Do you think that the floods in Australia are due to Global Warming?

No. They may be worse than they would have otherwise been, because global warming results in more moisture in the atmosphere. But we certainly can't say that the floods wouldn't have happened without global warming.

However, there have been several studies on the increase in heavy precipitation events as a result of global warming.

http://www.knmi.nl/publications/fulltexts/global_e...

http://www.drinetwork.ca/extremes/documents/Groism...

And it only makes sense that the Queensland and northern Australia monsoon would be generally made stronger by warmer water and more moisture in the air.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B1XF201101...

In short, global warming didn't cause the floods, but it may very well have made them more intense.

Firstly Eric C, climate scientists have not mentioned anything about the reduced severity of floods (in fact in Australia the opposite has been warned by scientists, as the predicted sea level rises are expected to increase the flooding of the coast line and rivers linked to oceans). Rainfall is expected to decrease in many areas of Australia, however northern Australia's rainfall is not expected to alter that much. Also the government in Australia has only started taking climate change as serious within the last 5 years or so, and most of that has involved talk and very little action.

The climate change science does predict greater unpredictability with the climate (that is, the Earth is entering a climate phase that human civilisation has never been around for or not in modern history anyway). One potential risk of climate change is an increased intensity in tropical cyclones (not necessary more, but a greater occurrence of bigger cyclones).

So potentially climate change could be an influencing factor on the floods, however I would say poor planning, land clearing, poor flood mitigation strategies (very little seems to have changed since the 1974 floods) and the heavy rains caused by seasonal tropical cyclones (nothing out of the ordinary with SE Queensland having rain during this time of the year) were the major factors.

You do realize Australia is an identical length with the aid of fact the contiguous states of the U. S., good? the common varieties we've had in maximum areas are long classes of decreased rainfall accompanied by making use of flooding over 7-10 3 hundred and sixty 5 days classes. Our climate cycles are so diverse to the northern hemisphere varieties some have pronounced we dismiss the assumption of four seasons in one 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and concentration extra on the 7 3 hundred and sixty 5 days ENSO version and is the reason extra of the version. The climate predictions are for extra extreme droughts interior the southeast (the place i grew to become into residing until final week) and extra rain interior the northwest. The drought broke interior the southeast approximately 2 years in the past, and we've had periodic floods when you consider that then. A trend opposing the predictions for the southeast would be if the droughts do no longer grow to be extra extreme over the arriving an prolonged time and the floods worsen or extra time-honored. the reason we've floods after drought is by technique of the impacts on soils long classes without water has. familiar rainfall seeps into bedrock and strikes slowly with the aid of aquifers yet while soils are dry they grow to be compacted and this reduces the quantity of water they'd take in. it incredibly is worsened by making use of issues like deforestation and grazing. once you ultimately get substantial rain, it runs around the precise of the soil rather than being soaked into it like it does while rain is familiar. for this reason you get floods after drought. If the drought is worse, then right here floods additionally are in all likelihood to be worse. So confident, we are waiting for to have droughts and floods as huge-unfold. We additionally anticipate the severity of those to alter. come decrease back to us in 30 years time as quickly as we would have had some cycles which will point out what the craze is. until then, are not getting excited.

They are probably more intense than they would have been otherwise. Climate change (a better name for Global Warming) is occurring all over the world. Areas of the world are having record heat repeatedly summer after summer. In my area of the US spring flowers are blooming an average of 2 weeks earlier now than they did just 20 years ago (the average blooming date had stayed steady for over 200 years prior to that.)

Yes most definitely

Global warming induces these catastrophic natural disasters

GW doesn't cause anything directly but it is the conditions of GW that induces these calamitous effects.

It is scientifically proven that indeed global warming induces natural disasters and it will get worse every year from now on

http://www.circleforhumanity.net/

That part of Australia is prone to cyclical flooding.

http://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/b...

The problem is the australian government listen to arrogant climatologists who said this type of flooding would be a thing of the past with climate change and they did not take adaptive measures to ensure these floods do not happen again.

yeah they are,

it's like everything is going to be or is more Intense like hot weather isn't just going to be 30 it's going to be 40 or even 50.

The wind isn't going to be a gust it will be like a mini Cyclone and when it storms it will be just devastating

that is why this has happened have u noticed when it's sunny it's way hotter that it use to be and like in Queensland and Brisbane the rain just went on and on and on...

It the beginning of 2012, mother nature is renewing itself.

Yeah. But it is not only global warming, there are other factors too.

no, floods happen al the time you cant blame everything on global warming.

and why is it 12 degrees here? i want some warming