Rivers To Run Dry In East Australia

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1. smiffy says:

   January 5, 2011 at 2:43 pm

   There’s a famous Aussie poem from the 1800’s, written by a farmers wife, I think, detailing the love hate relationship with the land of “drought and flood”.

   No doubt everyone knows about a certain Tim flannery and his endless drought predictions, on a par with the met office forecasts.

   The cricket commentating legend Richie Benaud (cricket legend too I might add) remarked yesterday during the 5th ashes test “why haven’t they built a few extra dams to catch it all” knowing full well a huge new dam in qld was rejected 3 years ago by the labor government claiming drought was the norm.

   Richie became a God!

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   • Baa Humbug says:

     January 5, 2011 at 6:33 pm

     The poem is called ‘My Country’ by Dorothy McKellar.
     Every primary school student is tought it (well, used to, but it’s probably un pc now)

     Here is the famous verse of 6

     I love a sunburnt country,
     A land of sweeping plains,
     Of ragged mountain ranges,
     Of drought and flooding rains,
     I love her far horizons,
     I love her jewel sea,
     Her beauty and her terror –
     The wide brown land for me.

     The rest is at the link. A beautiful poem I might add
     http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~kday/australiansongs.html#I%20Love%20A%20Sunburnt%20Country

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2. Andy Weiss says:

   January 5, 2011 at 2:53 pm

   Australia will have perfectly distributed rainfall if immediate drastic measures are taken to reduce our carbon footprint!

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3. MikeTheDenier says:

   January 5, 2011 at 3:02 pm

   It’s not as bad as rivers turning green in Canada

   http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/12/30/victoria-river-mysteriously-turns-bright-green/

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4. Paul H says:

   January 5, 2011 at 8:40 pm

   They probably forecast they would win the Ashes as well.

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