By Jo Nova
All that stuff about a 1 in 100 year flood, they have no idea
It turns out the worst flood on the Rhine was not in 2024 but in 1374. On the Severn, in England the worst year for “climate change” was 250 BC. Obviously neither of them were due to man-made oil and gas.
A thousand news headlines have said modern floods were unprecedented, or were 1 in 1000 year events, or were caused by “climate change” and they were all based on just 120 years of data (or less), and they were all wrong.
For some reason, even though climate change is the most important thing on Earth, hardly any researchers were looking for evidence of long term extreme flood events. When researchers finally studied the sediments left at many sites — they found evidence that many ancient floods were just as bad or even worse. At least 12 times, ancient peak river flows were bigger than anything we’ve seen in the instrumental record. (And they’re just the ancient floods we know about, imagine if we put more scientists looking into fluvial sediments?).
The only thing unprecedented about modern floods is the gall of scientists who ignore the last 8,000 years. They say that Storm Blah was 8.3 times more likely, and enhanced 42% by beefsteaks and Renaults. But all those attribution calculations assume that they know what “normal” flooding is.
If floods were worse 1,000, 2,000 or 4,000 years ago, nature is sometimes much meaner and nastier than most of us know. We could be hit with something terrible and be caught unprepared. But likewise, if we think these latest floods were due to coal-fired power plants, we might squander a civilization trying to stop floods with electrical Voodoo, which apparently we are.
Climate change is NOT the main cause of floods – and those today are ‘nowhere near’ the most extreme
— Daily Mail
Study author Professor Stephan Harrison at the University of Exeter said recent floods are not exceptional if we look further into the past.
‘In recent years, floods around the world – including in Pakistan, Spain and Germany – have killed thousands of people and caused enormous damage,’ he said.
‘Such floods are seen as “unprecedented” – but if you look back over the last few thousand years, that’s not the case.
‘In fact, floods we call unprecedented may be nowhere near the most extreme that have happened in the past.’
It’s definitely not a hockeystick
In the worst flood of the Upper Severn river around 250BC, fifty percent more water was flowing at the peak, than in the floods of the year 2000AD.
The more important question is why we spent so many trillions on pointless weather controlling talismans instead of hiring a few scientists to look at paleoclimate data. We could have saved so much money and suffering, and ended so much grift and graft.
Harrison et al looked at found that most of the worst floods were in the warmest era’s — like the Holocene optimum and the Roman warming times — which is what we’d expect. Warmer times evaporate more water off the oceans and into the sky. But the worst flood was in 1374 and was due to snow and ice melting, proving that no climate is perfect, and we really need to learn to predict it.
Harrison et al say the climate modelers of attribution and detection studies were wrong. And that this it is “the first time” anyone has put all these longer studies together. But all those sediments were there in 2010, just like they were there in 1990, but no one was studying them. That’s a scandal.
REFERENCE
Harrison, S., Macklin, M.G., Toonen, W.H.J. et al. Robust climate attribution of modern floods needs palaeoflood science. Climatic Change 178, 71 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-025-03904-9
The Temple of Thebes (sorry) Thieves promising a bountiful crop and protection from the wrath of the Gods if the population submits and builds the appropriate edifices, makes the requisite sacrifices and of course provides suitable accommodation and entertainment for the High Priests and their acolytes.
The cycle repeats and is beautifully satired in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, complete with the sacrifice of the workers to build the windmill while the ‘Swamp’ is busy indoctrinating the children to defend their trough.
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“. . . proving that no climate is perfect, and we really need to learn to predict it.”
I’m not sure this statement was intended or that it means what it says. 🤔
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The weather is perfect in Camelot (and only Camelot)
https://youtu.be/8h7E5rtnFH4
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Speaking of Camelot and “models:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQCArh_R9dY
“Bring out yer DEAD!”
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John F. Hultquist,
That statement jumped out at me too, though maybe for a different reason. There’s no need whatsoever to predict climate. *Weather* is what brings us floods. If we can predict the weather that’s useful. What use is knowing what its 30-year average is going to be?
Wish someone would ram that point home with our BoM. Mr Trump might help your side of the pond get the message sooner.
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Rich would be the man who could predict the growing seasons 6 or 12 months in advance. They would know what to plant and when to seed. Richer still would be the one who knew when the PDO would switch and which years the El Nino’s would arrive.
