Essay by Eric Worrall
If only you selfish Chinese and Americans and Europeans hadn’t burnt all that coal Australia keeps exporting. Of course, some NSW flood management projects might also have helped.
Albanese blames global inaction on climate change for flooding disaster in Sydney
By Lucy Cormack
July 6, 2022 — 5.55pmPrime Minister Anthony Albanese says a global failure to act on climate change has thrust disaster on the state’s flood-ravaged communities, as he visited the Hawkesbury to face locals inundated for the fourth time in 18 months.
In his first visit to the region, Albanese vowed to heed the lessons of the emergency and work with all levels of government on flood mitigation strategies in the national interest.
“My government has changed Australia’s position on climate change from day one,” he said.
“The science told us that if we continued to not take action globally on climate change, then these events, extreme weather events, would be more often and more intense. And what we’re seeing, unfortunately, is that play out.”
The prime minister travelled to Windsor and Richmond on Wednesday with Premier Dominic Perrottet to survey the impacts of the flood, after receiving a briefing at the state emergency operations centre in Homebush.
Earlier he announced a $1000 disaster recovery payment to be made available to flood victims from Thursday, on top of initial disaster assistance already flagged this week.
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The debate over the state government’s proposal to raise the Warragamba Dam wall has also been reignited by the flooding event. The $1 billion-plus plan to raise the wall by 14 metres has proven controversial, with opponents arguing it could impact the world heritage-listed Blue Mountains.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/albanese-warns-inaction-on-climate-change-has-brought-flooding-disaster-to-sydney-20220706-p5azje.html
Early Aussie colonists recorded massive and frequent floods in New South Wales, but please don’t go confusing the current climate change floods with the entirely natural floods which occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries.
There is an obvious solution – Aussie Prime Minister Albanese must immediately halt all coal exports, and stop all burning of coal in Australia, to help combat NSW flooding.
Aussie Prime Minister Albanese stopped short of demanding the rest of the world pay the flood repair bill, but I’m sure contributions would be welcome.
h/t Climate Believer – “It will flood again” – SES Flood video, a long list of historic NSW floods. There is nothing historically unusual about NSW experiencing a tight series of devastating floods. What is reprehensible is various Aussie governments have had almost two centuries to address the issue, but politicians are still dragging their feet, making excuses and blaming others instead of acting to fix the problem.
Methinks the “Lucky County” has just run out of luck.
Steve Baker is considering running for prime minister, and if he won he would dismantle many of Boris Johnson’s green policies, the MP has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/anti-green-mp-steve-baker-considering-running-for-pm-if-boris-johnson-goes
It might be interesting but he’s pretty much an outside chance in the race. Not sure he’d get enough support.
And the Grauniad and the Bolshevist Bias Corporation are against him, for sure, now he’s said he’s not Bright Green . . . .
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Face it: there’s no level of NSW flood management project which would deal with 8 months rain in 4 days, or the 3 months in 2 days previously seen (or even the record floods for 60 years seen last year). The scale of precipitation caused by climate change simply isn’t manageable.
No more than it was in China, Germany and Canada with their 1 in 1,000 year events last year.
This is climate change and this is why it is a problem.
though he does have a nerve, blaming the world for burning what Australia exported
Griff, you are again confusing weather with climate.
Floods are a feature of weather, as are droughts and other events like hurricanes and extended periods of still air.
The weather has a lot to answer for, politicians well they come and they go…sometimes.
Nonsense Griff. There are three solutions, build up the dam walls, build more dams, and dig new channels for excess water. And of course, the big solution, start arresting that toxic minority of local politicians who drive expensive automobiles, who are responsible for granting approval for the development of those suspiciously level areas of land adjacent to New South Wales rivers.
You forgot to mention that the rain is also 6% wetter.
“The scale of precipitation “
Still hawking that 6% wetter idea, griff?
If only you could say the same for the UK in 2022. But you can’t because this year is noticeably a lot drier than last year was.
You can’t point to single events or years as proof of anything.
Griff….would it be fair to assume coal burners would just get their coal elsewhere if Oz didn’t supply it?
There has been documented severe flooding in and around Sydney for over 100 years but you are telling me that coal exports in the last few years are totally to blame? Words are completely inadequate to express the shame I feel that we are both of the same thinking humans species.
Griff the arch plonker does it again.
I’m pretty sure that I read somewhere, maybe forty years or so ago, long before CO2 related climate change was officially invented(I use the word advisedly), that It was never a good idea to build Sydney in an area which was known to flood on a regular basis. I can’t seem to find it now, all my searches scream “Climate Change”.
I wonder, with Boris Symonds forced into an early retirement, if his replacement could be any worse. These days, it seems to be a race amongst the so-called democracies to see who can make Atlas shrug first.
“ if his replacement could be any worse.”
