So the warmists must be wrong about that drought or these floods

And reported without a skerrick of scepticism by The Age, that Bible of Global Warming:

It's not drought, it's climate change, say scientists

Melissa Fyfe

August 30, 2009

SCIENTISTS studying Victoria's crippling drought have, for the first time, proved the link between rising levels of greenhouse gases and the state's dramatic decline in rainfall.

A three-year collaboration between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO has confirmed what many scientists long suspected: that the 13-year drought is not just a natural dry stretch but a shift related to climate change....

''It's reasonable to say that a lot of the current drought of the last 12 to 13 years is due to ongoing global warming,'' said the bureau's Bertrand Timbal.

''In the minds of a lot of people, the rainfall we had in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was a benchmark. A lot of our [water and agriculture] planning was done during that time. But we are just not going to have that sort of good rain again as long as the system is warming up.''

Three conclusions suggest themselves as the good rains return and flood large parts of the country:

1.  Maybe "the system" isn't warming up, then.





2. Maybe man-made global warming isn't causing these floods.

3. Maybe man-made global warming didn't cause that drought.

At least one, and possibly all, of the above must be true. What's also true is that newspapers such as The Age, which for so long deliberately stifled questioning of the global warming faith, must now apologise for not just bad and unethical journalism, but for misleading so many of its trusting readers for so long.

(Thanks to reader Chris. No comments during break.)