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Developing Australia's North is Just Pie in the Sky
The "opening-up" of northern Australia is pie in the sky by both leading political parties. Unless billions of dollars are put into the north development will not take place. The Ord River Irrigation Scheme is an example. However, the scheme is not a real success. Salinity is rising and destroying productive land.
Are the political parties planning to build dams? No, not in new northern regions! Neither is putting forward substantial money for investment. Kevin Rudd's promise to extend the Ord River Dam will only drag up more salt. Just telling people to move north is a silly idea. Like the draw to Western Australia there must be financial incentives. The mining boom there means better paid jobs.
Those suggesting development of northern Australia don't even study the climatic and geographic realities. Tropical soil is very thin. It barely covers the surface. To grow any plant in large quantities thick fertile soil is needed. Tropical soil may be fertile but there isn't enough of it.
Making the Northern Territory a special economic zone with reduced taxes will not bring agriculture to the region. And there is no skilled workforce for factory work. Most countries are now finding special economic zones do not benefit them. The zones don't put money into a nation's financial "kitty". Indeed, they are a drain on national revenue. Companies move there just to dodge paying tax - no extra jobs.
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Friday review of some cat food.
Those nice people at Chewy ask us to do a review of a product and we picked the Pride canned food. It is grain free and has all kinds of flavors and textures.
Here are three kitties enjoying the cat food They each have a different flavor and they scarfed it all down. We are from left to right, Maggie, Two Two and Little Bit. That Chewy place is such a good place to order your cat foods from since the shipping is free with a $49.00 order and with as many cats that live here, that is easy to do. Plus they have tons of tons of items to pick from like over 200 items to choose from.
We did not receive any money for this review, just some cat food which is like money to us.
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We did not receive any money for this review, just some cat food which is like money to us.
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Cat Art Prints, Inspired by Pierre Bonnard
In bathers, she uses the one of Bonnard's more abstract paintings as a model. In the original, there are figures, but each is cut off in a way that suggests a less substantial reality. One woman is already in the tub, her shapely legs beneath the water without any more of her visible. Another approaches, wearing a light blue robe that matches the tones of the bathtub. All we really see is a single slippered foot as it steps into the frame.
Inserting himself, completely without abstraction, on center stage, Deborah's popular cat model George has taken a seat on the floor and has begun to carefully groom - bathe - himself. The collective image makes a great, colorful collage.
Find out more about Deborah Julian's cat art prints by scrolling through her collection by clicking Famous Artists' Cats.
Thankful Thursday.
Again, the blogging world is the greatest and we thank everyone.
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Sea Levels Fall in Eastern Australia
It seems the Earth is trying to balance out global warming itself. There could be a natural balance level that the planet is attempting to reach. In Australia an unusual phenomenon has taken place.
We have had a lot of rain in coastal regions, while inland it remains dry. The arid regions have soaked up the excess water only gradually releasing it to the ocean, so sea levels have not increased. Indeed, sea level has fallen 7 millimeters.
Damaging floods cost Queenslanders millions of dollars. It was so bad that insurance companies refused to reinsured low-lying towns. Even the dry Northern Territory had floods. One of two very close La Ninas was the strongest ever recorded. The year 2012 was rain, rain and more rain.
This is not something that global warming critics should put forward as a natural solution. Only in Australia does the unusual geographic structure of the continent exist. Humid air moved slowly east but moved as far south as Melbourne, pushing up rainfall 20 per cent. Tropical air has never reached Melbourne before.
The fall in sea level is only a blip on the rising graph. The average rise is 3.2 millimeters a year. By the end of the century ocean levels are expected to increase by 820 millimeters, up from previous estimates of 590.
Rising use of carbon fuel may make sea levels rise even more. The oil "boom" in the US threatens all the good work being done by environmentalists to change behavior. Higher production has pushed "peak oil" well into the future. Enthusiasm for non-carbon power sources is waning.
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