Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Australia’s Prime Minister on a “listening tour” visit to drought afflicted farmers has explained that since climate change is making droughts more frequent, they’ll just have to be resilient.
Farming needs to adapt to climate change: PM
The federal government will lean on the states to help communities suffering from prolonged drought but Malcolm Turnbull says farmers will ultimately have to adapt to the consequences of climate change.
With drought threatening much of the east coast grain crop as well as large swaths of Western Australia, Mr Turnbull said the rural sector needed to become more “resilient” to adapt to what was “clearly a drier, hotter and more variable climate”.
“That’s what we’ve got to plan for, resilience is the key,” the Prime Minister said.
“The climate is changing. I know it becomes a political debate. But there’s no doubt that our climate is getting warmer.
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Read more: https://www.afr.com/news/farming-needs-to-adapt-to-climate-change-pm-20180603-h10wyu
This is all so unnecessary. Back in the 1930s the Bradfield Scheme was proposed to divert large tropical rivers inland, to provide reliable irrigation for Australian drylands. While the original plan to create an inland sea looks unviable, there seems no doubt harnessing currently wasted freshwater capacity would substantially alleviate drought risk in large areas of Australia’s dryland farming regions.
The Australian Federal government has billions of dollars allocated for hydrological projects. The currently plan for two billion dollars of that federal money is to expand hydroelectric capacity, to use that precious water to generate green electricity.
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“Resilience is futile!” – The Gorg.
That’s the Borg. Or did I miss some inside Australian joke? I do listen to 2GB every once in awhile and watch ABC via a VPN, but haven’t heard that term.
The Borg’s is “Resistance is Futile”.
This is Al Gore’s, “The Gorg” statement.
/grin
https://www.pinterest.se/pin/172614598196002911/
https://jezebel.com/resilience-is-futile-how-well-meaning-nonprofits-perpe-1716461384
This is the original article I found looking for the Gore quote.
And I thought I had made it up! Sometimes, you just can’t make this stuff up.
/grin
Ask any Aussie farmer and he’ll tell you another drought is proof positive the climate hasn’t changed a smidgen.
The height of a drought is the day before it rains.
It’s been all sold to the Chinese by the American interests who it had been previously sold to, as far as we know.
It will rain any day now, surely flooding the place.
The only tagedy Oz could suffer is if it ran out of beer.
Pretty much the truth here in Canada as well. Drought in the 1880’s. again in the 1930’s. Drought in the early 60’s and again in the mid 80’s.
Thank God for climate change. We haven’t had drought for over 20 years.
The latest all purpose government excuse.
It’s not my fault, global warming did it.
Dorothea Mackellar’s poem about “a Sunburnt Country” was written 110-years ago … worth reading in the context of the CAGW meme.
To the starving in Africa and the oppressed in Asia: “Resilience is the Key” and we aren’t going to do a damn thing to help you. “Resilience” is the answer to all the world’s problems. It makes the politicians FEEL good. /sarcc (see below)
“The federal government will lean on the states to help communities” – How about all government just getting the hell out of the way and let the farmers solve their unique problems with minimal interference?
“to adapt to what was “clearly a drier, hotter and more variable climate”” – You mean evolve? That will take some time.
“resilience is the key” – And, “Resistance is futile.” – The Borg
“a political debate” – It’s not a debate unless the farmers have a chance to win. It’s a dictate.
“there’s no doubt that our climate is getting warmer” – And it will get wetter or colder or just change. That’s how climate works.
“Back in the 1930s the Bradfield Scheme was proposed to divert large tropical rivers inland, to provide reliable irrigation for Australian drylands.” – Proof that my “law” is correct. “The intelligence of earth is fixed. The population is growing. You do the math.”
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To Tom Halla
“A basic premise for a green is that there is no technology that will fix humanities inherent sinfullness, so doing without is a good thing.” – Actually the “basic premise” of all greens and most politicians is that FEELing good is more important than DOing good.
“/sarcc” – Finally, a way to indicate sarcasm. /sarcc
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To Peter Campion
“Labor (sic – they don’t care for ‘u’)” – Absolutely LOVE it! I’m going to steal it. You should put it on a T-shirt.
“Australia is truly stuffed unless we can find a Trump of our own.” – The key is to stand fast against immigrants who won’t assimilate (take a lesson from the Borg) and China’s aggressive expansionism. Do that and there is hope.
Welcoming South African farmers (I’ll not make an expansive political statement here) is a great idea. They can teach Australians about the consequences of allowing feelings to determine government policy.
What’s the anti-Semitism level of Australia? I’m sure that Australian farmers could learn a thing or two from the Israelis who have come up with many solutions to farming in dry climate.
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To WUWT – Vkontakte and connect .ok .ru – Russian collusion by WUWT? Or maybe I didn’t realize that WUWT is funded by the Russians.
It might be a good idea to calculate how much drought can be expected,
I give a procedure for that, at the end of my blog post here,
http://breadonthewater.co.za/2018/05/04/which-way-will-the-wind-be-blowing-genesis-41-vs-27/
A man with a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Civil Law giving climate advice to farmers?
“Malcolm chief AU CarbonTrading advocate stemming from his time as AU Goldman Sachs CEO/MD . . .
Most Australians don’t know Malcolm Turnbull gave evidence in a financial scandal at the HIH Royal Commission in 2002 and he was later sued personally in civil proceedings by the HIH liquidator McGrathNicol. The reason Turnbull was personally sued was because of alleged dodgy conduct in his role as managing director of the investment bank Goldman Sachs in advising FAI on the takeover.”
To add to that, when in 2008 it looked like Malcolm Turnbull was going to spend 2009 in court being cross examined by the liquidator for HIH, Goldman Sachs paid off the liquidator to get Turnbull off the hook. he then challenged for leadership of the then in opposition Liberal party and won.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/carbon-laws-to-drive-top-cars-off-the-road/news-story/109844e23c3d5f6520b697a6bc73da71