The drought is "permanent" or is it?from Beyond Zero Emissions
The federal government has not taken climate change seriously, nor have the state Labor Governments, We're now in a position where we're moving towards "Permanent drought" according to Water Services Association of Australia executive director Ross Young.
"The need for moving as close to possible to a zero emissions common, is apparent and compelling, said Matthew Wright Campaigner with Beyond Zero Emissions
"A competent government, would work quickly to secure Kyoto's future and set goals that took the world as near as possible to zero emissions, and then using farming techniques such as Agri Char (aka Terra Preta -- see image above of Amazonian soil profile) like what the Mayan people used ten thousand years ago in the Amazon, we will be able to actively go to negative emissions and start to correct and normalise the climate securing the worlds food and water future" said Mr. Wright
The Bureau of Meteorology has admitted that their forecasts earlier this year for rain, were optimistic and based on the weather of the last 100 years. The Bureau is no longer able to do this, because we are moving into a new climate regime. This is shocking and the official line from the Bureau is "we can't predict when this drought will end" (Dr Coughlan)
With half of Australia's land in drought and farmers under financial and water stress, consumers in Australia's cities and towns are going to see big rises in food prices.
Given that we have 20 years of climate change effects built into the system that we haven't even seen yet, we hope that Australians will elect politicians who are going to seriously address these issues.
