WA Premier still talking utter rubbish about rainfall
September 7th, 2011 by Warwick HughesWhat is it about something as simple as rainfall that gets our leaders and politicians talking nonsense ?
Remember in 2007 (during May that had average rainfall) the then WA Premier Alan Carpenter said – “It has stopped raining in the south west of Western Australia……”.
And it is not just WA Premiers, NSW too has the virus.
Anyway – it has happened again.
The Perth Arena which is under construction is afflicted by mould – which is causing those involved some angst and the WA Premier Colin Barnett opines that it is due to a wet winter. How does the media not call him out over such nonsense. A quick check of BoM data shows Perth has had a winter (Jun-Jul-Aug) with 448mm rain compared to a long term average of 479mm.
So it has NOT been a wet winter.
I wonder if the Premier has been brainwashed by a decade of WA Govt Water bureaucracies propaganda about “Our drying climate”.
Does he believe now that Perth normal winters now are dry ?
Dry enough to build the arena without safeguarding against rain ?
I do not know.
But surely it is obvious to anybody with the brains to check Perth’s rain history, that the winter months are very likely to see a fair bit of rain.
What will this cost WA taxpayers ?
Posted in Water | 5 Comments »
September 8th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
The biggest IPCC scandal till today is emerging:
ecotretas.blogspot.com/2011/09/horngate.html
Ecotretas
September 9th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
It is official, La Nina is back. Doesn’t that mean Australia is wetter than average?
wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/08/its-official-noaa%e2%80%99s-climate-prediction-center-says-la-nina-is-back/
September 9th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
The SOI data says it is a bit premature yet to be calling a La Nina. July was only 9.1 and August back to 2.6. Time is yet to tell if we get to a full blown La Nina. Winter rain was mostly average over vast areas but NSW was mostly dryer than normal.
September 13th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
The Premier needs education as to the difference between streamflow and rainfall.
Maybe then a little light will come on and he may realize that the “water problem” is one that’s due to changes in catchment management. And that management is a lot cheaper to fix than the construction of even more energy-sucking desalination plants.
September 26th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Families, when a child is born,
want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
having wrecked my whole life.
Only hope the baby will prove
ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
by becoming a Cabinet Minister.
Su Dong-Po as translated by Arthur Waley.