This drought has had a more severe impact than any other drought since at least 1950…. This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observed.
Professor Karoly stressed individual events could not be attributed to climate change. But the wild extremes being experienced by the continent were in keeping with scientists’ forecasts of more flooding associated with increased heavy rain and more droughts as a result of high temperatures and more evaporation.
‘’On some measures it’s the strongest La Nina in recorded history … [but] we also have record-high ocean temperatures in northern Australia which means more moisture evaporating into the air,’’ he said. ‘’And that means lots of heavy rain.’’
Sorry Mr Karoly, but, this comment is now wrong.
“[but] we also have record-high ocean temperatures in northern Australia which means more moisture evaporating into the air,’’ he said. ‘’And that means lots of heavy rain.’’
All that rain has cooled the ocean temperatures heaps…its called ‘the monsoons’…
just like 1998/99 and…I could go on, but…
and don’t get me started on drought…
That wanker Karoly is a lead author of chapter 9 the critical attribution chapter of the AR4.
That lying wanker also put out a peer reviewed paper claiming that human fingerprint had been found in the Australian drought for the first time. He went on just about every MSM he could find.
A later peer reviewed paper by Lockart et al thoroughly debunked Karoly and another paper by one other Aussie alarmist Nicholson of the Oz BoM, but ofcourse this never made the MSM, only the blogs alerted via people like myself highlighted the Lockart paper. (that was the first time I paid a fee to get hold of a paper)
Kasroly of course continued to peddle his lies and his debunked paper.
David Karoly, sue me, you are a lying, carpetbagging, rentseeking IPCC alarmist cabal member. You should be tar n feathered at first opportunity.
Paint them with honey and stake them to an ant hill! Tar-n-Feathers is so wimpish.
Droughtflood has always occured in Australia. It is a land of extremes.
Floods are a part of Australia’s climate. Australia is a land of extremes.
Here is a history of droughts in Australia with startling images and geographical explanations for their droughts.
http://home.iprimus.com.au/foo7/droughthistory.html
To celebrate the first Earth Day in 1970, let us remember 15 of their foolish forecasts that year.
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/fifteen-foolish-forecasts-how-did-environmentalists-get-it-so-wrong-on-earth-day-1970
Perhaps Tony’s dad believed them all.
Or a few more gems from the Eco-Nutter Ehrlich.
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines . . . hundreds of millions of people (including Americans) are going to starve to death.” (Population Bomb 1968)
“Smog disasters” in 1973 might kill 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles. (1969)
“I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” (1969)
“Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.” (1976)
“By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth’s population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.” (1969)
“By 1980 the United States would see its life expectancy drop to 42 because of pesticides, and by 1999 its population would drop to 22.6 million.” (1969)
“Since natural resources are finite, increased consumption must inevitably lead to depletion and scarcity.” The Atlantic Monthly 1997
“Human-induced land degradation affects about 40% of the planet’s vegetated land surface,” and is “accelerating nearly everywhere, reducing crop yields.” The Atlantic Monthly 1997
He envisioned the President dissolving Congress “during the food riots of the 1980s,” followed by the United States suffering a nuclear attack for its mass use of insecticides.
By 1976 they had obviously fine-tuned their predictions.
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.
—Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976
http://pushback.com/issues/environment/ecofreak-quotes/
Newsweek preferred to sit on the fence.
There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production—with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon… The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
—Newsweek, April 28, (1975)
Either we have been lucky, or the “experts” consumed way too many comic books, disaster movies and magic mushrooms in their younger days.
Luck had little to do with it!
The Australian Drought – Who is to Blame?
“Every spare penny should be spent on water conservation…..To attend to these things is a national work, for the benefit of the whole nation; to neglect them is a national crime – it is suicidal. ” Henry Lawson 1900. Australian Poet
Catch the Fire Ministries leader Pastor Danny Nalliah has branded the nation’s drought catastrophe the result of a spiritual crisis in Australia and tied the flow of rain fall directly to sin and prayer.
Should we have tried another proposed alternative?
Shortly after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan the
Sun newspaper reported that British meteorologists were discussing “whether atomic energy may be used for breaking up drought in Australia…They say that atomic bombs fired into the lower layers of the troposphere would affect the weather and cause showers over limited areas.” (The Sun, 18 August, 1945.)
http://home.iprimus.com.au/foo7/lawsondrought.html