Comedy | January 19, 2011 | 68 comments

Global Warming Alarmists Fail Again and Again. This Time Australia Suffers

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8262064/What-was-the-role-of...

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Australia was told to prepare for droughts as a result of climate change, and let down its guard against flooding, writes Christopher Booker.

Ever more alarming facts are emerging to show how Brisbane’s floods were made infinitely worse by cockeyed decisions inspired by the obsession of the Australian authorities with global warming. Inevitably, the country’s warmist lobby has been voluble in claiming that such a “freak weather event” (as the BBC called it) is a consequence of man-made climate change. But far from being an unprecedented “freak event”, the latest flood was nearly a foot below the level of one in 1974 and 10 feet below the record set in 1893.

For years, Australia’s warmists have been advising the authorities that the danger posed to the country by global warming is not floods but droughts: not too much rain but too little. One result, in Brisbane, was a relaxation of planning rules, to allow building on areas vulnerable to flooding in the past. As long ago as 1999, this was seen as potentially disastrous by an expert Brisbane River Flood Study (which was ignored and for years kept secret). Instead of investing in its flood defences, Australia spent $13 billion on desalination plants. (Queensland’s was recently mothballed because of the excess of rain.)

Last week’s most disturbing revelation, however, was the contribution to Brisbane’s flooding by the South East Queensland Water company’s massive release of water from its Wivenhoe dam upstream from the city (for details see “Brisbane’s Man-Made Flood Peak” on the Regionalstates blog). Instead of controlled releases through the previous week, the company allowed the level to rise to within a few inches of the top of the dam before releasing a vast volume of water, with devastating consequences for Brisbane 36 hours later.

Last spring, Queensland’s prime minister, the drought- and warming-obsessed Anna Bligh, ordered the water company not to allow any releases from the dam because water was such a “precious resource” that none must be wasted.

Unsurprisingly, on Friday, the city’s Lord Mayor asked for a full judicial review of what had happened. But it is time our Australian cousins carried out a very much more wide-ranging inquiry into all the other decisions made by their gullible politicians in recent years, under the spell of a pseudo-scientific ideology which now looks utterly discredited.
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68 comments // Global Warming Alarmists Fail Again and Again. This Time Australia Suffers

  • ras_menelik
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      ras_menelik  

    • I'll try to dumb it down for you. As the tempeture rises the amount of water the atmosphere holds rises. Global warming dose NOT mean global drying, it means climate change. The total amount of humidity that has drenched Australia, Brazil, the US, Europe and Asia this winter couldn't happen without the greenhouse effects of CO2.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • For those who wish to become more intelligent as in progressive instead of regressive here are a few great reads on climate change from MIT Press
      Preparing for Climate Change By Micheal Mastrandrea and Stephen H. Schneider
      Another is Co2 Rising The Worlds Great Envioronmental Challenge By Tyler Volk

      Enlightening and worth th reading.
      Ice Kat and Congoboy and the rest of the deniers need not educate yourselves your beyond hope

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
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    • tommic:

      more reading for the purveyors of junk science...Our planet has been slowly warming since last emerging from the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century, often associated with the Maunder Minimum. Before that came the "Medieval Warm Period", in which temperatures were about the same as they are today. Both of these climate phenomena are known to have occurred in the Northern Hemisphere, but several hundred years prior to the present, the majority of the Southern Hemisphere was primarily populated by indigenous peoples, where science and scientific observation was limited to non-existent. Thus we can not say that these periods were necessarily "global".However, "Global Warming" in recent historical times has been an undisputable fact, and no one can reasonably deny that.

      But we're hearing far too often that the "science" is "settled", and that it is mankind's contribution to the natural CO2 in the atmosphere has been the principal cause of an increasing "Greenhouse Effect", which is the root "cause" of global warming. We're also hearing that "all the world's scientists now agree on this settled science", and it is now time to quickly and most radically alter our culture, and prevent a looming global catastrophe. And last, but not least, we're seeing a sort of mass hysteria sweeping our culture which is really quite disturbing. Historians ponder how the entire nation of Germany could possibly have goose-stepped into place in such a short time, and we have similar unrest. Have we become a nation of overnight loonies?http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.htm lS GLOBAL WARMING A HOAX? Isn't it time you read the facts? The propaganda of man-made global warming has been promoted by those with a political agenda by suppressing the truth and spreading fear. In this effort they have recruited academics, media, environmental groups, governments, the United Nations, even religions. Scientific evidence supporting man-made global warming has now been investigated by scientists and found to be baseless. Examination of the data has revealed the theory of climate change for the propaganda it is, derived from erroneous data, junk science, even scientific fraud. Now, for the first time, the American people have available to them an honest discussion of man-made global warming and climate change that is easily understood by those without a scientific background. The Layman's Guide describes in easily understood language the science refuting claims of climatic catastrophe resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. Using well-documented scientific facts, the Layman's Guide exposes the global warming hoax as an authoritarian assault on individual freedom. UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX: EXPANDED AND UPDATED [Paperback]
      LEO JOHNSON (Author) The media and governmental hype over a danger from global warming that already is allegedly causing the polar icecaps to melt and threaten a global climate catastrophe, looks more and more like the political hype it is. This year to date, snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

