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What the thread's title is, is an example of what Humpty Dumpty said, The individual words have their own unique meaning, but taken together, they create something with another meaning. Maybe you could think if some long German words which are combination of individual wods to make a word with a different meaning, for example: Haus + Tür + Schlüssel = Haustürschlüssel (house + door + key = front door key, literally house door key). So, "climate change debate" means a discourse in which Everyone's allowed their own opinion. It is another matter whether or not that opinion can be substantiated by fact.

What annoys me about the clamour being raised is that Australians are being accused of major contribution to the problem. Sure, we provide the coal and natrual gas, but it is to the Northern Hemisphere which has a human population maybe six times greater than the Southern Hemisphere and who use so much energy heating and cooling their local environments (houses and workplaces). Sure, Australians add CO2 to the atmosphere, but we also capture a lot in the form of agricultural produce. Add to that, we still have thousands of square hectares of non-agricultural plant material that is cycling CO2 as it has done for millions of years. I don't like being called an environmental rapists when relative to those in the Northern Hemisphere, I'm and environmental voyeur.

I think that this is a better description of how countries whose currency had been the reserve currency of their time, collapse.

The sentiment, "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it," is most often attributed to the philosopher George Santayana, who originally wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". We are currently seeing this sentiment play out as the USA causes economic collapse to accelerate. It is a bit of a task to clearly express in words here what I want to express, so I would ask you to watch this video to see how history is being repeated. The decline of the Empire of the United States probably began in the 1980s wioth the idea that "greed is good". The full quote is, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works". The argument is that greed drives evolution and is essential for the survival of companies and the U.S. economy. Trump and his cronies, being products of the 1980s have accelerated that decline. Because the world's economy has been based on trust in the strength of the $US since after WWII, as that currency becomes deflated in value, the strength of all economies is lessened. Perhaps it is time to hitch Australia's currency to another one - maybe the Euro, or even the Yuan. In any case, I think that the global economy is heading for a catastrophic failure that will make the Great Depression look like an insignificant blip in the history of Mankind.

I saw that the head of the BOM has acknowledged that the new format is not a 100% winner and that it will be reviewed to see how it can become a better product. As long as the reviewers are people who actually want to use the site to easily obtain the information that they need for planning future activities. It seems that the beta version was reviewed by website developers who were no doubt expert in developing websites to meet current design fashions, but were not expert in what people actually used the information for. The site has gone live and those people who actually use teh information have reviewed the site and found it wanting. I said before that the new site won't be taken down and a return to the old site made. Let's battle on for a little while to see if the new site can be amended in response to users' comments.

Better that it was Albo than Ley. I don't think that "best friend" is a good label for Albo. Maybe "diplomatic tightrope walker" might be a better one.

Prunella Scales, who played the wife of Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers has passed away at teh age of 93.

Where do dwarves get educated? In a miniscule.

It is a fact, and one that it should be possible to obtain documentary proof thereof, that the German military in the time of Hitler were required to swear loyalty to Hitler rather than to Germany. Trump is demanding the same thing of the US Civil Service. But why are you amazed about Trump's gutting of the Civil Service? He openly stated it in his election speeches.

I suppose that I should know by now that for all my bitching, the site is going to be what it is from now on. With a bit of playing about with it, I'll get used to it. I just found how to display all the information I want, including the radar image, and I've replaced the old bookmark link with the one that takes me to Gilgandra's info.

I agree that the BOM site must update automatically, as opposed to a business site that has a longer update period. That is not what is wrong with the new BOM site. It is the both the site navigation and display that are poor, leading to inconvenience. I've moved. This is my local data: https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/new-south-wales/central-west-slopes-%26-plains/o245094990-gilgandra I grant that an improvement is that the weather station providing the data is now Dubbo, not Brewarrina, 250 kms away, which it was previously.

I would like to have a qualified (competent, and experienced) webdsigner provide a critique of the site in much the same terms as an art expert, or a film expert would critique a work of art or film. I'm no expert, but I have seen much better sites. The BOM site looks like it was put together usting HTML4. At the risk of being accused of narcissm, here is the website my son created for a business that started from scratch recently. There are a lot of "coming soon" bits because as of today, the business has not commenced those services, but at least one can see that the services are proposed. However, I think that the site design makes it easy to access the information a potential customer would like to see. https://www.bravenx.com.au/about-us/

That's because you are half a world away. Ovenight at my place, tthe wind was blowing very strongly. That's unusual. This morning, and as I write this, it is raining. Only light rain (but welcome). The tempearture is about 10 degress below normal. So I went to the new BOM site. Lots of pretty, coloured diagrams, but no accurate information on wind direction and rainfall areas. The grain harvest is happening here. Farmers will want to know how long the rain event is likely to be, and how much rain is likely to fall. These farmers are not morons. They are highly knowledgible people concerning their occupation. This new site format fails to deliver the sort of data they need for decision-making. All this site can tell them is the same diluted information that is presented in those short weatehr reports on TV, which are so generalised as to be useless. We are coming into the summer storm season. The display of radar data in the new format does not allow a person to track the development and movement of storms as was possible in the previous version. All in all, the new format is a useless expenditure of $4 million.

Last Friday a severe hailstorm passed over near my place. Hailstones the size of golf balls. The storm cut a narrow pathway over crop land. However, it also passed over a farmhouse. The hailstones smashed all teh poor bugger's rooftop solar panels.

What they don't tell you when you move from the city to the country is that the first thing you need to install is a rain guage. "Good bit of rain last night" doesn't provide sufficiant data for comparison. You need actual figures.

Tghat flags the use of AI in creting the website.

Website developed using AI ?

I miss out again!

It gets worse!

On the 28th February 2027, residential rental availability in Victoria will plummet.

Trump will be known as America's Nero, except Trump played golf while the whole world burned.

Yep. Current wind, temp, humidity etc that was available on the old version.

No, not a red herring. Your reference confirms its presence. The inferrence was that, while construction ws going on, the bunker might not be in service. Obviously a temporary facility would be available.

Wind and temperature at BOM weather stations. Can't say anything about rainfall as it's not present today.

Its presence was referenced in a reporter's question to Levitt. She said it would be made better.