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Australia's Next Top climate modelsPosted: April 10, 2015 Filed under: Environment, News | Tags: analogues, Bureau of Meteorology, climate, climate change, climate tool 6 Comments
By Chris Gerbing
We all have an interest in whether rain will dampen our day and a curiosity about what the skies hold for next week. We are all impacted when the weather turns extreme, sometimes in devastating ways. And we have a yearning to know what the future might hold for our climate, so that we can plan ahead.
Weather and climate may never be completely predictable, but science has come far enough for us to be breaking new ground when it comes to projecting what Australia's climate may look like decades – or even hundreds of years – in the future.
And here's a sneak peak into the future – by the year 2090, Sydney could have the climate of Brisbane, and Melbourne could have the climate of Dubbo.
Climate models help us to understand our present weather and climate, and also allow us to consider plausible future scenarios of how the climate might change. Climate models are built using mathematical representations of the dynamic Earth system. Their fundamentals are based on the laws of physics including conservation of mass, energy and momentum. They create simulations to tell us what happened or what might happen under a range of different scenarios (such as greenhouse gas concentrations).
Check out this animation about climate models.
Along with the Bureau of Meteorology, we've used as many as 40 climate models, produced by international global climate modelling groups, to create projections for Australia's climate, all the way out to the year 2090. The projections consider up to 15 regions of Australia, a small set of plausible future greenhouse gas scenarios and four future time periods.
Climate change projections are presented as a range of possibilities. This occurs because different models produce different projections. Even though they are based on the same physical laws, such as conservation of mass, moisture and energy, each climate model treats regional processes in the oceans and atmosphere slightly differently. It is important to explore the full range of possibilities in any impact assessment.
Even if we significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as under an intermediate scenario, Melbourne's annual average climate could look more like that of Adelaide's, and Adelaide's climate could be more like that of Griffith in New South Wales.
Eastern Australian coastal sites could see a climate shift to those currently typical of locations hundreds of kilometres north along the coast. Sydney's climate could resemble that of Port Macquarie, and Coffs Harbour's climate resembling that of the Gold Coast (by 2050; intermediate emissions).
These analogues, and others for more than 400 towns, can be found using a climate analogues tool – one of 13 tools that can be found on the Climate Change in Australia website.
This research received funding from the Department of Environment under the Regional Natural Resource Management Planning for Climate Change Fund. Additional funding was provided by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.
We have published a few articles over on The Conversation which takes a deeper look into the details of these climate models and projections.
- A new website shows how global warming could change your town
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Things warm up as the East Australian Current heads southPosted: November 24, 2014 Filed under: Environment, News, Oceans | Tags: climate, currents, fish 1 Comment
By Jaci Brown, CSIRO
Occasional erratic bursts southward of the East Australian Current (EAC) are thought to have moderated the weather of south-east Australia this autumn and winter and they continue to introduce tropical and sub-tropical marine species to Tasmanian waters.
Ocean monitoring by Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System is providing scientists with significant new insights into the changing structure of the EAC. Over the past 50 years sporadic warm bursts have become more common as the EAC moves further south. With global warming, the warm burst we've seen this year may also become the norm.
Had our little friend Nemo the clownfish been riding the EAC this year he might have found himself holidaying in Tasmania rather than admiring the Sydney Opera House. He wouldn't have been on the trip alone, though. Sea nettles (Chrysaora) have headed from their usual home in Sydney to be found for the first time ever in Tasmania and the Gippsland Lakes.
Waters in the EAC travel southward along the east coast of Australia, with most of it splitting from the coast near Sydney and heading for New Zealand. A small part of the current, known as the EAC Extension, works its way southward past Victoria and Tasmania.
A typical signature in this region are the large eddies, around 200 kilometres across and hundreds of metres deep. Some of the warm water is trapped here along with marine life.
This year a larger proportion of the EAC was sent southward instead of breaking away to the east. Winter ocean temperatures off Bass Strait were around 19C, an increase of 4C. This impacted local fishing, beach conditions and the weather.
In the video (above) the animation on the left shows the actual sea surface temperature and speed of the ocean currents. The animation on the right shows the difference in the temperature from average conditions.
Through autumn and winter, you can see two interesting changes occur. A strong warm current heads down the coast from Sydney to the coast of Victoria. At the same time, warm water peels off from the EAC and swirls around in large eddies as it meanders toward Tasmania.
An unusual catch down south
One advantage of warm eddies is the refuge they provide for tuna. They congregate in the centre of the eddy where the waters are warm and dine at the nutrient-rich edges.
Local fishers in north-east Tasmania report a remarkable year that allowed them to fish longer than usual, providing game fishers with more opportunities to catch tuna.
Last summer's (2013-2014) warmth provided an abundance of skipjack and striped marlin, while winter brought a run of bluefin tuna.
Redmap is a website where locals can report sightings of marine species that are unusual for a given area.
Last summer a manta ray, a tropical cartilaginous fish (in a group including rays and skates), was sighted off the north-eastern coast of Tasmania. Previously the southern-most sighting of a manta ray was just south of Sydney.
Its not just new species visiting Tassie either. Local jellyfish such as the Lion's Mane (cyanea) – more commonly known as "snotty" – are usually quite elusive, but turned up in unprecedented numbers last summer in Tasmania.
But there's a catch
This movement south of the EAC may have an impact on other systems, including our health. We rely on fish such as those from the Tasman Sea as a source of omega-3 fatty acids for our brain health. But the concentration of omega-3 fatty acids in the fish is likely to decrease with global warming.
The original source of fatty acids come from algal species. As our waters warm, we will see more of the algae from the tropics take up residence in the south-east.
But the algae from the tropics are much smaller, which means more steps in the food chain from the algae to the fish we eat. The more steps in the food chain, the more the omega-3 fatty acids in the fish are replaced by fatty acids that are less favourable to brain health.
The warmer coastal waters also contributed to the balmy autumn and winter in south-eastern Australia this year. Afternoon sea breezes cool coastal temperatures by drawing cool oceanic air onto the coast.
Sydney's heat wave in May this year had 19 consecutive days of 22C or more – this is partly due to the sea breezes failing to bring in the usual cooling air.
What's causing the EAC to move south?
Over the past 50 years the EAC Extension has stretched about 350km further south. This extension doesn't happen smoothly but in erratic bursts.
The southward extent of the EAC is controlled by the collective behaviour of the winds between Australia and South America. Over that same 50-year period these winds changed their pattern due to a strengthening of a climate system known as the Southern Annular Mode.
