Wednesday, February 11, 2009

When the Wave of Fire Visit Victoria

The disaster has come back to Australia. Victoria, a part of territory in Australia has been attacked by the mass wave of Fire at Friday, 6th February. According to the Information that I have received, this large number of fire takes as long as 2.200 kilometer square of Australian territory and there is no signals that the flare of fire can be over comed soon. Then, the wind blows fast which resulted in the difficulties of fire controlled and make it larger. Affected Area of Fire

At the present, the victims of this disaster has reached 230 people, which many of people can not survive. Many victims caught in the blazes had no time to escape; their houses disintegrated around them, and they burned to death. As firefighters battle the flames and police begin to investigate possible cases of arson around some of the fires, there will surely be debates over the wisdom of Australia's standard policy of advising residents to either flee a fire early or stay in their homes and wait it out.
Although Australian government has mobilized almost all of their soldiers, and fire estinguisher, this problem is still continued. Temperatures are dropping now, then it is become a fear that they will not be able to get the fires under control until there is substantial rain. It is really hard condition and situation in Australia now which Victorian state Premier John Brumby said that "it's obviously a tragic day and a tragic week in our history".
The disaster which comes in Victoria is raise the attention of many people about what makes it happen, and what we should be done in the future in the future to prevent it tobe recurring.
Well, the bush fire actually are common to comes in Australia. The worst disaster has occured in 1983 when 75 people died on a day that became known as Ash Wednesday. But this bush fire is the most intense, through the highest price in the lives lost.
Global Warming has fueled the Fire in Victoria

The climate factors lay in the foregound of this fire. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the fires in Australia were "virtually certain to increase in intensity and frequency" because of steadily warming temperatures over the next several decades. Research reported that by 2020 there could be up to 65% more "extreme" fire dabger days compared with 1990 and that by 2050, under the most severe warming, there could be a 300% increase in such a days (http://www.time.com/). Australia is one of the country's worst coal polluters and it was one of the most notorious climate change, so it is really difficult to do a high commit to a mere 5 percent reduction of carbon emission in 2020.
Since 1950, Australia has warmed 0.9°C , and climate models predict the country could warm further by 2070, up to 5°C over 1990 temperatures, if global greenhouse-gas emissions go unchecked. Beyond a simple rise in average temperatures, climate change will also lead to an increase in Australia's extreme heat waves and droughts. Southwestern Australia is already in the grip of a prolonged drought that has decimated agriculture and led to widespread water rationing; the region is expected to see longer and more extreme dry periods in the future as a result of steady warming.
The Australia fire is expectable can raise an awarness to reduce global carbon emissions to minimize the impact of climate change. It has to be one signals that the climate change today not just a natural disasters merely but turn into human catastrophes. The Bush Fire calamity has worst the condition of Nations. Hope it will be last and can be recovery soon...

Thursday, February 5, 2009

a Hope to Make a Better Place for People in Gaza


Many of offences and attack from Israel has begun in Gaza since the last of Desember. And the result of it, has created many of human rights abusive for civilians and children on there.
Human Rights Watch estimated that in Gaza 1.5 million people are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis brought on by more than two weeks of major military operations that have magnified the impact of 19 months of a highly restrictive Israeli blockade. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the fighting, a large percentage of them children. Many wounded and sick have been trapped in their homes, unable to get medical care. Corpses have been left among rubble and in destroyed homes because Israeli forces have at times denied access to medical crews. Increasing numbers are displaced or are trapped in their homes. They have nowhere to flee, caught in a warzone where no place is truly safe.Gaza's civilians are facing dire shortages of food, water, cooking gas, fuel and medical care due to insecurity, the enforced closure of all of Gaza's borders, and alleged serious violations of international humanitarian law. Electricity is sharply down, and in some places open sewage is spilling into the streets. Children, who make up 56 percent of Gaza's residents, are especially vulnerable.
The war and crisis in Gaza really unlimited and make many people despair to see the progress condition of it. Many times ago my friends has sent me a message. She just wrote that 'She just hardly believe in her life she still seeing a war in her "civilized earth". Many people also regret and wonder with the decision of every step that is taken by each state. And not just a few people that believe that this war is never ending because it has written in the destiny of this world.
I also cant say something with the situation and cannot argue a good solution to ending this. I just hope for every people especially who involve in those war and have a authority to decrease an anger and more aware with the sense of humanitarian especially for the civilians who sacrified their life for this hostility.