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With the Western Indian Ocean heating up similar to the
Western Pacific, looks like our West Australia will cop summer floods next year similar to what our Aussie East has been having.

Might ask whether the above could be proof of a coming Global Warming?

Careful there Andrew, your politics are showing.

Those leaders of yours are not "encouraging" the strong to help the help the weak, they have been setting everyone up to bail out wasteful governments who have left the cupboard bear, when some relief money is needed.

The redheaded one has gone from begging the insurance industry, trying to squeeze more out of general industry with a committee, to a tax, & now a levy. She has more twists than any snake.

I wonder how many more academics are going to try to link the floods to global warming. After all it would be wasteful to not take advantage of a catastrophe to put a few wheels back on the gravy train, wouldn't it?

After 10 years of telling us that global warming would give us eternal drought, it really is a bit much to be changing horses mid flood so to speak, & claiming the flood as evidence.

I have lived in tropical far north qld for 35 years and it looks as though this year is shaping up to what we call a normal Wet Season. We haven't had a good wet season since about the late 70's-very early 80's.
The weather seems to go back to normal which of course to the many Johnny come lately's seems like a bad thing. It hasn't as yet been as wet as it was this time of year in the 70's.
I recall rain in Weipa in 73- 75 when you couldn't see further than across the road. I haven't seen rain like this since.

It is strange to see comments about the floods in Queensland being a natural disaster when the obvious fact is that it is a human population disaster.. Too many people living on flood plains, too many people requiring food which results in vast cleared areas that allow massive water run off. Too many industrial and residential areas covered in concrete and asphalt allowing vast areas of channeled water and finally increased CO2 emissions which will change the climate and cause increased rainfall and increased flooding... All those living in the flood prone regions welcome to the new world order.... If you reduce your population and consumption you may alleviate the problem somewhat.

Look! all in fine:) just ask any capitalist:)

BLUE

There's no two ways about it. Industrialisation & population growth are impacting heavily on the the planet. Is the abnormal climate now the result of the industrial revolution & all the big wars or are we changing this climate now as we are going along ? I believe that the damage to the planet being done now will become obvious in another 50 or so years. Just far enough down the road for the present culprits (us) not to feel responsible.
The question is, does the present society have what it takes to stop the wagon ? It doesn't appear so. The other question is, is this change only more obvious because we now have records to look back on & because instant reporting of anything that's happening around the globe ? The other thing is that people aren't learning anything from the evidence at hand. I distinctly recall the panic about holes in the ozone layer & how long it takes for these holes to repair yet we send ever more satellites into space because we want more information & more convenience which only satellites can provide. So, what happens to the ozone layer lately ? Anyone know ? Or are the holes no longer of any significance ? Don't these holes let UV through & heat up the planet ? someone please provide some info on this.