The changes to this mode have been attributed to a combination of ozone depletion and increasing atmospheric CO2.
One of the most robust and consistent responses of the climate system to increasing CO2 is a further strengthening of the Southern Annular Mode.
So the result will likely be a further enhancement of the EAC extension southward and even warmer waters in the Tasman Sea.
Jaci Brown does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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The science of living with firePosted: November 5, 2014 Filed under: Environment, fire, News | Tags: bushfires, climate 4 Comments
The bushfire season isn't wasting any time this year. There are already large fires in South Australia and NSW, and the obligatory 'the state is a tinderbox' warnings came out months ago. There were bushfires in July in NSW, and the number of local council areas in southern Australia declaring the fire season open in August – it starts in July up north – has more than doubled.
So a program on SBS on bushfires is timely. Inside the Inferno screens at 8.30pm on 5 November and 12 November. It's mainly about the everyday heroes who volunteer to fight bushfires. But there's a fair bit about the science of bushfires, and that's where we come in. We contributed to the program, but much more importantly, we contribute to helping keep people safe from fires.
You might be surprised at how much of our work has a connection to fires. It's not all we work on, obviously, but many areas of science go into prediction and management of fire.
Let's start at prediction. Wenju Cai and his team at the Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship have been working on a better understanding of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and its lesser-known counterpart, the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Their groundbreaking work has established that the IOD preconditions south-eastern Australia for major bushfires, and enabled us to stretch out the prediction range for severe fire activity to between four to six months. What you can predict, you can plan for.
And you need to know exactly what you're planning for. That's what the Pyrotron helps us do. It's a 25 metre long fire-proof wind tunnel, with a working section for conducting experiments and a glass observation area.
It's used to study – safely, under controlled conditions – how fires ignite in bushfire fuel and how they spread. Obviously, this is necessary work that can't be done in the field under wildfire conditions. Using the Pyrotron we can study the mechanisms of bushfires' spread, their thermokinetics – the chemistry of combustion – and fuel consumption, emissions and residues under different burning conditions.
But we won't ever be able to prevent fires breaking out. We can plan, we can study, but we can't change the nature of Australia. We can't stop hot, dry days or lightning strikes. What we can do is find the safest way to live in our combustible climate.
Fire is one of many influences that define our living space. The challenge is to find acceptable ways of living with bushfires while retaining the ability to choose where and how we live. We also need to dispel some of the myths about bushfires that have put people and property in greater danger than was necessary. And we need to understand the risks from bushfires inherent in different types of construction. We need to know what's safest and strongest, and how to build it.
We've surveyed every bushfire involving significant house loss since the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires, and we've tested a variety of construction methods to find optimal building types for fire-prone areas. How do we test them? The obvious – only – way. We set fire to them.
It's not just how resistant they are to collapsing into a pile of ashes that's important, although obviously that's a major consideration. We also need to know what kind of house would best enable people to shelter in them while actively defending them from the bushfire attack. To put this all together, we use our expertise in:
- assessment of bushfire risk at the urban interface
- integrated urban design solutions including whole-of-life energy and water use, biodiversity, landscapes, cultural value systems, lifestyle expectations, and risk from other sources
- analysis of major bushfire events
- development of fire spread prediction models and tools
- evaluation of fire suppressants and applications
- post-incident analysis of bushfire impact on houses and people
- fire characteristics at the urban interface
- community education
- performance of materials during bushfire exposure
- characterisation of materials or systems performance in bushfires
- product development, verification and enhancement for use in bushfire-prone areas (specialist coatings, glazing protection, timber deck design).
- fire fighter vehicle burn over protection systems
It's a lot, but we don't stop there. We also work on disaster management tools for fires. We developed the Emergency Response Intelligence Capability (ERIC) in collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Human Services Emergency Management team.
This uses information from a range of sources and includes:
- region data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics
- context data including demographics and details of the natural and built environment
- 'live' data feeds describing the emergency event as it progresses and the historical record of previous 'live' data feeds
- an archive of previous situation reports
This information can be focused for a specific region under investigation and collated semi-automatically to generate situation reports. The situation reports include information synthesised from available datasets and augmented by user provided content. The situation reports it generates describe what the event is, where it is located and the impact on the local community and to the department.
These days, social media is one of the most important channels when a disaster is unfolding, so we're working on that too. Every minute, vast amounts of information are communicated via Twitter. Our challenge is to make relevant information accessible to emergency services.
Without suitable tools this information can't be used. A huge amount of detail about the 2009 Victorian bushfires was reported in real-time on social network sites. The trouble was that state and federal disaster response agencies couldn't see it.
We've created Emergency Situation Awareness (ESA) software to detect unusual behaviour in the Twittersphere and alert users in the emergency services if a disaster is unfolding online.
So that's our contribution to helping keep people safe from bushfires, and, if worst comes to worst, in them. We hope it helps the firies – they deserve all the help they can get.
Global carbon report: emissions will hit new heights in 2014Posted: September 22, 2014 Filed under: Energy, Environment, News | Tags: climate, climate change, energy Leave a comment
By Pep Canadell, CSIRO and Michael Raupach, Australian National University
As heads of state gather in New York for tomorrow's United Nations climate summit, a new report on the state of the world's carbon budget tells them that greenhouse emissions hit a new record last year, and are still growing.
The Global Carbon Project has released its annual report card on the global and national trends in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
It shows that global emissions from burning fossil fuels and cement production reached a new record of 36 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2013, and are predicted to grow by a further 2.5% in 2014, bringing the total CO2 emissions from all sources to more than 40 billion tonnes. This is about 65% more fossil-fuel emission than in 1990, when international negotiations to reduce emissions to address climate change began.
Meanwhile, deforestation now accounts for just 8% of total emissions, a fraction that has been declining for several decades.
The growth of global emissions since 2009 has been slower than in the prior period of 2000-08. However, projections based on forecast growth in global gross domestic product (GDP) and continuance of improving trends in carbon intensity (emissions per unit of GDP) suggest a continuation of rapid emissions growth over the coming five years.
Global emissions continue to track the most carbon-intensive range among more than a thousand scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). If continued, this situation would lead to global average temperatures between 3.2C and 5.4C above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
There have been other striking changes in emissions profiles since climate negotiations began. In 1990, about two-thirds of CO2 emissions came from developed countries including the United States, Japan, Russia and the European Union (EU) nations. Today, only one-third of world emissions are from these countries; the rest come from the emerging economies and less-developed countries that account for 80% of the global population, suggesting a large potential further emissions growth.