      According to the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) many American cities and towns have suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was - 0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 average."Arctic Ice Melt has Reversed

      One of the most dramatic results of the record cold over much of the planet is the reversal of the much-reported melt of the icebergs in the Arctic Ocean. Last autumn the world was alarmed to hear from certain climatologists that the ice in the Arctic had melted to its "lowest levels on record.” What was carefully omitted from those scare stories was the fact that those records only date back as far as 1972, and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

      Now, as a result of the recent record cold weather, the ice is back. According to Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8583

    • 1 year ago
  • good_stuff
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      good_stuff  

    • You've got to admit that this is pretty amusing if true. I wonder if california is going to stop requiring buildings to be designed for seismic events so they can focus on mudslides instead?

    • 1 year ago
  • ozoneocean
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      ozoneocean  

    • God you are a fucking imbecile. It is getting warmer during the Australian summers each year and dryer each winter.
      This flooding occurred during the height of SUMMER. It really IS a freak event. - More akin to TROPICAL rain, NOT normal winter rain.

      Part of the reason WHY the flooding is such a terrible disaster is that Australia is so dry and getting dryer each year- the rivers literally DO NOT flow at all for most of the year, so during a freak event like this caused by La Nina they are just not equipped to handle this volume of water.

      Now go and sit in quietly the corner and let the adults deal with this.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • ozoneocean:

      i am not the embicile as i follow trends and cycles all of which the earth has seen for time eternity. but i'll tell you what, the earth could use a bit more carbon dioxide and warmer temps. it would help feed a growing and potentially starving world. peace out

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • congoboy
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • http://www.climatechange2010.org/abstract/68.asp

      Abstract: Considering The Impacts Of Climate Change On "Flood" Risk: Australia

      They were warned about it all, only the Conservative leadership in years past poo pooed reality. And FYI a seven year drought that decimated their agriculture and killed the Murray Darling River along with more intense wildlfires is an indication of what exactly? You're full of it. This bs politically partisan tit for tat about a moral crisis that is now exacerbating and intensifying and affecting our ecosystems and the lives of real people is both dangerous and irresponsible.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • PirateSauce
  • indecisiveh
  • congoboy
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • I think everyone (including Australia) was warned of the coming strong La Niña close to a year ago. How you can spin this into a "Global Warming Hoax" is beyond me.

      Just look at the last two summers in Australia . . . it was on fire! Was that a "hoax" too?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • pjacobs51
  • congoboy
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  
    • congoboy:

      I have followed the money and your exactly right. Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries are paying out millions to divert scientists into backing their false claims. Exxon even admitted to its campaign of diversion and promised to stop in 2008, but they haven't, they lied. They have cut down though, from 3.5 million in 2005, to 1.3 million in 2009. And those are just the figures made public, who knows what's going on under the table.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  
    • congoboy:

      Politicians AND lobbyists (don't forget the lobbyist). I would have to say big oil and big coal have the most money to push the politicians around, and the most to loose if "green" energy takes hold as a major supplier of energy.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
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      toyotabedzrock  

    • There is no link to prove these claims. It's made up conjecture. You have been fooled by an assertion without any documentation.

      Only this statement "As long ago as 1999, this was seen as potentially disastrous by an expert Brisbane River Flood Study "

      So they ignored science.

      Further the people running an upstream dam seemed to make some bad choices by not releasing any water until it had to dump huge amounts all at once.

      P.S. When an area is very dry it becomes unable to absorb as much rain water. Plant life thins out in an arid environment also contributing to flooding.

      NICE TRY

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • Varex_Sythe
  • congoboy
  • Varex_Sythe
  • congoboy
  • notsure
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      notsure  
    • congoboy:

      Somethings you know, Somethings you don't know. Are you listening to Mother Earth? Do you see the "air"above the highways and cities on a hot day? Does the term Butterfly Effect ring a bell? Please Stop Peacing us out.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  

    • Well I've known ever since the 1980s that Global Warming would bring more extended droughts, increased flooding, and all kinds of weather extremes because that is what climetologists publically warned us about back then and ever since, you morons!

