And the very next year the rains returned…. and how

Yet the warmists will keep claiming they predicted this past year of heavy rain, and these huge summer downpours. This time let's quote The Age from 10 December 2009, when endless drought was predicted just weeks from the start of one of our wettest years:

Environmentalists were disappointed by the State Government's low ambitions for river health, particularly under the rainfall outlook described as the continuation of the past decade's conditions…

Environment Victoria chief executive Kelly O'Shanassy said rivers in northern Victoria were over-allocated, and the State Government should start a buyback regime of its own.

"The strategy… leaves our rivers to bear the brunt of climate change while continuing to allow too much water to be taken for irrigation,'' she said.

Sure, we promptly got floods rather than the drought the warmists predicted, but don't you dare say their theory is wrong.

UPDATE

The 2007 Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - the Vatican of the warming faith - made no mention of more floods in Australia from heavy rain. Its predictions for us ran entirely the other way:

- By 2030, water security problems are projected to intensify in southern and eastern Australia…

- By 2030, production from agriculture and forestry is projected to decline over much of southern and eastern Australia, and over parts of eastern New Zealand, due to increased drought and fire.

That chapter was co-written by Australia's own Professor David Karoly, who now claims that the heavy rain we've seen instead was predicted, too:

Professor Karoly stressed individual events could not be attributed to climate change. However, he said the wild extremes being experienced on the continent were in keeping with scientists' forecasts of more flooding associated with increased heavy rain events and more droughts as a result of high temperatures and more evaporation.

(Thanks to readers Mark and Rick. No comments during break.)