18 degrees and raining in Adelaide at the moment, the driest, hottest city in Australia.

Aidan,

You called me simple minded and an idiot for no reason other than I don't fall for your lies and lack of sensible argument, as well as the fact that you are a nasty person. Keep the abuse coming. It's all about you making a fool of yourself; no skin off my nose. Your self destruction is amusing; loads of fun.

Aidan said: “As for why I bother replying to you, it's mainly for the benefit of the other readers”.

I hope that 'other readers’ fully appreciate the 'bother’ that Aidan goes to for them, and that his efforts are not really because he is a querulous old fantasist who is never satisfied to just state his opinions and realise that other people might or might not agree with him, nor that constant nagging will not force compliance with his fantasies. I'll leave it there before something goes pop in his head.

Here we have severe changes in our weather
happening with such severity. All you have to do is
watch the news and look at the bodies of
dead cattle, the bushfires, the storms, the
flooding, the droughts, feel the heat and its effects - and
all this happening far more often and with greater
intensity - and yet we have posters on this
forum trying to tell us - all this is normal?
That the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO don't
know what they're talking about? The mind boggles - and
wonders how can this be rational? It's not logical.
And it should be of concern to us all.

Come on Foxy, please. Ever read the story of Kidmans empire, & how close to disaster it was, because of similar drought?

What would you be telling us if you lived in Chicago?

After a couple of weeks of record setting low, down to -32F you would be talking about the coming ice age. Include UK, Europe & Siberia, & there is a lot more record cold than there is heat.

Dear Hassie,

Tell that to the farmers whose cattle are dying,
and who don't have the feed for them or to the
cities that are flooded - like in the Parramatta
area, or those having their homes destroyed by
bushfires, and the list goes on. The frequency
and intensity has never been like this - and in
areas where there used not to be problems of this
kind. Ignoring things does not help those suffering.
Neither does denial. Something needs to be done -
and quickly.

If you think climate change bad, try living in Venezuela. Wealthiest nation in South America twenty years ago when Chavez came to power, now destitute and dilapidated with 300,000 people at immediate risk of starving to death. The socialist dictatorship are fine with their billions in loot safe in European bank accounts and their kids living very privileged lives. No sign of Maduro removing the blockade and letting in the humanitarian aid.

No conspiracy of the coal or oil industries. The truth is that socialism has been a miserable failure in all its manifestations, causing much death and tragedy. Despite this, the left maintain a bitter ideological hatred of capitalism. Climate catastrophe is all they have to support the view that capitalism will destroy the world. One fellow I follow regularly interviews the far left at their rallies. He regularly encounters this point of view.

I'd love an electric car and a solar powered home, but both are a long way from coal and oil in both cost and reliability. I don't see sense in making Australia destitute by implementing policy based on ideological fantasy.