What is going on with Australia climate?

Question

Is it true that they are paying people to move out of that country? Is it true that that country will not last another 25 years?

Answer 1

Droughts and floods in Australia - nothing new there.

Check out "We'll all be rooned said Hanrahan." which is a humorous poem written 100 years ago.

Answer 2

no they are paying people to move out of the "country" (as in rural areas) because of the droughts but no one is paid to get out of Australia.

Answer 3

UHM AHEM - i live in Australia, and no that isn't true - because Australia has being receiving ALOT  and i mean ALOT of rain in summer and spring-

Answer 4

0I don't know where you got your information from but it's totally wrong. We still get over 100,00 people (2% of the total population) migrating here each year. Australia is not just a country it's a continent and will be here for 100s of million of years to come

Answer 5

Al Gore's giving away 1 acre plots from his family estate in Tennesee to the first 5000 applicant families who live south of 30 degrees south latitude.  He has even hired staff to help applicants clear immigration.  Hurry, apply soon!

Answer 6

There is much rainfall and some flooding in Australia at the moment, due to there being LA NINA conditions in the Pacific.

La Nina info:

http://www.abc.net.au/storm/nina/aust.ht...

http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/lanina_new_fa...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1...

However Australia is the world’s driest continent after Antarctica and has suffered major droughts in the recent past.

As for changes in climate, this is from the Australia Bureau of Meteorology:

“Since the middle of the 20th century, Australian temperatures have, on average, risen by about 1°C with an increase in the frequency of heat-waves and a decrease in the numbers of frosts and cold days. Rainfall patterns have also changed - the north-west has seen an increase in rainfall over the last 50 years while much of eastern Australia and the far south-west have experienced a decline.”

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/

The projection for the next few decades is that water supply problems are expected intensify by 2030 in southern and eastern Australia.

Answer 7

i wish it was true that they were paying people to get out of here. australias population is growing sooo much. but its not true

you really cant predict the future. the world might not last another 25 years... who knows really!

Answer 8

I'm a Canadian in Perth, Western Australia, and this is not true.

If the country is run poorly, then it's possible that it may not last 25 years, but this is true of most countries.  

Australia faces the greatest environmental problems of any first world country, but they handle them better than any other (especially after Howard the duck).

What is needed in Australia, and the world over, is an acceptance of the fact that many traditional approaches to life cannot be sustained for much longer. For example, broadcast watering programs cannot be used because it draws the salinity up from the salty soil and makes the land unusable.  Additionally, the nutrients in the soil are lacking for much of the country, resulting in poor regrowth rates, as most of the nutrients are in the large trees that are being cut down. Healthier logging practices need to be adapted to ensure longevity of the livelihood of Australia (Stop logging your trees and selling the cellulose to Japan for 4$ a cubic metre and then repurchasing the produced paper at 200$ a cubic metre would be a start).

The Australian people are hearty and intelligent.  They have a strong dose of ego, but are not so stubborn as to destroy themselves as the Tikopians and other populations with similar issues have in the past.

If you want a true look at tragedy where people will not survive for another 25 years, look at the countries ringing the Sahara desert.  Water shortages in these countries have resulted in armed conflicts like that in the Darfur.