Page one of this topic opened with me saying this:
Quote:We would probably be better off with a man-made river system extending rivers or diverting excess water flow into accessible dams. Had the Bradfield scheme been plausible to create, we would have done so already. How are you going to see flood water in the north and northeast of Australia diverted inland?
Took me until page 6 to get to this point:
Imagine 100,000 of those trees being planted out in saline areas of Australia's desert. Dust storms won't be much of a problem. Possibility of the renewed use of land in desert areas for something more useful.
By page 7, I had said this:
Quote:Being 15 metres below sea level, yes. I was probably thinking too much about the Dead Sea project.
That was the opening you needed to start trying to re-educate me. I actually corrected myself and started distancing myself away from damming part of the Lake Eyre. I will repeat from an earlier post: The point is conceded. We can count that issue as where I was being sophomoric.
Quote:Well durrrrrh ...that's what I said you echo...
Call it a rapport build. Obviously, it did not work. I reinforced what you had stated to make sure that you knew what you were writing. That being that the ranges get in the way of any particular prevailing climatic condition. When the easterlies or northerlies blow in humid air, the Berserker Rangers block much of the rainfall making its way west. I have watched incoming rainfall on Rain Alarm getting blocked by the ranges and Cawarral gets the rainfall. It is also the partial reason why Cyclone Marcia was downgraded from a category 4 system to a category 2 system when it reached town. The westerly winds blowing in from inland regions does bring about hot weather. But, because the Athelstane Range to the west of Rockhampton gets in the way, the winds either have to come up from Port Curtis to the south, or through the north west near the airport. Otherwise, the range blocks hot wind and shades the area in the afternoon enough to keep the area cooler than usual. We are not going to see our 45 degree record being broken anytime soon.
Quote:Rockhampton too far west to be tropical? Grin Grin
It's 29klm as the crow flies to the coast.
800mm of rainfall per year might not be desert like conditions. But, it is far from being tropical conditions. Our record rainfall (for a long time) of 1600mm of rain, a few years ago, did green up the place. But, this year, we are about 210mm. Laughable to suggest tropical weather. Yeppoon is tropical. Rockhampton is not.
Quote:I'll remind you again that your first input to this post was about using the water flowing into & planting salt resistant plants from Lake Eyre to save the people in regional dry Australia ... and QLD.
And I will remind you that I said the planting of halophyte plants to regenerate saline soils should be in farming areas. I did mention planting saltgrow plants around Lake Eyre. But, it would take a hundred years before the plants (if they survive sufficiently in number) before they have done any good. Anywhere east of Lake Eyre around farming areas should be where the planting should take place. Western NSW, southwest Qld, northwestern Victoria. They are actually planting saltgrow hybrid plants in South Australia east of Adelaide to see how things go. So, either of us debating that we should or should not be doing the planting of such trees is actually redundant.
Until I receive word that the planting of trees has failed to produce considerable results, I shall consider that I have won the debate on my side of the argument.
Oh, and I have only donated a $1, during my shopping yesterday, for farmer food aid. And about $1.40 for the milk levy when I bought 7 bottles of milk for the fortnight -- I like my coffee.