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Queensland trying to ban rain from forecasts

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Ben
6 yrs ago

Those wacky banana-benders are at it again. Queensland’s tourism industry is worried about the impact weather forecasting is having on people wanting to travel to the ‘Sunshine State’ and wants to ban the word rain from weather forecasts.

The Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC) thinks bad weather forecasts are discouraging day-trippers and impacting their tourism negatively, going as far as requesting the Bureau of Meteorology to be more lenient in its reporting.

According to news.com.au, QTIC’s CEO Daniel Gschwind said the current language used to forecast weather should be changed, citing examples such as “partly cloudy” and “chance of rain”, which he’d like switched to “mostly sunny” and “likely sunshine”.

Some other examples included swapping “showers” and “overcast” to “cooling down rain (after a hot day)” and “cool day”.

What do you think? Should the weather report be more positive or should it concentrate on being more accurate?

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Daisy
6 yrs ago

Massive Sydney rally: save NSW from coal and gas mining - Lock the GateSep 19, 2017 - On Saturday, 24 March 2018, people from around the state will converge on Sydney to make an unmistakable call to protect land, water and people from the impacts of coal and gas mining. The march ... 

What do these protestors have against coal and gas mining 

don’t they want to see Australians prosper 

Meanwhile in Queensland we are enduring the Linc Energy trial – the fiasco of their underground coal gasification operations in Chinchilla.

Experts will give evidence about how explosive and toxic gases were released into the environment, something that now costs millions of dollars to manage and monitor.

The corporation is not defending itself as it is in liquidation.

Full story.

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Shetso1
6 yrs ago

 

Ferocious heat in my part of Queensland of recent times...38 yesterday which felt like 48...think I'll have to move to the Tasmanian wilderness or thereabouts....haven't had a winter in these parts for YEARS - but we used to.....love summer rain, winter rain, autumn rain, spring rain...any bloody weather that cools the place down would be good!

Don’t worry Shetso , as we build more giant wind turbines across the Queensland landscape you’ll get hundreds of thousands of out dooor fans blowing cool breezes across the sunshine state 

Victorian families will be asked to power down airconditioners, dishwashers and lights to assist in staving off blackouts, as part of an initiative called “Help the Grid”, which asks households to help free up energy reserves to protect the grid during extreme conditions.

 

So it is ok to use your air conditioning unless it is hot!! Sounds like Greens’ version of logic.

 

Australia is one of the biggest energy resource producers in the World and  through inept politicians we have arrived at a point where citizens are being asked to turn power off when they need it most because we do not generate enough base load power

instead we subsidise renewables so our politicians can strut the World stage as sycophants to the UN and lobby groups.

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