This week, the notional start of Autumn, is predicted to be above 30 degrees Celsius the whole week. While my water tanks are now nearly full, from a moderate rainfall on the 27th February, we will still be watering for a large part of March. My family in NZ are doing the same as our weather wafts across the Tasman Sea to provide drought conditions in the North Island of New Zealand.
As our confident Coalition plans the axing of the Carbon Tax, China is experimenting with an Emissions Trading Scheme reported to cover 250 million people.
I hope their scheme is successful because that may actually have a small effect in ameliorating the increasing energy in the climate system from global warming.
The Executive Summary of "Carbon Markets and Climate Policy in China", Oct 2012 for the Climate Institute by Climate Bridge, indicates that "China has reduced its energy intensity, become a world leader in renewable energy, and is rapidly establishing carbon trading systems. These actions not only have positive impact on the climate, they also drive economic growth, reduce fuel dependency and create export
opportunities. "
Something Australia needs also to do.
Does this weather make you angry?
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