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Published: 2011-04-18 07:04:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 513; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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If only there was something we could do to lessen the blow???Illustration done for class, we had to illustrate a newspaper editorial.
The one I chose basically said climate change or no climate change, Queensland and part of Victoria near where I live and used to live (though, thankfully not to the extreme of Queensland) spent summer underwater, then there was the cyclones in Queensland (they had a rough summer), and we (unfortunately) remember all too well when Australia burned on Black Saturday... so no matter what we need to have more measures in place for the next time (and history tells us there will be a next time) this happens. To lessen the blow, and so the entire country is not thrown into chaos.
Nib pen and india ink on paper. Couldn't scan it (not enough scanners in the darn Mac Labs), so I had my lovely photographer friend take a picture of it, which I then repaired on photoshop.
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best explanation of the so called climate change debate
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You think so? I suppose I am rather brilliant...lol.
You know, I miss those debating trips back in highschool. For some reason this reminds me of them.
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LOVES it. best ever explanation of quite obvious climate changes.
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History - half a billion years of climate change- agrees!
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Especially here in Australia-with a great big hole in our O zone layer and, just in the time I have been alive, a decade long drought, fire and floods; we need to prepare for the possibility that worse may still come. Or at least more of the same.
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I've been learning about that ozone hole... apparently it is cold temperatures which contribute to its' size, and it is now being suggested that it has always been there. My own suspicion with this is that it acts as an escape valve for excess heat in the atmosphere- just one of the many self-correcting climate mechanisms we have yet to learn about.
It might be interesting to see what the paleoclimate history of Australia is like. There may be much of the same back then, too.
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I can tell you that however that hole got there, it sucks for horribly pale people like me...
From what I can tell and know, Australia has always been dry and had fairly unpredictable weather. And fire has always been a problems (some of our plants actually rely on fire for their seedlings).
Recorded history of Australia is all very recent, and so I think we are still learning about our climate and how to handle it. But I definitely think a big problem is that we need to stop thinking that the natural disasters are one off things. If we had come up with insurance reforms and safety nets for people who may loose everything in such events after the Black Saturday fires, we may have been more ready to respond to the devastation of the floods.
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Now That is good thinking. Running for government? They need Intelligent people.
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