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Reuters reports:
Australia will create a wildlife corridor spanning the continent to allow animals and plants to flee the effects of global warming, scientists said on Monday.
- Australia has prior experience of creating a corridor from the panic flee of animals trying to escape this calamity. I saw a documentary on it.Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 17 at 06:09 AM • permalink
- No hope for the plants.
They’re all rooted.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 17 at 06:10 AM • permalink
- Fleeing plants? Ai, caramba! But what about a corridor for those sane among us to flee from such journalistic tripe?Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 07 17 at 06:20 AM • permalink
- Haven’t seen too many triffids fleeing these days; they must already have succumbed…Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 07 17 at 06:29 AM • permalink
- Reminds me of the time that the Australian Koala Foundation (which as far as I can determine is run by one woman and an intermittent group of wet high school teachers
indoctrinatingteaching their students about how non-endangered species are actually endangered) issued a press release advising that it had written legislation allowing AKF members authority to enter private land.I was amused because the term NON-Government Organisation obviously means nothing to this particular moonbat, and her chances of survival the first time she trespassed on private private property back of Gympie was probably the same as Bushalliburtler winning a third term.
- Somewhat more seriously, any resources they want to make available would be better used fixing our current national parks – glorified fire-traps that are over-run by weeds and feral animals.
For example, near my location, the showpiece Royal National Park south of Sydney has recovered magnificently from the last fires, and will be in great condition for incineration this summer.
Kangaroos are extinct in the park, but the feral deer are doing fine, and the managers are always sensitive to the wishes of the key fuckwit demographic by not making any serious attempt to eliminate them.
A trip to the park is always good value, with the exhorbitant entry fee paying for the wages of the people who collect the money.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 17 at 07:07 AM • permalink
- “We are talking a very long-term vision, a land use that values keeping the eastern forests in place over past uses like landclearing,” said Graeme Worboys from the IUCN, the world conservation union.
In typical fashion, Reuters fails to mention that the IUCN – the “world conservation union” – actually stands for the International Union of Concerned Numpties.
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology last year said climate change was occurring so fast in Australia that cooler southern towns were moving to the warmer north at the rate of 100 kilometres each year.
No wonder I can never get a seat on the Melbourne-Albury train, the damned southern towns are busy decamping to warmer climes. Has anyone bothered to inform the map keepers that they need to move Ballarat, Horsham, Bendigo, Castlemain and Port Pirie up 100km? I hear that the citizens of Hobart have nailed the place down because a 100km northern shift puts them inconveniently in the middle of Bass Strait. But hey, if Robin Williams or Tim Flannery are right then they’re doomed to be underwater soon enough anyway.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 07 17 at 07:31 AM • permalink
- Kae, If Godzilla managed the Royal National Park you might feel you were actually getting some value for your entry fee.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 17 at 07:32 AM • permalink
- But Michael Dunlop, from the country’s top government science organisation, the CSIRO, said the corridor would not be a silver bullet for conservation efforts, with the country needing to do more to protect different types of climates.
“Connectivity is just one solution. Connectivity is not one of my six big hits,” he said.
Well of course it isn’t!!! There’s no government lard to spread on your scientifc muffins by building some Numbat Highway. How much do you want to bet that all six of Mikey’s six big hits have an enormous government funding requirement tacked to them?
Huh, six big hits. Yeah, I bet. It’s like the drunk telling the cop that he only had one drink.
- #21
My brother didn’t win friends and influence people at Bonnie Vale.
He really pissed some people off, telling them they couldn’t camp here, or there, or to take their rubbish with them, and collecting the money from people who’d fuck off and hide thinking they’d get away with it. He always got the money. But he looked after the place for three months or so, and when the job came up, they passed him over.
Bastards
He’s always called them National Sparks and Wildfire.
- WTF? – a last chance, a corridor for the poor doomed southern fauna to move north..but..but isn’t global warming..er..um..sort of global? Or are the tropics getting cooler? And what I am supposed to do? Mmm? Just sit blithely by dying from heat exhaustion whilst mobs of kangaroos and echelons of numbats trample my backyard on their frenetic migration north.
