Global warming is here~total fire ban in August.

It's getting up to the last week in August right? Here in Australia this is supposed to be our winter. Spring starts the first week in September. Well here in Queensland we have a total fire ban for the whole of the state. That's right a total fire ban in the middle of winter. Do you think nature is telling us something? I think so; methinks it is warning us about the impeding imminent effects of climate change of global warming. It is I believe saying to us that if we continue to live this way there will be more of these days more of these freak weather events that you will have to deal with.

A total fire ban means exactly that no one is allowed to light a fire in the whole of the massive state of Queensland for 24 hours or maybe longer. The reason is that a fire is likely to spark a bushfire not unlike we had I summer down in the State of Victoria. A fire as all fires does cause devastation. Given that there is a lot of very dry leaf litter in our Forrest even in the suburbs of Brisbane. We have not had any rain to talk of for months although thankfully at the end of last summer we had a down pour lasting weeks which topped up our dams from critically low levels.

Apparently it reached 33 degrees Celsius n parts of Brisbane this afternoon and much hotter in other parts of the state. With the forthcoming conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen I November its time to remind your elected representatives that now is the time to stop mucking around and get serious.

2009 Royal Commission Report into the catastrophic bushfires last February

2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission - Home
The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission was established on 16 February to investigate the causes and responses to the bushfires which swept through parts of Victoria in late January and February 2009.

Brisbane Forecast
Issued at 11:10 am EST on Monday 24 August 2009

Warning Summary
A Fire Weather Warning is current.

Forecast for Monday
Fine and dry. A hot day. Moderate to fresh NW to N winds. A very high fire
danger.

Precis:       Dry, hot, windy.
City:         Max 33
Bayside:      Max 31
UV Alert:     9:40 am to 2:10 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 5 [Moderate]

Forecast for Tuesday
Fine and dry. A warm day. Moderate W to NW winds, fresh at times during the
morning.

Precis:       Dry, warm.
City:         Min 18    Max 31
Bayside:      Min 17    Max 30

Wednesday     Fine.                                  Min 15    Max 27
Thursday     Fine.                                  Min 11    Max 26
Friday        Fine.                                  Min 14    Max 25
Saturday     Fine.                                  Min 15    Max 28
Sunday        Fine.                                  Min 16    Max 30

The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:15 pm EST Monday.

Global warming is here in August. in the News

Up to 50 'sickies' taken on Black SaturdayDaily Telegraph5 days ago
ALMOST 50 Victorian firefighters took "sickies" on Black Saturday, the bushfires inquiry has heard.
Govt shifting bushfire responsibilitiesBigPond News5 days ago
The Victorian government's been accused of shifting its bushfire responsibilities onto local councils.
Govt shifting bushfire responsibilitiesSky News Australia5 days ago
The Victorian government's been accused of shirking its bushfire responsibilities by putting the burden of neighbourhood safer places on local councils.

Global warming is here~total fire ban in August. in the News

Global warming: Why public concern declinesThe Christian Science Monitor25 hours ago
On eve of the global warming summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, an informal global survey shows that public interest in the issue is waning. But many people are taking individual steps to curb global warming.
U.S. action key to any deal on global warmingPioneer Press15 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Negotiators in Copenhagen will try to nail down all the main elements of a treaty to curb global warming in the next two weeks, but a final agreement won't be possible until the United States figures out what it will do to reduce emissions of heat-trapping pollution.
Global warming fight hinges on financingNew Haven Register13 hours ago
Associated Press COPENHAGEN — Delegates converged Sunday for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as U.N. officials calculated that pledges offered in the last few weeks to reduce greenhouse gases put the world within reach of keeping global warming under control.

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