Fair dinkum the hysteria I’ve seen displayed on the news tonight would set a man

Agree 100%. Anything for a bit of sensationalism.

Hi Kim, The first rule of the earth sciences is;

"If it has happened in the past then it is likely to happen again in the future."

Fires, floods, earthquakes, droughts, ice ages and .... wait for it ...warming, they have all happened in the past so don't be surprised if - bush burns, a flood plain floods, the ground shakes, water restrictions, the NW passage freezes over or the summers get warmer.

Now here's a prediction for next year - 'sun spots'
(the sun is due to start getting active again soon :-))

Drought and heat waves follow sun spot activity (quiet times) so if I am right then the weather will start to look normal again next year.

Journo's - who needs them ? Just follow history.

KK

hi kim and damn dog

your spot on mate i ve also lived in the back blocks and of simular age i've nearly choked on blinding thick dust storms to many times i lost count it's a lot of hype this global warming b/s

if the ground is dry and the wind blows anywhere strong enough hey presto you have a huge dust storm like today
my mum was 94 on monday and she said tonight they dont know what there on about she is very alert andstill looks after herself

she said she has experience so many bad dust storms in her life there is'nt anything different just a lot of younger people who havent experienced it before today and go on like there going to die she reckon they should toughen up a bit
she reckons they should get a life or put their heads back in the sand lol
bless her
mazcan barry

On the dust issue, Was talking to a fellow farmer who has seen many more seasons than I who said the dust storms aren't nearly as bad as they once were. with cropping farmers moving to minimum or zero tillage there is far less raised dust.

A dry lake corangamite gave us a fair dusting a few years back....

MadCowz

Kim

these boof heads fail to remember that we do live on THE driest continent on earth.......or did the Uni they went to fail to teach them that?

I was doing some work today at a local private hospital, and of course keeping an eye on the dust storm along with many others, when a nurse said "Gee, that's awful out there.... " and went on to say how she didn't think a lot of people will survive it....... I replied that we see this sort of thing every now and then, whereas people who live in the outback probably see it on a much more regular basis. She saw my logic and wasn't so "doomsday" about it after that.


Oh, and don't forget the first rule of journalism......

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!".


Cheers

Brian

Good point Kim, the media now 'sells' the news.

It was obviously a 'Drop the Dead Donkey' day - a NO news day !!

You should see the front page of the Daily Sellagraph in Sydney today. It's beautiful and clear this morning, but I'm led to believe that I'm already dead. BTW, don't these happen in Melbourne all the time?

An interesting link here.

Particularly the first video from Broken Hill.

Note the climatologist's comments that “You can’t really link any individual extreme weather event to climate change......It’s much more complicated than that.” Yet in the very next paragraph, the author of the article goes on to do just that.

Matt.

Who was it, Channel 7? Doesn't surprise me.

Yes, I have to agree with the replies here. I'm getting really sick and tired of hearing about 'global warming'. They used to call it global warming, but now they say climate change. In my opinion, that's already an indication that it's all bullcrap. Australia has always experienced extremes in weather and temperatures. Why, more than a hundred years ago, Australia was hit by heatwaves, dust storms, bush fires and the lot. Don't tell me they had 'climate change' back then!

As I've said many times before, we're just going through another normal phase in our climate. OK, it's probably going to warm up for another X amount of years, and then it will most likely cool down again. It always does that. Everybody's so concerned about everything heating up and taking all these careful steps to ensure that the temperature doesn't go up by 0.001°, that the world probably will cool down so much that we'll be hoping for 'global warming.'

If our pollies don't stop bullcrapping the public, then we'll definitely end up with 'global warming.' They are the only ones that can produce a lot of hot air.

I'll get back into my kennel now...lol

Hi Kim,
They covered a lot on the news but missed the most important bit, this bloke:

I heard a caller on ABC radio ask what they should do with washing that was left on the line during the dust storm ???!!!

And yes, the expert advised it be rewashed..

Geez, c’mon it was a major event wasn’t it…..after all there are a lot of Prado’s out there in the supermarket car-parks with dust on them for the first time ever, surely a newsworthy event in its own right!!

Must admit, I usually give the TV news a miss, besides, it conflicts with the Simpsons….

Tongue firmly in cheek……

Cheers

OH!
and by the way, a bigger dust storm hit this state N.S.W. in 1932.
Yep its global warming, Bullwit.
Here in the country we get the odd dust storm every year.
With more land being clear felled and then ploughed one must expect some dust when the vagaries of nature all combine.

Anything to sell a story and anything to make a buck from suckers.

.

Hi there Kim

It sure is golbal warming , but you can't not expect the media to make the most of every opportunity.

But in fairness , it apparently was the biggest sand blow 70 years.

I was more amazed at the beat up of the story on a car doing a soft roll in the Simpson, and how he managed to survive 16 hours just with only a fully equipped Kitchen and weeks supply of food & water nearby , although it was a little dusty.

Hi there Kim

It sure is golbal warming , but you can't not expect the media to make the most of every opportunity.

But in fairness , it apparently was the biggest sand blow for 70 years.

I was more amazed at the beat up of the story on a car doing a soft roll in the Simpson, and how he managed to survive 16 hours with only a fully equipped Kitchen and weeks supply of food & water nearby , although it was a little dusty.

Got more dust in the house going down the Fitzroy Dev Road lol. Only took me half an hour to clean up the dust today inside. Geez im still cleaning NQ dust out of the old girl. Who cares.
Serously while I was growing up in SA I remember the Adelaide Plains coming alive. It must have happened a fair bit as I still look up to the west before I hang the washing out. Wow thats nearly 30 years ago, moving right along now.