But do you see this reported in the mainstream media ?
I can not see an article but there have been plenty when rain is lacking.
Map made here, select Month to date – and Rainfall Percentages
See from early August – Strange media statement about Perth rainfall
History of major voting patterns in Australian Federal Elections since 1993
Up for discussion – will add more today
For those overseas not familiar with quirks of politics downunder –
Australian Labor Party – similar to British Labour party or left wing of USA Democrats.
“Coalition” refers to a right of centre grouping of the Liberal and National Parties and all their divers variations. The Nationals have their origins in an earlier Country Party.
Greens I think all should understand – usually to the left of Labor in the political spectrum and Labor and the Greens have a policy of exchanging preference votes.
The Democrats were a centrist group of voters who could not decide between the two major parties.
Some comments – the dying of the Democrats corresponds to some extent with the rise of the Greens – so it is possible that the peak Green vote in recent years around 2010 was inflated by some of these centrist people who might have departed the Greens in 2013.
Labors decline from 2007 to 2010 might have been partly due to their left wing turning to the Greens. However it is not so easy to speculate on what has happened in the 2013 Election on 7 September 2013 as both the Green and Labor votes are down by a similar amount.
So we are forced to conclude that about ~3 per 100 voters left the greens for Labor – while at the same time ~6 per 100 voters left Labor for other berths to the right of Labor.
The 2013 election has seen the rise of the centrist to right of centre Palmer United Party with 5.6% of primary votes which could give them a couple of Lower House seats as well as two Senate seats – in Australia close contests often take two weeks to resolve due to the 13 day wait for postal and absentee votes to trickle in and for preferences to be distributed.
The big question – “what is so wrong with Labor that their vote is in such decline?”
IMHO the answer is in these areas –
Trade Unions finance the Labor Party and expect huge influence in return.
This leads to strong Union influence over all candidate preselections – which means most Labor MP’s are either ex Union officials or Labor/Union lawyers. To win back more primary votes Labor needs to reform in a direction away from Unions – IMHO.
There have been some odd features of the 2013 Federal election – not the least has been the Greens preference deals with Palmer United Party – Clive Palmer getting his wealth through his ownership of coal mines. Work that one out.
Just to give a taste of the variety of Senate candidates and the problems of working out where your vote might end up under various preference deals – this useful article tries to explain. – Why you should take time and vote below the line. Of course voting below the line on the NSW Senate papers requires you to fill in 110 preferences in order, with v few errors.
So to some extent Australian electoral procedures have got near the crazy stage.
No wonder that in NSW a Senator has been assisted into the Senate by the famous “Donkey Vote” which comes about by some voters just putting a 1 in the first space.
I like the sense of humour from Tim Blair – EVERYBODY WINS A PRIZE
Fairfax media trumpets very marginal claim by the BoM that winter 2013 across Victoria made a record for warm mean temperatures
The BoM feeds out this information knowing media mates will beat the thing up even further – as in this paean to warming – Warm winter caps nation’s hottest year – September 2, 2013 – Tim Colebatch, Peter Hannam
Here is a screenshot from a BoM webpage showing how marginal this claim is.
You have to love the warmists – they take a very marginal result from Victoria which when I last looked makes up 2.95% of the Australian total area. Then roll that over into all manner of warmist statements about this or that part of Australia – or this or that timespan – or this or that temperature metric.
To read more Continue reading Fairfax media trumpets very marginal claim by the BoM that winter 2013 across Victoria made a record for warm mean temperatures
BoM claims of warmest winter ever in Canberra based on Airport urban heated data
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) makes another dubious claim – in refusing to accept the very significant urban heat island (UHI) effect in their Canberra Airport temperature data. Simple checks of nearby stations show the 2013 winter was not the warmest ever in Tuggeranong (Canberra southern suburbs) – Burrinjuck Dam, Braidwood and Cooma. And at Goulburn AP the 2013 winter was warmest – but not at Goulburn TAFE which recorded four warmer years back to 1996.
I have feelers out to find other Canberra data – if anybody knows of a source please pass on.
Table of average winter daytime temperatures – red marks years warmer than 2013.
The two Canberra stations are because the old Canberra Airport site at Fairbairn was moved south in 2009 due to nearby construction at Fairbairn. Ignoring completely the massive construction around the commercial terminals since before 2000.
I have a story from 2010 –
Evidence for a strong urbanization signal; 0.3 degrees C per decade in Canberra Airport temperature data 1997-2009 But I like the Floriade story below.
Canberra’s warm winter record could lead to hottest start to spring –
August 30, 2013 – Hamish Boland-Rudder
Sun, rain: it’s all a capital idea – 31 August 2013 – Hamish Boland-Rudder
Floriade ‘unaffected’ by warmest winter on record – Kathleen Dyett – Mon 2 Sep 2013
Australian Broadcasting Corporation discovers that global warming has stopped
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Pacific cooling explains slowdown in global warming: study
Michael Smith News.com uncovering fascinating details touching on history of seawater desalination in Australia
Starting on 26 August Michael Smith has a series of articles relating interesting history of Labor personalities over a decade or more associated with the water industry and the introduction of large scale seawater desalination to major Australian cities.
