Philip,

You are continuing to rise to the trolling, if that's what you think I'm doing:). You are starting to sound like Belly.

Seriously, what has seen you having coniptions and carrying on like a panty waist was my comment that a poster was suffering from split personality disorder, moving between two identities; and you tell me to "grow up"! Perhaps you don't understand what a split personality is. Which is strange, given the schizophrenic babble that goes on here.

ttbn Your 7 word comment is hitting below the belt, now I am offended.

To the people who want put lots of people in the inland of Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-24/weather-bureau-meteorology-heatwave-hot-temperature-christmas/10666026

How many of you would want to go there and live?

BOM warns Australians to expect 'extreme heatwaves' after Christmas

Extreme heatwaves are forecast to sweep through parts of Australia over the Christmas and New Year period, with some locations set to swelter in the 40s for days on end and average temperatures up to 12 degrees higher than usual.

It is part of a sustained heatwave affecting parts of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

In the days after Christmas, the mercury will push 46 degrees Celsius at Coober Pedy in South Australia, Mildura in Victoria and Hay in New South Wales.

It will be the first time that Mildura, on the Murray River in Victoria's north-west, has had six consecutive December days above 40C, with the previous record of five days set in 1931.

** It would be unlikely many people would want to go there to live and work because of the heat, isolation, and cold in winter **

Pumping water inland addresses the proximate rather than the underlying cause which is excessive world population. We should be spending our efforts on this rather than using our valuable engineering talent on windmills.

Caneum Maylum and Belly,
World population! Iran and Thailand have already solved the problem.

Both countries have shown that with government sponsored family planning the birth rate for women can go down from about 6 to about 2. Google family planning in each country.

The UN should concentrate on this. If they can achieve this so can others. Especially those subject to famine. Populations can be reduced to sustainable levels without drastic measures.

Interesting article.

Australia’s desalination plants

Cost: $10 billion for many to sit idle

At the height of the early 2000s drought, various state governments went on a spending splurge building hugely expensive desalination plants that could filter salt from seawater and pump it to homes should the dams run dry. Problem is, the dams then went and filled up again.

Melbourne’s $4 billion plant was announced in 2007 when dam levels were below 30 per cent. When it opened in 2012, the city’s dams were 81 per cent full.

Similar plants built in Adelaide and Perth have been used. It took years before Melbourne’s was turned on and even then some have questioned if it’s really needed, while desal plants on the Gold Coast and Sydney have never been used and remain in so-called “hot standby” mode ready and waiting but chewing up more cash in the process.

In 2017, Professor Stuart Khan of the University of NSW told the ABC they might never come online.

“We actually jumped the gun, it’s been a financial disaster really. It’s an insurance policy, but whether it’s a good value insurance policy is a very different question.”