David Karoly's climate crisis – less frost mornings in Melbourne? – Watt?

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Should we turn off Western industrial civilization to restore frost?

'Global Quirk': How Our 'Normal' Becomes More Extreme

Winter fires and devastating floods – the weather becomes “weird” and more extreme.

David Karoly remembers seeing Frost regularly when he was a little boy on his way to school in Melbourne – now, it's an unusual sight for the city.

The decline of cold days is one of many weather-related changes that people around the world notice and describe as “weird”.

Climate change has increased global temperatures by an average of 1.55 Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels 2024 is the hottest year on record.

Individual “global weird” events may or may not be linked to climate change But Karoly, an internationally recognized climate change expert, said they happen frequently.

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Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/what-is-global-weirding-how-normal-is-is-becoming-more-extreme/rl8k19za5

Karoly went on to describe some big storms and other events, but I'm sure there were serious storms before the Industrial Age. As the article says, events “may be related to climate change, or may not be linked.”

I think we should look for more confirmation before spending hundreds of billions of dollars on “possible or impossible” issues.

As for Frost in Melbourne, I lived in Melbourne for a while when I was a kid. I remember frost in Melbourne – living in a cheap, unquarantined wooden house and you will feel frost before you see it. It might be fun if you are watching Frost from a roaring warm room, but experiencing frost in a cheap 1950s house, with a small fireplace and asbestos sheets outdoor toilets will reduce the magic.

We are not particularly poor – many people live in low-quality houses.

Unfortunately, many people in Melbourne and elsewhere in Australia still live in low-quality homes. Australian energy bills soared as Australia's green energy fanatics, with one in four Australians struggling to pay for home heating.

Even those lucky still have an effective fireplace that fuels that fireplace, which is more challenging than when I was a kid. You may face severe penalties from today’s Australia for collecting firewood from wilderness areas. While it is not illegal to use wood fire for home heating in Melbourne, the clean air laws are much stricter than when I was younger. If you burn anything other than expensive kiln dry wood or smokeless fuel, you may face legal implications.

The frost mornings in Melbourne are certainly not something I want to keep.

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