Avoiding the Trillion-Dollar Price Tag: Managing Disaster Season Effectively
As another bushfire and flood season arrives, climate hysteria goes into overdrive.
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It’s now officially summer in Australia, which is also, semi-officially, the season of fire, droughts, cyclones (hurricanes), and floods.
So queue the summer litanies demanding the federal government do more to limit CO2 emissions.
Now we’re looking at our first cyclone of the season, Jasper, currently within 600 kilometres off the coast and heading inbound.
Both these events are unseasonably early, so I expect the climate flagellants to be even more shrill than ever.
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The idea that curtailing Australia’s emissions can control extreme weather events doesn’t make much sense to me. Not only have we had these natural disasters since a time before even the Aborigines arrived here, but climate change has made very little difference to them.
The Weather Has Been Quite Fine Down Under
We had worse forest fires in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
In 1939, we had the Black Friday Bushfires which burned 2 million hectares, and had the highest per capita death rate of any fire in Australia’s history, with over 1,300 homes burned and 3,700 buildings burned or damaged. The soot made it all the way to New Zealand.
When it comes to floods, 1974 was the year with the greatest rainfall, half a century ago, and the second half of the 20th century was wetter than the first half, so droughts haven’t been too prevalent either.
Cyclones are also on the decline. Again, the 70s were the high-water mark. So the imminent Cyclone Jasper probably won’t have too many stormy siblings this year.
All-in-all it seems that climate change has actually been rather good for the Lucky Country.
But how do you fight against a popular narrative, now being pumped up by COP28? And then on
