Flooding
Posted by: gnoelj
3rd Mar 2022 07:09pm
Do you think recent flooding events in Queensland and Northern New South Wales are the results of climate change?
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gnoelj
So a one in fifty became a one in eleven in Brisbane. There was discussion linking this back to property prices and densities in that the need to house people had removed bushland that works to absorb water
Dena31948125
Climate change has a very big contribution to the recent flooding happening in Australia. But other factors might be contributing to this as during history flooding like this used to happen as well.
Dena31948125
Climate change has a very big contribution to the recent flooding happening in Australia. But other factors might be contributing to this as during history flooding like this used to happen as well.
ab
Short answer is ‘yes’
Long answer. Yes, it seems to be. At first, I thought well if these events are being described as 1 in 50 yr or 1 in 100 yr events, well, they’ve presumably happened before so how can it be climate change? But what has changed in those 50 yr or 100 yr spans? The world’s population has grown exponentially and medical treatments have meant we’re living longer. That has had a knock-on effect on gases that cause the greenhouse effect, ice caps melting, sea levels rising, storms etc etc. What were 100 yr events are becoming 10 yr events and will quickly become annual events.
Avocado Green
Feels more like the apocalypse! 😂 Floods, bushfires, global pandemic... I wonder what next year will bring...
Anonymous
Yes definitely!
Tamzin32263109
Yes, I think the government needs to start taking this issue seriously and label it as a crisis
jtmorri
Yes I do. I also think that Australia needs a national disaster plan to combat floods, cyclones, storms and bushfires moving forward. Natural disaster is predicted to worsen.