By Andrew Bolt ~
Among the excuses Melbourne Water offered for not building a dam but a hugely expensive desalination plant that’s not now needed:
New dams do not create any new water. They simply take it from somewhere else—either from farmers who currently rely on it or from the environment…
Unfortunately, we cannot rely on this kind of rainfall like we used to…
Climate change—while the Mitchell River has flooded recently, investing billions of dollars in another rainfall-dependent water source in the face of rapidly changing climate patterns is very risky.
Relying on “the science”, of course:
From The Age, August 30, 2009:
“A three-year collaboration between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO has confirmed . . . that the 13-year drought is not just a natural dry stretch but a shift related to climate change . . .
“In the minds of a lot of people, the rainfall we had in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was a benchmark, [said the bureau’s Bertrand Timbal]. . .
“But we are just not going to have that sort of good rain again as long as the system is warming up.”
But Melbourne’s water storages today:
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
Andrew Bolt’s columns appear in Melbourne’s Herald Sun, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and Adelaide’s Advertiser. He runs the most-read political blog in Australia and hosts Channel 10’s The Bolt Report each Sunday at 10am, and his book Still Not Sorry remains very widely read.
Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt’s Blog . http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/
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Posted on Sat 09/29/2012 by papundits
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