Merveille said:
Merveille
The best summation of the science is in the IPCC report but you flap around like a flathead out of water to find reasons to ignore it.
If we were to believe you and Bolt there are thousands of leftist apparatchicks with lighters under thermometers in monitoring stations world wide skewing the findings.
You confuse science with politics and you have faith that winning the political battle will change the science or worse the reality.
I quoted Pearman an atmospehric scientist from the CSIRO who talked about planning for climate change as early as 1988. Whether you acknowledge it or not scientists have argued for a while that there will be increased rain events in wet places and increased dry events in dry places.
Here is a response from Peraman in an ABC interview 5 years ago.
Q. What are the potential impacts on our country, Australia?
A. Well it turns out that warming has many impacts. You know growth of plants and, and the timing of seed set and activity of animals and all those sorts of things reflected by the temperature and so are human activities and so are risks for humans with low temperature and high temperature but for Australia, we are a little bit different from the rest of the world because a warmer world generally means more moisture in the atmosphere and more rainfall and for much of the world as we move forward into this century we expect more rainfall. But for those belts around the earth’s surface where the main high pressure systems are in both hemispheres, we expect those to shift slightly leading to a change of climate around those belts and we happen to fall in one of those that leads to less rainfall so we’re talking about a prognosis for Australia, much of Australia, not all of it but certainly the southern part and eastern coast which is for less rainfall. We already have a limitation on rainfall. We already see stresses in the major cities because of lack of water and we’re seeing the anticipation is that we will exacerbate that.
I quoted the above to put context into your claims about scientist making claims about it it not raining like it used to. Accordingly southern part of australia is predicted to be drier over time while wetter areas especially in La Nina cycles can expect more rain.
The Earth is a very complex organism and to predict its vagaries from time to time is difficult. However paterns of severe climate events can be observed and although you missed my point in a land of droughts and flooding rains it would appear that a flippant and glib approach to climate change is both foolish and unproductive.
