Houston ,We Have A Problem

[fjlip]

And what MAGIC wand is going to STOP drought? Or ice age?

[Braveheart]

How would Western Canadian farmers adapt to a 10 or 40 year run of droughts equal in severity to, or worse than, were experienced in the 1930s?
Maybe become migrants heading to a more benign climate as zero-till isn't going to save you.

How? Like you have. Understanding the water cycle. Keeping litter and the ground covered. Mobbing vs casual grazing.

Zero till does help in fact.

[grassfarmer]

How? Like you have. Understanding the water cycle. Keeping litter and the ground covered. Mobbing vs casual grazing.

Zero till does help in fact.

These things help, zero-till included but I doubt any of us would make it through a 10 year periods with 5" a year less moisture than we have now. Its a tough enough job as ranchers to survive a 2 year drought. How do you survive on 15 bu crops instead of 50bu?

[Guest]

ADAPT, A-D-A-P-T, do some people not GET THAT? No amount of TAX is going to INSTANTLY put out fires, floods, heat waves, killer cold.... our present society would need to totally be destroyed to save earth? Every climate/temp/precip/storms has happened forever. We are insignificant to alter the atmosphere on this HUGE green/blue ball.

Oh ya 119 year record cold in India?

Jesus H Christ , FJ
The hot in oz is global warming
The record cold in India is just weather
Gonna hafta sick chuck on you until you drink the kool aid

[malleefarmer]

Point of conjecture worse exodus fires across oz who knows.

But the extreme let ignores stuff and votes against many seemingly logical solutions, recommendation that at least 5% of govt crown land forest should have controlled burns, to mitigate damaging bushfires & protect biodiversity but got voted down.

There are literally thousands of fire trucks fighting fires across oz and greens are suggesting they should be electric powered rather than diesel.

Some of these trucks have been at it for 4 weeks only stopping to refuel.

Other reports especially out of wa farmers conducting “illegal” back burns after being told by authorities not to saved many properties.

Fires in northern Australia happen every yea with onset of monsoon season nothing to see there
Here in my state it’s nothing compared to 1983 fires and apparently the biggie was in the 60s



Disclaimer did a bit of research and sorry if I’ve mislead anyone that’s fires in last 6 months and many were hotspots studied it after I posted and thought well 25% isn’t on fire at the moment thought I had better clear that up

[malleefarmer]

Just a little of what I do.

Catastrophic conditions forecast sun and such a day let’s say Thursday

Well Tuesday and wed I will shift stock to bare paddocks or those with stuff all feed.

Harvest will not start on those days regardless of morning temps even if it’s cool

Combine and haul out bin etc augers will be shifted to bare areas

Fire fighting equipment hooked up and ready to go during the day.

Stay at home if possible.

Example other night was 43 at 4 o’clock in afternoon, wife didn’t want to cook dinner. We waited went out when change came through temps dropped 15 c in about a hour.

Is climate changing who knows remember seemingly weeks on end of 38c to 42 when growing up no aircon either.

Old timers gotta love em, it’s summer it’s Australia harden the foook up

[malleefarmer]

Please read fire map updated comments.

[fjlip]

Mallee that's adapting, NO amount of TAX will put out your fires, warm India, prevent the polar vortex, restart the SUN spots!

[dalek]

It’s almost as if, when the treehuggers insist on letting record levels of fuel build up instead of letting people harvest it and make use of the wood, you get more and bigger fires. And then throw in all the arson. Same story in California, Ontario, just about everywhere. Who woulda thunk it?

[jazz]

Go dig up copies of the Sydney paper from the 1800s and you can find articles about multi year huge wildfires only to have floods a few yrs later. There are temps in the 50s from that time period as well.

Nothing to see here. It's normal for this era.