Well done Dave. It is obvious that our current political representatives in this country refuse to ‘think globally then act locally’.

Bash trash and burn is the ideology of Bartletts ministers and cronies, then they have the gall to state they are acting as representative of the people.

The TV show Black-Adder held more common-sense than does this lot of failing political blowhards.

this is brilliant, get it out there!

Very powerful images Dave.
Jon, trouble is, whatever our political types think or see, they do and say what they are told - by corporations. Howard was a willing tools of globalization. KRudd is little different - guided and advised as he appears to be by his friend Henry Kissinger.
Fancy having one of this planet’s most evil creatures as your friend!
Ah well, little johnnie had his mate Dubya - who was run by the delightful Dick Cheney and in-house Bush Brain Karl Rove.
Most of the planet is run this way.
We the people are treated with contempt, So well manipulated and dumbed down most of us are, we do not see what is being done to us. We blindly vote for the cleverly spun images - that only a few of us hard-bitten cynics see through. The whole world now is being sold a crock of shit with the toothpaste advert Obama smile.

Unless the existing paradigm collapses or is brought down, the future will be ever darker and more oppressive.

Land clearances turned up the heat on Australian climate

16 May 2009

DEFORESTATION by European settlers may be to blame for making Australia’s drought longer, hotter and dryer than it would be otherwise.

The “big dry”, Australia’s 11-year drought, has been blamed on greenhouse gases and natural variability. To see if deforestation played a part, Clive McAlpine of the University of Queensland in Brisbane and colleagues used a climate model to simulate Australian conditions from the 1950s to 2003. They then compared the impact of today’s fragmented vegetation, obtained from satellite images, with that of 1788, prior to European settlement.

Over much of south-east Australia, where the drought has hit hardest, less that 10 per cent of the original vegetation remains. The team’s model showed that this land clearance has increased the length of droughts in the area by one to two weeks per year. In years of extreme drought, the loss of vegetation caused the number of days above 35 °C to increase by six to 18 days, and the number of dry days to increase by five to 15 days (Geophysical Research Letters, in press).

“Land clearing may be having a similar impact on the drought as greenhouse gases,” says McAlpine. Reforestation could minimise future droughts, he adds.

“It’s a nice piece of work,” says Andy Pitman of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, but he adds that the modelling needs to be confirmed.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227084.700-land-clearances-turned-up-the-heat-on-australian-climate.html

A chilling picture.  We have a lot to answer for don’t we? Trouble is what can we peasants do about it? The powerful people in the universe just aren’t listening.

Paul 2
Thanks for that honest reply,....I think? And what does this say about the individuals prepared to enter and submit themselves to that political world? I remember being given a book entitled ‘Celebrate Humanity’. It became the source of much warmth on cold winter nights.

Jon [7], tried to respond direct with off subject message. Bounced twice, including through above post. Pls confirm your address.