Super El Niño Poses Major Risk To Farmers, Wildlife, Any Politician Who Still Denies Climate Change

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ENDANGERED SPECIES: As sea surface temperatures in the equatorial central‑eastern Pacific are expected to peak around November to December, potentially leading to a record-strong super El Nino event, Australia's regional communities are now bracing for a cruel combination of crippling drought and furious bushfires.

Back-burning and livestock agistments are currently being arranged right across rural Australia.

This also spells bad news for any of the nameless high-cholesterol regional men in Parliament who are convinced that they have consent from the electorate to to drift further right because Sky News is their barometer for public sentiment.

This makes Angus Taylor's job even harder. Because the voters tend to believe in climate change, but his own colleagues have proven they will spill against any leader who agrees with them.

Instead, he can only argue that the renewables transition is too costly, slow and unreliable.

Without ever having agree or disagree with 99.9% of the world’s scientists who claim that burning fossil fuels at an accelerating rate for 300 years is fucking the planet, Taylor will instead seed doubt around the cost of renewable energy.

All the while, his deputy, the leader of the National Party Senator Matt Canavan will be preaching to the Sky News choir that he thinks climate change is a beat up.

That is, of course, assuming Australia is lucky to enjoy another three years of neutral weather patterns, and this Super El Nino doesn't cause another catastrophic black summer bushfire season, or the Brisbane River floods again, and millions of people have to evacuate from these ever escalating natural disasters, which will result in heightened emotions from voters who are desperate for a pressure valve, which will likely end up being the right-wing alternatives to the current government who have rubbished this science since day one, and will likely result in another 10 independents getting elected in the most damaged coastal and outer-metropolitan Coalition electorates that have already seriously flirted with the idea of fucking off the Liberals and Nationals for the last two election election cycles.