[ExI] Oz Big Dry

[Damien Broderick]

At 07:37 PM 5/6/2007 +0100, BillK wrote:

>I thought it was good news that some people think the climate cycle
>might be changing to break the drought at last.

As far as I can tell, the good news is that the (Oz relevant) climate 
cycle *isn't* changing. The Nino/Nina thing is just doing its 
stochastic long cycle thing. But if the temperature is additionally 
going up teeny bit by teeny bit, all those classic cycles might end 
up badly munged. On the other hand, if it's really mostly solar-cycle 
driven (as the concurrent Martian global warming hints), warming 
might settle down in the decade or two without any ostentatious human 
intervention.

But getting off the coal/oil junk would be a way smart move anyhow.

Damien Broderick