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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26852)	12/12/2009 10:20:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 36917

Wharfie, being one to put my money where my mouth is, I was drooling over the Australian outback sufficiently to single-mouthedly rehydrate it. The idea of farmers seeing horizon to horizon of dessicated red earth dust bowl got me to thinking that I could buy a couple of million hectares for a few cartons of Fosters beer and a nice patch of wet greenery on West Coast New Zealand which will be lovely tropicana in the event of Greenhouse Effect flipping over a tipping point. Unfortunately, when I went to go shopping for said desert, prices did not reflect dust bowl mentality. <Despite a decade of record drought, Australian farmers refuse to buy into climate change Gallery Global warming plagues Australia's Outback Australians are out front in experiencing the life-altering consequences of climate change. Rising temperatures and declining rainfall are, with increasing frequency, transforming the Outback into a crematorium for kangaroos, livestock and farm towns. > With reglaciation due in 2020, I should have a few years for them to get demoralized and to abandon all hope before the rains come in torrential floods. At the next sun-spot peak, it will hopefully be torrid and recovery won't have come and I'll be able to buy 10 million hectares for said patch of greenery and 10 cartons of Fosters. Mqurice