If you ever get the feeling that most climate experts are completely incompetent, it is because they are completely incompetent.
January 4, 2008
This drought may never break
IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation’s most senior weather experts warned yesterday.
“Perhaps we should call it our new climate,” said the Bureau of Meteorology’s head of climate analysis, David Jones.
ANDREW DESSLER
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Published 05:30 a.m., Sunday, July 10, 2011It is a particularly appropriate read as we suffer through the hellish summer of 2011. While it is unknown exactly how much human activities are contributing to this summer’s unpleasant weather, one lesson from the book is clear: Get used to it. The weather of the 21st century will be very much like the hot and dry weather of 2011.
Except Australians have experienced long periods of drought and flood ever since settlement. This is actually the climate “norm” here.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror-
The wide brown land for me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Country
The very act of Ms. Gilliard and Mr. Obama holding hands caused love vibrations that ended the droughts in both Australia and Texas.
Truth in poetry.
SAID HANRAHAN by John O’Brien
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.
The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.
“It’s looking crook,” said Daniel Croke;
“Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad,
For never since the banks went broke
Has seasons been so bad.”
(Cont.)
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/obrienj/poetry/hanrahan.html