An aboriginal elder was asked about his prediction for the coming winter. Unfortunately the elder hadn`t been taught by the previous elders about weather forecasting, as he had been at boarding school in Brisbane.
To save face he rang the Weather Bureau, they said it was going to be cold, so he told the tribe to gather wood for fires to keep warm.
A few days later he rang again to check; they said it was indeed going to be a very cold Winter, so he sent the tribe out to gather more wood. He rang again a few days later, and they confirmed that it was indeed going to be a servere Winter, so he sent the tribe out again to gather even more wood.
After a while he rang to ask how they knew that it was going to be so cold, the chap replied that their satellite had observed the aborigines gathering a lot wood, and this was a sure sign that it was going to be a severe Winter.