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DEHYDRATION AVERTED, AGAIN
A fearless forecast from frightmonger Tim Flannery:
Environmental researcher Tim Flannery has warned that Brisbane and Adelaide - home to a combined total of three million people - could run out of water by year’s end.
The Flanster, who isn’t having a great year on the predictions front, made that claim only a few months ago. Once again, Gaia lets him down:
Adelaide’s reservoirs are now at nearly 70 per cent of capacity.
They were at 50 per cent at the same time last year.
This month alone, five billion litres of water has flowed into Adelaide’s reservoirs ...
As for Brisbane, well, Brisbane’s water supply was abundant even at the time of Flannery’s warning. Good news for southerners, too:
Melbourne looks like it could escape the harsh stage four water restrictions as its four major reservoirs continue to take more water.
The key catchment areas of Thompson, Upper Yarra, O’Shannassy and Maroondah were boosted by 3.8 billion litres, or 0.2 per cent, of water in a 24-hour period from 8am yesterday.
(Via Chris S.)
UPDATE. Raining again in Sydney.
UPDATE II. Whoa! Check out the latest satellite images - big rain headed towards Warragamba Dam:
He said could run. Could run.
Let’s play the Flannery Radical Rag:
he said coulda
he said coulda
he said coulda
but it didn’t didn’t do dahe said coulda
he said coulda
he said coulda
but it didn’t didn’t do dahe said coulda
he said coulda
he said coulda
but it didn’t didn’t do daOkay, I’ll stop.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 08 at 03:07 AM • permalinkFrom today’s UK sunday Telegraph:
Film challenge to Al Gore’s ‘Truth’ By Philip Sherwell, Sunday Telegraph
Al Gore’s apocalyptic take on global warming has increasingly become the accepted orthodoxy. Now, though, the former US vice-president’s film An Inconvenient Truth has a rival.
An Inconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction, starring Californian academic Steven Hayward, is a celluloid challenge to what many see as Mr Gore’s hyperbolic interpretation of the world’s endangered future. Dr Hayward’s film has been promoted primarily by word of mouth. But thousands of Americans have bought DVDs or downloaded it from the internet.
Dr Hayward, a senior fellow with the free market Californian think tank Pacific Research Institute (PRI), initially intended to attach the DVD to his annual environmental report. But a groundswell of complaints about students being forced to watch Mr Gore’s documentary encouraged the PRI to make the 50-minute film more widely available.
Dr Hayward does not deny that global warming is occurring or that human activity is contributing to it. But he believes Mr Gore has exaggerated the scale and threat.
“The language of ‘sceptics versus alarmists’ has put the issue of climate change into a straitjacket, leaving little room for a reasonable middle ground,” he said.
With a budget of just £12,000, Dr Hayward deliberately modelled his film on the style of Mr Gore’s original. He addresses claims made by Mr Gore - and facts that the former vice-president omits. For example, while ice is melting in parts of Antarctica and Greenland, it is growing in others. And while, as Mr Gore observes, Mt Kilimanjaro is indeed in danger of losing its snow-capped peak, this is probably due to slash and burn farming techniques and deforestation rather than global warming.
***Just in case***
DFAT warns of ‘imminent’ Indonesia terror attacksnip
Posted 3 hours 4 minutes ago
Updated 32 minutes agoThe Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) is warning of imminent terrorist attacks in Indonesia, possibly in Bali.
Australians are being urged not to travel there with intelligence reports suggesting terrorists are planning attacks against western targets.
Hey, Flannery! Predict I won’t get laid by the end of next week.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 08 at 03:16 AM • permalinkWell, as a resident of Bris Vegas, I’ve installed a 5000 litre rainwater tank (net cost $288 out of $2,038, after local and State government rebates). {My tax dollars at work! Bwahahhahahah!}
Not because I’m a greenie, mind you, but just in case the totally fucked-up Labor State Government has misinterpreted or misrepresented the available potable water supply in Brisbane, and has no chance of bringing their desperate alternatives on-line (assuming no major rainfall) by October 2008.
Plus, I like the idea of being able to wash my cars, fill my pool. Gerni off the driveway, and all sorts of other things that have been prohibited here.
A win/win situation.
#9 lotocoti:
Umm.. priceless, actually. Under Level 5 water restrictions, the Powers That Be mandated several months ago that all Brisbanites could only wash their car’s windows and mirrors, from buckets, between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. every second day depending upon odd or even street number.
Oh, plus you can remove bird shit from your paintwork. (Within the same time parameters, I presume)
Plus plus, you can (must!) clean your number plate, so that Constable Kodak can take your picture.
If you wanted a dictionary definition of fucked, just looky at this linky!
#5
Google video: An Inconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction?Tim, South East Qld is in a pretty dire situation, still. We are at level 5 water restrictions, with water due to run out in Sept, 2008. Note that is just over a year away, and only 1 summer storm season in which to re-fill some water. We have only had 1 lot of good rain in about 2 years.
Premier Beattie is madly talking up some water grid, but most will not be on line within that deadline.
All because they were against Wolfdene dam, which would now be about 50% full and we’d be right for a further 2-3 years.
I hope Flannery keeps talking up Brisbane’s dire situation - he is a better beat than any politician.
“The key catchment areas of Thompson, Upper Yarra, O’Shannassy and Maroondah were boosted by 3.8 billion litres, or 0.2 per cent, of water in a 24-hour period from 8am yesterday.”
