Due to climate change and governments around the world to name a few the US and Australia, are not paying much attention towards reducing their carbon footprints as agreed in Paris and Tokyo Protocol, therefore, the world's temperature is becoming hotter and hotter.
Experts point the finger to fossil fuel use which emits carbon dioxide emission especially diesel cars, then these emissions have a chemical reaction with sunlight which trapping heat and making the world's temperature hotter. Moreover, these emissions combine with greenhouse emission and emission from a power station which uses coal are causing air pollution in many cities around the world.
World Bank report 2016 has claimed this phenomenon has cost the world 5 trillion dollars annually and cost labor around USD 220 billion.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also claimed that air quality declines have resulted in the risk of stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic and acute respiratory diseases, including asthma" A recent incident we have seen is air pollution in Bangkok Thailand. Bangkokians are coughing out blood and their eyes are red and having difficulties in breathing where the Thai government has to deploy drones to shower the sky to alleviate air pollution severity.
Therefore many governments around the world are using different measures to change their transportation routines, restrict parking time, restrict truck or vehicle going into cities, enacted policy on hybrid car or finally electric cars or even nitrogen cars, but most prominent of all is Tesla electric cars Model S that has driven many automobile industries to turn to electric cars especially China which boasting its new electric cars will be cheaper than those of Tesla. More importantly, air cleaning towers are being installed in some cities in China to help purify its air.
Gavin Schmidt the director of the NASA Goddard Insititute for Space Studies blamed the fossil fuels used as the culprit where NASA said that 2018 was the fourth hottest years since the 1880s. But there are also other factors like El Nino which can cause changes in floods, drought, heatwaves, rain falls and cold season and increases the temperature around the world.
We can see that there are many different natural disasters happened throughout the world for instance bushfires in the US, in Greece, flooding in India and drought in South Africa as well as floods and bushfires in many parts of Australia currently.
More important than that Labor has accused the coalition government of not paying much attention to climate change as it does not have appropriate policies to properly deal with climate change and it is not investing in renewable energy sectors claiming it is not reliable taking South Australia state's recent electricity blackout.
In terms of floods in Australia, National University School of Environment and Society Professor Jamie Pittock says poor decisions regarding property development in flood-prone areas is working against the efforts of emergency services according to SBS News journalist Michelle Rimmer.
The 7th February 2019 is a decade anniversary for the Black Saturday in Victoria as this incident cause 173 death, more than 2000 homes burnt to the ground and more than 400 fires burning. Even the last couple of days there were bushfires in Victoria, Tasmania and also in Western Australia. Australia's neighbor New Zealand is another fire victim as the fire burnt in its southern island.
But when we talk about floods, Professor Jamie Pittock said that this is putting the emergency workers in a difficult position due to the government authorities' allowing development in a harm's way, and most vulnerable residents were those who experience the greatest risk.
"Often states allow cheap housing developments on floodplain lands. And, bizarrely, often facilities like aged care or early childhood centres are placed on the cheapest, most flood-prone land, " said Professor Jamie Pittock.
He also recommends that Australia follows the example of many parts of the world namely US, parts of Europe and China which they have banned further dam construction, bought low flood prone lands and moving them to higher ground and either redesign or remove infrastructures that will post risks.
