Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announced today that Australia is a land of droughts and flooding rains.
Referring to the government’s first ever “State of the Climate” report, she said:
“Dry periods will get longer, and bushfire season will get hotter. At the same time, the rain periods will get heavier - as many are experiencing right now”
Summers are hot. Winters are wet and cold. That’s the state of the climate. Thanks government experts!
What makes me laugh is the change of narrative from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ which conveniently allows all types of weather which have been occurring for 1000s of years to be deemed an existential threat.
The State of the Climate report is really just weather, which is cycles within cycles. In Australia it goes like this (and has done for thousands of years) …
Rain Growth Drought Fire
Rain Growth Drought Fire
Rain Growth Drought Fire
Rain Growth Drought Fire
That’s the state of the climate. Or, if you prefer …
Hot Dry Wet Cold
Hot Dry Wet Cold
Hot Dry Wet Cold
Hot Dry Wet Cold
Thank God the government has alerted us to this. Well done Environment Minister, give yourself a pat on the back.
But don’t worry, all of this can be fixed if we pay more taxes.
I’m old enough to remember when Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s favourite climate catastrophist Tim Flannery was telling us it would not rain and even the rain that fell would not be enough to fill our dams.
So we’ve gone from ‘the rain that falls will not fill our dams’ to ‘the rain periods will get heavier’ in exactly how long?
Fifteen years ago our governments were spending millions of dollars building desalination plants because we were going to run out of water. Now our governments are telling us the rain will get heavier and heavier.
Make up your minds, please!
Now, if only the government would release a report on the State of our Electricity Bills.
That promised $275 seems to be blowing in the wind.
They could always stop the cloud seeding and weather manipulation.. … let the weather be what God intended.
The voice of the intelligentsia aka the ABC’s “The Conversation” ran a piece about this report a week or so ago also saying we were all going to fry and drown in continuous never ending cycles. And following that report was another one explaining how the record November snow falls and temperatures across NW of the USA was also caused by Global Warming aka Climate Change.
It was a convoluted theory which only climate scientists could write and /or understand but, the authors must be correct because they had all the right pieces of framed toilet paper from the right toilet paper producing institutions.
But all will be good because as long as we keep making monetary sacrifices to the weather gods, we shall be saved. Final question, when will Flimflam Flannery give his Australian of the Year award back?