Some of us spent the afternoon yapping about the election and some of us spent it concocting pseudo-reasons why humans pumping CO2 into the atmosphere in ever increasing volumes since the industrial revolution has nothing to do with global warming and pseudo-reasons why global warming has nothing to do with Climate Change because Climate Change (if you wish HARD enough) is not happening.
The more mature members of Hot Copper do not dismiss lightly the well-informed opinions top UN climate scientists - nor do we dismiss our own experience.
Since I came to Canberra we've had a 1000-year drought and a second hideous new climate phenomenon - a Fire-Storm.
Dams that were designed to drought-proof a city of 450,000 ran so close to empty that a city of 350,000 had heavy water restrictions imposed.
Some of the blame can be sheeted home to a Labor-controlled ACT Assembly that put protecting Green preferences (by allowing 'environmental flows' from public dams) but most of the blame belongs to humans burning fossil fuels making Canberra's semi-arid climate more arid.
It's not rocket science to nut out what the main government response will be to deter water and coal power usage - harsher water restrictions and more expensive coal power - hence my solar hot water and solar power installations.
Hence today I connected our new Tank Five to the main household water storage and irrigation system.
Many other Canberrans have tossed in the towel and are letting their component of a garden city become a dreary Coober Pedy by the Molonglo.
