Bolt: Fact that proves climate catastrophists are wrong

Near full dams across eastern Australia in recent weeks prove we can’t trust climate catastrophists who claimed we’d never again have enough rain to fill our stores.

Melbourne’s dams are at 95 per cent full following heavy rainfall this month. Picture: Wayne Taylor

If this is global warming, we’re sure lucky.

More Australians should greet this New Year by sticking their heads outside and counting their blessings instead of inventing reasons to panic.

Last week I drove to Melbourne and couldn’t believe how green things were.

Late December is usually when we see sunbaked paddocks and bush just drying for a fire.

Not this year, even though the Bureau of Meteorology last September predicted a scorcher: “Warmer and drier than average conditions are likely across most of southern and eastern Australia from October to December”.

The El Nino, you know.

That was on top of the global warming that professional climate catastrophist Tim Flannery warned in 2007 would dry our land so “even the rain that falls will not actually fill our dams and our river systems”.

Fake scare. Melbourne’s dams today are 95 per cent full – just under last year’s record. Sydney’s are at 90 per cent. South East Queensland’s dams are more than two thirds full.

The bureau got it wrong again, panicking farmers into selling stock dirt cheap for fear of having to buy feed.

Tim Flannery infamously predicted in 2007 that rainfall alone wouldn’t be enough to fill our dams.

But it seems a generation of young Australians, trained to also freak over the weather, have forgotten how blessed it is on this driest inhabited continent to have so much water in our dams.

It was only 14 years ago that Melbourne’s dams were just 26 per cent full, and watering gardens was banned.

Since then, Australia has added four million more people, most through our reckless immigration program, yet there’s even more water for them, too.

Farmers have also won. They grow more food, and for four years have escaped mega bushfires.

Yet many journalists and activists look for excuses to spread fear of global warming, and in December pounced on Cyclone Jasper.

“Queensland’s record-breaking floods are a frightening portent of what’s to come under climate change,” shrieked Greenpeace.

True, there were floods in Queensland’s north, with Jasper dumping an incredible metre of rain.

But wait: Jasper had faded to an ex-cyclone when it hit land. Its winds weren’t destructive. The problem was it moved so slowly it kept raining over the same area. Indeed, Bureau of Meteorology statistics confirm that 50 years of global warming have actually brought Australia fewer cyclones, including fewer severe ones.

So why this fear? Start 2024 by driving through our magnificent country.

How absurdly lucky we are.