Some people I respect - farmers - are telling me we're heading into a drought affecting the whole of NSW west of the Divide. Don't know about the other states. I can see it already on my little place.

This is going to cause big hardship in the bush, if it happens, and the effect will spill over into city life too. Agriculture has displaced mining now (once again) as the big earner.

So don't think it doesn't matter to you. It will.

As the surface  becomes too hostile for human civilisation, then we should evolve into mole people.
Move underground and live on fungus.


And as for food prices skyrocketing due to burning coal, nationalise food and keep it all in Australia. No exporting.

The Egyptians believed that their rulers and how they ruled affected the weather.

When there was drought, they simply killed the ruler and things got better.

The Romans believed that when there was political unrest or rulers fighting, storms came.

Even many primitive tribes believed that the kings and rulers caused the weather.

Now.
Im not saying this is fact,
But, the whole time howard was in power there was drought.
This could be because he was a dried up little turd that was killing the country.
Along came Rudd, and we had all sorts of inclement weather
This could be because he was useless.

Now we have massive storms and tornados in the USA
Could this be because of Trump???

Is this starting to ring true?

Australia has had some of the most changable, confused and weird weather lately.
Could our ever changing and confused prime minister is in charge??

Just saying.
Its a real Quinkydik isnt it?

It's been raining almost every day for months in Melbourne.

around me, i have seen 100's and 1000's of acres of prime agricultural land turned into urban sprawl.
the interesting thing is that a lot of this is 2 1/2 to 5 acre lots and people put a horse or two on it .

when the dry comes (as it has now), farmers keep the best lucerne for their own stock, there is little available on the market.  and a lot of the best hay producing land is being subdivided.

add to that , 3 local hay producers i know are in their 70's and you see the cost for a bale go from 9 to 25 dollars very quickly.

and then, most people cant get hay, even if they would pay more. it simply runs out.

so i face an almost daily phone call asking for a spot on my prime river front property for some dopey buggers horse that is now living on dirt and twigs.

i cant take them all.
many end up at the local meatworks en route to belgium.

anyway, this drought doesnt look like finishing anytime soon.

theres a lot more suffering ahead.

god only knows what its like west of the great divide

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 7:59am:



sprint, there are a couple of reasons abbatoirs are closing.
high energy costs and refirdgeration costs
and when there is a drought on, farmers know they will get terrible money for stock, so they try to hold on til the end.
paradoxically, if it continues, expect a flood of cheap beef and prices will plummett.

then it will rain and no one will be selling as they will be stocking up  and prices go up.

its a very tricky market

Winter is always dry. When we get some humanity it will start raining again.

Will it be a CO2 induced climate drought or a normal climate drought?