Hope you don't mind if I post this link here - as the subject matter is on "climate".

Care for a paddle?

http://www.livescience.com/38347-north-pole-ice-melt-lake.html

Lexi,

The "News" that the contract for an overseas detention centre recognises that it is more difficult to provide the same level of service as a mainland detention centre is as banal as discovering that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.

P.

The subject is "carbon tax"

So sorry, SM.

A thousand pardons (and all that)

Whodathunk the Arctic melting had anything to do with the need for a carbon tax.

My mistake.

Shadow Minister: "The subject is "carbon tax" "

Thanks, mate, I was just wondering. But in fairness to Poirot, I suppose there might be a very indirect link between the annual melting of sea-ice in the Arctic Ocean, and an Australian carbon tax. I just can't stand seeing those polar bears trying to jump further and further from ice-floe to ice-floe as they melt, it's so cruel.

Where's that bloody hanky ?

Never mind, Joe, it's not all bad.

I just had a vision of Loudmouth jumping to and fro on the disappearing bergs, sloshing around in the melt with only his sarcasm to keep him afloat.

Made my day!

: )

And Poirot as an Orca, just waiting for this floppy, over-weight, aged bear as it vainly tries to get from one to the other - scary !