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truebluebasher said: Who requested the most despicable reverse hostile cross national sickly song about world's #1 arsehole!
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blackers said: A song fer Sussan.
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lucky-al said: Likewise, freeride76. Will call in next time I'm down your way.
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Oh shit yeah, I’ve been there a couple of times. Once on school camp and once as a adult 25 years younger than now.
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Opti said “Anyone who reads your past comments will easily see why you’re not worth engaging in conversation.”
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Where I live now is perfect…..but I’ve had better in the past.
Where in AUS would you live in you could take your pick?
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You're always going to run the risk of a big flatty busting you or biting you off on light gear and bait hooks.
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This guy has broken his back in 2 places plus other injuries but this horrific fall didn’t break his spirit, such a amaz
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Oh my....and it's winter
Scientists uncover a surprising phenomenon in the Himalayas that might be slowing the effects of climate change.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/12/world/himalayan-glaciers-cooling-air…
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/climate-targets-set-to-be-blown-off-co…
Apologies, its a subscribed service but you will get the gist
I did get the gist seaslug
Nearly ALL major projects are dreadfully hard to KNOW ( or even predict with certainty
)what will happen over a 10 year period .
Especially Infrastructure , as they nearly always need time to "settle in " ( tweak ) .
Plans about important long term infrastructure , need to also be monitored ( what are others doing ) and changed , when the facts change ( derr Pop ) .
Whats Urgent today , might not be as urgent as tomorrow . ( pop )
Things are changing fast all around the world .
There are so many things we need to learn and looking o/s helps me imho .
Some things , I already hate , but we all need to keep looking ( not in the mainstream media imho ) .
Another simple idea , don't put too many eggs in ONE basket , especially with Energy . It's too important imho . ( derr Pop ) .
The beat goes on..
Dr Ben Miles with more about a possible Ice Age Termination Event...
...except it seems to be occurring when we're already in an interglacial...
2023 broke records and forecasts by quite a margin in regards to global temperature, and the flow on effects are about to be felt across the US.
As the climate warms, the polar vortex isn't as strong, so polar air isn't held in close to the poles.
We get big wobbles and strong cold outbreaks, with the US set for a record breaker later this week/weekend. It's going to cause chaos and likely deaths.
Craig: been wanting to post this one for a while.
9:10 - what on earth is this phenomenon? Sparks coming out of mounted gun barrels (mounted on wall) for 3 days and 3 nights?! Is that taught in meteorology?
And happening now:
Haha nope.
Maybe grounding of the guns on the wall and charge going between an object and them. Or old mate had some good mushies.
US forecast, major winter storms half the country:
As I was saying.....
https://amp-smh-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.smh.com.au/politics/f…
Great visual of 2023, the hottest year on record in recent history. Note the growing blip towards that +1°C.
Crazy stuff Craig, how's this one.
Yep, the amount of crazy graphs and stats out there. The ocean is taking up a lot of the heat excess.
Great visual graph Craig and also very concerning
and Sprout's
abc news
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-10/2023-earths-hottest-year-on-reco…
More data..
And the severe cold about to hit the US, with Europe also copping it.
Extreme variability.
So maybe Guy McPherson at Nature Bats Last was right after all. Enjoy the time we have.
Re: Dew points, wasn't that what Fortescue was going on about, with people actually boiling?
Dr Ella Gilbert of the British Antarctic Survey does her 2023 climate extremes wrap up:
nothing to see here
Or are the recent volcanic activity below the oceans heating them up from within.
TheTongan volcano was the biggest eruption in over 100 years, and the amount of water it sent into the atmosphere would have had a major impact on weather, was it 260000 tons of water it sent up, what goes up must come down, and it was salt water, not normally in the atmosphere, hmm
Thanks VJ. And yeah Gromfull, there's that influence as well.
Enjoyed Ella for about half her video .
When she talked about Extreme Events caused by man made climate change being Bush Fires , I turned off , and stayed , but remained off . Floods , flooding and climate change ?
Polar Melt is another thing , as Sea Level going up 1% makes more difference than 1% temperature change , in ONE year imo .
Even with the World ALL agreeing to Zero 2050 , the Ice Melting won't stop for a while .
The Dutch built the Worlds best Dyke System in ONE year ( 1953 ) and protected their valuable Country .