This is very, very frightening stuff.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 07 17 at 08:00 AM • permalink
- If they’re using our petrol excise to build that corridor, then I hope they make it a dual carriageway, divided freeway like those less than adequate sections of the Pacific Highway and the deadly Hume. Being user pays, it’s only fair.
Monster-wheelin’ SRV drivers deserve the right to run that route every day for as long as the climate keeps changing… and live off the road kill.
- Does Swamp Thing know about this?Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 07 17 at 08:09 AM • permalink
- #19 leaving aside the issue of translocating towns, I think the original speculation before it hit the Al-Reuters’ Reality Distortion Field (unlike the RDF patented by Steve Jobs, this one is harmful) might have been that in 100 years a town’s climate would be like that of a town 100 km north. Or for those towns on the wrong side of the world, sixty miles south.
You know, so Brisbane would be like Noosa Heads. Tremble at that thought.
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology last year said climate change was occurring so fast in Australia that cooler southern towns were moving to the warmer north at the rate of 100 kilometres each year.
Wait. If I understand this quote correctly—and odds are I don’t, because it’s eco-drivel—this is about a population shift from cooler to warmer climes. Much like here in the US, where the center of population is moving south as people leave the freezing zones like Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. and move to places like Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Arizona.
But isn’t this the exact opposite of what would happen if the climate were warming?! If things were getting warmer, wouldn’t people leave the warm places that are turning hot and go to the cold places that are becoming comfortable? Wouldn’t the population center in Australia move south while the population center in the US moves north, both heading towards milder climates?
So WTF am I missing here?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 07 17 at 08:34 AM • permalink
Too bad that giant carnivorous rat-kangaroo thing is extinct. What fun THAT creature would have been to hunt!
Odd. I had the impression that those beasts had merely taken up cartooning, specializing in ducks.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 07 17 at 08:40 AM • permalink
So WTF am I missing here?
Yr not missing anything, Rob, except the ability to scare yourself with ecopocalyptic fantasies, much like my 4-year-old likes to act scared of Lucifer the cat in Disney’s Cinderella every time she sees it, knowing that Cindy gets the prince and wardrobe at the end.
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2007 07 17 at 08:47 AM • permalink
- So, are there going to be multiple lanes? Maybe a fast lane for tumbleweeds and a slow lane for moss? And as anthony_r points out up there at comment #9, won’t our leafy friends just be postponing the inevitable? The corridor that has already been built linking climate alarmists to the government treasury has no doubt proved to be fairly expensive, and I don’t notice any tangible results.
- I hope that the idea of a wildlife corridor doesn’t catch hold in Florida. As the Everglades is inundated, hordes of deer, alligators, crocodiles, snakes, panthers, otters, armadillos, raccoons, opossums, and gopher tortoises will be headed for the Georgia line. It would be just my luck that the corridor will pass through Brandon.
On second thought, it might not be such a bad idea after all. The aforementioned hordes would have to make safely past thousands of barbecues fired up for the occasion, not to mention thousands of Florida drivers.
- We had folk running their sucks about a wild life corridor and such, once upon a time.
They managed to get enough traction that wild fire fighters were allowed to burn to death, rather than allow a water drop helicopter reload at a stream. Might have discomfited some fish, dontcha know.
At about the same time, there was a community of farmers cut off from all water supply, gotta keep the fish happy.
Then BLM (Bureau of Land Management) started closing down camp grounds and limiting access to wild lands, to help the animals be more comfortable.
Now the concept of the wild life corridor concept has morphed into a thing that stretches from Mexico to Canada. Extends from the western side of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the west to the eastern edge of the great plains in the east.
The proposed plan is to remove all signs of humans ever having set foot on the grounds. All human inhabitants to be relocated. All human construction removed. All human made changes to the landscape to be reconstructed back to original form. No civil or military air transport over the corridor. No sign or scent of man to intrude on the wildlife wonderland.
