September 2024

Record-breaking climate firestorms are raging across the Amazon Rainforest. A stubborn South American drought and extreme temperatures are stoking climate fires in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana and Paraguay.

Global heating has scorched millions of hectares in the Amazon Basin this year. It’s so horrible that black rain with soot from these monster fires has poisoned Brazilian cities. That toxic smoke (50X above the World Health Organisation’s safe level) has choked 10.3 million km²(4 million mi²), an area larger than the United States.

Big Coal, Big Oil, Big Fracking, Big Forestry, Big Animal Agri and Big Fisheries have unleashed hell on earthly life and governments are paying them to do so.

Fossil-fuelled ocean heat has lambasted coral reefs, home to 25% of marine life. This manmade heat is simply too much for sharks, so they are leaving reefs.

Cold-blooded grey reef sharks are moving offshore into deeper cooler waters and this spells disaster for coral life systems attempting to hang-on.

Sharks keep coral reefs in balance. They eat both herbivores and smaller predatory fish, and prevent reefs from being overgrazed or overgrown by algae.

Fossil-fuelled heat has baked Western Australia’s (WA) plant communities, its bees are starving.

Spring in WA and the Top End has sprung with vengeance. Horrible heat that begot a flash drought has lambasted western and northern Australia. Last week in Yampi Sound, WA, the mercury touched 41.6C (106.8F), the highest winter temperature ever recorded on that continent.