Thread: Climate Change and our Land of Fire, Flood and Drought.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

HMAS Choules has gone to sea. I thought it was aground on Bottle Bank, Garden Island like its predecessor HMAS Stalwart aka Building 215.

Brian, you appear to have an affinity for Bottle Bank. Did you also spend time aground there?

Hi all

Just read this from the MIT Technology Review: Yes, climate change is intensifying Australia’s fires

Mike

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

HMAS Choules has gone to sea. I thought it was aground on Bottle Bank, Garden Island like its predecessor HMAS Stalwart aka Building 215.

HMAS Adelaide joining the effort now. That's one big baby.

Navy Boys and Girls back from leave clearly. Unlike some who needed media to force them back to their job

Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo are a joke. Bottles and jugs over taken by home in bed by 10Blg 215 did a little sea time

Originally Posted by 4bee

Brian, you appear to have an affinity for Bottle Bank. Did you also spent time aground there?

I worked at GI for a civilian contractor on a couple of occasions. Top money, long hours, lots of OT.

We all had the opinion that for Dept of Navy workers and service personnel it was a big rest home for tired bludgers.

We used to dash off to the Frisco or Tilbury for lunch and the Chevron Quarterdeck after work.

Q for you salt water types.

Why is MV Sycamore not an "HMAS" vessel?

MV Sycamore Multi-Role Aviation Training Vessel (MATV) - Naval Technology

Originally Posted by rick130

It seems a lot of the Murdoch press aren't deeming the fires that newsworthy.
Pictures only apearing on page 4 on new years day in the Oz and the Herald Sun on new years Eve
Bashing the ABC is much more important!

Thanks Rick,

I read the 'Oz' because it has the a decent sudoko option every day and the Times cryptic and also because I have an interest in how things are reported.

I also read other news sources that could be viewed by some as 'leftish', like the Giardia, etc.

The 'Oz' certainly isn't trying to report that nothing is happening, it seems more like ' business as usual, nothing to see here'.

The 'Oz' has had the fires on the front page the last couple of days and this morning it got page 2 and 3 as well. Lots of pics and hero type text and pics, but no actual graphics of the area extent of the damage done.

Looking at things live atm (even just on the weather radar, FFS, to see where fires are going full bore in SE Aus) it seems tonight / tomorrow will see something seriously bad happen.

Sadly, very sadly.

I'll wait to see how it gets reported tomorrow and the next day, because people should be informed about the reality of this situation, whether they can read or not, whether they can read to a reading age of 11 (the target audience of the 'little paper'), etc.

DL

Originally Posted by 4bee

Q for you salt water types.

Why is MV Sycamore not an "HMAS" vessel?

MV Sycamore Multi-Role Aviation Training Vessel (MATV) - Naval Technology

If those fly boys and girls crash and scratch our nice ships side grey doing it on some one else ship makes a lot of sense to any warship skipper I bet

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Thanks Rick,

I read the 'Oz' because it has the a decent sudoko option every day and the Times cryptic and also because I have an interest in how things are reported.

I also read other news sources that could be viewed by some as 'leftish', like the Giardia, etc.

The 'Oz' certainly isn't trying to report that nothing is happening, it seems more like ' business as usual, nothing to see here'.

The 'Oz' has had the fires on the front page the last couple of days and this morning it got page 2 and 3 as well. Lots of pics and hero type text and pics, but no actual graphics of the area extent of the damage done.

Looking at things live atm (even just on the weather radar, FFS, to see where fires are going full bore in SE Aus) it seems tonight / tomorrow will see something seriously bad happen.

Sadly, very sadly.

I'll wait to see how it gets reported tomorrow and the next day, because people should be informed about the reality of this situation, whether they can read or not, whether they can read to a reading age of 11 (the target audience of the 'little paper'), etc.

DL

The Oz is the chief cheerleader for the Climate Denialists and is running the line that bushfire are normal, which is just ideological rubbish.