Continuation of current trends over the next five years alone will lead to a new world order on greenhouse gas emissions, with China emitting as much as the United States, Europe and India together.
Country emission profiles
There are several ways to explore countries' respective contributions to climate change. These include current emissions, per capita emissions, and cumulative emissions since the industrial revolution.
The largest emitters in 2013 were China, the United States, the 28 EU countries (considered as a single bloc), and India. Together, they account for 58% of global emissions and 80% of the emissions growth in 2013 (with the majority the growth coming from China, whereas the EU cut its emissions overall).
Here's how the major emitters fared in 2013.
Emissions grew at 4.2%, the lowest level since the 2008 global financial crisis, because of weaker economic growth and improvements in the carbon intensity of the economy. Per capita emissions in China (7.2 tonnes of CO2 per person) overtook those in Europe (6.8 tonnes per person).
A large part of China's high per capita emissions is due to industries that provide services and products to the developed world, not for China's domestic use. China's cumulative emissions are still only 11% of the total since pre-industrial times.
United States
Emissions increased by 2.9% because of a rebound in coal consumption, reversing a declining trend in emissions since 2008. Emissions are projected to remain steady until 2019 in the absence of more stringent climate policies, with improvements in the energy and carbon intensity of the economy being offset by growth in GDP and population. The United States remains the biggest contributor of cumulative emissions with 26% of the total.
European Union
Emissions fell by 1.8% on the back of a weak economy, although reductions in some countries were offset by a return to coal led by Poland, Germany and Finland. However, the long-term decrease in EU emissions does not factor in the emissions linked to imported goods and services. When accounting for these "consumption" emissions, EU emissions have merely stabilised, rather than decreased.
Emissions grew by 5.1%, driven by robust economic growth and an increase in the carbon intensity of the economy. Per capita emissions were still well below the global average, at 1.9 tonnes of CO2 per person, although India's total emissions are projected to overtake those in the EU by 2019 (albeit for a population nearly three times as large). Cumulative emissions account for only 3% of the total.
Emissions from fossil fuels declined in 2013, largely driven by a 5% decline of emissions in the electricity sector over the previous year (as shown by the Australian National Greenhouse Gas Accounts). Fossil fuel emissions per person remain high at 14.6 tonnes of CO2.
Is it too late to tame the climate?
Our estimates (see here and here) show that, at current emissions levels, average global warming will hit 2C in about 30 years.
Despite this apparently imminent event, economic models can still come up with scenarios in which global warming is kept within 2C by 2100, while both population and per capita wealth continue to grow. Are these models playing tricks on us?
Most models invoke two things that will be crucial to stabilising the climate at safer levels. The first is immediate global action to develop carbon markets, with prices rapidly growing to over US$100 per tonne of CO2.
The second is the deployment of "negative emissions" technologies during the second half of this century, which will be needed to mop up the overshoot of emissions between now and mid-century. This will involve removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in safe places such as saline aquifers.
These technologies are largely unavailable at present. The most likely candidate is the production of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, a combination of existing technologies with high costs and with environmental and socio-economic implications that are untested at the required scales.
There are no easy pathways to climate stabilization, and certainly no magic bullets. It is still open to us to choose whether we halt our CO2 emissions completely this century – as required for a safe, stable climate – or try instead to adapt to significantly greater impacts of climate change.
What we have no choice about is the fact that the longer emissions continue to grow at rates of 2% per year or more, the harder it will be to tame our climate.
Pep Canadell received support from the Australian Climate Change Science Program.
Michael Raupach has previously received funding from the Australian Climate Change Science Program, but does not do so now.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new studyPosted: September 4, 2014 Filed under: Environment, Feature Articles, News | Tags: climate, conversation 8 Comments
By Philip Kokic, CSIRO; Mark Howden, CSIRO, and Steven Crimp, CSIRO
There is less than 1 chance in 100,000 that global average temperature over the past 60 years would have been as high without human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, our new research shows.
Published in the journal Climate Risk Management today, our research is the first to quantify the probability of historical changes in global temperatures and examines the links to greenhouse gas emissions using rigorous statistical techniques.
Our new CSIRO work provides an objective assessment linking global temperature increases to human activity, which points to a close to certain probability exceeding 99.999%.
Our work extends existing approaches undertaken internationally to detect climate change and attribute it to human or natural causes. The 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report provided an expert consensus that:
It is extremely likely [defined as 95-100% certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human-caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.
Decades of extraordinary temperatures
July 2014 was the 353rd consecutive month in which global land and ocean average surface temperature exceeded the 20th-century monthly average. The last time the global average surface temperature fell below that 20th-century monthly average was in February 1985, as reported by the US-based National Climate Data Center.
This means that anyone born after February 1985 has not lived a single month where the global temperature was below the long-term average for that month.
We developed a statistical model that related global temperature to various well-known drivers of temperature variation, including El Niño, solar radiation, volcanic aerosols and greenhouse gas concentrations. We tested it to make sure it worked on the historical record and then re-ran it with and without the human influence of greenhouse gas emissions.
Our analysis showed that the probability of getting the same run of warmer-than-average months without the human influence was less than 1 chance in 100,000.
We do not use physical models of Earth's climate, but observational data and rigorous statistical analysis, which has the advantage that it provides independent validation of the results.
Detecting and measuring human influence
Our research team also explored the chance of relatively short periods of declining global temperature. We found that rather than being an indicator that global warming is not occurring, the observed number of cooling periods in the past 60 years strongly reinforces the case for human influence.
We identified periods of declining temperature by using a moving 10-year window (1950 to 1959, 1951 to 1960, 1952 to 1961, etc.) through the entire 60-year record. We identified 11 such short time periods where global temperatures declined.
Our analysis showed that in the absence of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, there would have been more than twice as many periods of short-term cooling than are found in the observed data.
There was less than 1 chance in 100,000 of observing 11 or fewer such events without the effects of human greenhouse gas emissions.
Good risk management is all about identifying the most likely causes of a problem, and then acting to reduce those risks. Some of the projected impacts of climate change can be avoided, reduced or delayed by effective reduction in global net greenhouse gas emissions and by effective adaptation to the changing climate.
Ignoring the problem is no longer an option. If we are thinking about action to respond to climate change or doing nothing, with a probability exceeding 99.999% that the warming we are seeing is human-induced, we certainly shouldn't be taking the chance of doing nothing.
