Four years ago, rampant wildfires in Australia fueled an onslaught of claims that climate change was to blame.
While the 2018-2019 Australian summer wildfire season featured scant rainfall and widespread wildfires (many caused by arsonists), any existing climate change signal should be visible throughout a series of many years.
After all, years of above-average or below-average rainfall and wildfires have occurred from time immemorial. [emphasis, links added]
Looking back at recent rainfall data, it is clear that 2018-2019 was a single unusual summer within a string of above-average rainfall years that have made wildfires less likely rather than more likely.
More specifically, every year since the 2018-2019 Australian summer has seen above-average rainfall throughout Australia.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) publishes rainfall maps going back to 1900. Each map shows areas of above-average rainfall in blue and below-average rainfall in red. From 1900 through 1972, red-dominated maps tended to be the norm.
Since 1973, blue-dominated maps tend to be the norm. According to objective scientific data, rainfall in recent decades has become more abundant, which makes wildfires less frequent and severe.
Since the summer of 2018-2019, the data show 2020, 2021, and 2022 each featured above-average rainfall.
Preceding the 2018-2019 Australian summer, 2016 and 2017 featured above-average rainfall, as did most other years since the turn of the century.
If climate change causes more drought and wildfires, as climate activists claim, then above-average drought and wildfire years should occur more than once in a long while.
In short, the data clearly show that wildfire-stifling rainfall is becoming more frequent and abundant in our modestly warming world.
Any claims that climate change caused the Australian wildfires are claims made out of scientific ignorance or deliberate misinformation.
Read more at Climate Realism
Four years ago Australia was Burning now their getting Rain and the Media falls silent because they cant think of a thing to say
Give ’em a month, they’ll be screaming “FLOODS”, due to “CLIMATE CHANGE”. Anything to sell advertising space/time.
Science has projected tumultuous Weather Changes for over a century.
“1824 Describing Earth’s Atmosphere as a Greenhouse
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, a mathematician working for Napoleon, was the first to describe how Earth’s atmosphere retains warmth on what would otherwise be an icy planet.. To help explain the concept, he compared the atmosphere to the glass walls of a greenhouse.
Learn more: The Discovery of the Greenhouse Effect
1856 Discovering Gases That Trap Heat
Eunice Foote, an American scientist, discovered that carbon dioxide and water vapor cause air to warm in the sunlight.
In 1856, she presented her findings at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) detailing her experiments to determine the effects of the sun’s rays on different gases,” noted an 1856 article in Scientific American.
1859 Testing the Heat-Trapping Ability of Gases
John Tyndall, a British physicist, tested the gases in the atmosphere to find out which are responsible for the greenhouse effect. He found that nitrogen and oxygen, which make up almost all of the atmosphere, cannot trap heat, but
that three Potent Trace gases present in smaller quantities do:
1. carbon dioxide,
2. ozone, and
3. water vapor.
4. Tyndall speculated that if the amounts of these gases dropped, it would chill the Earth.
5. Conversely, if the amounts of these trace gases increased, it would WARM the Earth.
6. And so modern Industry & agriculture have succeeded in vastly increasing these trace gases and World Temperatures are now warming well over 14 times faster than Earth’s Geologic Normal.
1896 Connecting Coal, Carbon Dioxide, and Climate
Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius recognized that burning coal could increase carbon dioxide and warm the climate. He estimated how much carbon dioxide the ocean could absorb. In an 1896 lecture, Arrhenius noted that it was not yet possible to calculate how fast temperature was rising.”