Queensland
Queensland Beautiful one day Tornadoes the next.
I think I'll stay in soggy old Melbun
Queensland Beautiful one day Tornadoes the next.
I think I'll stay in soggy old Melbun
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Climate Change
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Here in Hobart (as well as Perth) probably the best weather of the country.
But evidently it’s a human rights violation to make people play and watch footy without a roof in Hobart’s apparent Antarctic climate.
Albo & Comrades did not advertise this did they !!.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Why new engine emission rules will change Aussie cars forever
Bestselling utes like the Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger and a range of small SUVs would be banned from sale as brand new vehicles under new emissions rules starting in December 2025.
Albo might have to start going overseas in a electric plane or a glider.Albo & Comrades did not advertise this did they !!.
Why new engine emission rules will change Aussie cars forever
Bestselling utes like the Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger and a range of small SUVs would be banned from sale as brand new vehicles under new emissions rules starting in December 2025.
Might save the taxpayers a few $s as well. Sell off the the government car fleet and give all the pollies a Malvern Star pushbike to ride.
*smile* politicians, afl honchos and umpires. They can all gagf.
And that is why climate change management is so hard. 1st world people don’t want to give up 1st world toys.
Gotta admit though that Oz has been a dumping ground for lower tech higher pollution machines for years n years. Vehicle cost and non existent cleaner fuel costs have kept us way behind the best of the Euros. Euros are running 7 and looking at 8 in their clean emissions vehicles / machinery, cars trucks n earth moving. A hell of a lot of what we're running with as new is Euro 5 tech.
Got a feeling the cooks shopping trolley would be lucky to be running Euro 4 tech it's that old now. But considering it's only done about 35000 kliks in a dozen years and it's a tidy drive when I get lucky enough to do a couple of blockies, I'll be keeping it.
Got a feeling the cooks shopping trolley would be lucky to be running Euro 4 tech it's that old now. But considering it's only done about 35000 kliks in a dozen years and it's a tidy drive when I get lucky enough to do a couple of blockies, I'll be keeping it.
We're going to hear the word 'unprecedented' a lot..
www.theguardian.com
Unusually large waves hit the coast of California amid powerful storms – video report
The storms have left at least eight people needing hospital treatment
www.theguardian.com
El Nino's been refused entry into Australia.......interesting but not convincing.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australi...r/news-story/7ee8557cc3c404b20d15cb413a9905ab
https://www.skynews.com.au/australi...r/news-story/7ee8557cc3c404b20d15cb413a9905ab
Some good posting on here RE.
Yes. I think this is what explains the CC denial, the anti-woke, trump etc phenomena. People don't want to know or don't care (both of which are linked of course), about the impact their first world lives are having. They just want their 8 litre Dodge Ram, and they don't want to feel guilty about it. Their response has to be 'I don't believe you' or 'I don't care', otherwise they have to sell it and radically change their lives.
Yep 2 billion people don't want to give up their fancy *smile* like Dodge Rams n aircon homes n hosptals, shopping malls, overseas holidays in fancy hotels while the other 6 billion people in the world would just love a taste of all the fancy *smile* that some people have.
Humanity's a bit like kangaroos n emus, can't go backwards n continuing to go forward is gunna see us hung up on the old barbed wire fence.
2023 confirmed as the hottest year on record.
Almost every day since July has seen a new global air temperature high for the time of year, BBC analysis shows.
www.bbc.com
Almost every day since July has seen a new global air temperature high for the time of year, BBC analysis shows.
2023 confirmed as world's hottest year on record
Climate records tumbled "like dominoes" in 2023, with temperatures far above any recorded level.
www.bbc.com
I've worked in Hobart a bit. It does get bloody cold in Winter. One year I got into a punch on with a polar bear after a long session with a Russian ice breaking crew.
I hear on the grapevine the AFL provided this photo, which is apparently from one of North Melbourne's games in Hobart, in order to formulate the list of demands/conditions for a Tasmanian AFL license.
I find the conversations on flood insurance interesting. It’s tough but basically parts of the land we shouldn’t be building houses on. The insurance fees of $k50 in the media basically are saying we expect to be paying out every 10 years or so. Which means don’t have a house there. I find calls to push the cost down missing the actual issue completely.
Planning needs to be pretty strong about not allowing development in flood plains and then socialising the risk to every other taxpayer.
Relocation costs I’m sitting on the fence.
The areas impacted this way are going to grow over time.
www.theage.com.au
Planning needs to be pretty strong about not allowing development in flood plains and then socialising the risk to every other taxpayer.
