As a
supporter of Climate Change I have seen arguments from so many deniers. The
first protest I had attended in Brisbane in November 2013 about climate change.
There were other protests that year in other cities over the country:
All 2013, The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/19/2013-climate-change-review-global-warming
Have you
read all those?
In 2017
the Lowy Institute had a poll of the population, rising to 57% of those who
think climate change is essential, regardless of the cost. The bushfires this
year ‘earned’ $2 billion more spending on future protection of fires.
Australia’s
School Strike 4 Climate first protested in 2018, following Greta Thunberg’s
solo protest at the Sweden parliament house. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-30/australian-students-climate-change-protest-scott-morrison/10571168
Their
protest in September 2019 drew an incredible number of supporters: Melbourne - 100,000; Sydney -
80,000; Brisbane - 30,000; Adelaide - 20,000; Hobart - 20,000; Canberra - 15,000
and Perth - 10,000.
There
will be more ongoing protests held this year, twenty twenty - 2020. There will
be more people coming along on the protest marches. So who are we trying to
turn around to us?
Around
the world other media have reported the hottest records ever. This isn’t
just Australia – it’s USA, India, UK, France, Panama, South Africa, Egypt,
Germany – everywhere within the world.
Ice sheet
collapse: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-change
Climate
change world over: https://edition.cnn.com/specials/world/cnn-climate
A decade
of disappointment: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-decade-record-temperature-fridays-for-future-environment-crisis-a9267601.html
Geopolitical
tensions: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/01/1054811
Climate
breakdown: https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/newsfeed/2019/12/2019-year-climate-breakdown-191230093418508.html
Marine
science issues: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/climate/climate-change-marine-science.html
Early
spring, hotter summers: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-bringing-earlier-springs-may-trigger-drier-summers
Deforestation
tipping point: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200107142308.htm
The last
decade in 7 days: https://grist.org/climate/we-broke-down-the-last-decade-of-climate-change-in-7-charts/
UK’s climates
in 100 years: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50976909
Have you
read all of those?
National
Geographic provided charts of global temperatures, greenhouse emissions and
atmospheric carbon since 1900s.
The NASA
Global Climate Change group provided a similar graph of atmospheric carbon
dioxide, more now than ever.
And the
Climate Council provided information on the “Top 10 climates moments of the past
decade”.
Were you
a denier? Are you still a denier? Don’t you believe all the media, all the
science and meteorologist websites, all the weather people? Don’t you like the
Extinction Rebellion protest which holds up traffic? Do you blame them
for what’s happening in climate change?
Are
you still a denier?
I hope
you aren’t. I hope that right now you are one of the 57% of the population who
agree with climate change – and this poll should have grown a lot in the
very recent reports of what’s happening throughout this globe.
More than
half believes in climate change, because it is for real. We need to
change, and change NOW.
What will
you do?
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