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MMGW? Translation please. I have to admire people who can convert a single data point into a trend. I am eagerly waiting for the time they can repeal gravity.

You are making a sweeping claim of USD 16 trillion being stolen. How about posting a credible link that supports this assertion?

In 30 years, Australia has had 7 mass shooting incidents. Since 2014, America averages 600-700 per year. We don't have to train our schoolkids how to avoid getting shot in school. You may call that liberty. I call it idiocy.

In Australia, what you call the left would be regarded as right of centre. You are not even on the same playing field.

Try as he might, Trump can't distance himself from Epstein. The redactions on documents that do become public are so clumsy they only raise more questions about his involvement.

It is quite logical for billionaires to be funding far-right politicians. That's who they get their tax cuts from. Musk put $300 million into Trump's campaign out of self-interest. The same billionaires know any government with socialist leanings is going to make them pay their fair share of taxes. For most, more is never enough, less is failure. Australia has had socialist governments on and off since Federation. Our medications cost a few dollars, not the thousands Americans are milked by Big Pharma every day. Americans are brainwashed from birth socialism is akin to leprosy. It's why 4 or 5 multi-billionaires control more wealth than half the population.

"Most might be too much?" What is that in English, please?

Foreigners move here because of economic arbitrage. The women are a bonus.

Depending on whether there are documented extinctions or estimates , mankind is responsible for anywhere between 1000 and 100,000 species disappearing from the planet.

I guess microplastics, forever chemicals, deforestation and oestrogen- mimicking surfactants aren't on your radar.

The hole in the ozone layer was repaired by the Montreal Protocol, which banned the use of halons, chlorofluorocarbons, and carbon tetrachloride. All these compounds were ozone -depleting substances. A much more difficult task to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, due to the money interests involved. We are in the Holocene period, 10,000 years of reasonably stable weather. Yes, the Earth is changing. We are changing it.

Populations in China, Russia, Asia in general, and Eastern Europe are shrinking. Most excess fertility is in the sub-Saharan African states.

The Chinese have built 2000 dams on the Himalayan Plateau, with more coming into service every decade. Snow melt from the Himalayas feeds the river systems of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Mekong. 1 billion people are dependent on those rivers. If the world thinks economic migration is unprecedented, it is only the overture.

Carbon dioxide does not trap heat. It emits it when it absorbs infra-red radiation, trying to get back to its ground state. Can't you read? Let me know when you are finished re-writing the topics of chemistry and physics. Should be good for a chuckle.

Most foreigners are here because of economic arbitrage. I will leave you to work out what that means.

Carbon dioxide is transparent to incoming short wave length radiation. As the Earth returns longer wave length radiation to space, specific infra-red wavelengths are absorbed by carbon dioxide. You have heard of infra-red ovens, right? That's what happens when carbon dioxide gets back to its ground state, shedding the energy it has absorbed as heat. That's not theory, it is basic physics. Which you obviously never studied, along with statistics.

Ai is not science. AI is data. A lot more data than any stray conspiracy websites you may haunt. I can't help it if you don't understand data, trends and basic thermodynamics. Now run along, there's a good chap. Bore someone else.

I am saying cherrypicking a one-off event against an overall warming trend is arrant stupidity. Ask any AI, Sweden is getting warmer. Quote: "Average Rise: Since the late 1980s, almost every year has been warmer than the historical average. The annual mean temperature in Sweden has risen by nearly 2∘C compared to the late 19th century, with a steep climb since 2000."

AI disagrees with you: I asked Gemini if Phuket had cooled. "In short: No, Phuket has not cooled. In fact, like most of Thailand, it has become notably warmer over the last 25 years". I would much rather trust AI's intelligence than yours.

You have a single data point against a swag of tumbling heat records, Mr. Cherrypicker. Attend a science class sometime, and learn about thermodynamics.

Australia has seen significant record-breaking heat just within the last few weeks. The summer of 2025–2026 has been particularly brutal, with multiple all-time state and local records falling during a major heatwave in late January and early February. Major Records Broken (Jan–Feb 2026)Victoria’s All-Time Record: On January 27, 2026, the towns of Walpeup and Hopetoun reached 48.9°C (120.0°F). This officially broke the previous Victorian state record of 48.8°C set in 2009. Hitting the 50°C Mark: Temperatures reached a staggering 50.0°C (122.0°F) in Andamooka (Jan 29) and Port Augusta (Jan 30) in South Australia. This is only the 8th and 9th time in recorded history that the 50°C threshold has been hit in Australia. High-Altitude Records: Even the alpine regions saw unprecedented heat. Falls Creek (Victoria) recorded its first-ever 30-degree day (30.5°C) in 36 years of records, while Perisher Valley (NSW) hit 30.8°C, its hottest day in half a century.

If NZ is warmed by 13.5 C, then it follows logically Thailand gets to 40.5 C. Unless you have a means of temperature segregation, and suspending the Second Law of Thermodynamics. At 40.5 C, Thai coral would be dead, and its green jungles would become deserts.

Not even that. Vast swathes of the tropical and subtropical plant world would die. Photo synthesis relies on an enzyme called RuBisCO. Above 30-35 C, said enzyme stops working efficiently, and plants revert to photorespiration - the process of using oxygen instead of CO2. Effectively, plants starve to death in the sun. The point is fairly moot when said plants are under an extra 50 meters of seawater.

Australia would become uninhabitable, even at the coastal fringes. It's having record heat levels now in inland regions. At 7.5 C increase in global temperature, over a couple of centuries the sea level rise would be between 35 and 60 meters. Obviously, you are not accustomed to thinking things through. Are you a misanthrope?

Yes. The car is 20 years old, small and economical. I run my aircon at 28 C. I was one of the first people in Australia to instal rooftop solar. What's your point, apart from trying to gaslight me?