Relocation costs I’m sitting on the fence.
The areas impacted this way are going to grow over time.
Relocation looms for homes in flood-hit towns where insurance is almost impossible
After two floods inside two years in parts of Victoria, insurance experts are concerned flood coverage will become increasingly unaffordable for many residents in the state’s flood-hit communities.
I'm largely skeptical of insurance. I have it for my house, because the bank demands it and also partly because its not too expensive and just in case I decide to take up smoking durries in bed. I've been paying house insurance for 30 years, approx $1200pa. so $36K. In that time I've made one claim, a significant one, $20K for a new roof after damage from a massive hail storm in '16, so I'm $12K -odd down. I've always said you are mostly better off just keeping the dough and paying for repairs when they happen. A house fire is effectively a reverse tattslotto win, its competely fair enough people want to insure against that, people also buy tattslotto tickets.I find the conversations on flood insurance interesting. It’s tough but basically parts of the land we shouldn’t be building houses on. The insurance fees of $k50 in the media basically are saying we expect to be paying out every 10 years or so. Which means don’t have a house there. I find calls to push the cost down missing the actual issue completely.
Planning needs to be pretty strong about not allowing development in flood plains and then socialising the risk to every other taxpayer.
Relocation costs I’m sitting on the fence.
The areas impacted this way are going to grow over time.
Relocation looms for homes in flood-hit towns where insurance is almost impossible
After two floods inside two years in parts of Victoria, insurance experts are concerned flood coverage will become increasingly unaffordable for many residents in the state’s flood-hit communities.
I don't have comprehensive car insurance, I have third party property in case of hitting an Aston Martin. In 35 years I've had a couple of minor prangs that were my fault and paid out about $4K -odd to fix my car and in one case, minor damage to the other, so I'm $20K-odd up.
Thats just me though, I understand why people see it as a necessity. A guy I know has a beach house with his 2 brothers in a cyclone area. Insurance is $20K. He wants to drop it and take their chances (its been through 2 cyclones and survived with minor damage), but he is outnumbered.
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A good question. Also at what point do taxpayers stop paying for infrastructure to be repaired & rebuilt in flood plains?I find the conversations on flood insurance interesting. It’s tough but basically parts of the land we shouldn’t be building houses on. The insurance fees of $k50 in the media basically are saying we expect to be paying out every 10 years or so. Which means don’t have a house there. I find calls to push the cost down missing the actual issue completely.
Planning needs to be pretty strong about not allowing development in flood plains and then socialising the risk to every other taxpayer.
Relocation costs I’m sitting on the fence.
The areas impacted this way are going to grow over time.
Relocation looms for homes in flood-hit towns where insurance is almost impossible
After two floods inside two years in parts of Victoria, insurance experts are concerned flood coverage will become increasingly unaffordable for many residents in the state’s flood-hit communities.
There has been some good research relating to sub division releases and corruption in both major parties on this. Traditionally the cycle would go a developer would buy up some 1 in 100 flood plain land, hire some ex-party insiders as lobbyists, both sides of course, as memory faded of any flood events they would inevitably get it re-zoned for subdivision and make a motza.I find the conversations on flood insurance interesting. It’s tough but basically parts of the land we shouldn’t be building houses on. The insurance fees of $k50 in the media basically are saying we expect to be paying out every 10 years or so. Which means don’t have a house there. I find calls to push the cost down missing the actual issue completely.
Planning needs to be pretty strong about not allowing development in flood plains and then socialising the risk to every other taxpayer.
Relocation costs I’m sitting on the fence.
The areas impacted this way are going to grow over time.
Relocation looms for homes in flood-hit towns where insurance is almost impossible
After two floods inside two years in parts of Victoria, insurance experts are concerned flood coverage will become increasingly unaffordable for many residents in the state’s flood-hit communities.
The fly in the ointment for that traditional model is that floods are bigger and happening more often now, so there is far more scrutiny. But having said that, because the cycle is often 10 or 15 years, there are still subdivisions coming online that happened under the traditional model, and also the housing crisis is a countervailing source of political pressure.
Something has to give.
My policy would be zero population growth. I.e. net immigration = death rate - birth rate
Imagine I’d last a day before a union knocked me off.
Wouldn't just be the unions, business wouldn't have a bar of it.
I'm not against it, but it would require radical restructuring of the economy. Capitalism relies on growth, in everything, except wilderness and social equality of course.
Capitalism has given a lot of us a great standard of living, but it is destroying the planet. We don't seem to be able to manage minor adjustments at the edges to help address climate change, or at least no where near fast enough, let alone substantial adjustments.
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