The authors do not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article. They also have no relevant affiliations.
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Going with the throughflowPosted: June 23, 2014 Filed under: Environment | Tags: climate, ecosystems, environment, marine, Oceans, science 2 Comments
By Simon Torok
Here's a simple backyard science experiment for you to try, which has global implications.
Grab a garden hose, turn it on, and then put your thumb over the end of it. The flow of water thins, while its power intensifies.
Okay, now multiply that by a few million and you have some idea of the impact of recent La Niña conditions on a major ocean current north of Australia.
The Indonesian Throughflow is a series of ocean currents linking the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It carries water from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean through the passages and straits of the Indonesian Archipelago.
Researchers – led by Janet Sprintall at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States, and including Susan Wijffels from CSIRO in Hobart – have found that the flow of water in the Indonesian Throughflow has become more shallow and intense since the late 2000s due to La Niña conditions, just as the water flow thinned and intensified while you played with that garden hose.
The paper, The Indonesian seas and their role in the coupled ocean-climate system appears in today's online publication of the journal Nature Geoscience.
The Indonesian Throughflow is the only place in the world where warm equatorial waters flow from one ocean to another; consequently, the throughflow is an important chokepoint in the flow of heat in the climate system.
The paper suggests that human-caused climate change could make this shallowing and intensification a more dominant feature of the Indonesian Throughflow, even under El Niño conditions.
Changes in how much warm water is carried by the Indonesian Throughflow will affect the sea surface temperature, and in turn the patterns of rainfall in our region.
So you may need to think a bit more about how you use that garden hose.
Explainer: El Niño and La NiñaPosted: June 20, 2014 Filed under: Environment, Feature Articles | Tags: climate, explainer, weather 1 Comment
By Jaci Brown, CSIRO
We wait in anticipation of droughts and floods when El Niño and La Niña are forecast but what are these climatic events?
The simplest way to understand El Niño and La Niña is through the sloshing around of warm water in the ocean.
The top layer of the tropical Pacific Ocean (about the first 200 metres) is warm, with water temperatures between 20C and 30C. Underneath, the ocean is colder and far more static. Between these two water masses there is a sharp temperature change known as the thermocline.
Winds over the tropical Pacific, known as the trade winds, blow from east to west piling the warm top layer water against the east coast of Australia and Indonesia. Indeed, the sea level near Australia can be one metre higher than at South America.
Warm water and converging winds near Australia contribute to convection, and hence rainfall for eastern Australia.
In a La Niña event, the trade winds strengthen bringing more warm water to Australia and increasing our rainfall totals.
In an El Niño the trade winds weaken, so some of the warm water flows back toward the east towards the Americas. The relocating warm water takes some of the rainfall with it which is why on average Australia will have a dry year.
In the Americas El Niño means increased rainfall, but it reduces the abundance of marine life. Typically the water in the eastern Pacific is cool but high in nutrients that flow up from the deep ocean. The warm waters that return with El Niño smother this upwelling.
Have El Niño and La Niña always been around?
El Niño and La Niña are a natural climate cycle. Records of El Niño and La Niña go back millions of years with evidence found in ice cores, deep sea cores, coral and tree rings.
El Niño events were first recognised by Peruvian fisherman in the 19th century who noticed that warm water would sometimes arrive off the coast of South America around Christmas time.
Because of the Christmas timing they called this phenomenon El Niño, meaning "boy child", after Jesus. La Niña, being the opposite, is the "girl child".
Predicting El Niño and La Niña
Being able to predict an El Niño event is a multi-million, possibly billion dollar question.
Reliably predicting an impending drought would allow for primary industries to take drought protective action and Australia to prepare for increased risk of dry, hot conditions and associated bushfires.
Unfortunately each autumn we hit a "predictability barrier" which hinders our ability to predict if an El Niño might occur.
In autumn the Pacific Ocean can sit in a state ready for an El Niño to occur, but there is no guarantee it will kick it off that year, or even the next.
Nearly all El Niños are followed by a La Niña though, so we can have much more confidence in understanding the occurrence of these wet events.
A variety of events
Predictability would be even easier if all El Niños and La Niñas were the same, but of course they are not.
Not only are the events different in the way they manifest in the ocean, but they also differ in the way they affect rainfall over Australia – and it's not straightforward.
The exceptionally strong El Niños of 1997 and 1982 have now been termed Super El Niños. In these events the trade winds weaken dramatically with the warm surface water heading right back over to South America.
Recently a new type of El Niño has been recognised and is becoming more frequent.
This new type of El Niño is often called an "El Niño Modoki" – Modoki being Japanese for "similar, but different".
In these events the warm water that is usually piled up near Australia heads eastward but only makes it as far as the central Pacific. El Niño Modoki occurred in 2002, 2004 and 2009.
Australian rainfall is affected by all its surrounding oceans. El Niño in the Pacific is only one factor.
As a general rule though, the average rainfall in eastern and southern Australia will be lower in an El Niño year and higher in a La Niña. The regions that will experience these changes and the strength are harder to pinpoint.
El Niño and climate change
It is not yet clear how climate change will affect El Niño and La Niña. The events may get stronger, they may get weaker or they may change their behaviour in different ways.
Some research is suggesting that Super El Niños might become more frequent with climate change, while others are hypothesising that the recent increase in El Niño Modoki is due to climate change effects already having an impact.
Because climate change in general may decrease rainfall over southern Australia and increase potential evaporation (due to higher temperatures) then it would be reasonable to expect that the drought induced by El Niño events will be exacerbated by climate change.
Given that we are locked into at least a few degrees of warming over the coming century, it's hard not to fear more drought and bushfires for Australia.
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Hello, is there anyone here? :)
It has been a while since I last published a recipe on this blog, and it has been a while since cooked anything new or interesting – I no longer know what baking is, but I've told you that already.
Nothing has changed in nearly a month: I'm still working like crazy (and on top of that I have resumed my Spanish classes), I rarely feel like cooking or baking and I don't think I ever longed for weekends so much in my life before. I hope things get calmer with time and I also hope to be able to go back to cooking, baking and posting here more regularly, for it is something that makes me really happy.
