Katoomba Monthly Temp average set to be SMASHED!!! AGAIN!!!

[FenceFurniture]

I guess so, but we could do without wars too!

[Beardy]

I guess so, but we could do without wars too!

Agree 100%, much better not to have them.
I was in our local Green Shed yesterday and there was no less than 20 pallets of generators and fire pumps lined up, many with their pay and pickup receipt on them. The staff member I was talking to said he was sick of handling them and were selling like hot cakes
I was in the local steel merchant who also do rural fencing supplies as well and they were sending gear out by the semi load, said they were flat out and will have trouble keeping stock up to the demand.
I imagine that would be the case for numerous items. A lot of work will be generated from others misfortunes.

[rustynail]

Some comments made to Firies during S#*t Saturday: "Well, you took your sweetarse time getting here." " Why don't you use your own water?"
"Please leave now, your lights are upsetting my chooks." " Can you go down the bush and save my pergola, my kids were married under that."
"Don't drive that dirty big thing on my lawn." "Why would you want to get a flat tyre now, in the middle of all of this?" "Have you guys seen my cat?" "My dam water is required for my camellias." And the list goes on. Some folks just don't seem to get it.

[ian]

Hi Ian, were you here in Nov/Dec? Unbelievable smoke every damn day in Sydney.

I was there for half of October and most of November. Long story ...
Some mornings I'd wake and not be able to see the zoo which is only about 500 m from the flat's balcony.

[Bushmiller]

Some comments made to Firies during S#*t Saturday: "Well, you took your sweetarse time getting hear." " Why don't you use your own water?"
"Please leave now, your lights are upsetting my chooks." " Can you go down the bush and save my pergola, my kids were married under that."
"Don't drive that dirty big thing on my lawn." "Why would you want to get a flat tyre now, in the middle of all of this?" "Have you guys seen my cat?" "My dam water is required for my camellias." And the list goes on. Some folks just don't seem to get it.

That level of misunderstanding and the inability to prioritise is very disturbing.

Just moving on from there to the level of mis-reporting that is encouraged by some elements of the press:
"Deep in the burning forests south of Sydney this week, volunteer firefighters were clearing a track through the woods, hoping to hold back a nearby blaze, when one of them shouted over the crunching of bulldozers.
“Don’t take photos of any trees coming down,” he said. “The greenies will get a hold of it, and it’ll all be over.”
The idea that “greenies” or environmentalists would oppose measures to prevent fires from ravaging homes and lives is simply false. But the comment reflects a narrative that’s been promoted for months by conservative Australian media outlets, especially the influential newspapers and television stations owned by Rupert Murdoch.
And it’s far from the only Murdoch-fueled claim making the rounds. His standard-bearing national newspaper, The Australian, has also repeatedly argued that this year’s fires are no worse than those of the past – not true, scientists say, noting that 12 million acres have burned so far, with 2019 alone scorching more of New South Wales than the previous 15 years combined."

This is particularly disturbing
"And on Wednesday, Murdoch’s News Corp, the largest media company in Australia, was found to be part of another wave of misinformation. An independent study found online bots and trolls exaggerating the role of arson in the fires, at the same time that an article in The Australian making similar assertions became the most popular offering on the newspaper’s website."
The full story is here:

How Rupert Murdoch is influencing Australia’s bushfire debate

It is no wonder that at a time of confusion and despair we become misinformed as well.

Regards
Paul

[rustynail]

Pleased to announce, we have had a couple of days with light rain. The donkeys have reverted back to their original colour and they are once again on "speaking" terms.

[AlexS]

There was a time when the Murdoch newspapers, The Daily Telegraph and the Australian, were useful, but most people now can afford toilet paper.

[FenceFurniture]

There was apparently one responsible person at Newscorp, but couldn't take their disinformation campaign and left.
News Corp employee lashes climate 'misinformation' in bushfire coverage with blistering email | Media | The Guardian

[Lappa]

Climate Change is real. It’s been happening since the Earth was first formed.

[Bushmiller]

Climate Change is real. It’s been happening since the Earth was first formed.

Agreed. The challenge is whether we can survive that change.

Regards
Paul

[FenceFurniture]

From Tuesday evening:

It's finally raining properly here right now, but there's also a fair bit of loud and bright lightning.

Attachment 466691

...and sure enough, there's a new fire in the Blue Mountains, north of Faulconbridge - thought to be started by a lightning strike

[FenceFurniture]

Climate Change is real. It’s been happening since the Earth was first formed.

Like Bushmiller, I agree, but that statement seems to indicate that mankind has nothing to do with severely hastening it?

Perhaps it might be clearer if we referred to Man Exacerbated Climate Change or Human Induced Rapid CC.

[woodPixel]

Maybe forcibly putting newspapers into the Fiction and Fantasy sections of the library would represent what they truly are.

No better than a fantasy novel.

Perhaps a change in federal law would see it change - FORCE articles to carry appellations - FACT, FICTION, OPINION and simply ADVERTISEMENT*.... in bold, at the beginning of EVERY article.

The masthead must carry the percentages -

FACT - 6%
FICTION - 40%
OPINION - 40%
ADVERTISEMENT - 14%


People can then be deliberately misinformed... wilful ignorance is not illegal, but the spreading of deliberate misinformation as fact surely should be a crime.


* Anything they were paid for.

[FenceFurniture]

You forgot an "Alternative Facts" category.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Like Bushmiller, I agree, but that statement seems to indicate that mankind has nothing to do with severely hastening it?

Perhaps it might be clearer if we referred to Man Exacerbated Climate Change or Human Induced Rapid CC.

Nar. Just 'Climate Change' will do.

It doesn't matter 'who started it,' what does matter is A: recognising that it is, indeed, a matter of serious concern and B: pulling our fingers out and collectively doing something about it.

Any other response will give us all a life-lesson of Darwinism in action.

I can see mankinds tombstone now: "He saw the train coming but couldn't be bothered moving."