That’s the wacknuts’ plans, at least the parts they’re willing to talk about publicly.
Give these assholes an inch and they’ll take your life.
- #46 Paco – Does that mean we get our own minutemen, chainsaws and all?Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 07 17 at 09:39 AM • permalink
- scientists = post grad lab technician who scraped by the with a pass, can’t get a job in the real world. Instead, hangs around at Uni trying attract attention to himself by constantly ringing up and frightening the shit out the thicko uni publicist, who similarly scraped together a BA after 7 years full time.
*breathe*
- #46, paco:
Yep. The extremist left envirofascist movements were (don’t know to what extent still might be) banding together and using UN Agenda 21 as their propaganda reasoning to supersede US law. The Clinton admin was a Godsend to these folk.
There were several organizations, most were AstroTurf posing as grassroots. Spine of the Continent project was one. There were concurrent projects to shut down all use of federal land for grazing rights by cattle, shut down parks and rec areas, make illegal to construct any new roads or road improvements in federal parks, etc etc.
The refusal of the Bush admin to play along with these misanthropes was the foundation for many of the accusations of Bush, et al, being anti environment, etc etc.
- We’ll need an aqueduct so the Chilean Sea Bass can escape.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 17 at 10:22 AM • permalink
- Necessity is the mother of invention I suppose, but to ensure complete global domination of man, beast and vegetable, this wildlife corridor thing means that the best minds in the VRWC now have to focus weather machine technology in narrow bands across the vastness of entire continents!
Just when we thought freezing the deserts and roasting the tundra would be enough.
Boy, these hippies just don’t wanna make it easy, do they?
- Mmmm… Chilean sea bass!
Mmmm….Peruvian ceviche.
Mmmm…Costa Verde, here I come!
Mmmm…Pisco sour!
OK, back to work. Oh, fuck!Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 07 17 at 10:54 AM • permalink
- #59 Grimmy: I saw this interesting interpretation of some of Zawahiri’s remarks (see reference in post to theory provided by one of the commenters).
Does Swamp Thing know about this?
Cue Adrienne Barbeau!! Hubba hubba!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 17 at 10:57 AM • permalink
- #61, paco:
Only time will tell. Btw, when considering the stuff at link in #59, of course, always consider the source.
I have no clue if this particular guy has any credibility or not. It’s still not a good idea to relax though.
It’s best not to forget that the concept of large jumbo jets being used as guided missiles by jihadi terrorists had been considered before 9/11. It was simply too “out there” to gain traction as something to actively guard against.
What is safe to write off as too extreme for consideration now?
- S’long as the f-wits reforest with casuarina, not gum, I’m all for it, re previous posts.
Landcare say they replant with previous species … but how far back – pre-whitey or pre-black? – check the pollen record, f*ckers …
Just the Eastern seaboard or the Murray-Darling basin? – that’s where it’s needed!
- “What is safe to write off as too extreme for consideration now?”
Obviously not dirty bombs, since every little nutter of the m-persuasion is out there trying to get his dibs on one.
Hopefully the lessons of the cold war still apply. The US stared down Russia and didn’t blink, just sent it into financial meltdown. I trust there are missiles quietly pointed at Mecca and Medina and the little rock in a black box just in case things get a bit silly.
- #65 🙂
It’s likely along the NSW/SA border, as its industry was to be uranium ore processing/transport.Flannery actually got into hot water with ‘The Future Eaters’ for the audacity of suggesting that the abos dried out the landscape with their slash & burn creating the modern preponderence of fire-tolerant gums (thus egg’s rants re pre-gum casuarinas – which even survive in the desert interior, where guns don’t).
Wetland casuarinas = river oaks, desert variety = desert oak.
- #68 R.C.: I think you’re on to something.
Incidentally, there seem to be a lot of house movers in Australia and New Zealand. What’s up with that?