And if we could predict the climate we’d know the trends — when is the next Little Ice Age, the next Big Ice Age, the next warm spell. Whether a region will suffer 30 years of marginal farming and near droughts, or be flooded. And whether it was worth rebuilding a house.
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Agree! The chances of correctly “predicting” anything beyond 7 days is highly doubtful. As recently as this past week I have read of southern WA farmers rushing to crop grain paddocks and working through the night, due to the prospect of imminent rain. Long range weather forecasting is for the birds!
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There’s so many weather models these days, and for rain there can be a lot of disparity between them. Sometimes groups of farmers use the same consultant, which can favour one model, hence the rush to sow crops etc. Everyone blames the BOM, which is slightly unfair at times. There’s plenty of other things to blame them for!! I use 2 or 3 weather apps etc for work ( agriculture) and TBH, the weather app on my iPhone is probably just as good, if not better. But you’re correct, beyond 7 days they all can be highly inaccurate.
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Has anybody looked into the work of Ken Ring from NZ? He’s been selling his weather almanacs for over 20 years so l figure there must be at least some validity to his predictions.
https://predictweather.co.nz/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=195
I’d be interested if someone is familiar with his work and could make a case for or against it.
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Re: Ken Ring, as no one else has owned up, I’ll give it a whirl, Jon.
First heard of him almost 20 years ago when the NZ Misleadia began calling him silly names – that was enough to pique my interest. As a surfer, snowboarder, 4×4 backcountry tour-guide driver, signwriter / painter (amongst other skills) ‘weather’ was my middle name so anything expanding my knowledge of such intrigued me.
1. He has no time for global climate cuckoos & their wacky CO2 doomsday cult
2. The weather will do what it does, albeit influenced by cycles repeating and heavenly bodies spiralling, primarily the sun and the moon
3. His knowledge of numbers recognises previous astronomers who took note of celestial events and the ensuing results here on Earth (from Europeans, Chinese, British / Americans, Polynesians, etc.)
4. Like any prognosticator, he has a hit-and-miss with day-to-day calls, yet his main thrust always seemed to be assisting we mere mortals in reading the signs for ourselves without having to rely on govt super computers and TV talking heads and bratty delinquents demanding we must take action
Been a while since I’ve flicked through one of his almanacs (though my local library started carrying his books a while back) and haven’t visited his site for ages until I clicked on your link above.
If anything, you’ll learn a little more about this amazing planet and how to ride the ups-and-downs: as for psychopathic politicians and their enablers, I’m not sure what we can do about those…
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due to the prospect of imminent rain. Long range weather forecasting is for the birds!
OTOH I think observations that shearing wet sheep is not fun.
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Thanks again Jo for trying to wake us up and think for a change.
We know that the Eemian was 8 c warmer than today and the Holocene optimum was much warmer for thousands of years and SLs on our Aussie east coast were about 1.5 metres higher just 4,000 years ago, or at the end of the warmer Holocene optimum.
These warmer temps would’ve caused a lot more rainfall and flooding over thousands of years.
And Dr Johnathon Nott has also studied parts of the Qld coast and found that super cyclones were more common up to the end of the LIA and the last super cyclone hit the Qld coast in 1820.
And the MacDonald study found that during the Holocene optimum boreal forests grew up to the Arctic coastline for thousands of years and yet only tundra and ice are found there today.
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Weather should look at the quantum world for guidance. You can never know the where and the when, (read velocity), but you can know the range of outputs available.
Same for river flows, you cannot, with certainty, predict when the flood will happen and exactly how high it will get but you can make some very good predictions about the range of outcomes and how often any specific height could be attained.
All you need is good data to feed into your calculations. And I think that is the problem, as highlighted by the study referenced above. With better data inputs come better frequency forecasts. Having you head buried in the climate change sandbox prevents you from seeing the whole picture.
It should be mandatory for an author to acknowledge/demonstrate that they have looked beyond climate change and not the other way around, prior to review and publication.
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Eng_Ian,
Not convinced on the applicability of quantum physics principles to weather. Heisenberg gave us a trade-off between knowing where a particle is and knowing how fast it is travelling. The more you know about one, the less you know about the other. I’d need help to see the parallels with weather. You cite flooding, but where is the quantum-style trade-off of knowledge. All we have is *unpredictability*. Well yes.