While that doesn't happen, I hope that after all this time there is still someone reading me for this cake deserves to be shared: it is absolutely delicious, tender and perfumed, and I am sure that I would feel a lot better now if there was still a slice of it around. :)
Almond, coconut and lime cake
slightly adapted from the über beautiful Summer Berries & Autumn Fruits: 120 Sensational Sweet & Savoury Recipes
1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
finely grated zest of 2 limes
1/3 cup (75g) unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup (80ml) olive oil
1 ¾ cups (175g) almond meal
½ cup (50g) unsweetened desiccated coconut
¾ cup + 2 tablespoons (125g) all purpose fl our
2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch of salt
4 medium eggs – I used 3 very large eggs, 70g each
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
3 rounded tablespoons sour cream*
freshly squeezed juice of 2 limes
100ml water
2 ½ tablespoons honey
1 ½ tablespoons granulated sugar
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Butter a tall 20cm round cake pan, line the bottom with a circle of baking paper and butter it as well.
Place the sugar and lime zest in the bowl of an electric mixer and rub with your fingertips until sugar is fragrant. Set aside.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a low heat. Remove from the heat, stir in the olive oil and leave to cool slightly.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the almond meal, coconut, flour, baking powder and salt.
Using an electric mixer, whisk the eggs and sugar on medium-high speed until they are very thick and pale, tripled in volume and leave a ribbon trail when the whisk is lifted from the bowl. Beat in the vanilla. Gently fold the almond mixture, then fold in the butter mixture and sour cream. Pour into the pan, smooth the top and bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 40-50 minutes or until risen and golden and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
Syrup: in a small saucepan, bring the lime juice, water, honey and sugar to the boil. Continue to bubble steadily until reduced by half and syrupy.
Leave the cake to cool in the pan on a wire rack for five minutes. Using a wooden skewer, make holes all over the top of the cake, then slowly pour over the syrup, gradually, waiting for each portion to be absorbed by the cake before pouring more. Let cool completely in the pan.
*homemade sour cream: to make 1 cup of sour cream, mix 1 cup (240ml) heavy cream with 2-3 teaspoons lemon juice in a bowl. Whisk until it starts to thicken. Cover with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature for 1 hour or until thicker (I usually leave mine on the counter overnight – except on very warm nights – and it turns out thick and silky in the following morning; refrigerate for a creamier texture)
Serve 8-10
Monday, September 28, 2015
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Monday, September 7, 2015
Cinnamon Cointreau brownies
My days have been very busy – a lot busier than I would like them to be, honestly – and I haven't baked anything in weeks – I don't even remember when I last turned on the oven for something sweet. Many weekends have gone by without cakes cooling down on racks around here. :(
I'm glad that I made a few baked goods before going back to work and I can share them with you here, like these absolutely wonderful brownies – the original recipe called for ancho chile powder, but I guess I am a bit conservative when it comes to chocolate desserts and don't like the idea of adding chili to my brownies (sorry, Matt and Renato).
I omitted the chile powder, amped up the cinnamon and switched the fresh ginger for a healthy dose of Cointreau and the brownies turned out delicious – not only in flavor, but also in texture, very moist and fudgy (that is how I like brownies). You can use your imagination and use different spices or go for whisky or Marsala instead of Cointreau, for example, or if you have kids around use just the vanilla – I guarantee the brownies will be equally great.
Cinnamon Cointreau brownies
slightly adapted from the delicious Baked: New Frontiers in Baking and Baked Elements: The Importance of Being Baked in 10 Favorite Ingredients
¾ cup (105g) all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon Dutch cocoa powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
140g (5oz) dark chocolate, chopped – I used one with 53% cocoa solids
½ cup (113g/1 stick) unsalted butter
¾ cup (150g) granulated sugar
¼ cup (44g) packed light brown sugar
3 large eggs
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
3 teaspoons Cointreau
Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F. Lightly butter a 20cm (8in) square pan, line it with foil leaving an overhang on two opposite sides, then butter the foil as well.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, cocoa powder and cinnamon. Set aside.
Place chocolate and butter in a large bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water (do not let the bowl touch the water) and stir until melted. Turn off heat, but keep bowl over water and add both sugars. Whisk until completely combined and remove bowl from pan. Let stand until room temperature, about 20 minutes.
Add eggs, one at a time, to chocolate-butter mixture and whisk until just combined. Add vanilla and Cointreau and whisk to combine. Do not overbeat the batter at this stage or the brownies will be cakey.
Sprinkle flour-cocoa mixture over chocolate mixture. Using a spatula, fold the dry ingredients into the wet until there is just a trace amount of the flour-cocoa mix visible.
Pour batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake brownies for 20-25 minutes; brownies are done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool brownies completely before cutting and serving.
Makes 16
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Pasta with crispy sardine and oregano breadcrumbs
When I was a kid, my mom was always making something with canned sardines: they were cheap and a good staple for a family with a limited budget. One of the things she made the most was a sardine salad to be eaten in a sandwich – the same thing as a tuna salad, but made with sardines instead, it was delicious! I loved it.
Because of that, it is impossible not to think of mom whenever I see canned sardines, and when I saw this gorgeous can while food shopping in my last trip I knew I would not come home without it. A couple of weeks ago a new issue of the beautiful Donna Hay magazine arrived and there I found a recipe of pasta served with crispy breadcrumbs dotted with pieces of canned sardines – it was the perfect way of using my treasure.
This pasta dish is very simple and straightforward, I made it for a lazy Sunday lunch and it was ready in no time at all – my husband wasn't too crazy about the sardine breadcrumbs, but I was more than happy to eat his share by the spoonful. :)
Pasta with crispy sardine and oregano breadcrumbs
slightly adapted from the always fantastic Donna Hay Magazine
400g spaghetti
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup fresh breadcrumbs
¼ cup fresh oregano leaves, packed
50g canned sardines, drained and chopped
salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
6 ripe roma tomatoes, deseeded and cut into wedges
pinch of sugar
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Cook the pasta in a large saucepan of salted boiling water until al dente. Before draining, reserve ½ cup (120ml) of the water to use in the sauce.
In the meantime, make the sauce: heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large nonstick frying pan. Add the breadcrumbs, oregano and sardines and cook, stirring, for 4-5 minutes or until breadcrumbs are golden and crispy. Season with salt and pepper, remove from the heat and keep warm.
Wipe the frying pan clean with a piece of paper towel and add the remaining olive oil. Heat over medium, add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes. Add the sugar, then season with salt and pepper. Add the reserved cooking liquid and the balsamic vinegar, stir to combine and cook for 2-3 minutes or until thickened. Add the pasta to the sauce and toss to coat. Serve topped with the sardine breadcrumbs.
