It's a bit hot, too. The forecast for Adelaide for today was a max of 40 degrees, but it's already 44 degrees (at 4.00 pm) here under-cover.

Could be quite a week.

Joe

Make sure you stay cool Joe. I always keep a 2L bottle of water in the freezer for hot days.

Hi Belly,

Sounds like you have got Enstilar. Good that it is helping you.

Re Global warming. My concern is that it is an issue grabbed by the far left and used as a political instrument to attack capitalism. Any potential mitigation seems to be put through an ideological sieve. So we have the big promotion of solar panels and wind farms, which I think will do nothing other than cause economic harm. Meanwhile, nuclear power and geoengineering, which may have merit, don't get a look in. Why?

Remember also, it is 0.8 +/- 0.4 degrees Celsius atmospheric warming and 0.3 degrees Celsius of ocean warming over one and a half centuries. The dire predictions are based on computer simulations which I believe to be extremely unreliable. Also, other factors that may influence the weather, such as ocean pollution, get scant attention. Any extreme weather event just gets put down to "Climate Change", as if no further explanation were necessary, hence my belief that it is taking on a religious dimension. Apologies if I caused any offence.

Cheers

Fester,

Richard Branson and Bill Gates are spending billions on research and development in geoengineering solutions to remove carbon from the atmosphere, which they intend to sell to world governments at enormous costs.

Branson's and Gates' empires have pinned their stars to a globally warmed world in which they hope to reep trillions of dollars for making things right again. And we the taxpayers will be footing the bill for something that should never have been allowed to happen. In fact Gates is actively involved in a global education campaign to make people aware of AGW and its effects to imbue the idea amongst people around the world that we must fix the problem if we hope to survive.

So in a way one could say that the captains of capitalism are encouraging AGW to promote their own financial interests.

Fester folk find it hard to believe but I hate the very left.
See they, like communism, murdered Socialism.
Well, the inability to get people to achieve much under that system helped.
I fail to see a truely saleable left.
Corbyn was and is such a person and his defeat was known a month before the election.
So? I push and pull my party,s [it too moves in the same direction] towards a center.
We will get there no other path to government exists.
Now yes some true left have leached on to man-made climate change, but the truth remains, it is real.
The true left could hold meetings in phone boxes, not many phone boxes left but not many true left either.
Fake News Fake fear generating has handed the Fake very right too many governments, the biggest conspiracy is that not anything else
The confusion generated by the above is harming us all capitalism is the only system, but we can give it a heart and retain it

The Left-
Lord forgive them for they don't know what they do !