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Australia is Hotter & Drier with More Salinity - And other Myths

Jennifer Marohasy (pictured) in her article ‘Case of the warm and fuzzy’ in the weekend Australian contributes to the growing tide of media that is causing the Rudd Government a diabolical problem - they’re credibility .

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Even Global warming believer and Editor of The Australian Paul Kelly writes:

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“Climate change, the dream political issue for Kevin Rudd at the 2007 election, has been transformed into a political and policy nightmare.

Make no mistake, the Rudd Government is now trapped by its pledge to proceed with an emissions trading scheme by 2010, before most of the rest of the world and, in particular, ahead of most of our trading partners.

It faces a dilemma with no escape: it must either alienate the green lobby and climate-change believers to whom it has pandered, or proceed without sufficient support from corporate Australia in the teeth of warnings about corporate financial risk.”

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Jennifer Marohasy’s article debunks three pet claims made by Rudd, the Media and the Green religion -

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Three claims have been repeated so often they are accepted as fact:

  • global temperatures are rising,
  • we have less rainfall and so water is becoming scarce,
  • and salinity in the Murray River is rising.”

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Marohasy goes on to show the actual data for each senario:

Global temperatures are not warming but infact cooling. The graph below shows what has happened to global temperatures since Al Gore Released his alarmist movie “An inconvenient Truth“.

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Then onto rainfall in eastern Australia and the Murray Darling Basin.

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“But, contrary to the Stern report, this chart [below from the Bureau of Meteorology] does not show declining rainfall; rather, it indicates that rainfall was very low in the early 1900s, that there were some very wet years in the late ’50s and early ’70s, and overall the trend is one of a slight increase in rainfall during the past 107 years.

Stern got it wrong, perhaps because he was confusing output from computer models with the real-world data. There are a lot of computer models that foretell dire environmental catastrophe that may not eventuate.

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Now for rainfall & Salinity in the Murray Darling Basin (pictured Below):

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Average rainfall in the Murray Darling Basin:

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And Salinity in the Murray Darling Basin at Morgan in South Australia:

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Oh if only it would get hotter so that 1,000’s would die of heat stroke, if only sea levels would rise dramatically and drowned a few 1,000 houses, if only the drought would spread right across Australia, if only we’d get more frequent and intense cyclones life would get so much easier for Kevin Rudd and his government implementing they’re - - job killing Emissions Trading Scheme.

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Read the Whole Australian Article here - it is very good.

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Have Your say! After you’ve read the entire article why not come back here and tell us what you think!

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Comment by B Donovan Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-30 10:31:57

Totally delighted to see articles such as this by Jennifer Marohasy popping up everywhere - a valiant effort to bring some sense back into our world (here in Australia anyway).

BUT pleeeeese (sic) learn to spell everyone! EVERY day in every written comment - spelling/grammar mistakes. “The growing TIED of media”?? Tide, dear, TIDE. I know … its a typo… but why are we all in such a rush that we can’t proof read?

Comment by Agmates Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-30 11:40:41

G’day B Donovan,

Thanks for your correction of my typo. Please feel free to let me know anytime you see a typo in an article and it will be corrected.

I do my best to keep them out. -

 
 
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