Serves 4
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Orange Marsala pound cake
Many, many years ago, without much thought, I started baking a cake every weekend, and it has become a tradition here in my house: if I don't see a cake cooling over a wire rack on a Saturday it just doesn't feel like the weekend.
Sometimes I struggle with choosing which cake to make, either because I have too many ideas at once or because I don't have any. :) Weeks ago I was cooking lunch and as I poured some Marsala over the broccolini I immediately thought of adding it to a cake. After we finished eating I found an orange in my fridge and the flavor of the cake was then decided – just like that. Inspiration coming from all sorts of places – I like that a lot.
This is a moist, delicious and fragrant cake, one that I once made with whisky and nutmeg and that it turned out even more fantastic with a touch of citrus and Marsala.
Do you like making cakes on the weekend? What is your favorite cake flavor?
Orange Marsala pound cake
slightly adapted from the delicious Pure Dessert: True Flavors, Inspiring Ingredients, and Simple Recipes
2 tablespoons whole milk, room temperature
2 tablespoons Marsala wine
3 large eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
150g granulated sugar
finely grated zest of 1 large orange
105g cake flour (homemade: 15g corn starch + 90g all purpose flour)
55g whole wheat flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon table salt
180g unsalted butter, softened and in chunks
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Lightly butter a 4 to 5 cups loaf pan, line it with baking paper and butter the paper.
In a medium bowl, whisk the milk, Marsala, eggs, and vanilla to combine.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine sugar and orange zest and rub with your fingertips until sugar is fragrant. Whisk in the flours, baking powder and salt. Add the butter then pour in half of the egg mixture. Beat on low speed just until the dry ingredients are moistened. Increase the speed to medium and beat for 1 minute. Scrape the sides of the bowl. Add half of the rest of the egg mixture and beat for 20 seconds. Add the rest of the egg mixture and beat for 20 seconds. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and smooth the surface. Bake until golden and risen and a toothpick comes out clean, 55-60 minutes. Cool the cake in the pan for 20 minutes, unmold carefully and transfer to a wire rack. Cool completely, then peel off the paper.
Serves 8-10
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Waffles for crazy, hectic days
My days have been pretty hectic lately, too much to learn in a short period of time – I haven't cooked much and I don't remember the last time I actually baked something (I made chocolate mousse last weekend for Sunday's lunch, let's pretend that counts). :) The crazy routine is not supposed to last forever, and while it does I'll try not to let it get in the way of my posts here, but I won't make promises I cannot keep – I just hope that those of you who have been around for so long bear with me during these days and do not jump ship. :)
I made these waffles a couple of weeks ago to go with an episode of Hannibal (I am brave enough to eat while watching it) and they turned out so good I had to share them with you: crunchy on the outside, tender on the inside, perfumed with vanilla, they are absolutely delicious, and the good thing is the batter is put together in no time and can be refrigerated overnight if tightly covered – if you're pressed for time like I have been lately, this recipe should be permanently on your refrigerator door.
from the beautiful Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes
2 eggs, separated
pinch of salt
1/3 cup (67g) granulated sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
4 ½ tablespoons (63g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 ½ cups (210g) all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¾ cup (180ml) whole milk, room temperature
Whisk the egg whites and the salt until they're fluffy and just holding soft peaks.
In a large bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the sugar and vanilla until creamy. Whisk in the butter, then the flour and baking powder (batter will be thick). Add the milk, then fold in the egg whites.
Heat a waffle iron. Add about 1/3 cup of batter per waffle, then cook following the manufacturer's instructions, until the waffles are golden brown. Serve immediately.
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In use from 1749 to 1843, the old Burying Ground (St. Paul's Cemetery) was one of the highlights of my trip to Halifax.
It was a dark day when we visited and a crow cawed as we entered through the gates into the empty cemetery. My brother and I both got a chill at the sound effects.
Interpretive signs highlight graves of historical significance. Take the time to read many of them, they tell sad stories. Some of the stones are so worn you can only read them by getting down and looking at a sideways angle.
Many of the deceased were only a few months old. I remember one grave that told the story of a four-year old girl who died, her father died at 33 four months later, and his baby (which had been born after his death) died the next year. Very sad stories, it gives a glimpse of what life must have been like in the late 1700s.
Open to the public but grave rubbings (with paper and charcoal) is not allowed.
See my Halifax Travelogues for more photos of the Old Burying Ground.
It is no secret here on Virtual Tourist that I have a great and hopefully not morbid intererest in cemeteries, churchyards, graveyards, burying grounds or whatever you care to call them. No surprise then that when I spied the Old Burying Ground (also known as St. Paul's Church Cemetery) for the place of worship just across the road) that I was straight into it for a look round.
Despite it being early July and therefore tourist season, I had the place to myself save for two young people in a sort of semi-casual uniform of polo shirts etc. who greeted me in the friendly manner I have come to associate with Canadians and told me to help myself to a look round. They further offered to try to assist if I had any specific questions about any of the graves here or the history of the place itself. Kind as their offer was it was not necessary as the signage here is both extensive and comprehensive. After having read a few of the explanatory panels I began to explore the ground where approximately 12,000 souls have taken their final rest.
What an absolute delight it was for a graveyard afficionado like myself, it was a complete treasure trove of unusual things, various styles of memorials apparently laid out in a more or less random fashion typical of the time it was in use. So when was it in use then? Here is a potted history although I do recommend the attached website for an excellent and comprehensive history.
The Burying Ground was opened in 1749 just outside the defensive structure that protected the relatively new settlement of Halifax in what were turbulent times. It was soon pressed into strenuous service by a typhoid epidemic of 1749 - 1750 which must have been a grevious loss for a relatively small community as it claimed about 1,000 lives. Indeed, such was the pressure on the available space that it was more than doubled in size in 1762. Interestingly the burial ground was always non-denominational and persons of many faiths lie adjacent in the now rather pleasant park, for that is what it effectively is nowadays.
In the early days there was an interesting anomaly here. The Church of St. Paul's were responsible for recording the deaths of those interred here but they were not allowed to collect burial fees as the land was Crown owned. This situation was rectified in 1793 when the Crown granted land title to the Church thereby allowing them to collect monies for their work and the ground continued to be used until 1844 when it was closed to further interments, a new "rural" burying ground having been established further from the city in keeping with funerary practices of the period.
