For those that like a bit of windsurfing stormchasing.
ken ring predicts a cyclonic system on the sunshiine coast around december 26-29th. better buy some small gear. 
also more cyclonic systems in jan, feb, march.
does moon man have a direct line to huey or is he an over zealous windsurfer. time will tell.www.predictweather.com/articles.asp?ID=35
now the other side of the coin..... THE BOM!
they got a nice site for those that like to track this stuff.http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/cyclone/index.shtml
bom is predicting opportunity for big things for the NT and NW WA but still uncertain overall.
interesting stuff that ken ring totally nailed the prediction.
here is what he says for the following months.
There'll possibly be some strong winds from tropical cyclones at the end of January(FM on 23rd) and then in the second half of March(FM on 22nd), but after that the usual strong winds around perigee times will prevail, but nothing really strong until the first 10 days of July which will be New moon+perigee+N dec, and then again some galeforce winds around the ends of July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec and these will all be New Moon times.
He also has some interesting takes on Global Warming. Whoops, there goes that topic again. [}:)]
one of the arguments put forward by the sceptics. is that global warming is a natural event. i think this is a 10 year old concept these days and in reality contains a large amount of denial.
for the record, the majority of the scientific community are not saying global warming isn't a natural occurring event. what they are saying is that human polution is rapidly accelerating this occurance. it is the rapid acceleration that is the issue here and the major concern. the majority of the debate has now moved on to how how severe this impact will be over the next few decades.
i ask the question, would you prefer to live in a hostile environment full of pollution, or a healthy environment which sustains all forms of life.
if i can modify my behaviour to reduce my impact and help the planets environment sustain an improved existance then i will. just look at china and see all of the health issues they are having because of pollution. do you want the entire world to be like this?
Hi Gestalt, not arguing at all about the levels of pollution and damage to the environment that humans are causing. Just hope the focus is in the right direction - we need clean viable power generation from non-fossil fuels drastically. Am wondering where it is going to come from though and the transition period. Never take a criticism against some global warming arguments as being unconcerned about the environment. Actually the opposite - the focus needs to be right - otherwise a huge waste of time and resources looking for the wrong things.
I'm not a climate scientist, ( i've got an internet browser), but I've been meaning to ask one "How confident are we that the CO2 hasn't hit 385 ppm in the past 700,000yrs?"
I read somewhere on the internet that ice cores from Vostok have a resolution of only several hundred years. ie. The bubbles aren't synchronised in their closure. If so, (here's my hypothesis ) if a volcano let go a similarly large burst of CO2 500,000 years ago it would barely show up as a blip in the ice cores, provided the climate was able to recover within 100 yrs. Does that sound feasible?
At the moment, according to the www, the earth seems to be coping pretty well. Although humans release 4.5 ppm of CO2 into the atmosphere each year we only measure a rise of 1.5 ppm each year. Where is the excess stashed I wonder? So if we went totally nuclear tomorrow the CO2 would head back to its pre-industrial levels at 3ppm per year.
Thanks Windjunky, I'm trying hard to find holes in the arguments, but yeh the internet and its grain of salt. The other thing that doesn't make sense is the sawtooth from Hawaii, surely decomposition occurs at the same time of year as photosynthesis? But you better go sailing, we've got 5 knots gusting to 6 - and even that's from the wrong direction.
