a579 ad hominem is all you can muster.

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It's not about AGW or 1/100 events. It's about Wetland Sustainability!

Consider the man on the Grand Canyon Tour and how he enthuses. He can Either jump off a cliff and see all in 10 seconds and die. Or, take a 5 day mule-train and savour the views. Sure the donkeys stink and make noises, are stubborn and the insects and ...
But sure enough next year he'll make plans to do it again.

That is sustainability. In regard to Wetlands, let me say this:

If Queensland's President Anna Bligh had made efforts to stop the commercial devastation of wetlands along 3000Km of Qld's New-Florida coastline. If she had told the investors who lend her presidential $coffers & POWER that the WETLANDS are needed. Needed to stop incipient weather patterns breaching Queensland's coast like a dumb tourist striking the bottom of the Grand Canyon. If she'd told them that they would have to not only protect existing wetlands but pay a levy to create 10's of thousands more wetlands, THEN Queensland would not be the NATURAL DISASTER basketcase it is today.

Sure the wetlands stink and make funny noises and the insects and ... and you know the bit. But sure enough the cyclones and rain squalls would not reverb massive interior heat loads over the Macdonnells to the West and around the Artesian Basin to the Sou-East. They would take the slowmo route into Queensland and water the crops, enliven the barrier reef and make the bananas and sugar cane grow. And ... these tropical weather patterns would interact sustainably with wetland ecologies & do it all again, year-in, year-out. Such is the law of conservation of ORDER or ENTROPY .. THE mechanical advantaging of the SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS.

And some premonitions:

Given the reprieve from BP's folly and its one season only Low Entropy oil-slicked Hurricane barricade miracle, America's Gulf is ungirded from folly. It is now on track for immense economic growth, immense wetland destruction & immense 2011 hurricanes.

Beware March! More Qld hurricanes & a greater $fiscal respect for coastal wetlands is a Thermodynamic certainty.

Allright .. some predictions .. you call them premonitions, but semantics aside, I like to see folks get their predictions right out there.

"And some premonitions:

Given the reprieve from BP's folly and its one season only Low Entropy oil-slicked Hurricane barricade miracle, America's Gulf is ungirded from folly. It is now on track for immense economic growth, immense wetland destruction & immense 2011 hurricanes."

So, 2011, immense hurricanes .. well, none for years, so let's see if you are correct .. not just one mind you, more than one immense hurricane in the USA .. awesome!

BTW .. didn't all the "natural" oil from the BP spill just disappear, being a natural substance, got eaten up and just vanished .. that wasn't processed or anything.

just goes to show, all the scaremongering and hysteria was utter rubbish, nature took care of it all. So many hysterics all claimed, oil was "unnatural", when in its raw state is a natural substance

'Unprecedented floods and cyclones in Australia. Floods' Start with a lie and then you end up with ridiculous conclusions. Kinda like the big bang!

rpg,

Oil, in its "natural" state, is enclosed within the earth's crust - not floating about on the surface of her oceans.