- Laugh if you must. For the plants trapped on Raymond Island, it’s already too late.Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 07 17 at 12:09 PM • permalink
- FYI
Robyn (100m) Williams’ site finally has online transcripts and mp3 of interview with David Karoly, Oz Climatologist with the IPCC and chief inquisitor at ‘TGGWS Debate’ and another skeptic basher, Ian Enting:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1974497.htm#transcript Karoly transcript
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1977876.htm#transcript Study of climate sceptics
- Hey, forget Chilean sea bass. What about these critters?
- And speaking of Chilean sea bass, have you ever seen one? Rid the seas of ‘em, I say.
- #76: Hmmm. Good point. Well, since there’s no direct revenue available, here’s something we might want to consider. We design the corridor so that is has a bottleneck or narrow pen at one end, and we cull the tasty animals out. Then we process ‘em and sell to grocery stores.
Grocer: I dunno. Are you sure this is chicken?
Salesman from Corridor Meat Sales, Inc.: Sure, it’s chicken.
Grocer: But it’s got teeth.
Salesman: Sure, all chickens do. How do you think they chew their corn?
Grocer: Mm. I suppose. What what about these pork ribs?
Salesman: What about ‘em?
Grocer: They’re kind of small, and they’ve got a calico coat.
Salesman: New breed of spotted hog. Lower in cholesterol.
Grocer: Maybe. Now, about this ground beef.
Salesman: U.S.D.A. choice.
Grocer: But I found a horseshoe in it!
Salesman: This is your lucky day!
- Weekly World News, after the Killer Bees hit the media in the 80s, ran an article about Killer Trees, similarly escaped from a laboratory in Brazil.
These trees walked. They walked slowly, but an infant or elderly person caught in one’s path could be easily squished. There was a photo, so apparently it was a real threat, and they were working their way north at last writing (1986).
These trees could use the corridor, though who knows why, because trees float.
See also the Brazilian needle bird, which injects you with a poison.
And while you’re at it, the world’s smallest whales (pic : 10 gal aquarium with tiny whales), and global warmin
- I’d like to report a theft.
I previewed my message about walking trees, and the preview had eaten my period after “warming.’’ Well okay, I thought, who needs a trailing period anyway. After hitting post, it ate the now-unprotected “g’’ in “warming.’‘
Somebody is taking these letters to compose an evil note, I think.
- OK, I’m supposed to buy Autralia having sessile plants and thus needs to build some sort of sidewalk for them…?Posted by Major John on 2007 07 17 at 01:48 PM • permalink
- People, are you all crazy? At this very minute, Media Watch is, um, well, watching this blog. And what are you doing in response? Writing comments on exploiting the fleeing animal/flora corridor to BBQ tasty animals and plants! They’ll do a two part special on us, they will!
Stop it! Stop it now!
(wrings hands)
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 17 at 02:38 PM • permalink
- That’s cool, wronwright. We’ll invite Media Watch to the BBQ as well. I’m sure that they’ll cook up nicely, right along with the platypus.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 17 at 02:45 PM • permalink
- wronwright wrings (hands)?
Wrong!
Wronwright wreaks (havoc)?
Wridulous
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 07 17 at 03:09 PM • permalink
- #86 Jack
I s’pose you meant “Wridiculous”
Dickhead
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 07 17 at 03:12 PM • permalink
- Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology last year said climate change was occurring so fast in Australia that cooler southern towns were moving to the warmer north at the rate of 100 kilometres each year.
Wow, not only can your plants move around, but your towns, too! Oz truly is a strange and wonderful place.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 07 17 at 03:42 PM • permalink
- I still remember that documentary on those poisonous Aussie ants with huge mandibles. And let’s not forget the Tasmanian wolf. It’s a monstrous place.Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 17 at 04:05 PM • permalink
- “Australia will create a wildlife corridor spanning the continent…”
Seems to me that you would want that, no matter what the situation is.
The more open country and wilderness, the better. I think breaking up developed areas with lots of parks and wilderness makes a lot of sense.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 17 at 04:08 PM • permalink
- Hmm, they can use this for their logo.
If you’re short on fleeing things, those of us in the Deep South and Southwest can contribute. Besides the afore-mentioned tumbleweed, there’s the walking catfish.
