Thanks Kaep. I will be watching with interest. What measures might reduce pollution plumes, and if this theory is supported by observation, does it also raise the possibility of modifying the entropy of water bodies to increase the chance and quantity of rainfall?

Fester,

"What measures might reduce pollution plumes?"

Engineered wetlands, designed specifically for stormwater, industrial, sewage and agri applications. NSW would need around 10,000 such units to keep drought permanently at bay. Sewage and wastewater recycling are important too but are just a small sub-part of the applied wetlands strategy.

These specialised wetlands not only clean water and lower coastal entropy levels, they thermodynamically lower entropy around their particular catchment. Since entropy is equivalent to order or information or energy, these installations will ultimately pay for themselves in abstruse but nonetheless real $ ways.

"Does it raise the possibility of modifying the entropy of water bodies to increase the chance and quantity of rainfall? "

Of course. Lower coastal water entropy artificially. But the cost of lowering coastal water entropy levels artificially is enormous. Better to let nature and sunlight do the work for us. Its not only more efficient but more pleasurable to walk around an engineered wetland than a Desal plant or its accompanying coal fired power source.

I'll have more to say in March and after mid may next year, unless some menche starts to clean up the NSW coast in the meantime.

SHA map shows Nth Qld has cleaned up its pollution plumes ahead of the 2007 cyclone season.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/tmp/sha1165996992.gif

Australian Authorities have demonstrably cleaned up the pollution wastewater plumes off Mackay, Cairns and Princes Charlotte Bay in Nth Qld.

In contrast, the increase in pollution spils off the NSW coast into the Tasman Sea has risen dramatically in the last 24 hrs. This will dry out NSW and lower dams well below the 30% Desal trigger level well before the NSW Labor Party March 2007 election.

In the meantime Australian Coral reef scientists are playing catchup with RECCE theory: http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/racing-rate-of-reef-decay/2006/12/13/1165685752361.html

The recent pollution retraction I noted in Nth Qld ahead of the 2007 Cyclone season MUST have been pretty obvious to these scientists through their data collection instruments. No wonder they say " Human activity, including development, overfishing and pollution, has been blamed for episodes of coral death that have damaged reefs in recent decades". Previously they were all blaming Gobal Warming.

Its only when it (the pollution) STOPS that they notice its really happening!

I will be keen to see if the SHA maps show a continuance in cleaner Barrier reef waters off Nth Qld today.

Malcolm Turnbull is not right, he is dangerous.

He is the cheerleader for the big end of town, those property developers who have discovered that you can buy four blocks of land and put up a high rise apartment with 60 dwellings in it and flog them off for huge profit.

These people want to see Australia's POPULATION GROW WITHOUT LIMIT, because it means they'll be able to continue to flog off apartment blocks and increase their fortunes from 500 million to a billion.

They don't give a toss that they will ruin this beautiful country, ruin what used to be comfortable cities to live in, and make us pay for drinking our own piss.

Wake up Australia!

http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,21057146-662,00.html

rainwater tax plan.

Not long after Turnbull's plan to privitize the water supply, now follows with the growth of rainwater tanks in backyards is a plan to tax the water collected in these tanks.

It's possible with the privatization that every time you flush the loo, you'll be taxed. What this means is more money for the private investor/shareholder.

The only ones to benefit will those who are rich enough to buy an big parcel of shares.

If people collect water in tanks and use it, it means that the private companies who invested in the water infranstucture will loose money because people will be using less of the water they are selling.

It's a bit like these private toll ways, where alternative routes of travel are made more difficult in an effort to funnel the traffic onto the toll ways to boost company profits and shareholder dividends.

The net effect is to channel public money into the pockets of private investors, in some countries this would be seen as corruption.