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I hate those hand tightened chucks. When they slip they score the drill, then you have to grind off the burr. Then it may not drill true.

Paradise. The others have two d's or two e's.

The bloke who had the York museum also had one in Freo. It was the better one, but it closed. He had done time for some 80s corporate stuff.

Maybe Dan will hire him for HIS new business.

Greenland was called Greenland for a reason. Also Vinland where grapes grew. Just a thousand or so years ago. The cycles have always been there.

When I went to school a port was the rectangular brown Globite job. At Wagga Wagga High, the boys all had them. When I moved to Broken Hill only girls had them and I copped a lot of abuse. So I wrapped mine in lots of stripes of different coloured insulation tape, making it a bit of a showpiece, and the abuse ended.

Wikipedia says only 119 submarine volcanos erupted in last 11,700 years but I have seen maps with a lot more active ones so will look further. Looks like the difference is whether the volcano is venting or erupting.

in that case old McDonald had a farm iiiio

There are hundreds of undersea volcanoes, erupting all the time. It is how the heat from the earth's mantle is transferred up into the oceans.

Davis Soul's middle name was Richard, which makes him David R. Soul.

Ocean temps drive seasonal weather. There is a strong school of thought that ocean temps derive from undersea volcanic activity. That makes sense to me, as nothing else I know of could change ocean temps on such a time scale. And we know that undersea volcanism is huge and variable. But if I say so I am rubbished and accused of being a denier. I can only conclude that climate alarmism is a religion, not subject to scientific analysis.

Cancel Sarwatch!

Of course climate alarmism is woke! Like all the other BS.

But your wit is acute.

I got excited, thought this post was about a motorbike!

12 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Enjoy! https://www.livescience.com/64605-arctic-glaciers-melt-hidden-landscape.html

15 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

I am not exactly sure what that graoh is saying; The area of the ocean with at least 15% sea ice may be a measure, but how does it compare with the total ice in the region and how that has been changing?

 

This graph, from the same site(https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/), paints a slightly different picture:

The average monthly sea ice extent seems to be reducing; an at least 15% may not take into account thinning ice

 

 

Fair point. I was thinking about the so-called threat to polar bears. They live on the ice margins, both on floating ice and on continental margins, eat fish and seals. The more ice margin for them, the better, they don’t care about the size of the ice sheet in total. Shrinkage of the overall ice sheet has enabled navigation on new routes, and exposed ancient archaeology.

Students of history may recall Horatio Bottomley, English politician, fraudster, liar and bankrupt. I have two biographies that I hadn't read for years, dusted off last week. He was Trump before Trump. Everything was a conspiracy, the courts were persecuting him. His gift of the gab swayed judges and juries and got him out of trouble on many occasions in the period 1890-1920. I'm starting to think that Trump may have read one book, after all.

Then I could call him No Muscle.

Here is one example. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
the National Snow and Ice Data Centre shows extent of arctic sea ice. Situation normal, no alarming trend. Click on any year to compare. 
 

there is plenty of information out there contrary to the alarmist headlines.

I'm sorry Octave, but your list is meaningless. A majority have no standing in climate science and some have no standing at all. Pakistan and Zimbabwe are not centres of scientific learning. Most of the web pages on the links are marketing pages for consulting services. Others presuppose imminent global warming and are addressing solutions, not assessing the scientific evidence  for climate change. Follow the money.

Its an anagram of Lone Skum

Horses were used underground in Victoria from about 1863 and were used in Broken Hill from early days. We had a bad rat problem in the 1960s-70s caused by rats that had come in with the horse feed decades earlier and now survived on rotting hessian, timber and food scraps. We had all sorts of rat traps and metal lunch boxes (crib tins) to keep the cribs safe.

The horses were difficult to lower down the shaft slung under the cage. Then they grew fat under ground, and couldn't be pulled out again until they were put on a diet.

There is a desperate shortage of GPs in Australia, particularly in rural towns. Most GPs that I know are working two or three locations, a day or two per week at each. Many, like my niece, are training as specialists for the bigger pay packet, reduced hours, and the certainty of a city job. In many towns, newcomers cannot see a doctor as patient lists are closed. They have to travel back to where they came from to see their previous GP.