You Tube music clip scorches Peter Garrett. The hellfires are the result of politicians and bureaucrats selling out. Peter Garret is the true example of the "sell out" species.. The rest of our various governments' members (APART FROM BOB BROWN AND HIS MOB) have only been conscious that the environment has been in trouble for the past two years. Garrett has known for more than a decade.
GO TO YOU TUBE AND ENTER "PETER THE TOXIC."
The hell of the Victorian bush fires was the fault of Australian governments, individual politicians, their hangers-on and the bureaucrats. Right at this moment they are trying to shaft the green groups for fighting the destruction of undergrowth habitat and wanting trees growing close to houses. It's called spin.
For ten years we have known about global warming and those in authority have ignored the reality and have done nothing to prevent it. Name one initiative that has been undertaken. Okay so we'll have the greens wear it. The green grouyps have believed that governments were doing something for the environment and stepped out to conserve what we have.
It may have been bad policy in the short term because they believed the governments with their platitudes about Australians staying to fight for their homes - and advising, even in television ads, how to do it - were ahead of the fire-fighting game. Never has that been further from the truth.
Weather bureau bureaucrats were advising only last year that there were two sides to the global warming concept. Sorry guys, and the 6% humidity that you reported on saturday was way below any other low humidity figure. Former ship's captain, Gerry Seymour, has advised that 20% was considered outrageously low. So now you are not commenting or expanding on the 6% humidity figure because it must be getting close to a humidity figure that creates spontaneous combustion.
That's scary.
MY FIRE EXPERIENCE COMES FROM FIGHTING TWO IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT AND COVERING THE LARA FIRES. In the Lara fires myself and an ABCTV crew wanted fire for all we seemed to be getting was smoke. As the Melbourne Geelong road was closed we backed down through the smoke with the cameraman on the tailgate.
A gusting wind lifted the smoke and there was the flame thirty feet high and crossing the road in the style of a water race. That was the first time I had seen flame that frightened me. That fire took out two families who ran from their cars. I knew then that the fires of the future were going to be different.
Now we discover southern Australia's drought is dictated to by the temperature in the Indian Ocean, not the El or La Nina effects in the Pacific.
In this time when we've discovered that our governments have only been mouthing platitudes about climate change but not believing - after all they haven't done anything yet - we also discover that the Indian Ocean has been experiencing unprecedented warming.
Researchers from the universities of NSW, Tasmania, and the CSIRO say the winds from the Indian Ocean have been weak since 2006 which reduced the volume of water they picked up and transported to Australia. These findings are to be published in the US Journal, Geophysical Review Letters.
My other problem is that living in a dry area without any rain this month , AND WATCHING THE WIND TURBINES MOTIONLESS The companiy is broke) ON THE HILLS TO THE SOUTH WEST OF CENTRAL VICTORIA, I FEEL SURE THE INACTION OF OUR GOVERNMENTS has given us a desert in our future. I'm sure the planet is warming at twice the rate so far discovered.
The government has to lead in this thing. They should take over the wind farm and allow it to work and pour energy into the grid. But I don't think they're getting it.
Rudd is doing nothing to save the world. He let his opportunities slip in 2008. He has allegedly put all his faith in the Emissions Trading Scheme (as Malcolm Turnbull states) but as we know Rudd folds in the face of big business (although they're not so big any longer). Big business doesn't believe in global warming. The coal industry says it does and guarantees us that it will reduce emissions on a new form of coal. Don't think so. Scientists say that reducing the emissions from coal would use techniques that also give off emissions - possibly comparable to those saved by changing the water content of coal.
How do we know Rudd folds in the face of business? He gave $2 billion to the car industry so that car dealers could still borrow money. I wrote then that it was a bad idea because it meant that the financial arrangements by which dealers put cars into the showroom was faulty. Ford finance decided that was the case, took their share of the $2 billion, and decided against lending any of it to the car dealers. Has there been an outcry from the Rudd government? NO. And they allegedly told the industry they would only get the money if they adhered to a policy that would keep dealers doing any business, despite knowing that buyers are no longer obsessed with cars.
But why was he even tempted to give money to the car industry when that was one of the major elements in creating global warming? Who knows. Maybe Turnull is right about hasty decisions. That's a problem bvecause I don't want Malcolm to be right about anything. I know Bob Brown is right and predicted how it was all going to result more than a decade ago. We haven't given him the respect he deserves.
Rudd is so out of touch with the real world that he has never even considered that water is going to become the planet's dominant currency. So why doesn't he spend some money on saving water. As there is no longer winter rains in the south (only some in summer) maybe he should be thinking of storing the water that lands around Tully (over ten metres a year). You know, just keeping it so we can buy it later for drinking.
J.F. Ballard, one of the great, and underestimated English novelists, wrote a novel called Drought in 1965. If you want to know how to plan your survival in a dry country it's worth a read.
The town that has no idea it has a huge meteorite crater a few kilometres to its north east is White Cliffs, in western NSW. Posting this to support a previous Post. Now the town can be revealed because it will all be pubic in a Sydney paper tomorrow (Sunday).
Bill Green
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