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So does your car. Perhaps you should stop driving it.

Nope! Just aware.

--- FAMINE --- I feel that there are multiple food chain problems unfolding at present. Since they unfold in slow motion, the media seem to ignore it. 1. The Iranian (don't call it a) war is reducing available fertiliser and fuel. 2. The Ukraine invasion is causing a shortage of grain. 3. The changing weather cycles (don't call it climate change) are making for less predictable cropping (except for West Aust recent big crops). 4. The biggest El Nino event in centuries may mess up the american harvests. And maybe ours, too. 5. Australia has lost 70% of it's bird species. Biodiversity is vital to food chains. 6. The veroa mite (pestilence, anyone?) is damaging every food that needs pollinators. 7. The H5n1 bird flu has reached our shores. Among other things it has potential to interrupt Australia's most popular protein source - chooks. There must be other things that are being ignored. Am I being too paranoid?

Skippys? You can help. All you have to do is regularly drive into town around dusk n dawn. Best if you have a bullbar on your car. Keep a sharp knife in the car, and you can take home plenty of dogfood, too.

You have to take steps to obtain the correct Hops and yeasts for beer (Or XXXX in Qld). I don't like it that Much anyhow. .Nev

He's doing God's work. So he says and you can go to Hell if you think otherwise, .Just flatter him and you will get on fine (For a brief Period). He's making America GRATE again. Who can TRUST any word he says or agreement he has signed? He's nothing but a Small Minded vengeful stand over man Making money out of being a dictator.. Nev

Stay on the Medication. Would you rather they had stayed here and we went short of fuel as a consequence? Where's your logic? How do you suggest they get Overseas if not by plane in a reasonable time. Check how much Jet fuel your Mate Trumps Air trips Burn. He flies around in a flying block of flats which sits around idle when it's not flying near empty. He spends 1/4 of His time Playing golf and flies there in a B 747 with all his equipment in another GIANT cargo Plane. Now He even has a DECOY plane to get shot down instead of the one he sneaks off into. . HE Ignores Climate Change Calling it FAKE and wants to use Fossil fuel like there's no tomorrow. and fight a Bloody war over it, that disadvantages ALL OF THE WORLD. and is likely to cause a depression. Nev

My boss died. I went to his funeral. I kneeled down beside the coffin and whispered, "Guess who's thinking outside the box now?"

Commercial jets still use up oxygen and spew out pollution ... so Bowen and Albo are frauds.

There's lead everywhere , in roof cavities and dust. The Lake they created on the Darling in the 60's is Probably empty. Lots of surface area and not a lot of depth (like Mt ISA) with low humidity means too much evaporation, to function effectively as a storage. Nev

The whole thing was a Contrived Stunt by Farage to deflect from what he was caught out doing. Taking money. People who throw money expect results for doing so. Money TALKS. Those who Pay the Piper CALL the tune. That's why the Pollies who work for the Already rich live higher on the Hog. IF they can get away with it. That requires the resources to keep things Quiet. ie Control of the Media. Nev

The BS in the ME has been the biggest shot in the arm for EV ever, No one wants to be Hung out to dry by people who hate each other's guts intensely and show no concern for how the rest of the World copes with the shortage. We don't import sun wind and tides and hydro.. It comes free and doesn't pollute and no country can block it unless it's a river from someplace, that gets Dammed and used up upstream.

What about when Trump Plays golf and what the Military use?. When is the Last time a Plane FULL of immigrants Landed here.? Australians travel in planes and overseas like some people drive to town. IF you think flying overseas to do business is FUN you mustn't have done Much of it. The reason we still Have fuel to use HERE is because Albo got off his Bum, went overseas and negotiated it. Nev

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/how-much-might-it-cost-to-electrify-road-freight/106956614

I had another consultation regarding the cochlear implant on Friday. I chose the model I wanted and selected the colour, light grey, which is the closest to my hair colour. The audiologist went through the costings, listing all the things covered by the government, and those not covered. If you lose or damage the device, it is not covered, and you should add it to your household contents insurance. Then came the kicker. Every five years they do a software upgrade, like Microsoft and Applle, which is not covered. The cost? -- 8 - 9 thousand dollars, which you may be able to claim from your private health insurance. I have to check that out. I don't know if you have to get the upgrade, or if you can continue on the older version. Then again, I may not last till an upgrade is required, pretty likely not to the second one. I rang my brother and discovered his wife had just had a second one implanted, in the other ear. They hadn't been told of the upgrade cost. They will be checking it out this week.

