Life Was Living Hell Below 300 ppm CO2

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1. Andy says:

   May 9, 2012 at 7:55 am

   Hi Steve,

   Attached is a link to streamflow into dams in Perth Australia, which was used in a recent Climate Report on Australia, and used to as evidence that rainfall is not resulting in surface water (and ground water).

   http://www.watercorporation.com.au/D/dams_streamflow.cfm

   I have serious doubts in the calculations the Perth Watercorp have done to produce this, since in about 7 of the last 10 years, our winter rainfall was average(compared to 1911-2011), and yet streamflow was lower than ever?! Particularly compared to pre 1971 years.

   I reckon there is a flaw in the calculation, most likely around how much water overflowed the dams.
   Have you come across a similar calc in US water supply stats?

   Cheers

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2. PaddikJ says:

   May 9, 2012 at 8:42 am

   Insomnia strikes again and I’ve just perused about the last 40 posts. The historical bits are really fascinating, esp. when taken in a single gulp as I just did – I was struck once again by how many things Michael Crichton got right about Catastrophic Climate Change in just one book & a few speeches/essays. The following was the closing of a lecture he gave on risk, with a sub-theme on CCC (from memory, so it will not be exact):

   “Floods, hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes, blizzards, swarms of locusts – it’s not the end of the world, it is our world. I think it’s time we grew up and accepted it.”

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3. Ed Moran. says:

   May 9, 2012 at 12:12 pm

   Dunno! the guys in the background aren’t complaining much.
   Right, I allow myself one sexist remark a day and that was it.

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