it's time to talk of climate change, page-77

things were looking good on your post greystone until you had to accuse me (vicariously) of fudging the facts and stats.

One of the big problems with explaining global warming and climate change is that it does not replace natural variability and that the effects are slow and insidious. I know that most people have been conditioned to have very short attention spans, be susceptible to spin, accustomed to short media grabs and need that rock solid proof through the demonstration of a sudden and catastrophic event to take action, well it just ain't gonna happen.

For a common farmer in Central Victoria the expected effects of global warming and associated climate change is the equivalent of moving your property between 1.5klm (rainfall) and 3.0klm (temp) north west every year. Not much really. Our farm alone is 10klm by 7klm and the rainfall variability means we will not be out of our comfort zone for 10 to thirty years. Therefore the end of my career and I should have adapted somewhat by then. So its not dramatic and it is not quick.

So agreed why should we do anything, nearly everyone over 40 will be dead before the real effects hit. I guess I should just buy more, use more , consume more with no thought to the future, that is what makes us human after all.