We’d like to give kudzu back to someone. Alas, there’s no chance it will flee, but it can be trusted to withstand gorebal warmening and nuclear disaster, for that matter.
- #94: Well, now, Dave, when you put it that way, I can see some upside potential. The thought of returning Washington, D.C. to its swampy wilderness state makes me smile. Imagine: the Capitol Dome as the world’s largest bat preserve (kinda like now, only they wouldn’t make laws). The Senate Office Building as a giant monkey house (kinda like now, etc.). Wildflowers not just growing beside I-95 but in the middleof it. Ahhhh . . .
- Shoot, my property already is a wildlife corridor (except we call it “the woods”).
You better believe I want to keep it that way.
It’s not like I’m dying to have big developers come in, cut down our redwood forest, and replace it with wall to wall apartment buildings.
Screw that noise.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 17 at 04:41 PM • permalink
- What annoys me with this ‘Goebbels Warming’ cult, is that the ‘Pavlov’s Dog’ effect, invariably kicks in via the bleeding of the taxpayer, massaging of egos and self importance, with, maybe a little opportunistic rorting thrown in. Not to mention the repetitous self congratulations by some sections of the media.
#8 Kae. Its a fifty – fifty bet I would think.
- “Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology last year said climate change was occurring so fast in Australia that cooler southern towns were moving to the warmer north at the rate of 100 kilometres each year.”
Hang on.
That means Melbourne is now enjoying the sub-tropical climate that Rockhampton was when Phillip Adams discovered Global Warming in 1987.
I’m trying to work out if this is reported without comment because Rob Taylor accepts it at face value, or because he assumes the sheer preposterousness of it requires no comment.
- The Ford plant is closing down production of V6 engines, maybe punters aren’t buying bigger cars because of petrol prices or concerns about Goebbels warming.
If it’s the later then it’s a shame that 600 blue collar workers lose their jobs because of this nonsense.
The ABC and Tony Jones in particular should be very proud of their fair and balanced approach on this issue. Sarc off.
- Heck, not all hippies are bad guys.
I’m pretty decent.
At least I think I am.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 17 at 05:43 PM • permalink
- “Yep, same here, unless Black Bear don’t count.”
I’d say bears count all right.
That’s one form of wildlife we don’t have any more in my part of California. They wiped ‘em out years ago.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 17 at 05:47 PM • permalink
- Malcolm Turnbull putting his knuckles on Red Kezza’s eyebrows last night:
MALCOLM TURNBULL: But Kerry, if you want to turn this into a debate about who has got the most empathy with climate change – that’s all very interesting. But the Australian voters –
KERRY O’BRIEN: But isn’t that what voters have got to try and work out?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well I don’t think so. I think voters have got to recognise and recognise this – that decarbonising the world’s industry, the world’s energy sector over the next 40, 50 years, and that’s what we’re talking about, we are talking about a world where by 2050 all or almost all of the world’s electricity will come from zero emission sources. We cannot reach any of the targets or goals, however you want to describe them as, that science tells us the world needs to reach without doing that. That is a colossal industrial transformation and you are saying, are you, that we should be doing that not with economics, not with science, not with reason, but with passion and empathy and feeling, and some sort of religious frenzy? Is that what you’re putting to me?
KERRY O’BRIEN: No, I didn’t mention religious frenzy, Mr Turnbull, I mentioned the Treasury submission, are they religious, are they into religious frenzy?
Then later on….
KERRY O’BRIEN: But what did you do with that greenhouse office, Mr Turnbull? Originally it was an office in its own right that has since been folded into a large department?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Kerry, you’re much more comfortable with symbols and process than you are with substance. We have a target, 108 per cent of 1990 level emissions, that’s our target. We’re going to meet it. Canada’s not going to meet theirs, Japan’s not going to meet theirs.
Full transcript hereSymbols and process.. empathy and feeling….
- #103, perhaps “hippies” was an ill-considered word. Perhaps I meant these fine folks.
