"Doesn't anybody but myself get bored with this subject?"

Me too, Dan. However, there is much amusement to be had with the flat earthers and witch burners still thinking that they have power over nature - that puny little them can change the climate by getting grants from taxpayers. The grants aren't amusing, of course.

Any subject can be posted however it is not a law that you must contribute to it
In fact some would be pleased if you did not

Anyone wondering why the Australian continent is so dry current might have a look at sea surface temperatures around the continent.

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/climate/indicator_sst.jsp?lt=global&lc=global&c=ssta

The temperatures in rain forming areas are anomalously cool. This means less cloud, less rain, and warmer than average temperatures on the Australian continent. This is part of the normal weather cycle. There should be research efforts to try and mitigate this. Ocean fertilisation has the potential to allow more heat to be trapped in the ocean surface. It may have potential to mitigate the rainfall depressing effect from an extreme IOD event as we have currently.

Fester yes indeed some know about it and some too understand the effect el nino and la nina have
The question even if some find it unpleasant, is what if any effect has climate change on all the above

nice quote from the late Clive James

'When you tell people once too often that the missing extra heat is hiding in the ocean, they will switch over to watch Game of Thrones, where the dialogue is less ridiculous and all the threats come true. The proponents of man-made climate catastrophe asked us for so many leaps of faith that they were bound to run out of credibility in the end.'

Hi Belly

How constructive has such discussion ever been on OLO? Natural rainfall variability in Australia is uncontested, but what can be done about it? I am interested in ocean fertilisation as a possible mitigating measure, although I hope I am not as obsessive as some about thorium reactors. I read recently an article on anthropogenic iron deposition in the world's oceans.

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-great-iron-fertilization-underway.html

It may be that the intensity of the positive IOD is influenced by this iron deposition.

Cheers