The history of the site is not quite over yet though. In 1860 the huge George Laing monument which dominates the entire site was dedicated to the memory of Major Augustus Welsford of the 97th Regiment of Foot, and Captain William Parker of the 77th Regiment of Foot. Although both Nova Scotians they had fought for the British in the Crimean War and both perished in the action at the Redan in Sebastopol. It is rather impressive and if you are interested the lion which tops it is a whopping twelve tons. I have no idea how they got that up there without heavy mechanical equipment, it was some feat.
Whilst Welsford and Parker obviously dominate the place purely by the size of the monument, there are many, many more military and naval headstones to be discovered here reflecting the martial and often turbulent nature of Halifax over the centuries. Do not, however, run away with the idea that this is merely a military place, it is not. There are a regrettable amount of graves of children here which I suppose reflects the harsh conditions of early settler life in the "New World".
Perhaps the "star attraction" is the grave of Major-General Robert Ross who coincidentally happens to be a native of my fairly small country of Northern Ireland, having been born at Rostrevor in Co. Down in 1766. I wonder how many American readers will realise the (obviously inadvertent) contribution to their national heritage this man made albeit that he was an enemy. Allow me to explain for those that do not know about it.
Ross was basically the commander of all British forces in North America during the 1812 war between Britain and the "Americans". A veteran of Egypt and the Napoleonic Wars amongst other things, he was certainly no stranger to military action and had been seriously wounded in the neck at the Battle of Orthes. Recovering from his wounds, he was sent to "the Americas" where he took a raiding force to Bladensburg before marching on Washington (the only time a foreign force has ever done so). In acts of fairly wanton destruction and supposedly in retaliation for similar American raids into what is now Canada, which was controlled by the British, he torched various strategic buildings there including the home of the President. The building was so badly smoke and soot damaged that it had to be repainted - white. Do you see where I am going here? That is why President Obama and many before hime live or have lived in the White House.
Also during the same action a chap called Francis Scott Key was watching the glow of the many fires over Washington and was moved to write the following (and a lot more beside).
"Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
Yes, the American national anthem.
The rockets referred to were actually a new form of munitions (Congreve rockets) that the Americans had never been subjected to before. Ross was killed by either one or two sharpshooters whilst leading his troops into further battle. His body was embalmed in 129 gallons (586 litres) of Jamaican rum and returned to Halifax for burial. Now that is the way to go! He was eventually buried with full military honours on 29 September 1814.
Certainly, Ross is probably the most famous interment here but I find other less grand memorials equally fascinating like William Newel, soldier of the Rifle Brigade, who died in 1826 aged just 19 and with the lovely inscription on his stone, "A native of Ireland who lived beloved and died lamented". Wouldn't you just love to know what that story was, like all the other stories here. I suspect this is why graveyards fascinate me so much, each stone is just a story waiting to be told if you could ever find out what the story was.
If you want another more upscale monument to have a look at then you could try and seek out the stone to Erasmus James Philipps, a Major in the 40th Regiment of Foot, who was the Grand Master of the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge in Nova Scotia. I have mentioned elsewhere on my tips the great influence that the Freemasons appear to have in this part of the country and this is an interesting thing to see. The stone obviously is much later and was only dedicated in 1938 but it is still worth a look.
Sadly, time, vandalism, pollution, neglect, lack of funds and various other factors took toll and by the 1980's this lovely place was basically a mess of weeds and crumbling stonework. To their great credit various agancies (local, Provincial and national government as well as corporate and private donors) took the matter in hand and the Burying Ground was declared "a Municipal Heritage site in 1986, a Provincial Heritage Property in 1988, and a National Historic Site in 1991 - the first graveyard in Canada to receive such a designation" (this quote from the website). I have to say, it looks very well today and it would have been a disgrace to have let it fall into decrepitude.
I hope I have given you a flavour of this hugely interesting and now aesthetically pleasing place and I do highly recommend that you visit it if you have even the slightest interest in such things as I have mentioned.
St. Paul's church is the oldest Protestant church in the country and the oldest building in Halifax. Erected under King George II in 1750, shortly after the city was founded, the church's architectural plans were based on those of St. Peter's Church in London, England. During summer, free guided tours of the church are offered and our guide was so great, he made sure to include some details he knew would be interesting for kids, and he also offered to give us the tour in French, which he spoke quite well. A truly beautiful building, with a rich history!
St Paul's Cemetery was my favorite sight in town though it was closed due to extensive damage by Hurricane Juan. There were many trees fallen over and I guess it might have been dangerous to wander around in this situation. From outside, it was one of the more scenic cemeteries I have seen in North America, with great old headstones from a bygone era. Aptly named, The Old Burying Ground, it is likely the oldest graveyard in the Martimes.
Old St. Paul's Cemetery was founded in 1749, the same year the city of Halifax was founded, and is therefore the province's first official burial ground. Over the years, some 12,000 people were buried there, even though there only are about 1,200 headstones (so about 10%) marking people's graves in the cemetery, the main reason being that many were buried without headstones, the other reason being that after the last burial, which took place in 1843, the burying ground slowly fell into disrepair, until the Old Burying Ground Foundation undertook the rather grueling task of restoring the cemetery. They did an awesome job, turning the grounds into a lovely, quiet park. There's also a sign near the entrance where all of the headstones that have been identified are clearly marked, so that people doing genealogical research can easily find their ancestors.
St. Paul's Anglican church, on the Grand parade, is the oldest church in Halifax and the oldest protestant church in Canada. It was built the year Halifax was founded, 1749. The building of course has been upgraded and changed a bit over the years but there are still services held in it on Sundays. It's open to the public as well.
In St. Paul's cemetery, you'll find the resting place for the 1st residents of Halifax . The Old Burying Ground refers to the "acre of sleep" within the cemetery. For a number of reasons I liked this place--it has interpretive signs explaining the history of the grounds and some of the people buried here. Most of all, for lying in the middle of a city, it's in remarkable shape. I saw no litter and nothing was defaced.
The Old Burying Ground is the oldest cemetery of Halifax dated from 1749 and was in active servive for 95 years. Some 12,000 people were buried here although only about a thousand stones are actually at the spot.
In 1855, the Sebastopol memorial was erected at the entrance to honour two local men, Major A.F. Welsford and Captain William Parker, both killed in the Crimean War.
This is the oldest Protestant church in Canada. It was founded in June 1749 and its burial vault holds the remains of many illustrious British colonials of the period. Perhaps most interesting is the piece of wood embedded from the Halifax Explosion of 1917. I was there on Sunday and was able to enter the Church but could not take the tour.