The irony is that The Bracks Government, acting on advice from their Minister of Water [sic], has banned the building of a dam in the Mitchell river catchment, an area of Victoria that has received over 400 mm in the last month, in favor of a power-hungry desalination plant on a beautiful stretch of the coast.Kae - laid, laid out, whatever. Distinctions are becoming immaterial.
Ash - I read further through yesterday’s thread and I realise you’re having man trouble. Sorry to hear that, I thought it was all fine for you on the home front.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 08 at 06:28 AM • permalinkLooking out the window towards the beach at the lightning strikes, (through the driving rain) all I can say is that I wish this drought would just flaming end.
I have to mow the lawn and trim the trees, not to mention weed the vegie garden, at some stage.
Flannery, please stop talking about Sydney and start talking up a drought in Brisvegas?
Please?#25 Ash_
Yes, the lightning looks great, when the 40Kg of scaredey dog stops jumping on my lap everytime the thunder sounds lets me see it. :)
I swear, when she was a pup in NQ, she used to run out in the back yard and howl at the big dog in the sky during cyclones. Guess we’re both getting old and senile (I turn 35 in a couple of weeks, and she’s nearly 9).
Or maybe we’re both just mad, as Dirty Harriet likes to say. :)
I just wish I could get the work on the yard done, I hate it when things get untidy.#32 Ash_
Well, having spent the afternoon with one of my mates, whom I actually kicked in the goolies during a course (totally legit move, he’s a lot bigger than me and I needed to get his weapon off him), I can tell you it would take a lot of kicks. He’s got two little boys now, and the fact is, they were on IVF and couldn’t conceive, next thing, bang, preggers.
If a baby wants to be born, it will be.Oh, and kinda like that scene in ‘We were Soldiers’, where the CO is explaining that in Crazy Horse’s tribe, every older warrior was called grandpa, and the RSM looks at the young officers and says “any you boys calls me grandpa, I’ll kill ya”
I feel the same way about ‘lefty’.#33 185600:
If a baby wants to be born, it will be.
No shit. I was using four types of contraception. However, I am quite happy to deliver the necessary number of kicks to Jesse.
You are on the list of people I will never call a lefty. You at least have the guts to really put your arse on the line for what you believe in. They don’t.
#34 Ash_
Does one of those four types of contraception include the ‘switchblade on the goolies’ kind?
Cause I reckon that would work a treat. :)Never call me a lefty? But I so wanted someone to, just once in my life. Of course, it may require police attendance, and perhaps medical care for someone, but hey, it’s the fun that you remember.
#37 Ash_
I’ve tried that, Irish backpackers in Bondi now know my description. :)
But at least it’s raining. I hope the snails in my garden appreciate the shower, lettuce eating machines that they are.
Although, if you can find the little troll from this site a few months ago who told me right before I went overseas that he hoped I was ‘number 3000’ killed in Iraq, he doesn’t have to call me anything. I am Irish / Sicilian, and we have the longest memories known to mammals (elephants excepted, even then it’s a contest).
That and a tradition of revenge. :)
Better start priming Ember on those legal thingamajigs soon. :)#38 Irish/Sicilian. I could have guessed! It’s a beautiful mix. Can fight to hell and back, but a loyal and great, and if you f*ck with someone with that background, pre-order your ambulance or tombstone.
What month did you go overseas, and I’ll find the little guy?
I’ll start on the legal thingamajigs, and just put Ember’s name on them for now, ok?
#39 January, but it doesn’t matter, he and I will meet one day, sometime special.
Yes, my grandad was called ‘Bob the Wog’ by his mates in WW2, and it saved him when the Italians captured him (twice) and allowed him to escape. What it breaks down to is that we have big families, lots of cousins, uncles, aunties, etc, but we also fight like a bunch of cats in a bag.
It also means that we are very emotional people, (especially the Irish half, of which I am probably more demonstrative).
But hey, as long as I have legal defence, by the by, should I start a fund now? I know it costs, but I was kinda hoping on some “Pro Bono” (no, not the singing prat, the other kind) of work? :)#40 I bet he just can’t wait!
I’m half Italian, so I have so many relatives that I can’t remember most of them. But I do inherit from their wills, so they must be nice people.
You’ll be pleased to know that you qualify for our Armed Services discount. You get to pay 10%, and you only have to pay the other 90% if we win! It’s a good deal.
#41 Ash_
Wow, you guys are affiliated with PACO INC?
Next thing you’ll tell me the climate is changing and offer me ‘carbon offset bonds’. :)I know all about the wills, my grandad’s brother is worth a small fortune (thanks to grandad) and my father and I are both in his will. Naturally he is 90 and will live to 150. We may age fast, but damn, we live long.
#42 185600, I have no idea if we’re affiliated with PACO INC. I wouldn’t be surprised. I haven’t read the fine print yet, although I signed it years ago.
Living to 150 sounds about right. Three of my relatives died young, but the rest live to between 80 and 102. I usually have to drag out the photo album when I’m told someone died though, because there are too many relatives to keep in my memory.
Ash
I’ll take care of her. I’ll be in major hoc to PACO INC for lost income if I don’t
PACO = PrimAtech Paper COmpany?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 09 at 01:48 AM • permalink
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Wonder if Flannely has a prediction for Melbourne Cup.Sure to be a winner.