it isn’t only Oz where the drought has broken. one can assume even greater levels when the RECORD snowfalls start to melt.
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The only climate change that Australia has undergone in the last twenty years is intellectual. We are in the midst of the greatest drought of rational thought in our history.

Either lacking the skills necessary to analyze the historic data directly, or too lazy, Bazza has relied on the ABC to parse the science for him. Or so it seems. Their conclusions concur: Australia is in the worst drought since history began and it’s all because of our wicked greed has changed the Earth’s climate. Who says religious piety is extinct in Australia?

Australia is a big continent. Since the beginning of the Holocene it is unlikely that at least some section of Australia hasn’t suffered drought 99 out of every 100 years. Indigenous culture understood this and allowed for transit routes across each others lands to reach water and food sources in times of drought.

Localized droughts don’t indicate climate change in Australia, on the contrary drought is the best indication of climate continuity. Drought is so ubiquitous its become perhaps the most common motif in Australian literature. Take Randolph Stow’s “Tourmaline”, for example. And most recently the ABC’s interesting serial-drama “Rain Shadow” , which is finding it awkward to manipulate the drought motif as a symbol of climate change rather than stasis.

Of course, the Bazzas among us would be shouting climate change if the Murray was flooding too. What is it about averages–for that is what climate amounts too–that so confuses the credulous?

In fact, the only really unusual weather event is when it comes spot on the climatological average! Now that’s a man bites dog story.

ACtually Bazza I was pointing out that when it suits Jennifer she will claim that AGW is alarmism because rainfall is not down at all, and that the drought is exaggerated by Warmists…. but suddenly it rains and the drought she does not believe in is broken!
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that’s utter bullshit! all Jennifer claimed was that the rainfall of eastern australia hasn’t been reducing as the warmers have been claiming! and she was correct when you look at the BoM figures.

The drought referred to in this thread is the Mt Isa – Burketown, Gulf country drought!

And it’s been broken! Sheesh!!

However, most of our recent drought in the major cities has been a politicians drought. Our state labor governments have exagerated a minor below average rainfall, into major droughts, to try to cover their total lack forward planning for the water supplies for the east coast capitals.

While being totally unable to supply the services the people require, these governments have been very successful in just one thing. They are absolute champions at growing the bureaucracy.

In Qld we even got a very expensive water commission. Someone for our useless pollys to now blame for their own previous failings.