Making sense of 2017 (Hint: alcohol is a must)
Making sense of 2017 (Hint: alcohol is a must)
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“Global Warming” not reaching the Sahara Desert, Mr Insider as we see the usually sun-kissed sand dunes of the Sahara desert have been blanketed in snow for the third time in almost 40 years. “Professor” Google stumped on that one am sure.
https://tinyurl.com/y776qfgq
Could you get someone with a brain to teach you how use Google Henry? You might learn something.
Just kidding, you’re never going to learn anything.
If you don’t understand why you should be concerned when strange cold weather events are happening and every year is a new record for hotness on the planet in spite of that then you are in a blissful place.
Do not peruse the attached link, just in case you accidentally understand something.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2017-was-the-third-hottest-year-on-record-for-the-u-s/
It’s also like saying ‘It snowed in Australia’ given the size, variation in altitude and latitude of the Sahara. It snowed in Cairo in 2013. In the Red Sea mountains it does so probably every year.
only the 3rd time in 40 years lad, comprehension problems still yes? Cheers
Where was it Henry? Or do you have geography problems? Do you know how big the Sahara is?
PS that’s about the same average for Toowoomba
Dear Professor Google please don’t come to QLD you will be on the receiving end of an Atomic Wedgie for peddling your Global Warming claptrap, even worse if you venture to the far Nth. Cheers
Queensland eh? Reckon that explains everything Henry. Quaint custom that, always marrying first cousins.
Tassie JB. Get with it
That’s the Island state thank you kindly! Unless you are talking about Ipswich.
Huh!
TV/ Mack. Why do you think its called Queensland? Royal precedence.
It’s a matter of degree, and I agree Tassie and Ipswich are on a par.
Henry, does the term ‘extreme weather event’ not mean anything to you at all? Seriously mate, even if you don’t accept that human activity is altering our climate, there’s no denying that the surface temp of the oceans is rapidly rising & that’s alarming.
As is the worldwide frequency of intense weather pattern changes.
We’re seeing glaciers/ice melting, powerful rain & snow storms, flooding, heatwaves & the species extinction rate is occuring 1000 times faster than the normal extinction rate, yet none of the above is concerning some folks who choose to deride the possibility that our environment is up against the biggest threat of all time.
Perhaps it’s already too late to turn this around but it still intrigues me that folks like your goodself can so easily dismiss all the evidence that says it’s happening. What if you’re completely wrong?
Go easy on the potshots please, I’m not as tough as JB.
BTW Jean Baptiste, I appreciate your passion on this topic. 🐬
Bella,
The frequency of cyclones and other extreme weather events is about the same……
Another beautiful morning in QLD the sunshine state, birds tweeting, nice breeze blowing, if this is Global Warming my name is Donald J Trump. The only threat we face if from that great man of peace, the unstable Kimmie of North Korea who has advised he may Nuke us at any moment. Strewth.
You get birds tweeting? You sly dog! I’m only getting the nice breeze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G0yhX9gL4Y
Warning. Title includes rude word.
It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that your name is Donald Trump Henry.
Jean – true. Wodehouse wrote words to the effect: don’t confuse the unlikely with the impossible. Though I still think Henry B is hisself or whom he used to be, and most likely both, and/ or all 3.
Moron ain’t the half of it. Hell of a price to pay to keep The other contender out of the W.H.
Two huge lies from this mean tricky keystone cops outfit:- 1. The Liberals withheld Treasury modelling during the 2016 election on negative gearing that did not support their election campaign lies that the stock market would crash, house values would bottom out….blah blah blah…they are bottoming now under the present negative gearing policy, THEIRS-down over 12% in WA and as low as 6% in other states. 2. The second big lie is on emissions. Turnbull withheld emissions spreadsheets that show Australia will be at least 140 million tonnes above its target by 2030 . Yes, very reminiscent of Hockey holding back his $7million taxpayer-funded modelling on WorkNOchoices. We paid for it but he shredded it it was so damaging. 3. This is a baaaaaaaaaaaaaad government and getting much worse!
thanks…most liveable
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/01/mass-immigration-big-australia-policy-destroying-west/
The Headline:-“11,000 houses and businesses left without power in Sydney”
OK, I am waiting for calls of “Blackout Malcolm”, “Electricity Malcolm” “Brownout Malcolm” and days and days of blame thrown at the Liberals by the likes of 2GBiased, its shock jocks and the right wing media. When 23 Towers went over in a storm, the attack on the SA was relentless and are STILL forthcoming. OK let’s see if the Liberals cop the same treatment. Just watch them weazle out of it. Hey it won’t surprise me if Malcolm and his right wing media helpers blame Shorten!
