The floods last year which ended the drought in the traditional way also blunted the climate alarmists' argument that drought was the new normal in southern Australia. The lack of "runaway warming" which they also predicted has also been a problem.

Never mind there is always "extreme weather events" which the Climate Commissioner was again trotting out this week.

Unfortunately for the alarmists, the facts contradict the models again.

 

Joanne Nova writes:

Get ready — for all the fears of extreme weather coming our way — studies of Queensland, Victoria, the whole of SE Australia, New Zealand, and Perth show that either nothing is changing (there have always been bad storms) or possibly, the weather is better now than it used to be. Where is the evidence to support the claims by alarmists that increasing CO2 will make “extreme weather” more common?

It’s less windy now across South East Australia than it was in the 1920′s. It’s less stormy on the southern coast of Victoria, and records that go back 7000 years in New Zealand and 5000 years in Queensland show repeated examples of monster storms that — should they hit today, would be described as being “likely” due to coal fired power stations and excessive use of SUV’s.

The Science and Public Policy Institute published Historical storm trends in Australia and New Zealand in June. This post builds on that publication. 

 

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