Remember when people like Bob Brown and Tim Flannery were joyfully proclaiming the drought would never end?

Remember when drought was the new "normal"? Even coastal cities could no longer rely on dams and instead built very expensive desalination plants?

If you don't, this article will remind you.

Here is the new reality- actual rainfall as opposed to the projections of computer models.

Of course you can't rely on one month's rainfall figures, so here's the last three years

Note how the Murray-Darling Basin, cited by the IPCC as one place where climate change was already evident, has bounced back to normal.

And they wonder why we aren't buying the scare.