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Yeah going on current projections a lot of places will be suffering from inundation in 40 years time....... :wink: Is this confusing rising sea levels with flooding? I think you have gone a bit rabid Johnno. Trev asks where we draw the line, the commonly accepted standard for flood proofing new dev...

I don't think people realise that 95% of Australia is flood prone if it rains hard enough for long enough. To put it crudely, we just have to have development that will not wash away, is easily hosed out and is back up and habitable within a few days after the event. And yes probably all without ins...

The most puzzling thing about the flood levy is that will only raise a relatively modest amount. Abt 1.5 Bill. With some conservative estimates putting the flood + Yasi damage at about 6 to 10 billion :arrow: you gotta wonder why Gillard has bothered to risk the political fallout for an amount that ...

I want to know what has been the total amount donated by households divided by say 22 million. (No corporate numbers allowed.)

IE the per capita amount.

Come on all you we're-so-generous mob > what's the figure?

AJ is right i reckon. As well as all the good, the flood situation has also exposed a selfish and mean underbelly possessed by an all-too-large proportion of the oz community. To suggest that the people with just about the highest living standards in the world cannot afford the relatively meagre con...

^Well that would just be defending the indefensible you myopic scallywag. :D Heard this morning that residents of Palm Island were just left to fend for themselves. If true, it's uglier than all the promised-but-unbuilt cyclone shelters and flood protection put together. Anyone know? (Or is my geogr...

For what it's worth I think there's a difference between posting a picture of a harlequin baby on page 3 of some highjacked thread and actually starting a thread titled 'Harlequin Baby'. You with me? And therein lies the fine line in the art of comedy that I think Dino's getting at. Apology or not, ...

oldman wrote:
But that woman. Praise be the lord. There must be a god.

Nup. Freak of nature I'm afraid.

Don't really mind as long as they take their crap with them and are not up all night being farkwits.

I did it next to the Brandenberg Gate, downtown Cesky Krumlov etc so can't get too cranky with em.

Vote 1 Marcus (and other mods).

I salute you.

My 2 cents worth. The forums are fine. Like life, there is ebb and flow. People come, they go. Perhaps the rationalisation is not a bad idea though. If you're going into the booger section solely to make a cnut of yourself (funny or not) then I say be BANNED (from that section)! It's counterproducti...

So what happens when Betelgeuse goes super-nova? Are we doomed?

2010 The equal warmest on record

Don't worry, there's probably nothing to it. :?

A Brief History of Levies

Wivenhoe Q&A

As stated by Dr. Nathan Lewis, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology: “You see the Earth has a 35 year thermal inertia and so what we’re doing now is only the beginning because we’re waiting 35 years even to see the effects of what we did 35 years ago. So it would be another 30 ...

Graph published by Dr Andrew Glikson, Earth and paleo-climate scientist at the Australian National University.

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