East Coast a Campers nightmare at the moment!

Hey Axel,
I'll have to disagree that it is climate change mate.
A lot of the older generation believes this is what the weather was like when they were kids.
We can't have too good ALL the time LOL.
Cheers.

The politicians came up with this crapppppp of global warming just to squeeze more juice out of us

Here are the facts about climate.


Australia heatwave & storm deaths
Figures for heatwave & storm deaths in Australia

Heat wave Victoria 438 1939-01Dec 1938-Feb 1939
Heatwave killed 438 and sparked the Black Friday bushfires (see below).
Heat wave South-eastern Australia 437 18951895–1896
Widespread heatwave killed 437, including 47 in Bourke, New South Wales
Cyclone Bathurst Bay, Queensland 410 dead 1899-03 4 March 1899 Cyclone Mahina; estimated toll 410
Heat wave Southern states 246 dead 1907-12December 1907-January 1908
Heatwaves Australia-wide 147 dead 19201920–1921
Heatwaves Australia-wide 143+ dead 19111911–1912
Heatwave Southern states 130 dead 19261926–1927
Heatwave Australia-wide 122+ dead 19131913–1914
Heatwave Australia-wide 112 dead 19391939–1940
Heatwave Australia-wide 109 dead 19091909–1910
Heatwave Southern regions, Australia 105+ dead 19591959 One source puts death toll at 145
Heatwave Southern regions Australia 99 dead December 1972 to February 1973
Cyclone Northern Queensland 99 dead March 1934 Cyclone and 9.1 m storm surge
Cyclone Queensland coast, particularly Innisfail 77+ dead 10 March 1918
Cyclone and storm surge with death toll estimated between 77 and 100
Flood Clermont, Queensland 65 dead 27 December 1916
Cyclone Around Broome, Western Australia 50 dead 1908
Flood Melbourne suburbs and Southern Victoria 35 dead 29 November to 1 December 1934
Torrential rainfall of up to 350 mm. Yarra River becomes raging torrent. Extensive damage
with 35 dead, 250 injured, and 3,000 homeless
These are the biggest death tolls from natural disasters. Just goes to show that major
weather variances occurred since white man registered such figures.

cheers
Joe

Read a book recently, where it was written where ,someone challenged an anthropologist as to why he had written something that he knew was incorrect. The anthropologsted said "look we are paid by the government to promote aboriginality, I don't care if it is wright or wrong but this is how our university is funded". There lies the problem! When the so called first australians walked here 40,000 years ago the area where Broome now is was 200 ks from the coast, the seas have been rising and falling for millions of years before we had fossil fuels to aid it. We have 2.44 people per sq km ,England has 236 people per sq km and a similar amount in Germany. When we contribute such a small amount of carbon dioxide what we do, or don't do won't make much difference. Did you know that the volcanic eruptions in Greenland last year put more carbon into the atmosphere than all of mankind in history.
Biggest scam that has ever occured but if you are on the pension (not a self funded retiree) or a householder you will get compensation. Stuff those that are in business. In New Zealand their carbon scheme costs dairy farmers about $30,000 each our scheme is estimated to cost an average cereal farmer $38,000 each. Rural and regional people who have to use the most energy for their living will pay the most.

Hello Axle
We moved from Sydney to the Coffs Harbour area in 1985 and it was a nightmare trying to build our house.
The weather we are experiencing now is a repeat of 1985 to 1989.
Mud everywhere and a sticky as it comes.
Stan

The ice caps had been melting on mars too (look it up)
Guess we did that burning our fossil fuels,

Or could it possibly be that the fluctuating heat of the SUN effects the climate ?

how come they don't call it global warming anymore ?
best to watch this bbc doco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXp1AXDzLGQ

I'm on the east coast and apart from a few showers the weather has been pretty good over the weekend.

The natural disasters!!! The damage bill for QLD is approximately 6 Billion dollars...so who fixes our damaged states....hmmm...maybe the federal Govt....now if they spend all that money putting Australia back where it was...I cannot see the budget being returned to surplus by 2012....the money has to come from somewhere.....The Govt cannot do an about face on their promise...so how does Wayne & Julia go about getting the Govt extra $$$$...introduce a new tax which if managed correctly & con the people that it is a tax to stop OUR global warming....then the majority will vote that in because we all care about what happens to our country....don't we? So WE pay the damage bill...with a little help from W & J.

Axle

Its called "getting older". We cannot take the bad weather as well as we did when we were teenagers.

I recall surfing at Crowdy Head in 1967 and we had to submerse ourselves as much as possible to get our of the sleet. Thats right SLEET at Crowdy in July. And no wetsuits in those days. I wouldn't do it now. Too much for me at 60+.

Ya gettin old mate!!!!

Phil

Me cranky? Only when I don't foget my pills mate. Or when the Eels lose.

Better of late though. Taking a different pill now. Thanks God. Even the young grand daughter said so.

Take care mate.

Phil

Who knows whether "global warming " or "climate change" is caused by man or just another fluctuation in our planet's natural rhythm.If you believe that we in Australia with some 22 million people are going to make a difference to the climate or that countries like the USA, China, Russia or any other developed or developing country are going to change their ways because we do, call me, first I have this lovely coat hanger shaped bridge that you can have for an absolute bargain price, secondly I will gladly cough up my share of the proposed carbon tax when the aforementioned countries show the way and then we can see if man can slow whatever we are supposed to be doing to the planet.
Sorry but at the moment all I can see this tax doing is contribute to the government's consolidated revenue.

Cheers
Pop