It Rains in Melbourne, so Bandt Wets the Bed

It’s raining in Melbourne, so naturally Adam Bandt is wetting the bed.

Yesterday the Greens leader cry-tweeted …

Adam Bandt @AdamBandt

In Kensington in inner Melbourne, water’s risen so fast that cars now underwater & people being moved out in rescue dinghies. And the water’s still rising. This is not normal. Time for gov to put our safety first, tackle the climate crisis & stop opening coal & gas mines.

Will you tell him?

Or will I?

The climate catastrophist’s claim that the flooding is caused by humans is correct, but the problem is not humans burning coal; it’s humans building on flood plains.

Here’s a map from the Victorian Government website showing areas subject to flooding from the Maribyrnong River. Guess what, these are the areas that are flooding, exactly as predicted.

Flood plain. It’s in the name!

Rather than get local councils to employ Chief Heat Officers to fight the weather, as Melbourne City Council is doing, we need councils to stop approving developments in known flood areas.

And governments never learn their lesson. The Queensland government, for instance, has done almost nothing to mitigate future flooding after the 2011 floods. It’s cheaper to just scream “coal bad”.

Let’s face it, if Adam Bandt couldn’t scream “coal bad” he’d be left with nothing to say except “choof good”.

If Chicken Little googled "Maribyrnong floods" he would discover that this flooding is in fact normal, and is not the result of the climate emergency he keeps screeching about.

I’m not saying the floods aren’t bad. Nor am I saying the floods aren’t devastating to those impacted. I”m just saying the floods aren’t caused - as Bandt insists - by the malevolent forces of coal and gas.

Major floods inundated the floodplains of the lower Maribyrnong River in September 1906, September 1916 and May 1974.

Dorothea MacKellar says hello.

Here’s a photo of the exact same spot that Bandt was crying about in his tweet. This was taken in 1906.

“Stop coal and gas! Stop coal and gas!”

Except coal and gas have absolutely nothing to do with it.

When you modify the landscape through deforestation and agriculture and then build a metropolis in a region downstream from natural water catchments, guess what happens? Apart from Bandt wetting the bed, I mean.

Here’s a photo, just for fun, of Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, in 1972.

Here’s another photo from 1972 Adam …

And here’s the Flemington Racecourse in 1974. Horses can be seen wading through the water after the Maribyrnong River burst its banks …

Here’s a wider shot …

In 2006 the Victorian Racing Commission decided to put a flood wall around Flemington racecourse, altering the natural flood plain. This surely has exacerbated the issues, with water now running onto neighbouring properties.

Maybe the wall identifies as climate change.

Anyway, when I checked earlier today, Melbourne had been drenched with 88.6 mm of rain.

A “rain bomb”, as the media love to say.

But the wettest Melbourne October was in 1869, when there was 193.3 mm of rain. So Bandt’s bedwetting is somewhat premature.

One of the reasons we are seeing increasing flooding in this country is due to the increased development. Put simply, there’s more to flood.

What a pity the government didn’t build dams instead of white elephant desalination plants.

I’m old enough to remember when your entire climate crisis scam was predicated on Australia being in permanent drought.

But you don’t even have to be that old. On September 18, 2019, Daniel Andrews said the Victorian government had ruled out building new dams because “climate change means not enough water would flow into them to make them worthwhile”.

When Adam Bandt tweets “this is not normal” he’s only advertising his ignorance.

What’s “not normal” is people continually voting for someone whose entire political platform is built on wetting the bed every time Australia experiences weather.

Why do people keep putting him in Parliament?

Must be something in the water.