Andrew Bolt writes about our Chief Climate Panicker on a day when Sydney s bracing for its worst flooding in a decade:

Professor Tim Flannery in 2007 said we’d never again get dam-filling rain, and Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide could need desalination plants by as early as 2009. Now, with the country awash, dams near full and desalination plants left idle, Flannery has fled: 

A commission spokeswoman yesterday said Professor Flannery was in Germany, but said droughts were expected to become more frequent and ”just because it is raining does not mean we should not think ahead and prepare for a drier future.”

That is a classic. Just because it’s raining, doesn’t mean it won’t.

 

 The Bureau of Meterology is still waiting for that drier future:

Wetter autumn favoured for much of northern and eastern Australia The national outlook for March to May 2012 shows the following:
• large parts of northern and eastern Australia more likely to have a wetter season
• southwest WA, southern Victoria and Tasmania more likely to have a drier season

 

Here is the map depicting the BOM's quarterly rain prediction- no droughts here.

 

I thnk Flannery should get the sack- his dud predictions are consistently inaccurate and have cost State and Federal Governments (that maens you and me) billions of dollars in unnecessary infrastructure.