Andrew Bolt: Floods prove global warming scaremongers can’t be trusted

Floods in eastern Australia are a timely reminder why we shouldn’t trust climate alarmists who claimed in 2007 that we’d never see that kind of weather again.

Oh, more floods in eastern Australia? Time to again remind ourselves not to trust global warming scaremongers like Tim Flannery, and the journalists who protect them.

You see, these floods should not be happening. Not if we believed Flannery, for a start.

In 2007, during one of our regular droughts, Flannery infamously predicted flooding rains were gone for good. The soil was too hot.

“So even the rain that falls will not actually fill our dams and our river systems,” he told the ABC, which didn’t question a word.

But there’s something important to remember. Yes, Flannery, our former chief climate commissioner, is an alarmist crank with no qualifications in climate science, but he was not alone.

Tim Flannery infamously predicted flooding rains were gone for good. He was wrong.

Months later, the far-left Age newspaper announced there was no point calling our big dry a drought when it was our new rainless normal: “No more drought: it’s a ‘permanent dry’.”

The Sydney Morning Herald agreed: “This drought may never break.”

The weather bureau’s head of climate analysis backed them up: “Perhaps we should call it (the drought) our new climate.”

This fake scare spread, disastrously, to the people managing our water supplies.

The Water Services Association of Australia said: “The urban water industry has decided the inflows of the past will never return.”

Result: new dams were banned and governments built a string of hugely expensive desalination plants instead.

But now look. Sydney’s dams at the end of summer are 95 per cent full. Melbourne’s are 87 per cent. The droughts are a memory, and Australia’s last winter crop set yet another record. All this must be pointed out, because the media outlets who push the climate scare hardest don’t fess up when their predictions turn out fake.

Floodwaters pouring over Oxenford weir in Queensland. Picture: Glenn Hampson

Take the Sydney Morning Herald, the same paper that in 2004 also reported another dud Flannery prediction of global warming hell: “There is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost city.”

Despite that and Flannery’s claim of a permanent drought, the SMH last October still had the hide to publish this headline: “ ‘Vindicated’ Tim Flannery unfazed by climate change critics’.”

That ran over a column by Peter FitzSimons, who told Flannery he was “a prophet” who was “right on warning of the dangers of climate change”, and “tragically vindicated”.

Flannery’s modestly responded: “I do feel vindicated.”

Look out your window, guys. That’s not vindication. It’s rain.

How much more of it before you say “oops”?