Lots of stories in the Weekend Australian about climate change and related issues… the editorial includes commentary about Graham Lloyd's reporting on 'the pause'.
Also comment by John Ferguson, Victorian Political Editor, that:
"THE consumer bill for the nation’s largest desalination plant is set to rise to more than $2 billion, as heavy rain and soaring dam levels make redundant tremendously expensive facilities across the eastern seaboard.
New figures obtained by The Weekend Australian show the Victorian desalination plant, southeast of Melbourne, will have cost water users $1.2bn by the November 29 state election, rising to $2bn by the end of the next financial year.
The cost has soared, despite no water having been drawn from the facility since its opening in 2012 and dams being more than 80 per cent full."
Of course another prolonged drought could hit Victoria shortly.
Putting this up for a chuckle, they are comparing the increase in Antarctic sea ice to Meltwater 1A and 1B.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/antarctic-sea-ice_n_5978238.html?cps=gravity
It is certainly crazy SD.
Water policy in NSW looks to be suffering from schizophrenia or bi polar disorder.
Much of it seems to be politically driven by the mantra that native flora and fauna can't possibly co exist with agriculture and that rivers have to be flushed in a similar manner to the way we flush toilets.
It is also being driven by a belief in BoM's ability to forecast seasonal inflows.
Our water regulatory systems were designed to conserve water in times of excess so that it could be wisely used in the drier seasons.
They were not designed to create artificial floods and 'over the bank' flows in the drier seasons!
"Meanwhile. . .us producers are unable to get timely access to our key input in order to produce and the rivers run periodic bankers as each different ‘authority’ does their disconnected bit."
That's unbelievable, Debbie.
It should not be an asylum but when the loonies are running it, it soon becomes one.
The NSW Office of Water (NOW) & State Water Corporation (SWC) and Office of Environment & Heritage (OEH) & Snowy Hydro Ltd (SHL) & Forrestry & BoM & Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH) & Ministerial Council (Minco) & the MDBA and the Independant Infrastructure Operators (IIOs) + a few other bureaucratic or quasi bureaucratic entities all have power in this space Ian Thomson.
They are all supposedly 'independant' with their own boards and charters and water management agendas.
The management agendas do not agree with each other.
No wonder the rivers are going up and down like yo yos!
Us paying customers are thoroughly confused.
Anytime we try to ask some sensible questions the finger pointing begins in earnest.
The Fed entities blame the state entities and vice versa & then the state entities blame each other.
They all complain about lack of funding.
Meanwhile. . .us producers are unable to get timely access to our key input in order to produce and the rivers run periodic bankers as each different 'authority' does their disconnected bit.
The resultant waste of a valuable resource is just gob smacking!
I probably should add in 'private investors & water traders' ' to that original mix.
The Bolter will have Dr Patrick Moore as a guest on his TV show tomorrow at 10am and 4pm. This gent from the Catallaxy files has some depressing news to report on the Moore meeting he attended . The list of promoters and religious observers of CAGW is indeed a big and perhaps insurmountable problem.
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2014/10/25/its-not-easy-being-non-green/
Debbie, I knew what you meant and I knew what JW meant, was just joking about the fact that he said the opposite, to what he actually meant. Sorry!
Has anybody got the power to stop , almost daily, rises and falls of our rivers, by all the different agencies involved.
Hay weir is empty one day and full the next , people living along the Murrumbidgee tell me the whole river is the same.
That it is wrecking the river and its banks,
The Murray seems to be at permanent flood level , ( I noticed last week, half of one of Tocumwal's big beaches was flooded), and the Edward is pooping up and down, like the 'Bidgee, although our weir is a little more consistent than Hay's.
I assume that this is only the start of the 'great reclamation ' and we are in for a lot more mess to come.
The S Australians on here should be jumping for joy, as NSW and Vic are being washed down there , making SA bigger.
'Do I detect a ‘get-out’ clause here?'
Mad if they don't, if the pause in temperatures continues for another decade they'll have nowhere to run.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/24/friday-funny-youre-a-climate-denier-if/
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Do I detect a 'get-out' clause here?
EU Agrees Conditional, Non-Binding Climate Deal Open To Review
Date: 24/10/14 EurActiv
EU leaders Thursday night (23 October) committed by 2030 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40%, and increase energy efficiency and renewables by at least 27% [provided there is a legally binding UN climate treaty]
French President François Hollande said the deal would send a clear message to other countries such as China and the US ahead of the talks in Paris next year to agree global legally binding greenhouse gas emissions.
A special “flexibility clause” was added to the final text, making it possible for the Council to return to the targets after the UN summit. But Hollande told reporters that the clause was not dependent on the Paris talks as the Council can revisit the targets anytime.
http://www.thegwpf.com/eu-agrees-conditional-climate-deal-open-to-review/