RAIN sure is falling this week on the parade of our global warming alarmists.
Wettest of all is Tim Flannery, who was made Australian of the Year last year for wailing the world was doomed.
"I think there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century's first ghost metropolis," he groaned. But buy his The Weather Makers before you flee.
Reporters solemnly reported even this: "He (Flannery) also predicts that the ongoing drought could leave Sydney's dams dry in just two years."
And when did he say that? Oh, three years ago? Yet what do I read in my papers yesterday but this: "Sydney's run of rainy days in a row - 11 - is the most in April for 77 years."
And Sydney's dams? Above 65 per cent capacity now, and rising.
.....it was probably no surprise Flannery didn't turn up at the Rudd Government's ideas summit last weekend to talk more about how warming was dooming Sydney, despite being issued a gold-edged invitation.
He flew to Canada instead to tell their yokels to cut gases like the ones he just blew out the back of his jet, and talked warming with British Columbia's Premier and businessmen.
But once again Flannery picked the wrong time and place to preach his warming gospel. A local paper reports: "In some regions of usually balmy British Columbia, many were caught by surprise by a storm that moved in late Friday and set snowfall records in Nanaimo, Victoria and Vancouver."
How the weather mocks Flannery. He's flooded in Sydney, where he predicted drought, and snowed in in Canada when he predicted heat.
Read the entire article in The Herald Sun: Prophecy all washed up
Ian: I spent most of yesterday waiting for the forecast rain to fall in town. As I stood on the verandah this morning about 9 am fare welling our Sydney guests who had driven round the mountains yesterday via Tumut, Adaminaby and Brindabella National Park I said there was snow about even though we could not see it.
“Statewide Weather 11.30
ACT Sheep Graziers Warning
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
ACT
Issued at 1110 on Monday the 28th of April 2008
Graziers are advised of COLD, WET and WINDY weather today.
Snowfalls are likely above 1100 metres this afternoon before slowly lifting
overnight. Conditions will ease by Tuesday”
What we need Ian is the wind speed at Mount Ginini but I’m sure you will take my word for it.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/200804/html/IDCJDW2804.200804.shtml
Gavin , your link is about drought recovery; not 'climate change recovery'.
And yes, drought recovery in the MDB and many other areas could go on for years...Or it could turn around fairly quickly... We just don't know.
Gavin, how big was the bet?
http://weather.news.com.au/index.jsp?site=couriermail&contexttype=state&contextcode=nsw
silly sid thinks all that snow will fix the MDB overnight.
Anything we got yesterday has blown away towards NZ. Bet its the same tomorrow.
Let's wait till we hear it from the kiwis hey
Sid: Climate change is about more than temperature
"Years to recover fully despite increased soil moisture"
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/years+recover+fully+despite+increased+soil+moisture
Yes, And it is the coldest April day on record. Not only in Orange, but through a huge swathe of central and western areas of NSW, (and ACT, hey, Gavin?).
So much for "Global Warming".
Maybe this time!
http://www.smh.com.au/news/global-warming/the-rain-stops-and-the-snow-starts/2008/04/28/1209234700239.html
Prophecy and ...ahem... reality
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"It is simply partisan politics using the resources of the taxpayers"
Louis: somebody has to explain this lot as we go foward.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/map-blended-mntp-200803-pg.gif