sandym wrote:YMMV, but I find the ABC loves a good doom and gloom news article. I actually think we have bigger problems with poor dietary patterns and inactivity rampant. Eat your veggies and exercise is not really a headline grabber though.
My mileage and what the science says does vary.
The ABC actually sells the big-business line that there's a few issues around the edge, but things are basically OK.
They report the idea that if we keep warming to 1.5C, then problem solved, but 1.5C means famine, floods, drought and obvious knock-ons like wars and all that worse than we have now as we only have about 1.3C warming, but are doing so much damage now, there's a lag before we experience it so we carry on. And we have such a disconnect between what the science says and what the media and politicians say....
Anyway, If you think dietary patterns and sedentary lifestyle are a bigger problem than all that...well OK. Priorities I guess.
I'll leave a few notes from the IPCC report, because I find people don't want to believe we're stumbling head first into calamity, and so won't be convinced, as it's easier to pretend it's not a big deal.
This from IPCC for Austalasia:
1. Loss and degradation of coral reefs and associated biodiversity and ecosystem service values in Australia due to ocean warming
and marine heatwaves (very high confidence)
2. Loss of alpine biodiversity in Australia due to less snow (high confidence)
3. Transition or collapse of alpine ash, snowgum woodland, pencil pine and northern jarrah forests in southern Australia due to hotter
and drier conditions with more fires (high confidence)
4. Loss of kelp forests in southern Australia and southeast New Zealand due to ocean warming, marine heatwaves and overgrazing by
climate-driven range extensions of herbivore fish and urchins (high confidence)
5. Loss of natural and human systems in low-lying coastal areas due to sea-level rise (high confidence)
6. Disruption and decline in agricultural production and increased stress in rural communities in south-western, southern and eastern
mainland Australia due to hotter and drier conditions (high confidence)
7. Increase in heat-related mortality and morbidity for people and wildlife in Australia due to heatwaves (high confidence)
8. Cascading, compounding and aggregate impacts on cities, settlements, infrastructure, supply-chains and services due to wildfires,
floods, droughts, heatwaves, storms and sea-level rise (high confidence)
9. Inability of institutions and governance systems to manage climate risks (high confidence).
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/down ... alasia.pdf