Floods in North Queensland

I’ve just seen the pictures nanna. It does look terrible!

And there's no such thing as global warming!!!!

It does look like a disaster. Nanna8, do you live nearby?

No we are down in the south , CanadianGran. Thousands of kms away. It is bad this time, worst since they started measuring it. It is very cold down here for the time of the year.
, only 14 C. It is usually in the 30 s by now. Weird weather.

We lived in Brisbane when cyclone Wanda hit in January 1974. This followed months of rain at the end of 73. The Brisbane River burst its banks and flooded great swathes of the city.
Some houses built on stilts floated away, dead pets floated by and the city stunk of sewage.
The army were called in to shovel mud from streets to make them passable and hordes of people came from all around to help the clean up of strangers homes.
The community spirit was incredible as it often is in times of adversity
Good luck to Queenslanders going through it now.

They are very supportive of each other, particularly in the remote areas. Same in the bushfires, people are so lovely when their fellow human beings are doing it tough.

Does the Australian government now recognise climate change and what is it doing about it?

Of course they do and they have reacted violently by closing down all the coal mining. Result= many out of work, not enough electricity and prices rising. They are nauseatingly politically correct.

nanna8. Sorry to hear this news. Will the Australian government take action to prevent any more properties from being built on flood plains do you think?

nanna8

Of course they do and they have reacted violently by closing down all the coal mining. Result= many out of work, not enough electricity and prices rising. They are nauseatingly politically correct.

Have they invested in renewable energy resources at the same time?

'Nauseatingly politically correct' seems like a strange way to describe a government taking action on a cause of climate change, though I can understand irritation if a resource is closed without a substitute. But at least it's trying to ensure a half decent world for your grandchildren to inherit..

But with your climate, don't you all have PV solar panels?

Australia has become a world leader in pv solar energy. Now it needs to stop building on flood plains and all will be perfect.

Those floods were actually unprecedented and not particularly in flood plain areas. The people who were amongst the worst affected are indigenous and have lived in those areas for many generations. It really was very freaky.

Perth also has fires and high winds. Not an easy time for Australia.

My heart goes out to all Australians caught up in this terrible weather.

Two of my sisters have lived in australia for a long time, one had to move house four times because of fires, her husband was fire fighting while she packed the puppies and herself in a car and got the heck out of there

This morning I hear that it is 35 degrees with strong winds in perth and thankfully, they are somewhere `safer` now but one still had fires come very close last year. Give me the uk anytime.

Australia supplied massive amounts of coal to china until 2021, thankfully it is now much reduced but the damage to our climate has been done

We were sitting on a station just south of Sydney earlier this year and counted the wagons on a train carrying coal, presumably headed for China, over 40 huge containers.
One train of many. Just exporting your coal doesn’t neutralise it.
LauraNorrderr in HK it was Typhoon Wanda. It caused a lot of damage. We were mopping up at the front of the flat, had a brief respite when the eye went over then rushed to the back for the second bout. Dad was out, trying to do a bit of damage limitation, I think it was the worst typhoon that we had whilst we lived there.