Posted on 05/07/2007 1:16:44 AM PDT by gungadin
A TOP US radio commentator claims Australian authorities are in secret talks to evacuate 11 million citizens due to drought.
If he's right, will the last Australian to leave the country please turn off the tap?
Well, it's all a bit of a joke - and the big laugh is on US talkback host Art Bell, one of the biggest names in American radio.
Bell, who is on more radio stations than any other US broadcaster, repeated claims that Australian authorities are in emergency talks with the United States and other Commonwealth allies for the "proposed evacuation of 11 million" citizens, because of the crippling drought.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
He is a joke in my area... I think he is left over DNA from Roswell, circa 1947.
LLS
I try. :)
That's sort of like saying Weekly World News is one of the biggest names in American publishing.
Wrong. Global warming exists, I don´t doubt that the numbers showing the rising temperatures are true. But I don´t know whether we humans are the reason for it, or whether it is a natural effect.
Some American cities already do that. Unless things have changed in the thirty-five years since I lived there, one of those cities is Lawrence, MA.
Welcome to Dune.
When the government of a nation that is bordered on all sides by water complains about a shortage of water, it documents the shortage of rational thought and the willingness to act.
Other nations that don’t have enough fresh, potable, water don’t hesitate to build the necessary plants to convert sea water. I spent some time on Malta, a big limestone rock in the middle of salt water, and you can have all the fresh water you care to buy. The tourist scuba diving destination of Cozumel, Mexico, converts sea water as does Israel. In fact the most recent plant is there converts sea water to fresh at a cost that is lower that I pay my local water district for well water.
We know there is no shortage of water when bottled water from Fiji is carried in convenience stores in rural Missouri. And FedEx would be happy to airlift any number of tons of fresh bottled Fiji water to anywhere else in the world, for a price, even to Australia. The only real shortage is the will to spend the money.
One of Art Bell's frequent guests is Stay Deyo. Stan had to abandon his farm in Australia because of the drought. He returned to the U.S. and settled near Pueblo, CO.
> recycle sewerage for drinking water
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> Some American cities already do that. Unless things have
> changed in the thirty-five years since I lived there, one
> of those cities is Lawrence, MA.
The entire Merrimack valley from Concord, Manchester, Hudson, Nashua, Lowell, Lawrence, Methuen, Haverhill ... all the cities in that basin use water from the Merrimack River for drinking water and pour their wastewater back into the river.
I agree. I mean, they are next door to Antarctica- isn’t the ice there made of freshwater? Lol!
“Tastes a bit nutty...”
I have often thought he is a guy who uses the tin foil nutty crowd to make a lot of money. Used to listen to him on night shift occasionally.
“I wish the person who wrote this article knew that Art Bell is a joke. Each time I’ve heard him he’s made some moronic claim which never came true.”
Indeed. The next article from this writer will probably be about our world famous metalurgist, Rosie O’Donnell....(chuckle)
I’ve just finished reading “Burning Bush - A Fire History of Australia” by Stephen Pyne. He reveals a world almost entirely unknown to me, of how wildfire has formed Australia’s ecosystems and how both aboriginal and settler Australians used fire to alter the landscape for economic reasons. A truly fascinating book - at least the first half. He badly needed an editor.
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/PYNBUR.html
Are the kangaroos listed in the Down Under evacuation?
We do that in the US, in Arizona for one place and likely lots of others...
water is water, doesn't matter where it's been, what matters is whether it's been returned to a relatively clean and sanitary condition
Watch out, Yank. Those Sheilas might just kick you in the a$$ like a 'roo. ;^)
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