- “Just like the polar bears there, eh?”
Not too many polar bears this far south. We used to have Grizzly Bears but they went extinct in California in the early 20th century. There’s still lots of black bears in other areas of the state, just not in this particular part of California.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 17 at 07:01 PM • permalink
- What will happen to Mal Turnbull in the futuer, I’m very interested.
Oh, Milton Black, an astrologer on the radio this AM said some quite interesting things.
He’s a labor man from way back, but he said that JWH will win because people will realise that things are good, economically and the unemployment rate is very low at 4%, and why fix it if it ain’t broke?
I think he said that it will be a victory by only 5-8 seats? Not sure, it was hours ago.
He also said that the drought would break in spring, early September.
Apparently Rudd is a Virgo and is heading for successes from September this year.
Black said the election would probably be held on November 24.
Did anyone else hear this on ABC612 Bris this morning? I missed some stuff.
By the way, astrology is crap. But it’s interesting to see what happens.
\Those who try to straddle the fence in issues of importance tend to have someone from each side grab hold of a leg and
I also recently heard someone rip into opinion polls, saying that every time the polls have said that candidate A would win and win easily, candidate B has won the prime ministership of Australia.
- Ants have a corridor through my kitchen.Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 17 at 07:13 PM • permalink
- #113 I love how at Melbourne Cup time, Milton gives everybody a bunch of different lucky numbers – when there’s actually only one number that everybody requires.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 17 at 07:13 PM • permalink
- I haven’t seen this news anywhere, but then I don’t bother looking anymore.Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 17 at 07:22 PM • permalink
Symbols and process.. empathy and feeling….
Add “hopes and intentions” and you’ve got the watchwords of the left. Nothing matters more. Certainly not results.
Hurray for Malcolm Turnbull. Can we have him, too, along with JH?? I never remember that Kerry O’Brien isn’t a woman and then I’m always surprised when I find out she’s not.
#120—me neither. Because, ya know, Iraq is DOOMED.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 07 17 at 07:39 PM • permalink
- Dammit, the game could be up.
Huge interest in Perth.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 17 at 07:41 PM • permalink
- “#103, perhaps “hippies” was an ill-considered word. Perhaps I meant these fine folks.”
I think you would have to say that a lot of the people that go to the Rainbow gatherings are definitely hippies. But, not all of us hippies go in for that sort of thing.
When I go up into the mountains, I want to get up on a trout stream, and do a little fly fishing, all by my lonesome. I’m not all that that interested in camping out with 5,000 guys reeking of patchouli.
Not all of us hippie types are the same.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 17 at 07:43 PM • permalink
- kae, unfortunately the anti-semitic CIA operative has been exposed.
Anti-semitism is the latest cover for CIA people, and seems to me only a matter of time before Ant Loewenstein is exposed.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 17 at 07:54 PM • permalink
- I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains
Of rugged mountain ranges
And corridors from Melbourne to CairnsI love the new open motorways,
With toll booths along the way,
All the result of Gerbel Varming, See
It gets some things done, OK?Now we cruise the motorways
Pay the tolls at each toll booth,
But the tolls you know go to pay some geeks
To devise more schemes and rules.So the game from here is to lift the tolls
And make those motorways free
So we can cruise from here to there
With gay abandon and in luxury.But if you dislike Gerbel Varming
Just think what it has done for thee
Without it, we would be without
the glorious freeways – that run from sea to sea.(All of a 5 minute effort – now back to paying work..)
- This could be a real opportunity for the South’s famous Laurel Brigade. “After all, the laurel is a running vine…”Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 17 at 08:01 PM • permalink
The magic moment of the day was when a policeman strolled up to us and asked if he could have one of our flyers. He said that he’d “heard that the buildings were brought down with explosives”. We loaded him up with one of everything and he thanked us kindly before wandering off into the distance. Absolutely Magic!
ROFL. Absolutely Magic!
