Fires the deadly inevitability of Climate Change

YOu know what i find funny is that earth is not the only planet going through a global climate change. Must be from all that industry goin on over there......

It's amazing how people are so willing to just regurgitate what they hear from TV pundits in favor of all known scientific evidence.

"Warming and cooling is natural. Look at the Ice Age."
"It goes in cycles."
"Global warming? But it's colder than ever outside."

It's like saying, "So there are a lot of kids being born with deformities in this town, that doesn't mean the chemical plant is causing them. There have always been children with deformities."

"Yeah, but why are there so many right now?"

"Maybe it's the local gene pool. Maybe it's something the parents are eating."

"Yeah, but the scientists have shown it's from the chemicals being emitted from the chemical plant."

"Scientists, what do they know?"

Bob,

I have noticed the government is not mentioning the 400 lb gorilla in the room that is part of this, which is climate change. Do you think it is because they do not want coal companies and the like to be held accountable by victim's families? The first thing Kevin Rudd did after being elected was to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, so he must know the urgency of this. I sincerely thought he got it, but after reading their GHG emission plan I believe that certain interests are taking precedence over policy just as they do here in America. If this tragedy does not move them, then what will?

O god i saw this coming o no Australia is on fire it must be global warming! Yea well its the coldest frikin winter in florida ive ever had. It almost snowed this month in florida. Its called the planets climate goes in cycles sheesh.

From Greenpeace Australia comes the following call to arms - Time is running out.

Start email message:-

Every now and again, something happens that turns the world on it’s head. A psychic break. A mind bomb. People wake up and the world is
different. It creates space for change. And a rare opportunity for activists and change agents to shift the ground from under the powerholders.

On Monday morning we awoke to a different
world. The Adelaide morgues were already overflowing before the firestorm ripped through Victoria, killing upward of two hundred people. The climate has changed. We have caught a terrifying glimpse of the future on a warming planet.

Over the next week, we need to make it crystal clear to everyone in this country that this is what climate change looks like. We owe it to the people in Victoria who have lost their homes and loved ones.

We urgently need to get letters into every single newspaper in the country, and be on every talkback radio programme. If we say it often
enough and loud enough we can create a self fulfilling prophesy - After this week, a 5% emissions reduction target is politically impossible.
The climate has changed, and Rudd must change with it.

I’ve drafted some dot points for writing letters and calling radio.
Please send this far and wide to your networks. There is a fine line to walk here – and a small window for shifting the climate debate in a
profound and fundamental way. This window will close within the next week so get out there and get online, get blogging, get writing, post comments, call radio, do it all, again and again.

Talking points:

1. The tragic events unfolding across Victoria provide a terrifying window into life on a warming planet.

2. Government policy is fanning the flames of climate change that we know will result in more frequent and more intense bushfires, droughts,
storms and floods.

3. A five percent emissions reduction target is no longer politically possible. How can it be? Australians are dying as a result of extreme
weather events.

4. First the heatwave, then floods, and now firestorms across Victoria.

If any politician still needed an excuse to take urgent and drastic action in response to the climate emergency, the tragic events of the
past week have provided it.

5. We’re facing a climate emergency and are running out of time.

In solidarity

John Hepburn

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Julien Vincent
Climate & Energy Campaigner
Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Level 4, 39 Liverpool St
Sydney NSW 2000

Ph: +61 (0)2 9263 0348
Mob: +61 (0) 419 179 529

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We need to take this time to call all to action. In support of those lives now lost and those to be lost - our children and theirs.

This message is not only for the Australian people. Climate change will not leave you or others on our shared planet immune.

This is a message that should be taken to all procrastinating politicians.

Will they one day be held responsible for crimes against humanity for their inaction as those that we have given responsibility to act and to lead?

Will they be brought to trial for corruption, by continueing to subsidise polluting industries, for their political agendas?

Link this to all you are doing.

We have the power to take this message to the world. YOU have the power to take this message to the world.

Our future is foretold.

Bob Williamson
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
www.greenhouseneutral.net
Author of ZERO Greenhouse Emissions - The Day the Lights Went Out - Our Future World
www.strategicbookpublishing.com/ZEROGreenhouseEmissions.html

People must be educated that global warming causes global extremes of heat, cold , wet an dry. Climate change can tip into ice age. Unfortunately ice ages don't fit neatly into a fiscal quarter earnings report.