Its Climate Change

[Donlin Stud]

You have seen me write before how a bad winter and too hot a summer saw us make the decision of no calves for 2017.

We are at [Dexter number] capacity for our property, strangely because we have run more for an extended period with very little issue.



So a little investigation on temperature and rainfall for our GPS location was in order, and sadly our suspicions have been confirmed.

We are becoming hotter, and the rainfall less.



This year is not looking very promising either. We are being told there is a strong El Nino that will significantly impact the southern eastern states of Australia.

This means hot temps and low to nil rainfall.


I have cut down the spreadsheet for a quick read. Rain = mm & Temp = Celsius


Select Min Ave Temp.pdf (110.64 KB)

Select Max Ave Temp.pdf (110.68 KB)

Select Ave Rainfall.pdf (97.18 KB)

[jamshundred]

I am straddling the banana on climate change as it is being presented in today's culture.

I can see there seems to be variation in weather patterns, but I can see from records kept in the past there were also variations.

For instance, I've read stories of intense blizzards in the upper northwest where people had to tie lines from their homes to fences and barns to make their way in storms.   Or the dust bowls of the midwest in last early part of last century.

I am not ready to accept they are man-made rather than an evolution of nature.

[lonecowhand]

There are always variations in weather patterns, but there's a longer trend.

Just look at glacial retreat. There is a reason we are finding things like Utzi , the swiss mummy, and more woolly mammoths than you can shake a stick at. Those kind of occurances are new.

Certainly one can accept the Greenhouse principle, if only just by leaving the car in the sun on a hot day. Humans have been pumping Carbon dioxide and monoxide into the finite little film of atmosphere our gravity can hold since the Industrial Revolution.

I have seen the effects of Coral Bleaching in various oceans where only a few years ago the reefs were spectacular. Some of those corals were hundreds of years old.

I know it's all the rage to think that science is making "stuff" up, but unfortunately the observable conditions suggest otherwise.

[Donlin Stud]

A documentary I saw a few years ago now made me realise what all the hoo-hah is about as I too was on the fence
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Viewing a chart one can see the soft rolling curves slowly going up (heat) and then slowly and softly going down (ice age(s)) with a perfect balance in the betweens………the same chart shows a tighter upwards curve appearing when we humans began to become industrialised.


That same line continues in a steep upward line to today. Its nearly vertical now.


So yes, climate change has always been around – but we humans have caused the the normally subdue changes to become sudden and extreme

The Dinosaurs existed for over 165 million years.


Modern man appeared about 200,000 years ago with civilisation occurring only about 6,000 years ago.


Humans are not even a blimp on the evolutionary timeline but we as a species are destructive not only to our own environment but we are responsible for the extinction of other species at a rate that is unprecedented.


I was privileged to be a contractor working on the research project ‘Atlas of Living Australia’ and in my travels I visited a massive warehouse in central Australia that contained photos with stuffed and preserved specimens of Australian mammals.


I commented I had never seen any of them before – and that was because it was a record of all the ‘known’ mammals that had become extinct since white settlement in this country


I felt sick ! That warehouse was huge