Jopo, Willial, Mudguts and other climate change deniers, what do you make of this ongoing heatwave and associated fire activity in Siberia and the Arctic Circle.
the weather and the fires have been widely reported across world media.
our ABC is running a story on it today on its news app.
here's part of the report.
"The fires have flared-up as Arctic Russia moved into its sixth month of record-breaking temperatures.
""This heatwave is almost like a heat season," said Flavio Lehner from Switzerland's Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science. "For five months in a row there's been very much above-the-normal expected temperatures.
""We're seeing a deviation by up to eight degrees Celsius over a sizable area. So the persistence of this heatwave is actually even more remarkable than the overall anomaly."
"The Siberian heatwave drove a new heat record for Russia, with figures from independent environmental data science organisation Berkeley Earth showing the nation 5.3 degrees above average for the first five months of the year.
"It is the greatest average temperature anomaly recorded by any country," ABC reported.
so climate change deniers, you independent 'thinkers', first things first. Do you believe any of the data published about the weather and the fires.
would Russia an interest in fingering the data to bias what people receive? If so, would they massage the data higher or lower. What would be best? We've been fighting cold wars against Russia forever. So now we're going to trust them to take the temperature.
deniers have often argued that higher temperatures are good for us all. Is that the case here.
at the same time, deniers also argue that Earth is in or about to enter a prolonged cooling trend. Is record breaking high temperatures in Siberia evidence of a warming or cooling trend.
deniers, i urge to not be shy. You've been flouting your irrationality in plain view in public for decades. There's no point clamming up now.
Jopo, if you're still busy confecting fiction about the impact of rising CO2 levels in the air on the weather and climate, could ask your handlers for a reading on Siberia being on fire.
speaking for myself personally, i'm worried by these events. It seems to indicate that whatever balance that underpinned the global climate and held us humans in good stead until now could be breaking down.
Experts who have looked into possible outcomes have raised the possibility these events are an existential threat.
i guess if you live the denier dream that's okay, but us normal people don't want to sit by and not take action against something we can try to moderate.