IMO there’s more to be gained by viewing weather as chaotic, because that’s what it is. My oft-linked favourite is the double pendulum. The nice thing with that demonstration is that it gets across two of IMO the key behaviours of weather:
1. That it will be highly unpredictable at certain times, even if your model is *perfect*.
2. That much of the time behaviour is quite stable and a good model will get its predictions as near as dammit.
The meteorologists have a tough gig. Obviously Earth’s weather system is a deal more complicated than a double pendulum. All the same, it doesn’t seem a *hopeless* task to identify when situation #2 applies, and to use those situations to try and develop good weather models (all the time accepting that they won’t be much use in situation #1).
Meanwhile, all the fiddling about climate is an utter waste of time. There’s no *larger driver* at play. By definition, the climate is completely controlled by the weather. Orbital mechanics, interstellar interactions and who knows what may affect the climate, but only because they first affect the weather.
On the flood question, rather than turning to quantum physics or fancy weather models, history is probably the best guide.
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‘On the flood question……….history is probably the best guide.’ And location.
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The reference was more to do with the PROBABILITY of an outcome than the duality between two unknowns.
As I mentioned, the SPAN of outcomes can be forecast but not when it will happen.
Just like the location of an electron, you can forecast its span of locations but never know when it will be in any one of those spots.
That’s all.
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It does not exist as a discrete solid object as we would like to think as a little round thing, like a ball bearing or a micro planetary system.
What you have is a probability waveform with different intensity in different locations, more like a cloud. We have to work with analogies.
Einstein did not agree with this. He said ‘God doesn’t play dice with the universe’. And he was wrong. Heisenberg won the argument.
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You do know that you can fire a SINGLE electron at a target and count it.
They are a funny particle. Sometimes a wave function best describes them, sometimes a particle description fits better. One thing for sure, probability is the key to understanding how they interact. Einstein was peeved that they could not be bound in both place and velocity, hence the quote. He was really hoping for a deterministic universe. Who knows, it might be there, we just haven’t got the understanding quite right.
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Death rates from natural disasters are very low today and are much lower since 1960. Just 3 billion then and 8.1 billion today.
From 1900 ( population about 1.7 billion) to 1960 ( 3 bn) the big killers were droughts and floods and yet today we live in the safest period in Human history. See OWI Data.
Again, why are we ( OECD) wasting trillions of $ on toxic, unreliable W & S?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/decadal-average-death-rates-from-natural-disasters
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The Massive California flood of 1861-62 was well before cars, motorcycles, factories, anabaptists, marxists too.
Great Flood of 1862
LINK
For a short while there was a large inland sea in place that is normally dry.
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Christmas day flood of 1717. A northwesterly storm hit the coastal areas of Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia on Christmas night. Some coastal villages in the Netherlands were wiped out entirely. In East Frisia 900 houses were completely washed away. All coastal areas between the Netherlands and Denmark were affected. Two days later there was a hard frost and snow making things so much worse for the survivors. Then on the 25 and 26 February there was another storm flood. An estimated 14,000 people lost their lives. This happened during the little ice age with colder temperatures and much colder seas. It followed on from the 1703 great storm caused by an extra tropical cyclone. This mainly affected England, Wales, Netherlands, Germany and France with an estimated loss of over 8,000 lives. Had this happened today, the global warming hysteria would have been off the charts, but this all happened in the little ice age.
Ignore or bury history at all costs, because the truth is inconvenient.
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Jo,
Usage point:
Talisman is nothing to do with man/men. As with human/humans, Roman/Romans its plural is talismans.
[Good point. Fixed. Thank you — Jo.]
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There’s been a huge drop from Human drowning death rates over the last 41 years.
While the high income countries have the lowest rates all other countries have lower rates since 1980.
But 4.4 billion people in 1980 and about 8 billion in 2021.
In Africa 483 million people in 1980 and about 1400 million in 2021 and yet lower drowning death rates.
The world death rates are much lower today and Australia and Canada have very low death rates.
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Sorry I’ll try that link again.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/drowning-death-rates?tab=chart&country=OWID_WRL~CAN~AUS~Low-income+countries~Upper-middle-income+countries~High-income+countries~African+Region+%28WHO%29
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According to https://premium.weatherweb.net/weather-in-history-1300-to-1399-ad/ and other sources:
“Norwich cathedral records: ” A deep snow in February that laid upon the ground seven weeks, and on thawing occasioned a great flood.” Given that the listing is under 1373, it may be that in fact the event refers to early 1374, given that church records around this time usually noted the year as beginning around Easter.”
