Ice Bucket Challenge

[Andre]

I dont know about the world but we havent sorted it here yet. Exorbitant fees for getting it into farms inland via irrigation they pay through the nose they are cutting the fruit trees down now cant compete with China.
Our government are stupid regarding water always have been. We all used to have tanks on the sides of our houses in the 50's and 60's the cock heads made them illegal to have in residential areas so out they all came. Then we got drought for 7 years with the El Nino weather pattern so they said get tanks for your gardens etc, so back they came. Then they spent billions on a desalination plant here because the dams were at less than 30% for all those years. They finished building the plant and it hasnt stopped raining since and not one liter has been pumped from the place but it still needs upkeep and paying off, so now the water rates and state taxes are skyrocketing to pay for it.

In this country, you can be arrested for collecting rain water.

I couldnt believe this so had to google it. It's actually true?!?! In some places you cant harvest rainwater! How, why?!

I know , what law could they have possibly made up to enforce such a rort ?

I read about one family that was being fined $37,000 per day because they collected rain water, and of others that were arrested. The EPA here has some very strange rules and its own SWAT team to enforce them.

All stuff to do with the news this morning from what Ive read too.

AP/Jae C. Hong Your summer in extreme weather

California drought
Since May, California has faced a historic drought, resulting in the loss of 63 trillion gallons of water. 95.4 percent of the state is now experiencing "severe" drought conditions, which is only a marginal improvement from 97.5 percent last week.
A recent study published in the journal Science found that the Earth has actually risen about 0.16 inches in the past 18 months because of the extreme loss of groundwater. The drought is particularly devastating for California's enormous agriculture industry and will cost the state $2.2 billion this year, cutting over 17,000 jobs in the process.
Meteorologists blame the drought on a large zone (almost 4 miles high and 2,000 miles long) of high pressure in the atmosphere off the West Coast which blocks Pacific winter storms from reaching land. High pressure zones come and go, but this one has been stationary since December 2012.








This is more the worry: The political driven arguments verses the scientific measured climatic changes underneath the article are worth reading its not hard to see who knows what they are talking about and who is political driven.

The difference between global warming and ocean warming should be the point.

Climate scientist drops the F-bomb after startling Arctic discovery - Salon.com