It is amazing that while the fires have been raging in Victoria, in Queensland vast areas have been inundated by floods.

As predicted by global warming/climate change models.

The pictures we have seen on TV and in papers like the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald reduce you to tears.

They certainly did for me.

As a piece of trivia, in the SMH today there was one photo that truly staggered me. It was an aerial shot of a landscape, of rolling hills to the horizon, with burned out timber as thick as you could imagine. My calculations had the remnants of the trees at least 50' tall. And right in the middle of all this was a two storied house, with trees no more than 25' from its walls, completely untouched by the conflagration.

No insurance company would have insured it with fuel so close. But other places, where they'd done the right thing about keeping vegetation away from the buildings are devastated.

Truly amazing; I can see why the photographer took the pic!

Cheers, Rowan