Blimey: Climate Change, a wake-up call...

[andy]

Just come back from Orlando where Floriday have just had their coldest Easter weekend in 32 years. We had to go out and buy jackets cos we only took t-shirts and shorts with us. Global warming?

No ,that side of pond has global dimming
totally different ballgame

[milanbenes]

Supremo,

less of it,

as I told you before, swimming pool is off the shopping list, everything I am pleased to say will be ready in about 2 months time, at fecking last, it has taken long enough !

Milan.

[wendigo100]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle2465960.ece

'Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent's food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.',

cripes, maybe Australia is not the best place to emigrate to as many think !

Milan.

I thought Australia was a desert anyway?

[milanbenes]

even more so now

they're talking about turning off agricultural irigation systems which could devastate the agricultural cycles and take 6 years to get back to today's production capacity !

Milan.

[DodgyAgent]

even more so now

they're talking about turning off agricultural irigation systems which could devastate the agricultural cycles and take 6 years to get back to today's production capacity !

Milan.

So what will they do for sex if they can no longer rear sheep?

DA in "I'm off to buy a sheep farm in New Zealand" mode

[Troll]

No ,that side of pond has global dimming
totally different ballgame

Global dimming as a phenomenon first proposed in Israel

[Troll]

desalination?

No.

There's no money in it.

It costs a fortune in energy...

In a moment of boredom I found this www.dti.gov.uk/files/file16527.pdf - batteryless phototvoltaic reverse osmosis desalination system

£23k(2001 figs) gets you 3.9m sq water @day

[Captain Dispensable]

desalination?

Sorry, got confused. Apparently "salt water desemination" is a woman that spits instead of swallows.

[PRC1964]

Which is all very well until you realise that water in this country is priced at about 10p/metric tonne, though I guess it's different else where...

The deslinated water also tastes horrible. My brother had a contract at a desalination plant in Southern Spain a couple of years back and after the first gulp switched back to bottled water pretty sharpish.

[Captain Dispensable]

Well there you go. Want to know what the next big thing is? Purified salt water, that doesn't taste like harry monk.

Can't be that hard, it's only a bit of chemistry.