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Roger Jones

Fire danger in Australia has changed much faster than expected

Since around 2000, over half Australia’s population has been exposed to wildfire risk to levels of at least 50% of the projected worst case…

7 min readApr 20, 2024

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Background showing green and moist Australian landscape on left, with the same landscape in fire on right. Superimposed is an example chart of changing regimes in FFDI with 2030 and 2090 projections of change for SE Australia

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Roger Jones

This is a really good article.

I'm from Australia and was an exchange student in Oklahoma in 1976. As some one who has always been interested in these issues, I was…

2 min readMar 25, 2024

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Roger Jones

Hi Barry,

I enjoy your writing but the source you are getting this from, One Job for Humanity, has some seriously concerning stuff on their website.

3 min readFeb 16, 2024

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Roger Jones

The trolley effect: kangaroo vs tadpoles

It’s not every day you get to experience the trolley effect in real time. I did today, and this is my story …

4 min readFeb 7, 2024

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The trolley effect: kangaroo vs tadpoles

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Roger Jones

Climate is shifting — and this is why

The following is the first of two articles which reframe climate as a complex thermodynamic system. It draws on several published papers…

30 min readJan 23, 2024

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Climate is shifting — and this is why

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Roger Jones

Great article.

I really like your emphasis on the true equilibrium state. Entropy is a state variable. Much of the literature addresses entropy as a…

1 min readNov 1, 2023

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Roger Jones

Fire regimes around Australia shifted abruptly 20 years ago — falling humidity is why

This century, Australia has suffered more frequent and more severe bushfires. The Black Summer fires of 2019–20 were the worst on record…

5 min readSep 12, 2023

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Fire regimes around Australia shifted abruptly 20 years ago — falling humidity is why

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Roger Jones

Tim,

this meme has been around for years since it was first covered by Skeptical Science and was recently updated by Robert Rhode of BEST…

2 min readMay 10, 2023

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Roger Jones

You've trotted out the Frank Luntz canard again.

Climate change was being used technically to describe everything going on and the human component as the greenhouse effect or enhanced…

2 min readApr 23, 2023

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Roger Jones

I've been reading your posts stanning Biden and thinking about this exact issue.

My view is that the problem in the USA is embedded in its governance structure. No other country has the structure that has evolved in the…

2 min readApr 20, 2023

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Roger Jones

Roger Jones

Reseaching climate risk, climate as a complex self-regulating system, planetary health, economics. Living in a box-ironbark forest on Dja Dja Wurring country.

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