Apparently the flooding was not confined to Germany or there were two consecutive years of flooding, which is less likely.
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Thank you Douglas!
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Discussion and conclusions:
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The ‘future’ has always been a high ‘risk’ game.
Friends and I had a ‘discussion’ and the only ‘conclusions’ we came up with were WHAT A CROCK!
As others have suggested: be a better bot.
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Of course. And the really really worrying aspect is that it’s not us causing the warming.
As a “sceptic”. My ideal scenario is that “all the warming” over the last century is caused by humans (as claimed by alarmists) and that we can therefore do something about it. But history suggests that it’s not CO2 that has caused climate alterations and that we’re not in control of large areas of land being returned to under water.
Our school kids shouldn’t be scared of CO2. They should be scared of nature. We are not in control.
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Earth is getting close to the end of the current rising sea level trend. The next phase of the cycle is for the oceans to fall and that will be much faster than they are currently rising.
Greenland already has expanding ice cover and summit increasing in elevation.
The true motive for the CO2 fairytale may be to avoid thinking about what is really happening and what it means for all those people living on land north of 40N. Give them something to worry about that is not as bad as it is going to get. And a way to fix it no matter how impractical.
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The true motive is that the left want power. A fast route to that is destroying the fossil fuel industry and the power incumbent in it. CO2 is the trojan horse.
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Nope. Metres of sea level rise is already “baked in”, it is only thermal mass moderating the rate that sea levels will rise.
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Another silly dependence on climate models that doesn’t have any definitive forecast skill to reply on which is not in meters at all thus you made it up to maintain your climate change embarrassment.
The Sea level rise is slow and steady and not a threat to human life who are far more adaptable than you realize…. apparently.
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That is true, a return to Medieval temperatures would produce much the same result.
‘In addition to warming induced glacial melt, sedimentary records reveal a period of increased flooding, coinciding with the MWP, in eastern Europe that is attributed to enhanced precipitation from a positive phase NAO.’ (wiki)
The MWP was supposedly universal, so paleo climate history should resolve the issue.
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Simon, you do realise the only way your current version of climate change works is all the water on the planet must end up suspended above our heads, that does not leave much left to create the floods you fret about.
Its time you came up with a new version of climate change, the one you are pedalling now has run its course, its broken, Kaput, move on man.
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Medieval Warm Period came late to Oceania, next step search for paleo floods in Oz/
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/er-2019-0012
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Yawnnn….. Zzzzz, you overlook the rest of the post about real floods that were far worse than any in the last 100 years or so including the incredible California flood that hasn’t been remotely close to being approached in size ever since since.
Thus, you didn’t make a valid point because it wasn’t based on anything.
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We are not even as warm as the Roman period. What rapid warming? That’s superstition, not reality.
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Mr, Simon: Thanks for the invite to the discussion. Here in USA, the “future flood risk” is certainly underestimated regardless of cult science notions. We build and re-build on flood plains. We have VIPs, celebrities, rich and famous, why we even have ex-presidents who SAY they agree with your alarmist views, but they buy beachfront and fly on charter jets, acting as if they don’t agree with you. The way they act, it’s almost as if these rich folks are using you! Wanna discuss that?
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Of course, its all happened before and worse in the good ol’ days. Whether it’s bushfires, floods or cyclones. The “Black Thursday” bushfires in the state of Victoria, Australia on February 6, 1851, were catastrophic, burning a quarter of the colony (about 5 million hectares) and resulting in the loss of about 12 lives, 1 million sheep, and thousands of cattle. (pop. approx 70 k at the time) On that day around 8am it was 117˚ F ( 47˚C) and stayed at a similar temp all day. Areas affected were Portland, Plenty Ranges, Westernport, the Wimmera, and Dandenong ranges. The fires may have been caused by lightning strikes and the unfamiliarity of newly arrived Europeans with the risks of bushfires in a dry continent. In Victoria, this last summer nothing really noteworthy in terms of really big bushfires. One in the Grampians which was mildly severe but mostly contained. But let’s all lose our minds over man made climate change.
