cods wrote on Feb 18^th, 2014 at 8:56am:

For you enlightenment, Cods.

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What is the relationship between weather and climate?

Weather is what’s happening outside the door right now; today a snowstorm or a thunderstorm is approaching. Climate, on the other hand, is the pattern of weather measured over decades.

NASA and NOAA plus research centers around the world track the global average temperature, and all conclude that Earth is warming. In fact, the past decade has been found to be the hottest since scientists started recording reliable data in the 1880s. These rising temperatures are caused primarily by an increase of heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere created when we burn coal, oil, and gas to generate electricity, drive our cars, and fuel our businesses.

Hotter air around the globe causes more moisture to be held in the air than in prior seasons. When storms occur, this added moisture can fuel heavier precipitation in the form of more intense rain or snow.

At the same time, because less of a region’s precipitation is falling in light storms and more of it in heavy storms, the risks of drought and wildfire are also greater. Ironically, higher air temperatures tend to produce intense drought periods punctuated by heavy floods, often in the same region.

These kinds of disasters may become a normal pattern in our everyday weather as levels of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere continue to rise.

Link -
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/cold-snow-clima...
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Maqqa wrote on Feb 18^th, 2014 at 9:59am:



Rubbish - it's another Nail in Abbott's coffin.

Almost every day - this country is closing down.

Now politics is no man's land,
A land of frills and plenty
Where peasants clad in finest robes,
Aspire to be the gentry.

A splendid vista there prevails
Of myth and thought a-splendour.
Where every pollie's waking dream,
Is how to more tax render.

Horizons lit by Reichstag Fires,
Are waving on the breeze,
Of hot air rising to the skies,
And endless deep trough sleaze.

As daily in and daily out
Ideologies hold their sway
Without a thought or second thought
For those who have to pay.

This land is bound by nature's gifts,
And minerals gross and rare,
But the daily running of the Boss,
Has left it stripped out bare.

No eagles fly, when vultures fly,
No sated lions sleep,
When everybody but the Boss
Has pathways far too steep.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 18^th, 2014 at 10:04am:



This country is closing down and it doesn't matter who's fault it is, Abbott will get the blame.

He's the boss man so he has to wear the economic downturn at the next election, by which time we should be into recession if we keep going at this rate.

If they really are adults they will take the blame for the bad as well as the good........what good?

Why are the Greens not happy about this?

I thought Aluminium smelters are contributing to climate change

FriYAY wrote on Feb 18^th, 2014 at 8:43am:

He did nothing when he should have been doing something.

For a start, how about removing the stupid rule that makes it difficult or impossible to gain new skills if one has qualifications in a declining industry?

Kat wrote on Feb 18^th, 2014 at 12:37pm:


Do you actually realise how dumb your posts make you appear?

It's startling to me how ridiculous you anti Abbott people are prepared to sound, just to make some banal comment that isn't worth the effort to even write.

Astonishing that one can whip themselves into such a bitter twisted condition, all over a government that's held the reigns for such a short period and basically clear the last 2-3 governments of any complicity in what is happening.