Here is that loveabale TV celebrity of Two Men & A Tiny fame, Tim Flannery prediction on March 3rd 2007.
Environmental researcher Tim Flannery has warned that Brisbane & Adelaide …. home to a combined 3 million people could run out of water by years end.
He said the country was facing a ‘catastrophic’ situation.
‘Even a year ago, this would have been unthinkable,’ Flannery told AFP.
‘I think it’s the most extreme and dangerous situation arising from climate change facing any country in the world right now’
In May last year Brisbane’s water supply dams were hovering at 23%. Rain since August 2007 to current has lifted Brisbane’s water supply dams to 45% and it’s only the start of the wet season.
Here’s a great video of one of the storms in Brisbane this week.
The Gap cyclone of November 16 2008 - Brisbane Qld Australia
Agmates reader Margaret tells us that QLD Premier Anna Bligh is blaming this weeks tropical storms on … Climate Change. Margaret said:
Premier Bligh and the AM commentator this morning were both pushing hard the idea that the intense storms in Brisbane were due to global warming.
It was PATHETIC how they were talking - as if there was no doubt about it. The ABC is so much a propaganda government media tool it is TERRIBLE.
University of Southern Queensland professor of climate and water resources Roger Stone agrees with the Premier that the rain is a sign of climate change.
ONE of Australia’s leading climatologists has warned the extreme weather that hit southeast Queensland this week is consistent with climate change modelling of weather patterns.
However the Australian Newspaper in the same article speaks with Queensland weather bureau spokesman Gavin Holcombe who states what is obvious to anybody who is a long term Queensland resident:
But back in the 70s and 80s we did have plenty of Novembers which were very wet indeed. I just think people are now thinking of the sort of dry Novembers that we’ve had over the past decade as the norm, but if you look over the long term, there have been plenty of wet Novembers.
You can’t win with the global warming alarmist. Dry weather is a sign, wet weather is a sign, hot weather, cold weather it does not matter, its all a sign to the green religion faithful.
Imagine the field day the alarm-ists, Flannery, Bligh and Stone would have had 34 years ago in the 1974 Brisbane floods. Now that would have been a dead set sign.
Brisbane 1974 Floods.
(thanks to Agmates members Jeff & Margaret )
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A slight change in direction - East Gippsland, Victoria.
If you in East Gippsland, and have had the experience of seeing your house float away, look for the Brumby answer, turn the catchment into a National Park, making it “undamable”, and unable to manage flood waters that could supply Melbourne with water.
From Andrew Bolt again:
http://tinyurl.com/69y65g
“Damless Mitchell to flood yet again”
Ah! but there is more money in desalination and recycling.