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There was a presentation to a NSW Legislative Council Committee on the February 2020 flood in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valle (in Sydney area). A PDF of this presentation is available at this link.
A good science-based document on the basin flood history back to 1790. No flood has come anywhere near the massive 1860’s one.
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I think if you look just a few decades further back, then you will find that the “St Mary Magdalene” flood of 1342 was the worst, and that one was caused by rain not by melting snow and ice and not by a storm surge. I think I am also right in saying that the 21st century floods did not reach the 1342 flood markers.
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Don’t forget droughts, Australia has had 30 year droughts in the past.
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The peak sunlight in April this year is 2W/m^2 up on what it was in 1850 and remains more intense up to early July. This increase in spring and summer sunlight in the NH is the result of Earth’s axial precession. To balance that increase, September and October will be down by 2W/m^2.
The higher spring and summer sunlight results in more of the NH ocean surface temperature reaching the 30C limit and retaining more heat because the land warms up faster and goes to a higher level so less heat is transferred from ocean to land during summer..
The oceans have much higher thermal inertia than the land so, come late September, the land is cooling faster than it did back in 1850 and that results in more ocean heat advection from ocean to land; about half of the heat is carried as latent heat and results in increased precipitation; rain if the surface temperature is above 0C and snow if below 0C.
By 2100, the difference from 1850 will be 3W/m^2. By the year 3000 the difference will be 15W/m^2. By 4000 the difference 28W/m^2 or almost ten times what it will be by 2100. And it will go on up to 93W/m^2 by 11000 when the peak difference will be in July and January compared with 1850.
Can you see where this is going? Recorded human history has not yet experienced anything like what is coming.
This has nothing to do with CO2. It is the inevitable consequence of the axial precession and the distribution of land in the present era of geological history.
As an aside,, something that I have discovered is that 2016 was an aberrant year from an orbital perspective. The February sunlight peaked 15W/m^2 above 1850. I have not looked at other years in as much detail but it does show that the movement of Earth and Sun can cause significant year-to-year variation. The long-term trend though is NH oceans warming and snowfall rising and it has only just begun.
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Australia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth and any increase in rainfall is welcomed by farmers.
We also have floods that can cause misery, loss of life and hardship.
But since 1900 the second half of our graph is a lot better than the period from 1900 to 1947.
Here’s an anomaly graph with a moving average line and the period from 1900 to 1947 was very dry.
The period covered is from 1900 to 2024. And the last 5 years have been above average rainfall.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=aus&season=0112&ave_yr=7&ave_period=6190
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Eastern Australia also has a much drier period from about 1922 to 1948 or 26 years.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=eaus&season=0112&ave_yr=7&ave_period=6190
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The IPO was positive during those drier years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdecadal_Pacific_oscillation#/media/File:Índice_médio_anual_da_Oscilação_Interdecadal_do_Pacifico..jpg
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Overall Western Australia has had much better rainfall since 1970, but the SW of WA has had lower rainfall in the last 30 years.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=wa&season=0112&ave_yr=7&ave_period=6190
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The NT has had much better rainfall since 1970.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=nt&season=0112&ave_yr=7&ave_period=6190
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South Australia has had higher rainfall since 1970 and a very long drought period of 17 years straight of below average rainfall starting in 1922.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=sa&season=0112&ave_yr=7&ave_period=6190
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BTW the O’Donnell rainfall study of the SW WA wheat belt found that the 20th century was the best period to grow wheat for the last 700 years.
They used tree core studies since 1350.
So co2 levels of 280 ppm don’t seem to matter and we wouldn’t want to see a return to the LIA either.
Those mega droughts from 1350 to the 19th century were lousy periods to try and grow wheat. See FIG 4 at the link.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-021-05782-0
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The mega droughts in SWWA during the LIA is interesting because eastern Australia had the opposite.
‘As studied by Tibby et al. (2018), lake records from Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland suggest that conditions in the east and the south-east of Australia were wet and unusually cool from the 16th to the early 19th centuries. That corresponds with the “peak” of the global Little Ice Age from 1594 to 1722.’ (wiki)
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In 2010 Settled Science said we were in permanent drought. it was wrong. How then can it be right now as i watch it bucket down in Brisbane AGAIN!