Mitigation of Fires has NEVER been easy , the Dutch mitigated Sea Rise and grew their economy by 8.5% in 1953 .
The Dykes are ALL still working perfectly .
Adaptation is sadly a dirty word these day, Pop.
Hey Island Bay ( cool name :)
Adaptation is Change , and it is never easy .
Some people , like the Dutch , have adaption forced upon them ( 2000 people died ( 50% drowned in the first 24 hours ) , react like hero's and very quickly .
You seem like an early adapter but everything adapts , eventually .
Otherwise , it dies .
The way of the world .
Melbourne can build a big Dyke / Hydro / Panama Canal Super System , at the Heads of our Bay and will be OK ( a lot of Dutch people down here ) . Sydney 2 .
The Dutch Sea Water Management System is 1 of the Modern Wonders of the World .
Australia has the ability to build something similar imho !
Australia's Fire and Flood Management Systems , also need a BIG investment and can improve substantially , as a result .
We have a lot of work 2 do imo .
That RED line on the graph looked very scary .
I would ask that all the data is Triple checked ( by someone NEW ) , as THAT shouldn't happen ( unless something HUGE has happened ) .
@IB , please correct me if I’m wrong, you are Dutch, is that right ? Living in NZ . Just thought pop might not realise .
How to Offend a Dane....call him Dutch
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Sorry if I’ve offended anyone, I’m not very diplomatic at the best of times . https://scandification.com/danish-vs-dutch-differences-between-dutch-an…
Better than calling him a Swede ahahah
Mum came out on a boat with her family from the Netherlands .
Two brothers ( Dutch men are different 2 the women :) and a sister , all alive and kicking (. mum is the eldest ) .
Sailed past South Africa and came out with quite a few others in the 50's to escape War torn Europe .
So , my mum is a refugee !
Dads parents were Poms .
3 brothers just moved to Australia ( maybe got into trouble haha ) .
Economic refugees .
The Dutch have saved the World heaps of times in the really old days .
They still can come up with a good idea .
Just saying .
Danish yes. Not nearly as stubborn as the Dutch, and more relaxed than the Swedes, hehe
Hey IB
NZ is a place I need to visit .
Our countries are like sisters , with a bond forged by ANZAC spirit .
Most Northern Europeans are pretty relaxed imho ( not Sure about East of Germany ) .
I worked for the Swiss and they are ok but the sense of humour of a pen .
Southern European are more crazy ( probably from eating so late ) , especially at night time , for some reason .
Melbourne has every country's peoples and we ALL get along very nicely .
We ALL have an AFL team to support !
Only game in the world where half the spectators are female , so we are all going to the footy together .
No trouble at our games and spectators of both teams mingle .
Guessing our city is a Model for people getting on with making something of our lives .
Our Schools and Uni's are great and kids can be whatever they want .
I'm with you, Pop.
Unity is to be celebrated and cultivated.
We're all gonna DIIIIIIIEE :'(
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/atlantic-ocean-circ…
Not so much climate change related, just people with too much money building in stupid spots.
Jeez, that's cheap considering some other prestige locations around San Diego.
Cheap and soon to be worthless.
You never know. It's the US, they will find a way to protect the property but they can't find a way to protect the rail line between San Diego and LA. This one constantly closes due to landslides. It was an issue when I was there a couple of weeks ago and keeps having the same issues every single year.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/transportation/story/2024-01-…
Check out this place in la Jolla for $26.8m USD. Right on the water but someone will buy it. There’s so much money over there.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/308-Vista-De-La-Playa…
A hot day and half of victoria is without electricity because our only decent power station is half down : (
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This one will be a huge problem
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189
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Really , another thing 2 worry about !
AMOC Collapsing into Meridional temperature gradients causing ice-albedo feedback loops that change in both hemisphere ffs .
Temperatures going up 1 degree and down 5 in 1 day , near the Amazon Rainforest ???
What next ?
I think the biggest shock was the Antarctic sea ice extent in this last year, prior to that it had been holding up in the face of what was happening elsewhere. Wonder what this year will bring.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/half-a-million-victorian-ho…
It was a windy day! Young one was on scissor lift but luckily in an alcove, got sent home when it got above 35.
beautiful seeing an optimistic, young technical mind do what he can, despite horrific circumstances ^. I'm sure it's been recommended before, but The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a very good, uplifting true-story set in Malawi