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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	megadroughts could be a reality Aug 17^th, 2012 at 7:05pm http://simpleclimate.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/continued-emission-growth-promises... Once desertication starts taking place it is a process that bodes ill for the area concerned... Like any business, early action is essential! BUSINESS IS BUSINESS, So, the question becomes, "Why did you have kids??"
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Shane B Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1473 Canberra Gender:	Re: megadroughts could be a reality Reply #1 - Aug 17^th, 2012 at 7:14pm Poppycock. We'll be rich enough, there is a planet called Endora waiting for us.
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Reply #2 - Aug 17^th, 2012 at 7:27pm

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1803 Drought in NSW that produced severe crop failures.
1809 Beginning of an unusually severe drought in NSW that continued until 1811.
1813-15 Severe drought in NSW that prompted searches for new pastures.
1826-29 Severe drought in NSW that caused Lake George to dry up and the Darling River to cease flowing.[4]

Since 1860, when adequate meteorological recording commenced, the most severe droughts have occurred commonly at intervals of 11 to 14 years. Major droughts that were recorded later in the 19th century include:

1829 Major drought in Western Australia with very little water available.[5]

1835 and 1838 Sydney and NSW receive 25% less rain than usual. Severe drought in Northam and York areas of Western Australia.
1838-39 Droughts in South Australia and Western Australia
1839 Severe drought in the west and north of Spencer Gulf, South Australia.
1846 Severe drought converted the interior and far north of South Australia into an arid desert.
1849 Sydney received about 27 inches less rain than normal.
1850 Severe drought, with big losses of livestock across inland New South Wales (NSW) and around the western rivers region.
1864 - 66 (and 1868). The little data available indicates that this drought period was rather severe in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.
1877 All States affected by severe drought, with disastrous losses in Queensland. In Western Australia many native trees died, swamps dried up and crops failed.
1880 to 1886 Drought in Victoria (northern areas and Gippsland); New South Wales (mainly northern wheat belt, Northern Tablelands and south coast); Queensland (1881–86, in south-east with breaks - otherwise mainly in coastal areas, the central highlands and central interior in 1883-86); and South Australia (1884–86, mainly in agricultural areas).
1888 Extremely dry in Victoria (northern areas and Gippsland); Tasmania (1887-89 in the south); New South Wales had the driest year since records began; Queensland (1888–89) had a very severe drought, with much native scrub dying and native animals perishing; South Australia had one of its most severe droughts; and Western Australia (central agricultural areas) lost many sheep.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia

Drough in Australia: the new phenomenon. And no carbon tax in 1803 to fight the pernicious drought.

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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: megadroughts could be a reality Reply #3 - Aug 17^th, 2012 at 7:33pm Well it's looking more and more like an El Nino event starting next year. The 30 day SOI is currently around minus 10. Time will tell. http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/seasonalclimateoutlook/southernoscillationinde...
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: megadroughts could be a reality Reply #4 - Aug 28^th, 2012 at 9:43pm Shane B wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 7:14pm: Poppycock. We'll be rich enough, there is a planet called Endora waiting for us. Shane B believes in the power of imaginary free-markets yet doesn't like carbon pricing!!!
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namnugenot Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 639 NSW Gender:	Re: megadroughts could be a reality Reply #5 - Aug 29^th, 2012 at 11:05am You mean like the megadrought at federation?
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Reply #6 - Aug 29^th, 2012 at 2:35pm

namnugenot wrote on Aug 29^th, 2012 at 11:05am:

You mean like the megadrought at federation?

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Reply #7 - Aug 29^th, 2012 at 5:57pm

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Aug 29^th, 2012 at 2:35pm:

namnugenot wrote on Aug 29^th, 2012 at 11:05am:

You mean like the megadrought at federation?

THE CHILDREN, EYES... YOU KNOW THE REST!! Cheesy

Dorothea Mackellar wrote My Country in 1907...of drought and flooding rains...

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"The five years leading up to Federation (January 1901) saw intermittent dry spells over most of the country, particularly in 1897 and 1899; in most of Queensland, dry conditions were virtually unbroken from 1897. Most other parts of the country had reasonable rain in 1900 and early 1901, but with the coming of spring 1901 very dry weather set in across eastern Australia. By February 1902 concerns were expressed about Sydney’s water supply, and the New South Wales Government declared 26 February a day of “humiliation and prayer” for rain in that state. Similar declarations were made in Queensland in April and Victoria in September, as the drought worsened.

Despite the pleas for divine intervention, things only got worse. Though there was some winter-spring rain in Victoria and NSW, cold weather nullified its usefulness. In Queensland, enormous sheep and cattle losses were being reported by August. On some far western properties, cattle numbers plummeted from tens of thousands to mere hundreds. Rivers in western Queensland dried up; at Bourke, the Darling River virtually ran dry. Further south, towns near the Murray River such as Mildura, Balranald and Deniliquin - at that time dependent on the river for transport - suffered badly. The Australian wheat crop was all but lost, with close to the lowest yields of the century."

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Reply #8 - Aug 30^th, 2012 at 1:40am

muso wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 7:33pm:

Well it's looking more and more like an El Nino event starting next year. The 30 day SOI is currently around minus 10. Time will tell.

http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/seasonalclimateoutlook/southernoscillationinde...

And after the El Niño and record highs, progs can start talking about a cooling trend all over again.

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Stanleys New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 47 USA Gender:	Re: megadroughts could be a reality Reply #9 - Aug 31^st, 2012 at 5:35pm Dreams of achieving a good reality of a designs that will give much ways in the creativity.
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progressiveslol Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17029	Re: megadroughts could be a reality Reply #10 - Aug 31^st, 2012 at 7:43pm You know whats funny. AGW'ers, the pseudo catastrophic climate change nutjobs, cant even prove their theory, but yet can come out with statements of doom and gloom. Never a doom and gloom was their that didnt make the doom and gloomer look like idiots.
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Reply #11 - Aug 31^st, 2012 at 7:58pm

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 31^st, 2012 at 7:43pm:

You know whats funny. AGW'ers, the pseudo catastrophic climate change nutjobs, cant even prove their theory, but yet can come out with statements of doom and gloom.

Never a doom and gloom was their that didnt make the doom and gloomer look like idiots.

Just because you can't join the dots doesn't mean it's not happening. Come up with a reason for why the arctic is in a death spiral, progs. It's a shame your foolishness isnt just a danger to yourself.

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Hunt says Coalition accepts IPCC findings

"What does this mean? It means that we need to do practical things that actually reduce emissions."

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Stanleys New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 47 USA Gender:	Re: megadroughts could be a reality Reply #12 - Sep 5^th, 2012 at 5:39pm It will give much desire to keep things more updated on a certain views to challenge a good inputs to make.
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Reply #13 - Sep 5^th, 2012 at 6:52pm

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 31^st, 2012 at 7:43pm:

You know whats funny. AGW'ers, the pseudo catastrophic climate change nutjobs, cant even prove their theory, but yet can come out with statements of doom and gloom.

Never a doom and gloom was their that didnt make the doom and gloomer look like idiots.

Ya mean like economic forecasters??????? Cheesy

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Reply #14 - Sep 5^th, 2012 at 7:54pm

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 7:05pm:

http://simpleclimate.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/continued-emission-growth-promises...

Once desertication starts taking place it is a process that bodes ill for the area concerned...

Like any business, early action is essential!

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS,

So, the question becomes,

"Why did you have kids??"

I wonder if you'd ask people in troubled countries that question, why did you have kids? You know, the ones where people are dying from starvation, disease, and war. Would you ask them about looking their kids in the eye?

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