded was in July, and there’s reason to believe it was the highest surface temperature the planet has seen in the last 100,000 years."
“Our goal is to communicate climate facts and make policy recommendations...It is a moral duty of scientists and our institutions to alert humanity of any potential existential threat and to show leadership in taking action.”
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/uncharted-territory-climate-scientists-sound-alarm-over-earths-vital-signs
"We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity."
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080
#FossilFuelSubsidies #FossilFuels #disasters #bushfires #pollution #HomoDestructus #UnchartedTerritory #EcologicalOvershoot #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
#Bushfires #Tara #Australia #Qld
Fire ground and danger area. Stay safe everyone
In depth story on rating Australia’s resilience to #bushfires which will increase in prevalence and intensity due to climate change.
#climatecrisis #wildfires #climateDaptation #Australia
RT by @CopernicusEU: There has been a clear increase in the number & intensity of #bushfires across Australia since August with highest smoke emissions for Aug-0ct in last 10 years in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS dataset ⬅️↗️ https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-global-fire-emissions-gfas & shown in AOD forecast for 18 Oct 12 UTC↘️
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/m_parrington/status/1714906669199642753#m
[2023-10-19 07:29 UTC]
Rising populations in regions susceptible to climate perils
"Australia must “tell a better risk management story” by coordinating efforts at all levels of government to improve land-use planning and building codes, or insurance costs would rise further." The chief executive of the Insurance Council of Australia
Those companies have been watching Australia’s actions closely. Australia got “marked up” when it talked about acting on the climate crisis or mitigating exposure to evolving perils but “when we approve a new development in a floodplain, it just undoes all of that, and they go ‘you guys just don’t get it’."
#Australia #floods #bushfires #heatwaves #rainstorms #sprawl #FossiFuels #risks #insurance #mitigation #ClimateCrisis
Bushfires are blazing across Australia 🇦🇺🔥
#bushfire #bushfires #bushfiresAustralia #Australia #wildfires #nsw #qld
Bushfires "protect life and property" - and biodiversity?
"Wildlife rescuers warn of 'catastrophe' as key groups omitted from national disaster summit."
"An estimated three billion native animals died or were displaced during the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfire...We were walking on ashes of animals. We found bones everywhere. We found a koala hanging from a tree, burnt, a skeleton."
"In the aftermath, the inquiry recommended that wildlife rescue be better integrated with overall emergency response."
"Wildlife rescue organisations in New South Wales warn a new disaster response plan hasn't been completed almost four years after the Black Summer bushfires, leaving native animals at risk as summer approaches."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-17/wildlife-rescues-concern-omitted-from-national-disaster-summit/102982216
#FossiFuels #bushfires #BlackSummer #properties #values #NativeAnimals #wildlife #trauma #emergencies #biodiversity
Fossil fuel combustion kills
Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy
"This is the first review to analyze the substantial body of literature that enables approximate quantitative estimation of the human cost of carbon emissions, measured in lost human lives."
"When attempting to quantify future harms caused by carbon emissions and to set appropriate energy policies, it has been argued that the most important metric is the number of human deaths caused by climate change."
"If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter."
"Despite repeated and ever more serious warnings from the scientific community, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere continue to increase as fossil fuel combustion increases."
"Measuring carbon emissions in human lives not only makes the numbers easier to understand for nonexperts but also clarifies energy policy priorities: clearly, allowing a policy to cause manslaughter is intuitively unacceptable."
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/16/6074
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/11/australia-needs-climate-trigger-laws-conservation-groups-say-after-failed-challenge-to-coalmines
#energy #policies #Australia #governance #drought #FossilFuels #BushFires #heatwaves #casualties #emissions #GHG #harm #crimes #manslaughter #ForcedMigration #DeathToll #genocide #sacrifice #PrematureDeath #GHG #catastrophe #risk #ClimateGenocide #climate #biodiversity
"Extreme weather is the "new norm"
The World Meteorological Organization
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/extreme-weather-new-norm
Climate crisis costing $16m an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates
Analysis shows at least $2.8tn in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heatwaves
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/09/climate-crisis-cost-extreme-weather-damage-study
#WMO #climate #FossilFuels #BusinessAsUsual #ExtremeWeather #heatwaves #foods #bushfires #cyclones #storms #ParisAgreement #failure #ClimateCrisis
‘Fires everywhere’: the Australian firefighters on the frontline of the new global Flame Age https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/07/australian-bushfire-season-summer-heatwave-fires-firefighters-rfs #climate #bushfires
Oh goody! Can’t wait 😒 #Bushfires one day, #floods the next: why Australia can expect more ‘compound events’
Floods or fires are worrying enough, but as Gippsland has experienced this week, combined they are even more extreme, experts say
All #bushfires in #Victoria are now down to ADVICE level, and all the WATCH AND ACT alert level incidents are for flooding
#Australia #Bushfires #BePrepared
How to prepare for Australia's bushfire season
Geez it must be windy down there, that Cobargo-Bermagui fire has reached the beach already #bushfires #NSW
EMERGENCY level #bushfires at Cessnock and Cobargo. #NSW
It's only springtime in Australia
Things look really bad for the summer, and beyond
#Victoria
#Australia
#Tasmania
#bushfires
#wildfires
#climatecrisis
This sounds bad. #Bushfires in #Australia upgraded to emergency level after strong winds overnight.
