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[Inchante]

Weather in my opinion is a freak of nature rather than a predictable science and always will be until all scientist agree.[/url]

That's too bad. Only 97% of scientists agree on this topic.


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/...1kmNDEgeUR

[dfiant]

Hmmm . . . if you are anti-propaganda and pro-facts, why did your response focus on Anthropogenic Climate Change when all that was mentioned was general Climate Change? This seems like a Pavlovian response where in as soon as you hear or see something that refers to Climate Change you instantly think of theories surrounding man made climate change. I wonder how that came to be when the definition of climate change is far more expansive.

Can't help being open minded there are always 2 sides to an arguement as there are too many factors influencing climate and it's changes and there is no one body that understands these influences in their entirety.

Whats to say these changes are not normal? Unusual but normal?

At this point in time I favour the view that global warming is propaganda, climate change is just another weather cycle. No research goes back further than a dozen or so millenia out of 4.5 million millenia.

Whats to say that the change we are experiencing is/isn't a 1 in 1 000 000 year weather event? there is no conclusive evidence either way.

[Inchante]

whats to say these changes are not normal? Unusual but normal?

At this point in time i favour the view that global warming is propaganda, climate change is just another weather cycle.

What you just described is the definition of a climate change. If you had read the post you just responded to, you would understand that. So much for open mindedness.

[dfiant]

Sydney City has copped the latest of the worst weather. Mum lives about a 5 hour drive south of Sydney, I live about a 10 hour drive north of Sydney. Here are some amazing photos of the bad weather in Sydney.

The 2 photos below are in Marrickville a suburb in south-west Sydney.




The photo below is the steps leading down onto the famous Bondi Beach in Sydneys eastern suburbs.



The rail link to Sydney's International Airport.



These photos are from Sydney's southern suburb of Cronulla.




This is Sydney's main Storage Dam, the Warragamba Dam. It hasn't spilled since 1997/8 and it has spilled twice in the last week with up 140 million Litres and hour spilling causing a lot of flooding in Sydneys western suburbs.



The sign says 'Road Subject to Flooding' and these signs generally stand between 6 and 8 foor high.

[dfiant]

What you just described is the definition of a climate change. If you had read the post you just responded to, you would understand that. So much for open mindedness.

Semantics...go away.

[Zet]

How do people work in that kind of weather? It if was that flooded here I could not ímagine that any restaurant, café, pub or any would have any costumers... I wouldn't my self want to be sitting in a flooded café :O Gosh that gotta cost millions in water damage

[Inchante]

Semantics...go away.

It is not semantics. It is an avid and vivid example of the fact that you have no clue what you are talking about. Man, when you don't even know what the definition is of what you are describing, how can you claim to be "pro-facts"? In my opinion, your perspective is illustrative of what happens when "propaganda" runs rampant in the media. People end up not even knowing the very basic and fundamental facts surrounding an issue.

Edit:Anyway, I am not going to waste any more of my time. Blocked.

[dfiant]

How do people work in that kind of weather? It if was that flooded here I could not ímagine that any restaurant, café, pub or any would have any costumers... I wouldn't my self want to be sitting in a flooded café :O Gosh that gotta cost millions in water damage

Zet, In and around the city it is basically 'flash flooding', which means that as quickly as the water comes up to cause flooding, it gets away pretty quickly. So Sydney City can flood and hours later the flood has gone. This is beacuse they are coastal cities and the land is pretty flat so it gets into the river systems quick and goes out to sea.

It's to the west of The Great Dividing Range where floods flow from North Queensland and Northern Territory, through to New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia where flooding presents the real problem as flooding can remain for many days, even many weeks and months.

Australia has a history of this sort of weather, we have levee's in place to reduce impact, we have contigency plans in place where people isolated are either evacuated or have food drops flown into affected towns so they can wait out the isolation due to floods.

[Zet]

Ah thats great , Does cities like Sydney and other have top isolation or does many buildings suffer from water damage or? As you said Australia has a history of floods. The most common problem at least in Sweden is mold, in the foundation mostly, and it cost loads to repair that, and just seeing that kind of amount of water makes me wonder

[dfiant]

Oh yeah, without a doubt there will be damaged houses and buildings from the flooding, some people lose their entire contents of their houses because the water comes up so quick that you don't get the chance to save anything, and the waters force can be so strong that it rips open doors and sweeps everything out of the house.

Mold/mildew is also an issue in Australia especially during and after a wet season. We also get 'rising damp' in damp and humid area.

The biggest problem after a flood is the damage to infrastructure. Roads and bridges always suffer damage, sometimes even wash away completely.