Thread: Australia has had a lot to deal with lately, but this is the last straw ...

Though Rolf Harris had returned home for a minute..

What's this, more frequent extremes of weather?

It's almost like the climate is changing or something.

Originally Posted by Eddie Booth

Though Rolf Harris had returned home for a minute..

Nah ... he hasn't a leg to stand on!

tish boom.

According to the ABC weather forecaster this morning, this is seasonal for the area?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

What's this, more frequent extremes of weather?

It's almost like the climate is changing or something.

Nah, pretty standard Aus weather.

Originally Posted by Switch

According to the ABC weather forecaster this morning, this is seasonal for the area?

Yeh ... the Indian Monsoon drifts lower, drenching the 'Top End' (of Australia) and the formation of Cyclones.

Rumour has it the the Go Troppo season is spreading throughout the country, oh hang on there already Troppo.

Originally Posted by Eddie Booth

The solution is stopping immigrants moving there, but impossible as it's not political correct.

That's a new one . . .

Daily Mail:

Immigration found to be cause of Cyclones

The focus of the OP was ...

Originally Posted by David48atTD

FIRE, FLOOD ... but PESTILENCE ??


Rick Astley and AH HA are touring down under

FFS ... what did Aussies do to deserve this?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

What's this, more frequent extremes of weather? It's almost like the climate is changing or something.

Yep lets all convert to a meat diet

Oh dear, here it comes... The butthurt venting adding CO2 to the atmosphere.

Originally Posted by Eddie Booth

The Aborigines have ancestral history of how when they settled Australia it was covered in trees, and how overtime gaps started to appear in the trees

Australia was relatively heavily forested until the aborigines arrived.

They used slash and burn environmental management to feed themselves and in the process precipitated one the greatest extinction events of megafauna in the past 20,000 years.

It rivals the extinction events in North and South America not to mention many others in smaller islands in the pacific and elsewhere.

Collapse by Jared Diamond is a great book describing these events.

40*F here yesterday. Crisis, what crisis? I'm thinking of buying a Florida home up north.

Originally Posted by Looper

They used slash and burn environmental management to feed themselves and in the process precipitated one the greatest extinction events of megafauna in the past 20,000 years.

The latest research appears to argue against that theory:

Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years

Originally Posted by David48atTD

... and no, I'm not attending either Concert

Yea;work can be a pestilence too

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

The latest research appears to argue against that theory:

It was Aboriginals who cleaned their cave paintbrushes in Pink Lake near the town of Put A Gutta, SA

Originally Posted by Looper

Collapse by Jared Diamond is a great book describing these events.

Peer reviewed journal?