Essay by Eric Worrall
Tim Flannery, Climate Council Founder, in 2006: “even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems”.
04.07.22 BY CLIMATE COUNCIL
FLOODING has returned to NSW, with thousands of Sydney residents subject to evacuation orders and warnings that in some parts, flood levels may exceed those seen earlier this year.
Experts from the Climate Council say preparedness is the key, as communities continue to experience compounding severe weather events, fuelled by a warmer atmosphere.
Climate Councillor and leader of the Emergency Leaders for Climate Action (ELCA) group, Greg Mullins, added:
“La Niña may be officially over, but there is a real sting in the tail for these communities who have already been through a terrible year of extreme flooding.
“There is absolutely no doubt extreme weather events are being intensified because of climate change. The science is very clear that we’re seeing wild fluctuations between periods of flood and fire, because of warming. On the East Coast of Australia in the last 18 months we’ve now had four major floods.
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Read more: https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/sydney-flooding-returns/
Back in 2006, when Australia was experiencing a prolonged dry spell, the narrative was a little different.
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SALLY SARA: What will it mean for Australian farmers if the predictions of climate change are correct and little is done to stop it? What will that mean for a farmer?
PROFESSOR TIM FLANNERY: We’re already seeing the initial impacts and they include a decline in the winter rainfall zone across southern Australia, which is clearly an impact of climate change, but also a decrease in run-off. Although we’re getting say a 20 per cent decrease in rainfall in some areas of Australia, that’s translating to a 60 per cent decrease in the run-off into the dams and rivers. That’s because the soil is warmer because of global warming and the plants are under more stress and therefore using more moisture. So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems, and that’s a real worry for the people in the bush. If that trend continues then I think we’re going to have serious problems, particularly for irrigation.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/local/archives/landline/content/2006/s1844398.htm
Climate Change also seems to have the ability to tunnel backwards in time, it has the ability to cause a tight knit series of severe NSW floods before the modern age.
There is only one possible conclusion. Climate Change is witchcraft. Not only is climate witchcraft responsible for all the bad weather people experience, wet or dry, its effects can tunnel through time, causing floods in the early 1800s. It can even cause people to apparently forget what they previously said about the “settled science” in public.
“The science is very clear”? Really? Than how come every prediction they make fails. Give me a break.
What outspoken scientists Australia has! My condolences.
I take issue with calling them scientists. They self identify as scientists perhaps, but that doesn’t necessarily make them so. Whups – there go my woke credentials!
Well let’s see: 3 severe flood events this year… one with 3 months rain in 2 days, now one with 8 months rain in 4 days… two one in one hundred year events in one year…
following ‘the worst floods in 60 years’ in March 2021…
and Watts readers want to pretend this is ‘normal’ weather?
Of course it is normal weather: It has happened many times in the past in similar patterns. Prove it is not normal in a historical sense, rather than your fevered fears of the monsters in your bedroom closet, Griff.
It is, and you denying that fact changes nothing.
Why not? You just want to pretend that this is ‘unprecedented’ ‘extreme’ or ‘apocalyptic’ when it has happened before (frequently), within normal variation (there have been far, far worse floods in this location in the past) and recoverable (if somewhat inconvenient and damaging in the short term).
Here’s a guy that’s lived in Hawkesbury for over 60 years pretending…
1867
“From Riverstone to the Blue Mountains and from Pitt Town to Kurrajong there was a vast inland sea 25-32km wide dotted only by the islands of Windsor, Richmond and Pitt Town. The water was up to the eaves of Windsor railway station.”
https://www.hawkesburygazette.com.au/story/3981114/floods-what-floods/
Do you know what they call fellows in Aus like you Griff ?
Drongos .
Look at the historical record going back 200 years .
There have been floods in the Hawkesbury River all of that time .
You have been brain washed .More CO2 cannot cause the air to hold more moisture .
Warm air will hold more moisture .
As they say in Aus thats a bloody fact .
Warmer air can hold more moisture but hey this is the middle of winter and there is snow on the ski slopes .
The atmosphere is cold and this is not a tropical cyclone which we expect in the summer in both Aus and NZ to bring tropical rain .
This is severe weather but it cannot be blamed on CO2.
No matter what your handlers tell you .
Once you realize Climate Change is a religion and not science, everything else makes sense.
None of the rainfall amounts recorded over recent decades in Australia have been out of the natural range of extremes.
The last notable rainfall event in NSW was back in 1991 with many before climate alarmism (really climate witchcraft as the behaviour and actions are similar) of the warming planet kind.
Climatecraft – A special skill in blaming everything on one thing related to climate?
Highest daily rainfall in 24 hours to 9:00am
Crohamhurst, Southeast Queensland (1893) 907mm
Souce below http://www.bom.gov.au
Notable Point Rainfall Events – New South Wales
Location Date Ended Duration(min) Rainfall(mm) Source
Warawarralong 25 Jan1904 3 27
Eastwood 19 Jan1958 5 20
Jimenbuen 16 Mar 1895 5 25
Fox Valley 21 Jan 1991 6 38 SWB
Toorooka 8 Mar 1964 6 51 BoM
Fox Valley 21 Jan 1991 10 58 SWB
Wandoona 17 Feb 1983 10 86
Toorooka 8 Mar 1964 12 78 BoM
Moree 17 Nov 1959 20 113
Lake Eucumbene 30 Dec 1982 30 120
Bundarra Feb 1908 30 152
Goonoo Goonoo 11 Feb 1992 30 175
Bonshaw 11 Nov 1969 40 174
South Yathong 21 Sep 1902 60 152
Wingham 8 Jan 1908 60 152
Bylong 5 Mar1893 70 145
Coronga Peak 28 Jan1910 120 229
Wantabadgery Station 29 Aug 1902 120 254
Newcastle 18 Mar 1871 150 267
Huntley 18 Feb 1984 180 295 PWD
Wongawilli 18 Feb 1984 180 296 PWD
Federal 29 Feb 1976 240 290
Huntley 18 Feb1984 300 411 PWD
Huntley 18 Feb1984 360 467 PWD
Wongawilli 18 Feb1984 360 515 PWD
Wongawilli 18 Feb1984 540 653 PWD
Wongawilli 18 Feb1984 720 717 PWD
Wongawilli 18 Feb1984 1080 767 PWD
Wongawilli 18 Feb1984 1440 797 PWD
Dorrigo 21 Feb1954 1440 809 BoM
Tomewin 27 Jan1974 2880 889 BoM
Dorrigo 21 Feb1954 2880 998 BoM
Tomewin 27 Jan1974 4320 1049 BoM
Bowraville 21 Dec1975 4320 1090 BoM
The recent rainfall events although severe and extreme are nothing unusual out of historic extremes.
He will order the Royal Australian Navy to tow the continent, including all of its islands, to a more-benign region.
Yep sounds like a bit of a tug