Blimey: Climate Change, a wake-up call...

**gingerjedi** · 20 April 2007, 11:30

Not so much a disaster just bad planning, climate change is inevitable and expected.

**DodgyAgent** · 20 April 2007, 11:33

Originally posted by milanbenes

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle2465960.ece

'Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent's food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.',

cripes, maybe Australia is not the best place to emigrate to as many think !

Milan.

what are you worried about milan everything is fine and australia is thousands of miles away (wish I could say the same for Australians)

**Churchill** · 20 April 2007, 11:36

Oi MB, I thought you'd fecked off!

**Troll** · 20 April 2007, 11:37

You have to plan for these things

If you have the dosh you plan capacity for a once in a 1000 year drought occurrence - i.e. no rain for 5 years

If you wanna take a chance you plan for a once in a 25 year occurrence i.e. no rain for a year

Same way we in a temperate country don't really plan or spend for heavy snow as we are very seldom affected and the costs cannot be justified. But some years the snow falls and we grind to a halt

Nothing to do with climate change more to do with being caught out by nature

**milanbenes** · 20 April 2007, 11:49

Supremo,

less of it, couldn't find anywhere else to go.

Interestingly in my absence things seems to return to a kind of normality, wonder if there is a pattern here ?

Milan.

**Captain Dispensable** · 20 April 2007, 12:15

Ironic when two thirds of the earth is covered by water.

You'd think salt water desemination was a viable option these-days. Mustn't be much money in it.

**Churchill** · 20 April 2007, 13:23

Originally posted by milanbenes

Supremo,

less of it, couldn't find anywhere else to go.

Interestingly in my absence things seems to return to a kind of normality, wonder if there is a pattern here ?

Milan.

OK, let's try an experiment. You feck off for six months, go and build your swimming pool and we'll see how it turns out.

**Churchill** · 20 April 2007, 13:24

Originally posted by zeitghost

desalination?

No.

There's no money in it.

It costs a fortune in energy...

Hmmmmm, solar energy?

Hmmmm, gold....

Hmmmmm, minerals...

**Flubster** · 20 April 2007, 13:31

Just come back from Orlando where Floriday have just had their coldest Easter weekend in 32 years. We had to go out and buy jackets cos we only took t-shirts and shorts with us. Global warming?

Blimey: Climate Change, a wake-up call...