Newest on top. This is a long term interest of mine and I just wanted the links recorded in case readers know of new material to add.
That Candy Broad from Emily’s List – 28 Aug 2013
Bob Kernohan – most impressive witnesses – Robyn McLeod has a bit of explaining to do – 28 Aug 2013
Robyn McLeod’s missing years discovered! Every touch leaves its trace. -27 Aug 2013
School teacher to union rep to $300,000 PA Water Commissioner – 27 Aug 2013
The best friends met when Robyn McLeod worked in the water industry and Ms Gillard was an industrial lawyer – 27 Aug 2013
Robyn McLeod worked at Thiess, the AWU, the Labor Party, MEL and ADL Water – maybe she knows what workplace reform got done? – 26 Aug 2013
University of Colorado research claims Australian rainfall in 2010-2011 lowered global sea levels
My attention has been drawn to this new research led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and I have had a quick check of some of the facts.
Australia is 1.5% of global area – so 98.5% of the globe is also available to cause fluctuations in sea level.
Australia contributes 1% of global runoff according to this Wikipedia page – Water distribution on Earth. So I would ask – what happened in the other 99% during 2010-2011?
A quick read of their online article “Global sea level rise dampened by Australia floods – August 19, 2013” revealed two statements that are at odds with facts as I know them.
The article states – “Now that the atmospheric patterns have snapped back and more rain is falling over tropical oceans, the seas are rising again. In fact, with Australia in a major drought, they are rising faster than before.”
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The NCAR authors also say the continent, on average, received almost one foot (300 millimeters) of rain more than average. The actual number according to the BoM page – “Australian climate variability & change – Time series graphs” is 240.3mm averaged over the two years 2010-2011. You expect more attention to accuracy from top scientists.
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I have been hunting for Australian and global runoff annual time series.
We must never forget the GreenLabor disasters
Readers can contribute their favourite examples from the last six years which illustrate how Labor does not deserve to govern.
My over arching winner is the constant bleating on about how they saved us from the horrors of the GFC.
The truth is somewhat differnt.
In fact our economy powered on very well comparatively through the GFC thanks to China buying our resources and Govt coffers being stacked with cash from the prudent Howard administration. Labor just got it all wrong.
There never was any call from Australians for the stimulus packages. Were there two tranches of $900 cheques mailed out to all beneficiaries? Were there other benefits too? I read where a lot of this money simply went into savings and did little to stimulate anyway. What was the cost of the broadcasting of cheques?
Then the school buildings bonanza for the construction industry. How useful are the buildings now? All being well used I hope, no building quality issues?
Then the pink batts fiasco – BTW, who qualified to have insulation installed free?
Then after running the Nation into debt – now ~$300 Billion) which our Grandchildren have to pay off – to pay for all the above – they kept the stimulus on way too long, pushing up the AU$ to 1.1 x parity with the US$ in early 2011 harming our vital export sector – in the face of the RBA increasing rates to calm the over-stimulated economy. Utter madness and we are still living with the effects of the wreckage which we must never forget.
I have to mention the loony-toon East Timor asylum seeker solution early in the term of new prime Minister Gillard, late 2010 I recall. It just went on and on and on obvious to everybody that it had not a feather to fly with.
Then the years of mad predictions of a 2012-2013 surplus – in the face of scepticism from almost everybody else in the country. Gotta love GreenLabor.
It will take the Coalition at least a three year term to start getting the economy back on track again.
Strange media statement about Perth rainfall
The Fairfax online news site “WA Today” has this article commenting on plentiful rain for Perth and SW WA
Rainfall average under despite deluge – August 8, 2013 – 2:09PM – Leanne Nicholson
Adding to the dippy headline – Included is this sentence continuing the rich tradition in official Perth Govt/water circles of downplaying rain – “Despite the recent deluge, Perth has recorded an average 65.8mm this August, well under The medicine is taken orally (an hour before the intimacy session because it takes minimum one hour to a man to become sexually aroused. buy brand viagra Try getting up and moving away to cheapest viagra canada gets your blood flowing, which helps in having a better erection. With such diverse use of vardenafil 20mg tab it is confirmed that premature ejaculation constantly eating their happy moments, they should proceed to herbal treatment to manage premature ejaculation. About canadian viagra for sale 18 million men across the United States, the Rolling Stones gave a free December concert at Altamont Speedway in California with the Grateful Dead (not seen performing), Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers (all seen performing one song each). its average rainfall of 133mm for the month.”
In view that when the article was written we had only had 8 days of August which = 25.8% of August – yet Perth had enjoyed 65.8mm of rain which is 54% of the August average – it must take a particular mindset to compose the above sentence and headline. How dare Perth skies not open up for the full August average in the first 8 days.
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