Drought As A Disaster

https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6417072/drought-its-own-disaster-type-minister/?cs=7576


Good morning all,

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Note the mentioned drought assistance programs such as the Future Drought Fund.

 

Drought is a huge problem. I don't see why they (the Government) aren't considering it a natural disaster. Ask South Africa how serious it is.

We should let Keith or one of our other brethren from down under weigh in on this. At the risk of sounding very judgmental this sounds like a bunch of politicians proselytizing; throwing money at a problem; and not offering one solution.

Does Australia have any desalination plants? Go to Israel, and talk to them about Water Management. They turned a barren desert into very comfortable living conditions for millions of people. They are the world experts at living with drought.

 

Good afternoon Morgan,

I think you're right. I definitely agree with you ... politicians throwing money at a problem.

Yes, Keith can get us focused.

 

As a (former) Arizonan, I see drought a huge problem which is bad now and will get much worse in the future; this is the main reason why I moved to a place with a better climate and aquifer.

I don't see the government able to do anything about it -- or even try to do anything about it -- until it's too late and we start seeing world-wide water wars into which the United States will undoubtedly get dragged. Dawn and I have agreed that our next expenditure (at about US$1000) will be a backup steel hand-pump for our well, and, after that, a TBD water retention system.

I simply can't afford to trust the Government -- whether local, state, of federal -- to have the competence to do it for me.

 

China and other countries, USA included, are big on "seeding clouds" and whatever else to get the rainfall rates up.

Saw this article for you guys living in the land "down under". Safe places in times of a world pandemic:

https://www.foxnews.com/science/in-a-global-pandemic-which-countries-are-safest-havens

 

Drought and Famine are one of the inevitable occurrences over time and has been the most common cause of collapse for a lot of past civilizations. Climate change is an inevitable thing and a part of a living planet. The last 500 years have been unusually peaceful and quiet with few major occurrences like major volcanic activity, asteroid strikes, solar instability or all other sorts of possible climate-changing disasters. These are the quick-change disasters but there are also the slow change weather pattern problems that make a rich fertile area into an uninhabitable desert. Even small changes in weather over a period of time can have horrible effects on people. There was a possible weather connection to several plagues and even the Catholic Inquisition.

 

When I glanced at that article, I thought, "Well, Sydney is toast."


Yet, things go sideways in the cities, rural Australia is rural. Can't see rural Aussies putting up with anything not to their liking.

Firearm buyback / confiscation is a dark joke. The highest compliance numbers I've heard come from Australia -- maybe 1/5th maybe a full 1/3 of banned firearms owners complied with the law, overwhelming majority flipped government the bird.

https://thefederalist.com/2015/06/25/the-australia-gun-control-fallacy/

In the USA, banning "assault rifles" has resulted in compliance rates of between 05.0% to 15.0%, i.e. 85% minimum ignore the law and simply become much more angry at their pencil-necked inferior government sycophant law-makers. Even though I don't own one of the "evil" black rifles, I might just let the government goons kill me (they often seriously injure pets, now that's a shame) -- trust me on this one, it'd be them doing me a favor. D###, I felt sooo bad today!

Military and Law Enforcement folk, current and retired, are the primary owners of AR-15 rifles. Why? Sheesh, that's what they carried in uniform; these were the weapons they were issued and trained with. I was in the doctor's office, shooting story on the waiting room TV, ex-military, young fellow, was sitting very near me. He's really paying attention. I ask him about it. LEO on screen back row was his supervisor, state cop. I ask, "They do issue you guys an M4, right?" "Yes," he replies. "Good" I say.

Side note on climate





Don't get me wrong, we've got plenty to worry about! Dark truth is that the Sun and our own planet Earth's lines of magnetic flux are WAY OUT OF OUR CONTROL! Let's say that CO2 is a co-conspirator, even if we went nuclear next week, the CO2 changes wouldn't change anything.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/global-warming-fraud-exposed-pictures

 

https://www.drought.gov/drought/


Good morning all,

Above link a source for our additional research.

SIDEBAR: Keith; Weren't those Aussie politicians, with their generous budgets, on a drought fact-finding trip to the Malaysian rain forests during the rainy season ? Not too much is new under the Sun !