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2007-02-18 Down Under

Flannery sticks by Perth will be a 'ghost' city

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Posted by phil_b 2007-02-18 00:52|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I just want to get in an early warning about the year 2100 problem. Many pre 2K systems were fixed with a cure than only let them continue for another 100 years, after than it's Katey Bar-The-Door and make me a sandmich.

/Dr. Cobol waiting, for yur money

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-18 01:32|| 2007-02-18 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Phil you better move away immediately, before Perth becomes a ghost town.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-18 02:18|| 2007-02-18 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 At least I can laugh at those people who bought beachfront lots for peanuts 30 years ago.

Posted by phil_b 2007-02-18 02:52|| 2007-02-18 02:52|| Front Page Top

#4 $50K can buy a lot of ~~hot air~~ climate change hysteria.

Posted by tipper 2007-02-18 04:40|| 2007-02-18 04:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee I live in Perth, but I am moving south to the coast near Bunbury cause the fishing, lobsters and crabs. I have lot's of water in Perth via a bore, swimming pool and spa. Problem is that vision is needed so we can get water from up North via Ord river. Use the prisoners to build it, but I suppose that is not politically correct......

Posted by Aussie nt 2007-02-18 06:28|| 2007-02-18 06:28|| Front Page Top

#6 We are frequently told we live on the driest inhabited continent on earth. Yet according to the World Resource Institute, in Australia we have 51,000 litres of available water per capita per day. This is one of the highest levels in the world, after Russia and Iceland, and well ahead of countries such as the US (24,000) and the United Kingdom (only 3,000 litres per capita per day). Of the water that does fall on Australia, we divert only 5 per cent of average annual run-off. About 70 per cent of this water is used for irrigated agriculture which is concentrated in the Murray Darling Basin where relatively little water falls.

Flannery is a moron and the only real problem here is water is ridiculously cheap. You can run your lawn sprinklers every night for next to nothing.

Posted by phil_b 2007-02-18 07:25|| 2007-02-18 07:25|| Front Page Top

#7 hell in the summer here, in the south of the US, we can't run sprinklers at all during the summer

Posted by sinse 2007-02-18 12:45|| 2007-02-18 12:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Tim Flannery was an excellent utility player for the SD Padres. This pretender has no utility, and is another book-pushing grant/attention whore. When the Climate Change is proven to be independent from human activities, part of a natural (solar-driven) cycle, hope we kept a list, so we can hang these bastards

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-18 13:21|| 2007-02-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm planning on moving to Australia when the next ice age hits - somewhere around 2050 or so.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-02-18 15:00|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-18 15:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Old Patriot I'm planning on moving to Australia when the next ice age hits - somewhere around 2050 or so

git me a contract extention and i'll join ya OP!

;-)

Posted by RD 2007-02-18 17:35|| 2007-02-18 17:35|| Front Page Top

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