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 07 17 at 08:04 PM • permalink
The 2,800-kilometre (1,740 mile) climate “spine”, approved by state and national governments, will link the country’s entire east coast, from the snow-capped Australian alps in the south to the tropical north—the distance from London to Romania.
Sounds like the Great Dividing Range, however, I think they have the length wrong, it’s 3,500km or 2,175 miles.
Here’s a simple map, there, that’s it, up the east coast of Australia.Eastern Australian mountain range, extending 3,700 km/2,300 mi N–S from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, to Victoria. It includes the Carnarvon Range, Queensland, which has many Aboriginal cave paintings, the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, and the Australian Alps, and ends southwards beyond Bass Strait as the central uplands of Tasmania. In its northern parts in Queensland the Range averages 600–900 m/2,000–3,000 ft in height, while farther south the average is about 900 m/3,000 ft, though the Australian Alps include Mount Kosciusko (2,228 m/7,310 ft), the highest peak in Australia.
- I think it will be called “Dream World fun park”
memo: web page mw, dosn’t not admit under image that it is an islamic reuters modified picture.
The “Got a tip Tell media watch” is not real photographand was never written on the Sunrise Team at all. Besides, Koche would never tell anyone anything! Nor would Kevni.
Media watch, you should say sorry to your readers as you’re not telling your audience it’s a manipulated photograph on your web page! naughty!
- #140 – easy tiger.
If we weren’t busy digging this place up and selling it to the Chinese the place would be going backwards faster than Bob Carr on his way to a Macquarie Bank recruitment night.
Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 07 17 at 08:54 PM • permalink
- ErnieG—they’ll never make it through Orlando. They’ll be mashed flat by a Puerto Rican driving a black Dodge Durango with a “Boricua” bumper sticker on the back window who simply MUST get to the front of the stalled traffic line or his penis will fall off.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 17 at 09:12 PM • permalink
- “The 2,800-kilometre (1,740 mile) climate “spine”, approved by state and national governments, will link the country’s entire east coast, from the snow-capped Australian alps in the south to the tropical north—the distance from London to Romania.”
That sounds great to me. If I lived in Australia, I’d be all for it.
As long as they aren’t trying to force people who are already living in the area off their land or some socialist crap like that.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 17 at 09:13 PM • permalink
- If a climate change denier suddenly drops dead in the forest, would anyone give a rat’s arse?Posted by Miranda Divide on 2007 07 17 at 09:39 PM • permalink
- #132 jpaulg –
Wron, do you mean Bull Ants, Meat Ants, Green Ants, Jack Jumper Ants, or Green headed ants? You’re not narrowing the field very much.
Australia has all of those? Ayyyyyyy.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 17 at 10:05 PM • permalink
- #145
I don’t know anyone who denies that climate changes, ‘randy – so I would at least be curious.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 18 at 06:52 AM • permalink
Wron, do you mean Bull Ants, Meat Ants, Green Ants, Jack Jumper Ants, or Green headed ants? You’re not narrowing the field very much.
Sheesh. The worst the US has are fire ants. We do, however, have the Allegheny Mound Builder ant:
One species called the Allegheny mound builder makes the largest mounds in Missouri and probably in eastern North America. Some of these mounds are truly spectacular. I saw one in Marion County that was about 6 feet across at the base and 3 feet tall. Other mounds have been measured at 42 inches tall and 24 feet across. Nests can be pretty common in some places, with as many as 30 to 59 nests per acre.
There was a much smaller ant mound on the farm where I grew up—just about a foot across and a few inches high—that was there for as long as I can remember. That’s close to 15 years.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 07 18 at 08:39 AM • permalink
- “…would Miranda suck a rat’s arse?”
Sure, if there was another rat present.
If not, it would depend on how flexible Miranda is.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 18 at 05:25 PM • permalink
- I’m reminded of a dumb joke from a cartoon called EekStravaganza!.
Eek! the Cat hurries to a Rare Trees Preserve to warn them of horrible danger approaching.
Eek!: Run Forest! RUN!!!
(I said the joke was dumb…) 😉
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 07 19 at 01:31 PM • permalink
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