The weather is getting crazier this year.
Firstly we had an extremely hot day in August, causing major bushfires (well, the arsonists caused some, the heat and winds didn’t help).
This week has been worse: In Melbourne, Ballarat, Orange, and (of all places) the Sunshine Coast we’ve had hail and snow - yeah, snow in Queensland. In November for crying out loud. Fun stuff.
At the same time, we’ve had (more) bushfires in various places.
The rain we’ve had locally is good - we need it. I could easily forgo the hail though.
We really need to tell the Federal Government that they need to pull their heads in and get the carbon trading scheme up and running at least as a starting point.
IMO - Howard’s reliance on “Clean Coal” technology is a cop-out. For starters, the technology doesn’t exist yet (I haven’t heard of anything which is getting towards the end of the R&D phase yet), and according to other reports, it won’t exist for another 5 or quite probably 10 more years.
