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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 10-Jun-2009 At 11:17:45 PM SwineOfTheTimes

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On 10/06/2009 Wendy wrote:
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>Um, how many years of drought have we had out here now ... 12 -13? Recently
>declared "unprecented" by the DPI.

Are you refering to the whole of Australia, the Globe, your back yard?
>
>Deaths from heat waves - Europe in 2003, here this year, just of the top
>of my head

Yet, the record for the longest heat wave in the world is generally accepted to have been set at Marble Bar in Australia, where from October 31, 1923 to April 7, 1924 the temperature broke the 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) benchmark, setting the heat wave record at 160 days.
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>What about floods? The odd cyclone?

Cyclonic weather activity has been declining for a number of decades now and it is actually at a 30 yr low.

>Try putting "climate refugees" into a search engine.

By this I assume you are making a reference to Bangladesh. Try putting Deforestation and flooding into a search engine and see what you get. AGW is the scapegoat governments use for inaction.

>Then we could dissect that study that said 315000 or
>so people were dying from it and see what the realistic figure is.

We could, but like the rest of your dogma I don't think any of it would stand up.

>We have dengue fever in cairns this year.

Hardly surprising considering the Dengue Mosquito is native to Qld

Queensland has a history of dengue epidemics dating back to 1879, most of which occurred in north Queensland. Thirteen notable dengue epidemics have occurred in Queensland since 1885. The first fatality attributed to classical dengue occurred in Charters Towers in 1885 and the first fatality attributed to Dengue haemorrhagic fever occurred in the same town during the 1897 epidemic, when Hare (1898) recorded 60 fatalities.

Maybe do a little bit of research next time instead of spewing forth the same old rhetoric.
Next you'll be telling me polar bears are facing extinction.