"Residents at Briagolong north of Beverleys Road have been told it is too late to #evacuate and to shelter in place."
and so it begins - fire alarm siren just went off - bushfire nearby (Grampians) two days into spring.
Hopefully nothing major.
WATCH AND ACT - LEAVE NOW
Licola Road, Heyfield, Gippsland
A Watch and Act - Leave Now alert is in effect for #Heyfield, #Gippsland.
There is a bushfire at Licola Rd, Heyfield that is not yet under control.
The bushfire is travelling from Licola Rd, Heyfield in a south-easterly direction towards the Heyfield township.
The fight to end native logging
Anthony Albanese is taking a big electoral risk by continuing Howard-era native forest logging agreements. By Bob Brown.
"We live in a plutocracy. Big business prevails. Yet the destruction of native forests is stirring the public and will be a vote-changing issue at the next election, along with the cascading tragedy of global warming."
"Instead of protected koalas, the voters got protected logging corporations and a resumption of logging in key koala habitats with in-the-forest defenders facing arrest."
"Here’s how forest offsets work..."
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https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2023/09/30/the-fight-end-native-logging#mtr
#NSWLogging #NativeForests #logging #bushfires #risks #BellingenLogging #monoculture #offsets #ForestryCorporation #governance #EndNativeForestLogging #protests #GlasgowDeclaration #koalas #gliders #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #ClimateEmergency
PSA: if you’re in Qld you can use the NSW-built Fires Near Me app on iOS for push notifications about fires in your watch zones.
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/fires-near-me-australia/id406270824
I wish someone had told me this earlier, I’ve had push notifications from the QFES social media account on for weeks and it’s been terrible 😩
The ominous signs pointing to extreme heat and fire in Australia this summer
Last weekend, more than 20 runners in the #Sydney #Marathon were hospitalized during a heat wave. #Ski resorts, including Perisher, the country’s largest, have closed early amid a lack of snow after #Australia’s warmest winter since records began in 1910.
Then, last week, dozens of #bushfires broke out in the country, with more than 60 burning in the densely-populated state of #NewSouthWales.
atrocious conditions for NSW firies 🙁
'With the state facing what is forecast to be the most dangerous fire season since 2019-20, the Rural Fire Service has so far upgraded or replaced only 400 of its 2,294 firetrucks that do not meet the standards.'
The view from my front gate at the moment. No, that is NOT clouds in the sky. It's smoke from a bushfire.
I'm safe at present. Just have to keep the windows closed as the smoke is affecting my asthma.
Feels like summer is going to be bad this year.
"Forest Culture in Relation to Industrial Pursuits", 1 8 7 1
Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller on forestry:
"Strange as it may appear, an impression seems to be prevailing in these communities, as if our forests have to serve no other purposes but to provide wood for our immediate and present wants, be it fuel or timber."
"For even after warning of climatic changes, and after the commencing scarcity of wood, no forest administration … has been as yet initiated in any portion of Australia". Wilderness remained "unguarded" and in some places was "already annihilated".
"No statesman, I feel assured, would want to impoverish our woods at the expense of the next generation."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-09/melbourne-cbd-bourke-street-car-crash-one-dead-five-injured/102834812
#ForestryCorporation #LoggingIndustry #NSWlogging #NativeForests #ClearFelling #destruction #degradation #StateForests #SaveTuckersNob #fires #firestorm #bushfires #colonial #plantations #botany #koalas #climate #biodiversity #NatureRights #commons #Ecology #biosphere #EnvironmentalManagement
Image: Koala habitat: Bellingen, Tuckers Nob State Forest, 2023
Air pollution kills 3,200 Australians a year.
