'Bring it on!' - confusion between climate and weather

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ome welcome global warming, saying “Bring it on!”

Those same people argue they enjoy warm weather and would prefer that things were hotter, rather than cooler.

The trouble is, they argue in ignorance for they confuse the weather with climate and while an increase of a degree or two often makes for a more pleasant “here”, that same one or two degree increase globally can bring catastrophe.

Read more about this confusion in Elizabeth Farrelly’s piece in The Sydney Morning Herald - “Two degrees or four? It's a personal choice for survival in the near future”.

Emulating Diggers' sacrifice to tackle climate change

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ydney Morning Herald essayist Elizabeth Farrelly discusses here her views about Anzac Day and its connections to climate change.

“This year, as fate had it, Anzac Day raised to our health two brimming goblets of sacrifice – Gallipoli and climate change. Sacrifice past, sacrifice future. In the

morning, the first had us ambling along sunny streets, basking in our Australianness. But by afternoon, the second had us scrambling for protection from freak storms and adamant hail.

“Neither of the sacrifices implied is our own. One is our grandfathers' generation; the other will be our grandchildren's. Yet in both cases we are the beneficiaries. And although one sacrifice we recognise, with the reverence of religion, the other frightens us so profoundly we can barely bring ourselves to peek from behind the couch.” she writes.

Read the whole story here: “Let's emulate Diggers' sacrifice to tackle climate change”.