04 March 2010

Climate Change. Land Grab or Just another Tax?

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Wong's drought claims questioned

 AUSTRALIA'S top climate scientist has contradicted Federal Government claims the drought in the Murray Darling Basin is due to global warming.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, Prof Neville Nicholls, said the claim was not backed by science.


"The current dry period (in the Murray Darling Basin) might still be just a fluke, or natural variability," Prof Nicholls said.

"We cannot confidently attribute it to global warming."


Yet Federal Climate Change and Water Minister Penny Wong has repeatedly claimed the basin's drought is due to climate change.

"Research shows that this severe, extended drought is clearly linked with global warming," Senator Wong said in November last year.


"There is nowhere that this challenge is more serious than the Murray Darling Basin."


But while rainfall has dropped to record lows, other scientists say the statistics don't back Senator Wong's claim.


Prof Steven Sherwood, of the University of NSW Climate Change Research Centre, said the "sceptics here are (for once) technically correct, in that there is no proven link - yet - between Murray Darling drought and climate change".


A spokeswoman for Senator Wong said findings from the South Eastern Australian Climate Change Initiative showed the current extended drought was linked to climate change.


"Whilst the influence of greenhouse gas emissions do not account for all the observed variations and patterns of this extended drought, they are clearly identified as a factor in the severity of the drought," the spokeswoman said.


However, lead SEACI researcher Bertrand Timbal said his work was not at the stage where he could confidently say the drought was due to climate change in southeast Australia.


Dr Timbal said he was confident the decline in the basin's autumn rainfall went beyond what any of the computer climate models could naturally produce.


Many of the basin's irrigators back the scientific view that the current drought is not linked to global warming.


Yarroweyah irrigator James McKeown said Senator Wong's claim was ridiculous.


"The way I look upon this is that climate change is something that happens over hundreds of years, not in 10 (years)," Mr McKeown said.


"I'd like to know where she (Senator Wong) got it from - that the drought is due to climate change. Give us a name of the person or organisation who reported this."

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1 comment:

  1. How much greenhouse gas is Wong releasing into the atmosphere with her spin cycle stuck on high speed? The lack of resistance by Australians to these globalists have them thinking we would believe all the fairy stories they tell us. It is time to resit the traitor class!

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