Nine Cattle Killed in an Attack Prove Climate Change – Is It Up Because of It?
Essay by Eric Worrall
The Guardian has resorted to interpreting the devil’s omens and omens to try to spur their climate action.
How lightning killed 9 cattle in Queensland – and what it has to do with climate change
Lightning strikes 1.5 billion times a year, experts say, but global warming is causing them to shift further away from the equator
Natasha May March 17, 2022 16.39 AEDT
Nine cattle were killed by lightning in the central region Queensland Earlier this month, experts suggested that incidents could become more common with climate change.
Grazier John Ellrott said a heatwave that was affecting his property in Morinish and surrounding Rockhampton on March 7 culminated in a dry electrical storm. The next day, Ellrott discovered his cows dead in a pile on the lawn.
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Bluff grazier Cathy Hoare also lost two cows and two calves at her Rockyview hotel 80km away.
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Mark Collins, Chairman of Ag Force’s Ag Business Committee, said this is not common, but it does happen.
He lost 10 cattle heads 20 years ago in a severe electrical storm.
However, he said it was unusual to have severe electrical storms in central Queensland at this time of year, as they typically occur from spring to early summer.
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What can I say – in the old days ignorant and superstitious witches blamed witches for the mysterious deaths of cattle, so I guess there’s a kind of cultural symmetry to some people are trying to blame the carbon devil for anything out of the ordinary that happens.