Commercial jets ... do you know there's no less than two thousand in the air at any given time in the world, using up oxygen and spewing out pollution. Chris Bowen needs to realize that every time a plane full of immigrants lands in OZ, and every time Airbus Albo hops on a jet to go embrace his overseas socialist mates on "official" business.

I started this thread to free the discussion from the "climate change debate" thread which seems to deal with power generation. This thread will give a place to talk about other climate-related matters.

We bought our MGS5 a month ago and have done 2000km. We just plug it in to a standard power point when it's parked at home. We have solar on the roof, and when it's charging at night Tassie uses hydro power. That 2000km represents about 3 tank fulls of diesel in our previous car, or about 165 litres (at current price around $430). For comparison the EV gets around 16kW/100k so 320kW. Even if we weren't using solar and paying full price (23c/kWh), that's about $74 for the same range. (If my calculations are correct!)

Well, one of his policies was not to take 5 million pound bribes from billionaires, so he's already better than Farage.

I drove through B H recently. It has all the signs of slowly dying. Plenty of empty shops and houses there. Is the mine running out of ore?

That is why I posted the map of the Pacific Ocean temperatures. When all that warm ocean arrives at our east coast, there will be consequences. I'm no weather expert but suspect it brings bigger more violent storms, which won't help our farmers.

The severity of temperature and lack of rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere in the summer of 2026 could be the lead in to a famine that would affect the whole of Mankind. The high temperatures, and especially the lack of rain are already having deliterious effects on the economies of European countries. Allied to those are the effects of the war in the Ukraine which produces a great deal of Europe's grain. We don't know much about what is happening to agriculture in Russia, nor China. Here in Australian we are looking towards another summer of high heat and low rainfall. The high temperatures and low rainfall are without precedent in recorded European history. Thre have been famine years, but never before has such a huge population been affected.

This is an interesting short film about Broken Hill, made in 1953. Where I lived for 12 years.

I don't recall anyone on these forums suggesting the extraction of energy from renewables is free.. maybe out in the big wide world they have.. .Clearly that is a fallacy. We have already dealt with the costs per mw/h of renewable sources v fossil fuels for electricity generation. And renewables generally win - although there are cases where it doesn't. But it is not just the cost of extraction - there is the cost of distribution and then there is the efficiency cost. And of course, the cleaning up costs and decommissioning costs.. Still for electricity generation, the costs generally favour renewables.. There is a cost that fossil fuels don't pick up (and to be honest, neither does the renewables pick up) and that is the inherent damage to the environment. There is no cost applied and effort performed to remove things like the additional CO2, which seems to be a major contributor to what is looking more like a looming climate emergency.. you know the thing the pesky scientists predicted using real facts and models.. and it seems to be coming a darn sight quicker than they had hoped. The cost of toxins such as nitrogen oxides and other respiratory and cancer linked toxins is early termination of people and in countries such as Australia, the taxpayer picks up the tab through the health service. Yes, this is also the case for the manufacture and operation of plant/technology for renewable energy extraction, but I would guess (but am happy to be corrected) it is a lot lower than that for fossil fuels - after all, accessing the renewable sources is a lot easier than accessing fossil fuels - I don't have to dig under the sea for it.. do I... And even sea born renewable energy - waves - are pretty accessible. But renewables don't pay for their emissions either (well, there is a carbon trading market, still, somewhere). But again, and I haven't done the research and am happy to be corrected - this cost from renewables technology is probably a lot less because they do a lot less of it. Yes, Li-Ion batteries - especially for cars - have a heavy CO2 footprint at manufacture - much more than an ICE engine. In early technology, the average technology meant it was about 5 years before the electric car broke even with the average emissions of ICE cars, after which the drop in CO2 emissions for the lifetime of a BEV over an ICE car increased dramatically. Here are the current numbers: The time even on a wholly coal grid is still 4 - 5 years, but batteries are lasting at least 8 (on average) and going a lot more.. So, even with the dirtiest grid, they are still doing well. But, we move to grids such as in Europe, Australia, Canada, and China, and the payback is down to 2 years, well within most ownership cycles of cars and well within the life of the vehicle. In Australia, the depreciation cycle is 5 years, so you are effectively getting, say 3 years almost emissions free driving in comparison. Obviously, the coal and gas and maintenance are emitting, as are replacement of service items - which are much less in a BEV than and ICE engined car.

Could be an interesting cyclone season ciming up?