IT is a fact that there is only X amount of water in the world, and that amount of water is decreasing because of natural increases.
All animals (including that human type) are mainly water, so as the population of all these animals increases, more and more water is being tied up in life. More and more vegetation is required to sustain that life, and it takes more and more water to do just that.
Take notice of all the increasing actions that require water for cooling or heating, taken in a different form, sitting on shelves, or simply used for expedient spreading, as in concrete, which is never returned as water.
Unfortunately, this will also be the consequence of Kevin 07’s plan to allow wealthy people and companies a 100 per cent tax deduction for buying agricultural land and planting trees on it. Although the trees return moisture to the atmosphere through transpiration, it is not well known how much water they use in establishment or their entire life.
Many years ago in school, we were taught that four-fifths of an iceberg was under the water it floated in. Curiously enough, we saw how little the level of water rose in a glass when an ice cube was put into it, even though the perceived mass of the ice cube suggested that the glass would overflow. Further experiments showed us that the glass would not overflow even though the ice would melt. For some reason the displacement of the water was nowhere near that which was to be expected.
Although the extent of our experiments was limited, we did learn that a chemical reaction took place to freeze the water, and another took place when the ice cube melted.
Apparently, many of the atoms of hydrogen and oxygen that make up the water, escape to the atmosphere, hence the mass of the ice had to be much less than would be expected.
Lake Macquarie Council has decided to put in locks on their ocean inlets to contain the increased sea levels that will abound when global warming or climate change kicks in.
Those against the deepening of the channel into Port Phillip Bay are arguing that people can expect higher tides as a result. Why this would be they do not explain, but not once in their opposition have they suggested that the State Government or the Federal Government open a new port at Hastings, a natural and obliging deep sea facility.
Nothing changes in the mind of the elite, nothing. If we are to accept that this climate change nonsense is upon us, one could be excused for wondering why Kevin ’08 had to be dragged kicking and screaming to pick up the bill for 100 Long Tan medals costing just $12 each, or why he doesn’t increase the aged pension.
Kevin ’08, being an intelligent person, must know that if his Garnauts are right we will not survive. So why the delay?
The economy, under those circumstances, has nothing to lose.
Neil Forscutt
WILLOW TRE
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