Tomorrow is the anniversary of Sydney’s hottest January day – it was 70 years ago on 14 Jan 1939.

Imagine how many of the little parasites would have bred in that heat.

another example of a git using that idiotic precautionary principle I suspect.

My research produced the following solution. Olive oil and Detol, mixed 50:50 with a teaspoon of vegemite. You smell like a gents toilet at first but it soon goes away and mossies don’t like it. The detol helps all those nicks and scratches you get when camping out and the olive oil is good for the skin. :)

I gather the vegemite adds Vit B.

Of particular note was the role of increasing cattle numbers in diverting mosquito attention from the human population. It seems the vegans and animal fascists are enjoying a a major health benefit courtesy of their much maligned meat industry neighbours.

And lets not forget the role of wetland drainage and cultivation in reducing mosquito habitat. I hope this sinks in next time they lay the boot into the cane growers.

A more recent technological innovation that will operate as a major retardant to all mosquito borne diseases is the uptake of laser levelling of cultivated fields to remove minor depressions etc. Another new contributor is “controlled traffic”, the practise of ensuring that machinery goes down the same tracks each time it passes over a field. This reduces compaction to specific areas that are more easily monitored for vector control.

But this won’t stop the alarmists. One clown in Brisbane even campaigned against household water tanks on the assumption that the mesh barriers would fail and the tank becomes a breeding ground for mozzies, add Dengue fever, Ross River fever etc. The dopey git didn’t consider that any failed mesh barrier would only last as long as the first wriggler showed up in a glass of water, a cup of coffee or in the shower, and the women of the household will demand that the mesh filter be replaced, immediately.

Computationally it’s pretty neat but it’s not physical reality which one tends to discover when mining starts and the ore is not where it is supposed to be, let alone at the grades that the computer model estimated.

The errors made in this area of compurised ore body modelling are similar to the ones being made in estimating the global mean temperature.

Hence the reason most geologists laugh at the looneys selling their AGW hypothesis.

If we used the methods used by climate science to estimate the average global temperature from the surface stations to estimate the metal content of a mineral deposit, we would end up going bankrupt because the method has an intrinsic flaw in over estimating the average, among others.