Queensland’s floods have cost grain farmers an estimated $400 million

[ScienceRocks]

Queensland’s floods have cost grain farmers an estimated $400 million and the bill will certainly rise, AgForce says.

Australian and World News - Main Stories - ninemsn News national/ 8189371/ qld-grain-farmers-devastated-by-floods

 

[ScienceRocks]

Australian floods send coal prices soaring
The wettest Australian summer since records began has resulted in the price of coal rising as fast as the stock of the English cricket team.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph finance/ newsbysector/ industry/ mining/ 8230182/ Australian-floods-send-coal-prices-soaring.html

 

[ScienceRocks]

New Zealand.

Golden Bay was hit particularly hard, with the latest flood being the third this month; the area has received over 500 millimetres (19.68 inches) of rain in December.

NZCity Personal Start Page news/ article.aspx?id=124283&fm=newsmain,nrhl

 

[Old Rocks]

Precipitation events. And once again, a major agriculture area is hit.

 

[rdean]

Precipitation events. And once again, a major agriculture area is hit.

You have to be wrong. Scientists say precipitation comes from evaporation. Some right wingers on this board call "evaporation" a "wild theory".

You know that when the new Republican congress takes office, they will go after the same deregulation that ruined the banks, the economy, OSHA and everything else they put their dirty little paws on. I think America is going to be so surprised at what they've done.

Congress: Fred Upton Will Take Over House Energy & Commerce Committee | Latest News | Chemical & Engineering News
Among other decisions, House Republican leaders selected Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Texas) to chair the Committee on Science & Technology and eliminated the Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming.

Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas - Energy & Environment Experts
A proponent of competition, Barton is additionally responsible for both the first electricity deregulation legislation to pass a House subcommittee, and for legislation which deregulated the natural gas industry.

 

[westwall]

Show us a single year when there has not been a "precipitation event". Just one.

 

[Old Rocks]

And what is that supposed to mean?

 

[westwall]

And what is that supposed to mean?

"Precipitation events" as defined by your fellow cultists happen every year. If it's cold they happen, if it's warm they happen, If it's dry they happen, if it's wet they happen. In other words, because they are so common they are not usefull descriptors of anything.

 

[Revere]

And what is that supposed to mean?

"Precipitation events" as defined by your fellow cultists happen every year. If it's cold they happen, if it's warm they happen, If it's dry they happen, if it's wet they happen. In other words, because they are so common they are not usefull descriptors of anything.

Like a religion, where the Virgin Mary appears in a grilled cheese sandwich.

 

[Old Rocks]

I see. They happen every year at the rate that they have been happening in the last two or three years?

 

[Old Rocks]

And what is that supposed to mean?

"Precipitation events" as defined by your fellow cultists happen every year. If it's cold they happen, if it's warm they happen, If it's dry they happen, if it's wet they happen. In other words, because they are so common they are not usefull descriptors of anything.

Like a religion, where the Virgin Mary appears in a grilled cheese sandwich.

That schtick belongs to your kind, remember, we Libs are Godless

 

[Revere]

Um, no.

Vice President Al Gore offers some alarming clues about his view of God in his book, Earth in the Balance; Ecology and the Human Spirit.

He starts out his book by asserting his pantheistic beliefs. ....."we feel increasingly distant from our roots in the earth....civilization itself has been on a journey from its foundations in the world of nature to an evermore contrived, controlled and manufactured world of our initiative and sometimes arrogant design.... At some point during this journey we lost our feeling of connectedness to the rest of nature.... We dare now to wonder: Are we so unique and powerful as to be essentially separate from the earth?"

Gore identifies the root problem of Western culture in that "we lost our feeling of connectedness to the rest of nature" and finds answers in pantheism. He attempts to blend Christianity and pantheism where the source of all life, instead of God has become Mother God, (Mother Earth/Mother Nature also frequently referred to as Gaia). He, like the radical eco-feminists who support him, see the earth as the pagan goddess Gaia who "has been seriously 'wounded' by the expansion of human civilization, and now there must come a universal atonement for these many millennia of grief on 'her' part" through an event or process they call 'cleansing.'

The Gospel According to Al Gore

 

[Old Rocks]

Still fixated on Gore? How about addressing the positions of the Scientific Societies around the world. Or the National Academies? Of course you can claim that it is all a grand conspiracies. And brand yourself as nutcase as Kooky.

 

[Revere]

Real Scientists don't practice concensus.

 

[Revere]

Consensus is faith, not science.

 

[Revere]

All you stand for is poverty.

 

[Revere]

What's kooky about not permitting government to force you to be too poor to afford as much energy as you want?

 

[Old Rocks]

In other words, you do not know the science well enough to answer. Revere, you are just another yap-yap Conservative, relentlessly repeating talking points without the slightest idea of the meat of the subject. You are most certainly not a person to be taken seriously.

 

[Revere]

Scientists can stop floods in Australia?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Scientists can stop floods in Australia?

No scientists can do that...maybe a few hundred years from now, but not yet. Crazy weather becomes more possibe and happens more often as you put energy into the weather system of the earth.