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The ABC has an article stating that “Adelaide storages are at historic lows” due to low rainfall and then admits that flooding is forecast for the north east of the state . Their self awareness is totally missing . Th Murray river is getting massive flows from up north which will provide all the water they could need , but the climate change show must go on…
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Electrical Voodoo just doesn’t work.
We need to go back to the human powered version, with the rum, the cigars, the lissom young women doing wild, abandoned, dances, Baron Samedi popping into say “Hi”, and chickens.
That will do the trick.
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One big volcano goes off and it is a game changer.
We’ll be lucky to have gas/oil/coal/nuclear as baseload energy to get us thru the calamity.
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The Left, who in general are profoundly scientifically illiterate, and in many other ways as well, think the earth is static and unchanging. They are unaware that the entire planet is in a constant state of flux, always altering, even over historic time-scales.
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I was always amused by the simple truths in Aesops fables. About life lessons.
However the Henny Penny/Chicken Little German folk story which was finally written down in the 1820s was a perfect warning about tales of death and disaster when “the sky is falling” and the evil foxy loxy.
And I as a child I wondered why the animals actually believed the sky was falling on the word of a single chicken? How gullible were these animals? But they were not humans. And Foxy Loxy was cunning and exploited their fears.
Climate Change is also about the sky falling and the consequent and imminent death of humanity. Through Boiling seas and flooding and super storms and starvation.
The fact that Harvard footballer and innumerate tobacco heir Al Gore made it up in his first attempt at the US Presidency in 1988 hardly matters now. With the UN and Gore and the WMO creating the IPCC, Climate Change became a very successful religion. It has millions of adherents and a whole class of high priests called “Climate Scientists” who are definitely not even meteorologists. Now Climate Change also causes mass flooding. No surprise there but no one explains how this is caused with tiny warming. The Romans were not washed away and it was hotter then.
In 1988 there was no hard science behind Al Gore’s fantasy fable. Many felt the world was in for an ice age, but James Hansen with his experience on Venus went with CO2 caused Global Warming.(The atmosphere on Venus is 96.5% CO2, not 0.04%) Now after 37 years of massive indoctrination and a hundred trillion dollars spent preventing the sky from falling, it is the most widespread and profitable superstition in world history. Meanwhile nothing we have done or can do changes atmospheric CO2 even slightly. Despite half a million gigantic windmills turning slowly, if at all.
So maybe we should all wear necklaces of garlic? And pay our annual Climate Indulgences as the UN demands. I am sure our politicians would agree. They are still pushing hard to stop the sky from falling, with as much of our money as they can steal. In Australia Carbon Credits, LGCs, STCs are the approved way of robbing the people. Worthless certificates for billions and you can give the cash to your friends. It’s been a licence to print money. But still Chicken Little trusts the voice of authority. You wonder if 77 year old Ex Vice President and Billionaire Al Gore is truly laughing all the way to the bank?
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We are told who invented or discovered
gravity
radio
flying machines
penicillin
television
the internet
Amazon
and so many significant changes in human existence came about because of one man, even if there are a few disputes.
But it is without a doubt that in 1988 Al Gore invented man made Climate Change.
He needed something to get to the Presidency. It’s what he studied at Harvard, how Nixon did it. And he enlisted James Hanson.
Plus the World Meteorological Organization. And of course as prospective US President, the UN was very happy to help and formed the Inter Governmental Panel for Climate Change.
Suddenly the retired socialist politicians of the United Nations controlled the world weather. And the Meteorologists were very important people.
It’s not as if at the time there was a universal decision in science circles as to the direction of world temperature let alone a human cause and it was barely plausible. But with the UN, WMO and US Congress behind it, man made Climate Change aka Global Warming suddenly existed. And then there was nothing Climate Change could not do!
Including making storms, hurricanes, rain and floods happen more often. Soon every environmental disaster had a cause, the motor car. And the COP series of emergency world meetings of politicians, policy makers and real scientists led by Al Gore talked world taxation to stop weather changes, sea level rise and the drowning of entire countries.
37 years later, we are still being told the end of the world is very, very close. And we need to pay much more. Or we will drown in a rapid sea level rise or a flood or forest fire or earthquake. Because of fossil fuels, the great tragedy of industrialization.
I wonder how Al Gore sleeps at night. But as always Duffman from the Simpsons knows.
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Big Al claims that too.
