News – With his poll numbers crashing through the floor, George W. Bush was back in the spotlight this week. The Propeller community also sounded off on Jimmy Carter, food shortages, and our planet's propensity to hum quietly in the background.
Thanks James for YOUR contribution of the interview with Errol Morris, both for content and for the connection to source.. Its an interesting concept; I'm still baffled exactly how it works. It strikes me as something that could perhaps be expanded and developed in the "New" Propeller - the more live-on-line the format the closer it would be to the cutting edge.
Another great WIR, James. I always find at least one precious gem I had missed as the discussions unfolded. This week's tops for me was right at the end of your column. I had read the Earth's Hum article, but missed truthiness' truly hilarious explanation of the phenomenon.
Not good James, your reviews are consistently a recap of liberal remarks so the review stinks, again.
Wolfie, to some degree the WIR will always reflect the political tilt of the community. But I'm careful to pull comments from both sides of the aisle. In this case, I'm not sure how tanglang's critique of Jimmy Carter or normallysilent's pitch for Victory Gardens count as "liberal remarks." Other WIRs have featured comments considerably to the right of Attila the Hun. So I'll have to disagree.
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Great WIR James, thanks!
Any time, N2N :).
I don't know James I think this week was a bit on the soft side, given what happen in PA.
The "Federation drought" of the late 1890s through 1902 is an example, as is the more recent 1991-95 drought in Queensland, northern New South Wales and parts of central Australia. Over still longer time-scales, Australia's rainfall history features several periods of a decade or longer that seem to have been distinctly "drought prone". For instance, the mid to late 1920s and the 1930s were a period of generally low rainfall over most of the country, continuing through most of the 1940s over the eastern states. A similar dry spell occurred in the 1960s over central and eastern Australia. During these low rainfall periods, not every year is dry; it is just that rainfall in most years is below the long-term average, and there are often runs of years with recurrent drought. Thus in the late 1930s-40s major droughts occurred over eastern Australia in 1937-38, 1940-41,and 1943-45.
Drought is part of the natural variability of the Australian not "Climate Shift"
I see your point, and will change the language in the WIR. Thanks for clarifying.
Drought is part of the natural variability of the Australian climate, Not "Climate Shift". The "Federation drought" of the late 1890s through 1902 is an example, as is the more recent 1991-95 drought in Queensland, northern New South Wales and parts of central Australia. Over still longer time-scales, Australia's rainfall history features several periods of a decade or longer that seem to have been distinctly "drought prone". For instance, the mid to late 1920s and the 1930s were a period of generally low rainfall over most of the country, continuing through 1940s over the eastern states. A similar dry spell occurred in the 1960s over central and eastern Australia. During these low rainfall periods, not every year is dry; it is just that rainfall in most years is below the long-term average, and there are often runs of years with recurrent drought. Thus in the late 1930s-40s major droughts occurred over eastern Australia in 1937-38, 1940-41,and 1943-45.
Good point, I probably should have alloted that more space. The problem is that I'm always trying to inject some variety into the feature as well, to avoid sections about Obama and Hillary every single week. I'll make it up to you when the Indiana primary rolls around!
Yea, good point!!!!!
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