"Air pollution is the world’s single greatest environmental cause of preventable disease and premature death. In Australia, it’s linked to more than 3,200 deaths a year at an estimated cost of A$6.2 billion."
"Decarbonising transport will improve air quality as well as reducing emissions."
End
Killer mobility (Bushmaster like combustion tanks: SUVs)
Treating the Earth's air/atmosphere as a tip
Slash and burn 'plantation' forestry
'Burning everything down before it might burn' culture
https://theconversation.com/3-200-deaths-a-year-1-of-many-reasons-air-pollution-in-australia-demands-urgent-national-action-212973
#FossilFuel #transportation #cars #trucks #traffic #HeavyMachinery #roads #bushfires #smoke #NativeForests #NSWlogging #BellingLogging #burning #HazardReductionBurns #smoke #pollution #air ##climate #OneHealth
Logging The Proposed Great Koala National Park
Logging has accelerated since labor was elected
NSW Government Under Fire For Logging Proposed Great Koala National Park. The NSW government is under fire for logging in the rainforest area that was promised to be turned into the Great Koala National Park, as the iconic Aussie animal is being threatened with extinction by 2050.
8 min video>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhFY52oKGE
#StopLogging #NativeForests #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #NSWLogging #bushfires #risks #CulturalHeritage #koalas #biodiversity #extinction makers
#airQuality #AirPollution #CoalKills #BushFires #PublicHealth
‘Its annual Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) report showed that fine particulate air pollution—which comes from vehicle and industrial emissions, wildfires and more—remains the "greatest external threat to public health."’
From: @Philsturgeon
https://mastodon.green/@Philsturgeon/110983989235568789
Rivers in the Sky: How Deforestation Is Affecting Global Water Cycles
"The water that a single tree transpires daily has a cooling effect equivalent to two domestic air conditioners for a day."
"Forests moderate local climate by keeping their local environments cool. They do this partly by shading the land, but also by releasing moisture from their leaves. This process, called transpiration, requires energy, which is extracted from the surrounding air, thus cooling it. A single tree can transpire hundreds of liters of water in a day. Each hundred liters has a cooling effect equivalent to two domestic air conditioners for a day..."
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-deforestation-affecting-global-water-cycles-climate-change
#Forests #deforestation #logging #Australia #NSW #BellingenLogging #GNKP #trees #biodiversity #climate #Droughts #bushfires #risks
Fossil fuels being subsidised at rate of $13m a minute, says IMF
"Countries have pledged to phase out subsidies for years to ensure the price of fossil fuels reflects their true environmental costs, but have achieved little to date...Ending the subsidies should be the centrepiece of climate action."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/24/fossil-fuel-subsidies-imf-report-climate-crisis-oil-gas-coal
#FossilFuels #consumption #heatwaves #bushfires #floods #governance #InAction #risks #climate #ClimateAction
Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and more destructive
"In Canada, firefighters have reported such intense fires, that water dropped by aircraft is evaporating before it even hits the ground."
"The reasons for wildfires are complex.
Land use changes and p o o r f o r e s t m a n a g e m e n t play a part in worsening fires."
"You get a situation where the fires can become so intense they can't be fought. There's no technology that exists anymore...A lot of people burned in their cars as they were trying to flee the fire."
"The one solution that all researchers and policymakers seem to be unified on is that the carbon emissions warming the planet — and that are largely emitted by burning fossil fuels — must be slashed urgently."
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-fueled-wildfires-lead-to-rethink-on-fire-tactics/a-66575703
#deforestation #weeds #pollution #FossilFuels #BellingenLogging #bushfires #risks #climate
More bushfires in southeastern Australia due to climate disruption
What environmental and climatic factors influence multidecadal fire frequency?
"The complex spatiotemporal changes in fire frequency quantified in this study, and the complex between-region differences in the factors associated with the number of fires, have major implications for biodiversity conservation, resource availability (e.g., timber yields), and ecosystem integrity. In ecosystems subjected to repeated fires at short intervals, new rapid detection and swift suppression technologies may be required to reduce the risks of ecosystem collapse as high-severity wildfires increase in frequency."
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4610
David Lindenmayer et al, What environmental and climatic factors influence multidecadal fire frequency?, Ecosphere (2023). DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4610
#FossilFuels #climate #ecosystems #collapse #bushfires #logging #biodiversity #conservation