A storm is a storm is a storm whether it hits a Labor or a Liberal state but the politics is always one way…against any Labor government.
Sydney would have had more blackouts last year if it did not suck from the kindness of Qld’s renewable energy!
Malcolm should never have politicised the South Australian episode. What comes around comes around! Karma bites you!
Bassy, SA was the whole State not just parts of it.
Big difference.
JS 190 km/h winds knocked over the privately owned poorly maintained transmission towers in SA. The gas turbines fluctuated wildly the system shut down as designed. The AEMO delivered numerous reports to show that the towers being knocked over by unprecedented weather was the cause. You really do live in an echo chamber. You continue to prove that facts have no bearing on the lies you want to propagate.
Would probably sit up and take notice if the entire states of NSW and Vict lost power Bassy. Localised blackouts are fairly common
Great post Bassy. Every word. 😒
Maybe if there hadn’t been so much posturing and distortion from the Coalition over the SA problems the likes of Bassy wouldn’t be pointing such things out. As I said the other day, not many people really understand the issues or how the whole thing works (I include me).
People, people please. Reagan was bad enough then we had in GW what surely can only be described as a parody of a president. Now trump is peak stupidity but really it is the people of the US who should be held accountable and in contempt. If ever there was a better reason not to have popularly elected presidents I doubt we will ever see it. The US is a failed nation state and this nation need to exercise extreme caution in our relations with them. Basically they suck they have created a vacuum on the world stage that others are filling gleefully the damage to the planet and society by the US, its people and ridiculous choice of presidents will not be undone easily.
Was Ron a smoker?
Don’t know if he was a smoker Bassie but the obituary of the physicist that Boa referred to was. From what I recall of the article he smoked from 12yrs to about 85yrs and died in his early 90’s. Whilst suffering respiratory problems and coughing like a bastard in his 80’s he says (re smoking) “who would have known?”; straight faced! Or words to that effect.
So what did we think of the dais or whatever it was for the Ashes presentation? Personally I thought fully cringeworthy. Saw a comment on Twitter that said ‘typical of Australia’. I disagree, I’ve never seen anything like it before anywhere. Whoever came up with it and whoever approved it should be shot.
Also saw some idiots calling Joe Root weak. FFS.
Now I’d like to see us go over and retain the ‘miserable urn’ over there in 2019. Send a few of our blokes back over to play some county cricket like they used to do. Learn to handle the swing. Get on with it! 😛
https://twitter.com/CricketAus…tell ’em…wankers..
TV, agreed, the presentation set-up looked cheap, as Gideon Haigh said, like an old Moomba float.
The element missing from the brouhaha about African gang violence is any mention of parents. Lots of finger pointing at and by the police, Courts, politicians et al, but nowhere to be seen any mention of parental involvement. My thoughts are at risk youth would benefit from closer parental supervision, with the parents supported by a strengthened social intervention regime, something with teeth. Many of the parents may be unemployed and have difficulties with language and integration. Surely an intervention, when the parents identify an emerging problem, would be better than a disempowered and confused parent battling along helpless, trying and failing to get a grip on Australian law and social mores. An ounce of prevention…
ounce of prevention= stop excessive migration
I attended a lecture at Griffith University in 1979 where the guest speaker quoted a UN document that stated Australia only has the capacity to support 26M people and their livestock. I’ve lost the transcript of the lecture and can’t recall the lecturer’s name, but the figure doesn’t seem unreasonable. I haven’t been able to unearth a UN document that fits the material, but the UN produce an avalanche of publications and they aren’t well catalogued. We are close to that figure now. Rudd’s Big Australia was a disaster in the making, yet both Parties maintain higher than needed, and dangerous, immigration levels. I agree immigration levels seem too high, but I have no way of determining what an acceptable level would be. My view is that by cramming more than 26M people in leaves no room for future generations to increase the population if it was necessary, and safe to do so. Just my opinion, but our immigration level seems geared to vote catching not national interest.
wotevs
https://twitter.com/BenjaminMillar/status/950669631785549825
Did the Space X really crash, or is there a top secret spy capsule whizzing around watching us as we speak? JB, please advise…
Absolutely, it’s the new generation “Stealth Spy Satellite” codenamed the SSS, that cannot be tracked from Earth with current technology. There will be dozens in orbit soon, not only will Big Brother know what you are doing and saying but what you are thinking and using Centrelink tech will be able to figure out what you are likely to think.
There seems to be no substantial evidence that to support the theory this was a secret mission to drop an Astronauts 1969 issue passport on the moon in case the Russians get there first.
Give ’em heaps.