Parliament – the uber public school with house names like Labour, Lib Dem, SNP, Conservative etc – is going net zero, period. Those who object or protest can be de-selected quite easily – no new candidate would be approved without an oath of fealty to the warming narrative.
Brexit is another matter….
Spoken like a true Albanian descendant.
Enver would be impressed….
at least Bidets got senility as an excuse
Albos just a d*ckhead and thick as a plank!
noted how fast ms WEF devotee Ardern managed to get herself to aus to “help” aus set itself back a 100yrs as shes doing at home
and god help us we have nearly 3 yrs of this cretinous excuse for a leader to ruin us in.
handing 30mil and more to ukraine for some media lurve should be a warning to all
Sad isn’t it…
Here’s this guy, newly elected on the basis of promises promises promises that he was going to make things better and straight away, they go a bit pear shaped
So what does he do, something positive to fix the situation?
Hell no,he goes into pathetic little cry-baby mode and blames everybody else.
Send him back ‘Under Warranty’ as Not Fit For Purpose.
Demand a refund.
And then, what got me going was is my latest email from California Agnet – bleating on about the same thing but different (drought) except on the opposite side of the Pacific. Obviously.
The email included the attached photo.
As regards both California and probably Australia, and knowing me knowing you, look at that photo and tell me (I don’t need to know, I already do, tell yourself) what is wrong in that photo and how it relates to this story…
Sugar!
I just figured out what the Great Australian Plan was.
1st We shut down all the Mental Institutions and feed the insane drugs.
2nd We move all the insane to Canberra and vote them into office.
3rd Australia is run by the insane.
4th We all go crazy.
5th Game over – Do you wish to play again.
Evidence that what one does locally to abate “climate change” has no effect. So why put yourself in a hole when it means nothing overall.
Sadly, one cannot vaccinate against stupidity, which is clearly contagious amongst politicians.
and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been lecturing Australians on “the violence of climate change.” She and her ilk are truly deceitful people.
I suspect that Albanese is suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect — a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them from accurately assessing their own skills. In simpler terms, there are people who are too dumb to know how dumb they are. This is common among many politicians, such as Canada’s prime minister Trudeau and his cabinet.
I get that the Dunning-Kruger effect would likely manifest with these people thinking they were as smart as anyone else, but they don’t – they really do think they are geniuses in a crowd of idiots. It’s laughable, sad and quite scary all at the same time!
How is blaming anyone but yourself, and having no solutions a political strategy? This is what we get when politics becomes a beauty contest for fabulous unattainable promises of utopia.
Max Egan an Australian in exile in Mexico (covid) believes it is being done via weather modification and has video proof to back up his claim.(very interesting, take a look) CC is now the most used excuse around the world for all the ills of any countries woos . Why should history have an bearing on reality when CC can come to the rescue . We are in deep doo doo from these bought and paid for politicians Rain rain go away but come on back each and every day..Just like covid relief in the USA a big woof the 1000.00 will do to help these flood victims Australia is the test case for the NWO. IMHO
Blaming weather on climate change or weather modification/manipulation are both symptoms of people trying to find a solution without having the skillset or intelligence to search for the correct answer. In the past it would have been an ‘Act of God’, before that it would have been angry nature spirits – both would have required the appropriate sacrifices or appeasements and the silencing of doubters or naysayers.
The simple solution is not to build on a flood plain.
Extreme weather events? That’s not what the science is telling us. As for all the water, they can send some of it to us in the UK. We haven’t had any significant rain since early March. It’s as dry as bone.
Really? Up until the end of last week we’ve been getting regular showers every couple of days – last nights rain was the first for a few days but we’re hardly dry.
What I wrote on the social media page of a friend blaming Climate Change for floods:
40 odd years ago, I was interested in buying land at McGrath’s Hill until a work-mate advised against, saying it was a flood area. Eventually I purchased on the other side of the mighty Hawkesbury, high and dry though subject to isolation by flood waters. McGrath’s Hill was subject to an evacuation order just before midnight last Monday. Nothing much has changed in 40 years and the record flood level is still 1867. The local original inhabitants (Dharug) never settled in the valley because they knew the danger.
This week flooding in Windsor (NSW) peaked at almost 14 metres. However in 1867 the water there peaked at 63 feet or an amazing 19 metres. The bad news for Sydney-siders is that floods have been happening there for all time. However the ABC and BOM don’t mention that fact.
Early settlers were warned against building too close to the rivers …
https://www.smh.com.au/national/governors-phillip-and-macquarie-warned-about-building-in-the-path-of-floods-still-we-don-t-listen-20220303-p5a19i.html
But I was assured that drought was the new normal for NSW and Oz in general due to much the same reasons.
Australia, the land of droughts and flooding rains ……. Dorothea McKellar “My Country”.