That NYT article was rather emotional and 'incendary' going for it's usual grab bag of disparate symptoms to try and prove CC. It doesn't.
Great Barrier Reef dying? - mostly agricultural chemicals in the run off.
Imagine if you will France and Germany (and probably a few other countries too!) concreted over and placed in the middle of Australia in 100°F temperatures - what do you think will happen to the temps once that air gets to Eastern Australia ?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/sydney-...UDbMGC9VnFmNiXSmT9AS_f9ozlX7orb-N-i0FzmLeIPvM
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This pic for context - for even though it's a concrete jungle now - this is where it is sited - a river valley ...... the hottest place on earth ! ding ding !!
What if I told you the current conflagrations were due to repressed Aboriginal Sovereignty? or the feral Red Fox? or the proliferation of concrete guttering? all of which correlates nicely. Would that door to an open mind crack open just a tiny little bit?
First it may require even the remotest consideration that Western Science, Academic Rigor, The Scientific Method, etc, are just but the tiniest subset of all knowledge - wisdom so advanced that you would probably have to consider it magic ...... :cat:
When that swiss cheese block of assumptions and error multiplied navel gazing modelling evolves to a point where it's open to far bigger boundaries I will revisit. In the interim all I can do is present the knowledge - whether it's given to me by 8ft tall ancient warriors that stroll through doorways into this world (from realms where waiving your Doctorate around is seen as no more impressive than a two year old banging building blocks together), trees that shimmy and shake and telepathically talk to me, or eagles whispering to me on the wind, or emergent 'science' ..... it's up to everyone else to open their eyes instead of blithely sailing on .... coz the current course heads rapidly towards a giant plug hole. :cat:
Btw - I've never advocated
"boutique agriculture" - only sustainable kinds. This would involve surrendering 1/3 of that land to nature. Productivity of the remainder would increase by 50%, double, more - who knows. The important point is that the asset base of soil would improve and increase - instead of being 'mined' and eroded, as now, and the hydrological cycle would be reinstated. Global Heat problems solved. You could even have a portion of intensive animal rearing - in fully sustainable built facilities - renewable powered, methane, compost, and water harvesting, trigeneration, located appropriately ..... simple really.
All of this does require forsaking worshipping the almighty $ though. Why worship a ponzi scheme when you could worship the soil that supports you, the air you breathe and the water you drink instead? Oh, look at that - CO2