Covid Dreamin’
Anyone remember Covid? Me neither, but I had a flashback last week when someone told me it had been five years since the World Health Organisation declared this little flu (It’s not just a flu!) a pandemic.
We all behaved remarkably well, took our medicine and free money and have been paying for it ever since.
Sandbagging overload
Speaking of conforming, weren’t we all well-behaved little vegemites in the face of dire warnings from every angle over Cyclone Alfred? An entire major metropolitan city and the south-east generally was effectively shut down for days while we armed ourselves with thousands of sandbags, which we duly fortified our homes with (while bathed in sunshine and warm summery winds).
You’d be forgiven for thinking that entire streets were reenacting the Battle of the Somme with the number of sandbags being used.
Now if everyone could take them to the tip of Bribie they might be able to fill some of those gaps (just joking, you’re not allowed).
Follow the numbers
Anyone get sick of Greenies using single weather events as ‘proof’ of climate change? Alfred gave the Climate Council et al a great opportunity, which they didn’t let slip.
Don’t worry though, I am equally sick of those that endure a chilly summer’s day and use it as ‘proof’ to deny climate change.
They can’t both be right, but they’re both pretty inane arguments.
The answer is in the long-term data and that’s incontrovertible. Using a rare but not unprecedented cyclone as an ‘example’ is doing a disservice to those of us wanting to apply common sense to an argument that shouldn’t even be contentious.