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There has never been anything like it has there? The theft of great art and gold fillings, by H Gore and company last century pales in comparison. Stealing from the poor to provide handsome retirements to tenured clergy.
Perhaps, the stealing of the gold from the America’s during the 16th and 17th centuries rivals it, but the hurricanes intervened and scattered much of it all over the bottom of the Caribbean. Wait… that was before the great burning of the fossils.
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A cabal calling itself World Weather Attribution has given itself the task to ‘study extreme weather events to determine if climate change was a factor’ and are rewarded for their quest with copious amounts of money.
A child can predict that outfit, guess what, will determine that climate change is a factor in ‘extreme weather events’.
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It’s the ol’ hip pocket nerve –
trick.
You may prefer to refer to it as
‘payola.’
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Maybe it’s the underlying fallacy in the Great Age of Science Enlightenment … now failing.
(Our just turning into something really ugly … can’t tell.)
We used our new Magic Science to fly, surly soon we will be able to control the weather and cure all disease.
Just as the WEF has cured poverty.
Enlightened social and political ‘science’ can make every child a Rocket Surgeon.
‘study extreme weather events to determine if climate change was a factor’
Absurdity comes full circle.
Only works amongst a privileged and detached social clique that is able to create and enforce coded language … steadily increasing their power by enforcing that language control on the rest of society.
Related to fascists accusing everyone else of being fascists.
And ‘protecting Our Democracy’ by throwing the opposition candidate in jail.
Scary part is the diminishing numbers of people that remember the original meanings of words.
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It has to be climate change, the ABC said so
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I object to the use of Climate Change as a cause of anything and it is pointless when the alleged problem is not Climate Change but MAN MADE Climate Change.
Without the MAN MADE it is pointless unless we can change the climate. The very idea that we can change the rainfall was an experiment by the CSIRO for over two generations or 50 years
with Cloud Seeding. Both droughts and floods happened for those 50 years without any human input. Australia is a land of droughts and flooding rains.
But in 2001 John Howard introduced the Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act which packed our electricity prices with cash for windmills and solar panels. Maybe $100Billion of consumers’ cash has
since been stolen and given gratis to windmill owners and solar panel owners. What is the return for those consumers? Rocketing electricity prices.
Since then we have had endless costs like Clean Energy Finance currently getting an additional $18Billion. Plus the appalling Safeguard Mechanism 2023 which will pump CO2 taxes on businesses to 35% by 2030 based on Julie Gillards Carbon Credits (2011). And rivers of our stolen cash will go overseas to Green the planet, presumably. No one knows, or at least says where the money goes.
However the entire story behind the massive taxes and ripoffs is that the CO2 level is 50% above ‘normal’ because of fossil fuel which was completely debunked in 1958, 67 years ago. Today nothing has changed. Today there is zero evidence of fossil fuel CO2 in the air above 2%. We can measure fossil fuel in the air directly with Carbon 14, a medical style tracer which is not in fossil fuel CO2. C14 is at a level unchanged now for hundreds of thousands of years. So it’s not true.
But we have to debunk every allegation that say recent flooding is caused by man made Climate Change.
For example, in the UK at least, it’s absurd. Most flooding is a published policy of the UK Government to return the wetlands to the waterfowl at the cost of human settlement. They now let the drains and canals silt up and clog up with full and intended consequences in damages in flooding to human settlement along rivers.
Because humans are the problem and the world is better off without humans, which is Green policy and Government policy. And better without Jewish people, which is also Green policy in Australia from Adam Bandt who openly justifies HAMAS terror. And after 500 UN resolutions against Israel, obviously the official policy of the UN. The Prime Minister of Israel is under a UN arrest warrant as a War Criminal. This is also supported by the Australian and Canadian governments.
Anyway if did control the weather, what weather would we want? Perhaps ban floods, droughts, storms and no rain on weekends? A perfect climate in every part of the world? Just the right amount of rain where and when we need it? The problem though is money.
Given that humans and taxes now control the planet and the weather and floods, we just need to send more money to the UN which is really struggling without the massive cash of the US. The head of the WHO who told us that Wuhan Flu was not infectious and not made in China is now worried about paying salaries for the people who hid the man made plague. Unlike Climate Change, the Wuhan Flu was man made. And the UN is responsible for both. It needs to go along with the 80,000 jobs including hundreds of failed politicians trying to run a world government and extort cash. The oceans are NOT boiling.
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