Who knew the reason for drought could be so simple? Forget complex modeling, Palmer indices, and rainfall projections, the reason for drought (at least in Australia) is dirt simple. Time is of the essence!
h/t to WUWT reader Jimmy Haigh for this hilarious gem.
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This fellow was obviously being facetious.
@RogerKnights – I am not so sure – the Deer lady was serious.
http://youtu.be/RFCrJleggrI
I think this Chris Hill from Albury is onto something, but instead of just setting it back to a normal (natural) day, I think we need to take it a step further. Make the day shorter and the night even longer to combat the warming that has occurred over the last 150 years.
You could call it: Nighttime Saving Time or Daytime Cooling Time. Problem solved. Where’s my grant?
The best form of satire is that which might not be.
I heard a tape of a radio call-in show where a caller complained about where the town placed “deer crossing” signs. She wanted the town to move the signs to safer places for the deer to cross.
The hosts took some time to verify she was serious, made a little attempt to explain that the signs were placed where deer cross the roads, and tried to ease her off the call. They were fairly successful at not laughing at her.
Reg Nelson says:
May 30, 2014 at 9:20 am
Works for China …
Reg Nelson says:
May 30, 2014 at 10:05 am
You know, if you put on a funny hat and worked this idea into a YouTube talk with a whiteboard marker, I bet you’d garner a considerable following.
The Snopes page is great. Best line (may require American nighttime commercial watching, or Johnny Carson’s references):
This would be a good candidate for the Burlington Liars’ Club lie of the year.
http://www.burlingtonliarsclub.com/pastLies.html
Why not?
It is as valid a hypothesis as other ‘root causal’ proposals for
Natural Holocene Interglacial WarmingCatastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.No computer models were created, no data sets were ‘adjusted’, and no taxpayer dollars were wasted. Yes – the statistical analysis is a little ‘shakey’ but, in the end, the same certain level of validity was achieved.
In the ‘certain science’ of CAGW, it doesn’t get any better than this, Folks!
philjourdan says:
May 30, 2014 at 9:37 am
Phil, by wise old Native American, do you mean Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts? AKA “Fauxcahontas”?
@bubbagyro – NO! I meant a REAL Native American. Not the liar from Cambridge.
fyi
I have analysed the rainfall figures for Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Setting the (total) yearly rainfall in mm out against time, I get that from 1927 – 2014 the linear trend line is nearly flat. I would expect this to happen, as the period 1927 until 2016 is in fact one complete Wolf-Gleissberg cycle.
http://blogs.24.com/henryp/2012/10/02/best-sine-wave-fit-for-the-drop-in-global-maximum-temperatures/
To check the pattern of rainfall, I divided 1927-2014 into 4 segments, as apparent from the 4 Hale cycles that make up one Gleissberg cycle and worked out the yearly average for each of these periodes.
1927-1950 611.7
1951-1971 587
1972-1995 596.1
1996-2013 641.2
.
Setting these periods out against rainfall, you will find a binomial with the following co-ordinates:
17.45×2 – 77.49x + 671.85 (mm)
correlation r2 = 0.9999
Again, the rainfall pattern is exactly as predicted by me, namely in a warming period you will get less rainfall at the <[30] latitudes. (Potchefstroom lies at ca. 25)
One is always tempted to see what happens when we forecast and back cast on such an equation, and, doing just that, one would be inclined to think that average yearly rainfall in 1904-1926 and from 2016-2039 will be around 680-700 mm. However, from my own data and from the data on field strengths we get from the sun, we realize that this cannot be done like this. In fact, we know that 1927 and 2016 are dead end stops. That means that if we want to back-cast the rainfall for the period 1904-1927 – and forecast what 2016- 2039 – looks like ,
it would form a mirror, going down, instead of up, –
i.e. namely,
1904-1927 ca. 587
2016-2038 ca. 596
The interesting point is that there is nothing chaotic and unpredictable about the weather in Potchefstroom. It works just like a clock.
I guess this is about the best argument I have seen in a while for “man-made global warming”.
;>P
So can we here in Michigan have Daylight Savings during the Winter then too?
;>P
;>P
The interesting thing is that the BOM do acknowledge discontinuities occurred in the temperature record when Daylight Saving was adopted due to observations being made relatively one hour earlier, so the satire has a slight link to reality.
One of the best daylight saving jokes that came out (many years ago):
Q. Why does Joh Bjelke-Petersen (famous conservative Queensland Premier) hate daylight saving?
A. Because he thinks the sun shines out of his a**** and he’s not getting up an hour earlier for anyone.
On ipad am forced to install a for pay app to use your website now
For watching videos supposedly. Problem has disappeared for now
What is really sad is that some climate scientists may be thinking that this should be sent out as a media report saying that it is yet another man-made cause of global warming. Or worse, GET a grant from the government to study it!!!!!
He’s probably taking the piss.
Been to Albury
Hot and dry in summer.
Dry is drought.
DST is in Summer.
DST brings drought.
Logical!
QED
I want to know where they store all this daylight they are saving.
Hey, when you don’t get out of bed until noon it’s easy to get confused about what time the sun comes up.
@RoHa. Trenberth uses Startrek’s transporter to mysteriously get it into the deep Ocean.
sadly..I reckon he was serious..they read it out on abc bush tele and did manage not to crack up.
just.
I also thought of the deer crossing one
so glad someone posted the youtube:-)
And daylight saving increases maintenance costs.
That extra hour of sunlight in the hot afternoons causes curtains to fade much faster than they would otherwise so they have to be replaced sooner.
That’s why Western Australia voted against it.
We want to preserve our curtains.
Hehe
I recall the best joke about daylight saving was the one about the guy who woke up every morning with an erection. With daylight saving he didn’t get it until he got to the bus stop.