Quieter Times

I've been a bit quiet on the blog front lately. Although there have been lots of reports on Global Warming, more bushfires in Sydney including a grass fire at Homebush Olympic stadium which incinerated quite a few cars, I've fallen into a bit of a blue funk.
It suddenly seems a bit pointless to care whether the globe is warming or not. After all the Australian Federal and State governments have now decided that other things are more important.

Hopefully my slightly depressed view will change with the arrival of more regular warm weather. We have been having lots of rain, wind and occasional cold days to remind us that summer is not here yet. And yet all the records keep tumbling around Australia indicating the climate is indeed hotter. The recent Climate Council QandA with Will Steffen was very interesting.

As a result of the wind and rain yet another fence is half fallen down, so I'll have to get my fencing contractor back again after talking to the neighbours. That's 3 fences this year!
The new Liberal Government is quietly going about its business, preparing for the repeal of the Carbon Tax and trying to talk down its softening of policy on "Stopping the Boats" after Prime Minister Abbott was lectured on respecting Indonesian sovereignty. Perhaps some mending fences for them as well
ABC's Clark and Dawe's take on this was hilarious.

But I surprised myself by agreeing with Joe Hockey, our Federal Treasurer today "There's a salient lesson here for the rest of the world in what's happening in the U.S. The world must live within its means and you cannot wait until five minutes to midnight to deal with the massive debt burden left by previous generations"

I hope he also understands you can't take the environment services for granted without leaving his children and grandchildren in environmental "deficit"
Somehow I don't think he sees the fiscal economy as a rogue subset of the real global natural economy.

Its time for a glass of wine and chocolate! Halloween soon!