<OT> Re: Big problems in Oz

[Robert Black Eagle]

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On Thursday 05 December 2002 9:26 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 09:38:20 -0500 (EST) Net Llama!
> <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
>
> wrote:
> > Keith,
> > I feel for your plight down under.  Out in the American West, its
> > been quite bad over the past few years as well...
>
> If my memory serves me... Here in the states, for year 2002... the 48
> continental states reported some measure of drought effects, of that
> 48, 63% declared drought conditions. World wide, the over all trend
> has been, "dryer than normal"...
>
> Although we "in the states" aren't suffering like others are, we're
> in for a pretty rough time ourselves. Be ready for year 2003, it's
> going to be rough.

Count on it.  El Nino is back!  I read a report on El Nino and found it 
is erratic.  Sometimes it lasts for year after year and sometimes it 
stays away for years.  It affects weather world-wide, however.  There 
is absolutely no reason for it to end once it starts (due to a small 
island off Indonesia), but it does.  The mechanism is both known and 
uncontrollable (without blasting the island out of existence).

- -- 
Robert Black Eagle	
One gets wise only after being stupid.
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