Hope they see something that’s easily fixable. And hopefully that will be the last MRI you’ll ever need. Keep us posted good sir!
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It’s been a long time since we’ve seen snow for more than a few snowflakes now and then.
I remember not that many years ago, we had snow and ice every year.
Climate change are real.
Good to see you’re happy with the new job and doing something good about it.
Hope that MRI will do you good.
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Was that in doubt?
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When I was a kid, there’d be so much snow around everywhere that some years you could access the garage roofs. Now, I sometimes see grass in December.
Apparently to the the terminally hard of thinking.
Meanwhile we haven’t not smelled smoke for going on two weeks and the air quality is so bad munchkin sometimes isn’t allowed out to play at school. I could have smoked a ham outside yesterday. Worst bushfires I can remember.
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Yeah and I saw that you guys downunder had the hottest day ever across the country.
Up here we’ve had the wettest autumn ever, possibly the wettest year ever (since 1870) and top that with the hottest year ever.
The world is going down, and going down fast.
But there are some who say “no way it’s fake news”
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That’s not entirely climate change though, Australia has relied on large scale Bush fires for a very long time.
The fake news is the idea that man (primarily industrial countries) are to blame for it. The planet was warm before man dominated the earth, then it was frozen, the concept that it may become warmer does not surprise me. The climate change religion followers are focused on destroying capitalism and controlling/limiting production thru regulations. Its the old “I know what’s better for you than you do” bullshit spouted by the left.
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Let’s take this debate elsewhere guys, haha. Over to PWI, perhaps.
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Agreed. Sorry @Frank_C. I don’t typically respond to political stuff.
I don’t mind. It’s comical. I think we’ve all been alive for too short of a span to make a declaration either way. I’m more inclined to believe that the climate is cyclical.
Gotta love some political/environmental uproar. I’ll keep my opinion to myself. I once suggested that our new marketing campaign at work should be “making kids great again”. But our owner seemed to think that might alienate some of our customers 
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The climate is cyclical. It works in cycles called Milankovic (sp?) Cycles based on how the earths orbit and rotation change over time. Until the industrial revolution, they were incredibly predictable and recorded data matched predictions incredibly well. Then industrialisation happened and it all went massively, dramatically wrong.
TL:DR: climate change is real and absolutely caused by man’s actions. I was once told by a leading climate scientist that trying to use Milankovic cycles as a reason for climate change is like trying to explain hurricanes by saying you ate too many beans.
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But have you been in my bathroom after I’ve eaten beans?
I rarely go in your bathroom at all.
Relied on for what?!
You’ll have to bare with me on this one, it’s been a long time since I’ve studied any of this. From memory though, many areas of Australia get overgrown very quickly in a way that’s detrimental to many of the species of plants. In recent years things like lantana (sp?) Have been the culprit because silly Brits brought them over to make hedges but i believe there were some indigenous species before then. Bush fires are a dramatic, but sometimes necessary way to deal with those. Some species of plants actually rely on bush fires to release seeds and to continue existing.
I’m sure all of the above is a great comfort to everyone who’d been affected by the fires.
PS. I’m extremely rusty on Australian ecology so take all the above with a pinch of salt.
Got you. We USED to rely on fires, decades and decades ago. The indigenous Australians were geniuses when it came to back burning. The issue we have now is that it is much, much drier for much longer and it’s much hotter. We also have had a significant decrease in back burning because as far as I understand it, it is mostly left to rural fire services who are mostly volunteers. There are also more restrictions on what can be back burned and where.
So you combine very dry conditions with a heavy fuel load and you get what we are currently experiencing, fierce fires moving much faster than the fire services can control them. It doesn’t help that the federal government has refused to provide any extra funding or resources to the firefighters because they are volunteers.
You seem to have a far greater understanding than me, not too surprisingly. I’m relying on a couple of months I spent there 12+ years ago.
I do remember being struck by how much Australia was being hit by ozone depletion at the time though. Most noticeably how easy it was to get sunburned.
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California made the same mistake. Controlled burns are a must. Putting it off only causes a bigger problem later.
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