australian rainfall, Tag

Here’s one for all the history-deniers from 1885 Mr N Bartley understood Australias climate 134 years ago better than some climate scientists appear to now.

More lies by omission from the Bureau of Misinformation When a PM gets it totally wrong, where is the BOM… “What this royal commission is looking at are the practical things that must be done to keep Australians...

When will our BoM and Climate Experts correct the Fake Science and misinformation?

The obvious headline: “Worst drought in history was 100 years ago, nothing to do with CO2″

Remarkable! A new study by Ashcroft, Karoly and Dowdy pieces together an extraordinary 178 years of rainfall data from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. This is a rare study that brings in much older data, looking at trends...

Warwick Hughes (h/t Dave Brewer) points out that on Dec 20th the Australian Bureau of Meteorology predicted that the Townsville region had only a 1 in 3 chance of exceeding the average rainfall in January.

A study done on… golly, Antarctic Ice, allegedly shows that in the catchment area for Newcastle in NSW, Australia, the last 100 years have been pretty darn nice, compared to the past when droughts and big-wet periods...

The headlines are out, telling us the unnerving news that the climate has changed, “zones are on the march”. How ominous.

Blame dry weather and electronic sensors for a lot of Australia’s warming trend… In this provocative report, retired research scientist Bill Johnston analyzes Australian weather records in a fairly sophisticated...

Blame dry weather and electronic sensors for a lot of Australia’s warming trend… In this provocative report, retired research scientist Bill Johnston analyzes Australian weather records in a fairly sophisticated...

According to the ABC  the Bureau of Met tells us that Queensland has experienced “the worst drought in 80 years” and that “37.3% of the state was covered by the lowest rainfall on record”. (Watch it on iview...

A major stormfront in NSW has dropped 170mm on rain on Ulladulla, ploughed down trees, drove waves 8m high onshore, and put the airport underwater in Sydney...

A new study by Steinke shows that the sun could have been a driver (somehow) of some of the monsoonal rain changes over the last 6,000 years over Indonesia and Northern Australia...

A new paper suggests there is an “unprecedentedly” low number of tropical cyclones around Australia at the moment. (How much should we spend to avoid this dreadful outcome I wonder?)

Showing that academics can cost the country more than they return, ANU’s Geoff Cary posits that there is an 80% consensus (an unmeasured, meaningless statistic) that there will be more fires in Australia 60 years from...