      Australians have been even bigger deniers of climate change than Americans and the sad fact that they weren't paying attention is not the fault of climetologists.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • coolplanet:

      which moron is right? back in the 70's all the experts were predicting global cooling with some even holding to that even today. when something doesnt come to pass change your theory or call it something else. at any rate follow the money

    • 1 year ago
  • Stoneyroad
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      Stoneyroad  

    • grain of salt. . .
      Besides climate change Booker also writes about how much electric cars suck, evolution is a myth and 'passive' smoking & asbestos do not cause cancer.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  

    • Just so we are clear no one actually knows how global warming is going to go and what its going to do to us. All we know for sure is that the world is getting warmer and that it is caused by carbon. Everything else is just speculation. It will cause erratic weather patterns but that could be in the form of heat waves, or massive flooding. The best route for us to go is reduce carbon emissions and prepare for anything, because thats what we could get is just about anything.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • MizPiz
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      MizPiz  
    • congoboy:

      Not really. There have been documented trends of warming and evidence of its danger to the planet. The problem is the media exagerating stories or just making shit up and then claiming it isn't real when they're wrong. I don't follow Austrialian news, so I can't really tell if this is the case or if a scientist was actually wrong with their hypothesis.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  
    • congoboy:

      Im not saying it will kill us all, hell it may kill very few of us. But the times ahead will be made difficult by our changing climate. We are going to hit an evolutionary event here soon. The test will be do we use our brains to save us all, or do we use our brawn to save ourselves?

    • 1 year ago
  • MizPiz
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      MizPiz  
    • congoboy:

      I can completely understand, but I'm more in favor of not completely fucking up our planet. We may be able to survive global warming, but I (plus those who study this) highly doubt we'll survive what it does.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • indecisiveh
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      indecisiveh  
    • littlwarrior:

      Either way you cut it it's a collapse, a destruction, an inhabitable variation on our current climate. I personally don't want to see what the details look like, by than we may be too late to do anything..

    • 1 year ago
  • indecisiveh
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  
    • congoboy:

      Of course and it is hard to guess which region will be affected in which way, not to mention there are other impending natural disasters that could drastically effect the way global warming occurs. For example some geologists believe that Yellowstone could blow in near future, if that happens tons of carbon will be instantly released not to mention the mountains of ash and other gasses, plus lava. We just have to keep on trucking and if we see a hit coming prepare for it, and if we don't see it coming just deal with it when it comes.

    • 1 year ago
  • MizPiz
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      MizPiz  
    • congoboy:

      That's not how evolution works at all. You really should look up a YouTube user named potholer54. He usually talks about biblical "science" and focuses quite a bit on evolution, but he's been also talking about global warming since about late last year.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  
    • congoboy:

      That pretty much sums it up, exept that we are soon going to have to start looking at things like where do we grow food now, what animals are going to survive, what is going to happen to our water sources but we wont know just how to deal with those things until they start to happen.

    • 1 year ago
  • MizPiz
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      MizPiz  
    • congoboy:

      I was actually horribly wrong on how long he's done it, it's actually been since mid 2008. As for motivation, it's to destroy both denial myths and misinformation about the topic. He also makes sure what he says is correct, and changes it if it's not.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • MizPiz
  • littlwarrior
  • congoboy
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  
    • congoboy:

      There is little we can actually know for sure, but the more we know the better we can do. The best thing we can do right now is reduce carbon and invest in green energy sources. Not only will that help us now but long into the future. Not to mention the concern that fossil fuels will run out and what will we do then?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • littlwarrior:

      many folks are doin what they can to be good stewards of the earth. thats what we can do. the oil? as far as i can tell still plenty around. i say keep using the fossil fuels as we slowly ease in the alternatives. what should be done is gov subsidies on alternative fuels so the consumer can afford to use it. too many greedy types out there taking advantage of an ignorant greenie minded public and gouging them in the wallet. its mostly a big fucking scam and the public is the loser

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  
    • congoboy:

      You got that oil companies are the biggest scams around, they are reporting record profits but they have to raise the price, its total bullshit, not to mention that the US government does not use gas prices when estimating cost of living increases, that too is total bullshit. But the point is it is high time to replace fossil fuels as our leading energy source becuase it is bad for the environment and totally corrupt. The problem is republicans in congress don't even want to talk about alternative energy and the dems are so zealous we don't have a comprehensive plan. We need the two parties to get together and really start talking about what can be done to wean the nation off of fossil fuel and what can be used as an energy source in its place. Scientifically we are years off for a viable alternative in our cars other than straight electric, which a large number of power plants use fossil fuel anyways so that makes little difference, so we have time but we need to start moving now so when we have the alternative we can drop oil companies like the rip offs they are.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • littlwarrior:

      dont point your disillusional fingers too far to the right. there are plenty of dems with oily hands as well. when it comes to greed and corruption neither party gets a pass

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
  • congoboy
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