The piece of ship embedded in the ground (shown in the picture) was also from the Halifax Explosion and ended up far across town.
St. Paul's Anglican Church is located in the heart of downtown Halifax; opposite City Hall at the south end of the Grand Parade.
The building that dates from 1750 is the oldest still-standing Anglican church in Canada.
Sunday services: 9AM and 11AM.
On Barrington street across from the Government House is Halifax's oldest cemetery, founded in 1749.
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Mum Emma De Silva wakes up from a nightmare to hug her lovely daughter
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- May 28, 2011
DEEP down Peter De Silva was dreading Mothers' Day - the first since his wife Emma had given birth to their daughter Eloise in February.
Critically ill Emma, 32, had spent the past eight weeks in a coma and, as much as he wished she would wake up to share the day with their baby, Mr De Silva held little hope.
Walking into her intensive care room at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital that Sunday morning, Mr De Silva expected his wife to be unconscious, as she had been each day since she and Eloise were hit by a car on March 14.
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"I trudged towards Emma not expecting to see her staring at me, her left eye open and a smile on her face.
"You're awake," Mr De Silva yelled, before bursting into tears and hugging Emma tightly. Overwhelmed at his wife's improvement - one doctors feared the critically injured woman might never achieve - Mr De Silva placed Eloise, now three months old, in her mother's arms.
"I watched the smile spread like the first rays of sunlight across Emma's face," he said.
"And I could not take my eyes off Eloise, who stared at her mother. I wondered what she would be thinking about."
What happened next was Mr De Silva's special gift.
"I looked up and there was Emma looking at me, her lips pursed together," he said.
"Yes, I got a kiss. It was the first time I had kissed my wife since I said goodbye to her that fateful day. Then we spent our first Mothers' Day cuddling ... and for the first five minutes Emma was conscious and then fell back into a deep slumber."
Mrs De Silva suffered horrific head injuries when an out-of-control car mounted the kerb at St Peters, in inner-west Sydney, where she was pushing then 19-day-old Eloise in her pram.
The pram spared Eloise serious injury but she still suffered a broken shoulder and a minor head injury.
Doctors have been unable to give Mr De Silva a prognosis on his wife's future because the brain is so complex and "they simply don't know", he said.
But for the first time in two months - which to Mr De Silva has felt like an eternity - he has hope as his wife's condition improves every day.
"Emma times her waking periods for Eloise. As soon as I walk in with her, Emma tilts her head to one side, her left eye opens, her smile constant," Mr De Silva said.
She is even learning to feed her baby again.
"I hold Eloise, and Emma holds the bottle ... she pats Eloise's back to help her burp, and cuddles her and strokes her hair."
From devastation to joy, Mr De Silva has experienced every emotion in between while witnessing his wife fight for life. He and Eloise visit Emma every day, hoping the bond between mother and baby will help her recovery.
In the meantime, Mr De Silva is at home, looking after their baby girl.
Now there is hope that they can all be together as a family again: "I am looking forward to being a husband again."
Donations to the Emma De Silva Foundation can be made at emmadesilva.com
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I guess this is a feel sorry for me post. I know some y'all have special quirky little guys like mine. Anyways Dominic's SID is driving me bonkers. He got a bunch of super nice sweaters and shirts for Xmas and I can't get one on him at all without him trying to itch his skin off screaming "it's itchy! it's itchy!!" I've tried lotion, I've tried t-shirts. What are we to do?!?!?! This happens every year after his birthday and Xmas. Nice clothes that eventually his brother will wear since I can't get them on his. I try everything. Distracting him (with a toy) after i shove it over his head works for a few seconds until he starts digging again. UGH UGH UGH. Highly aggravating and I know it's not his fault but he drives me nuts with some of the issues. The sounds, the feels, bright lights. Nuts I say!!
Gonna lose my mind...he's gonna lose his skin!
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Maybe you can use them for Damien when he grows into them? Sorry, not helpful... I am sorry you're frustrated! He's cute no matter what he's wearing, right?
has he ever been treated for his defensiveness? That being said, I guess you have to chose your battles....
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Oh! We just talked about this on Carla's Christmas day thread about her little girl and clothes! You should look it up, Sabrina. We talked about sensory disorders. Dominic sounds like he may have it. I know how you feel!
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my dsalmost 6 is like that, I just change the clothes. sorry probably not the solution you wanted to hear. but its what I do. even w/shirts etc covering up the sweater from the skin, my ds has a fit about it. so I just let him choose a different outfit.
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Hey Sabrina....is he related to Zia??!!! I just posted about her issues with clothes yest!!!! How freaky!! I'm sure Zia won't "like" 1/2 of her new clothes either. It's hit & miss. She's ok with lights/noise though just skin issues. Had to get her stitches out (cut her finger last Fri. Got 3 stitches) & yikes you would think we were torturing her pain wise. I feel your pain girl!! I am on a undies hunt. Ones that don't hurt or bunch!! No luck so far. She loves her new Carters fleece nightgowns though!! Getting more when on clearance!!! ((hugs))
Tate 19, Drake 17, Birk 14, Kian 12, Sage 11, Zia 8, & Heath 7
Sorry you're having to deal with that.. Maybe take him with you clothes shopping so at least you know he'll wear it? I'm sure you've already thought of everything.. just wanted to say sorry!
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4 ds's 7, 5, 4, 7/22/12
My eldest was super sensitive. I would wash the clothes before letting him wear them, if they were brand new. Sometimes the sizing/starch in the clothing made him itch and have a rash. I used a fabric softener too. I also had to cut the tags out of all of his clothes because he couldn't stand the itchiness. After all these modifications and working with him, I didn't give him the option of taking the clothes off. I dressed him, would swat him if he tried to take off his clothing, and told him he had zero choice and would wear it...sometimes he'd pitch a fit and cry, but he would eventually stop.
At 19, he is still sensitive, cuts the tags out of his clothes, and prefers not to wear sweaters too often, and never directly against his skin. He doesn't like brief underwear, prefers the loose boxers.
He's mildly autistic, so I attribute these eccentricies to his autism.
My suggestion, do what you can to make the clothing comfortable, wash, fabric softener, cut the tags out, but make him wear them. He really shouldn't be given a choice, especially at his age.
Over the Hill Mom to Taylor ('89), Lauren ('97), Hannah ('03) and soon to be James ('09), DW to R.T. since 1988.


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