Well then, are you in for a surprise.
Only be there Tuesday, got a job on Monday so I'll miss the bit where you parachute in to the venue with a V1.

Bob.

Hey Bob,
Your opportunity for a tandem jump ;-). Make sure you get him out on the beach. I'm sure he's more than a little sun-starved. Gettin' hot down under?
Randy

Actually it's cold and wet down here at the moment but there's been the odd very hot day with plenty of bush fires. The bush is very dry from a dry winter and spring, I think there's lot more bush fires in store for us.

Bob.

I'm thinking I might fly in if it's going to be useful. But is the presentation going to be in a vast hall with 200 people ?

Generally more like 20 to 30 people. But check that at training

Dry in Melbourne, but some hot days just as Bob says. Drought, global warming, climate change -- all the rage now on the political front.

Yeah... the reality front, too.

Right-on Vic! But only within the last couple of months has our federal government moved from denial to "well maybe the consequences will not be as serious as the pundits say". Australia hasn't and won't sign the Kyoto agreement (only USA and Australia have refused) and our own "man-of-steel" wouldn't want to upset his close friend in the oval office by now signing. The shift here has coincided with a visit from Al Gore and his film "An Inconvenient Truth" and now no election spiel is without measures for dealing with climate change (at various timescales, depending on self-interest and poll responses). It's always interesting to see politicians putting up positions apparently the reverse of those steadfastly held a few months previously, while assuring us that they said this all along.

How serious would they like the consequences to be?
The best case scenario is 30% of all species currently alive are already commited to extinction by 2050. That nice little phrase means simply 'sorry they're gone, no point even trying to save them'

And if we do nothing?

That figure rises to 50% of all species gone by 2050.

That 30% of all species isn't just obscure frogs in some jungle, it includes whales.

The human toll, well if the gulf stream stops like it's already done for 10 days, Europe gets frozen solid.

And what's any of this got to do with any of us?
Might be timely to start shooting lots of documentaries, just so our offspring can see what a nice place planet earth was before we stuffed it for them.

Yeah, and in the 60s, 70s and 80s we were all going to be destroyed by nukes. And shouldn't Jesus be coming back around now ? And what about the 5,000 years cycle of the Mayan calendar ? I think that predicts the world ending in 2011.

. .well. getting back to SPOT's Grand Tour - I bet it WILL be a blast! When you coming to Europe? Spot me ole mucker? Make it quick before we get frozen shut! Yeah?


. . Now, just where DID I put that ICE FONT effect - lol!!

I'll be there Tuesday only too.

Looking forward to meeting you Bob, and Seeing you TRAINING with Vegas Spot! :)

Andy