As usual, more doom and gloom claims of what is going to happen to Victoria due to global warming:
KILLER heatwaves, drastic water shortages, damaged roads and railways and melted ski fields have been predicted as climate change engulfs Victoria.
Scorching temperatures are tipped to claim more than 1300 lives each year in Melbourne by 2050 – compared with 290 now.
The state has been warned to brace for rising temperatures, devastating droughts, intense bushfires, shorter ski seasons and coastal floods in coming decades in a grim CSIRO report.
Global warming from too many greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere is blamed for the catastrophic predictions.
I guess the fact that we are all going die in Victoria from global warming is going to have to wait until after the farmers down here get done harvesting an expected record wheat crop due to all the rain we have received:
Four months ago Mr Teasdale showed The Age his worst paddock, near Rupanyup. Nearly 60 hectares were covered with brown, stunted wheat. But the rains that arrived late last week in Victoria’s wheat belt have been dubbed the best start to the growing season in 10 years, prompting drought-hit farmers to begin sowing.
And, incredibly after seemingly endless months of anxiety over water, rainfalls across Victoria, NSW and south-western Queensland have fuelled talk of a possible record wheat crop next year.
We have been getting lots of rain the past two months here in Victoria, especially recently. It has rained where I live just north of Melbourne every day for the past 10 days. Everything here is totally green and I have been cutting my grass every week now because of all the rain. Notice how little media attention this rain is getting just like the record rain fall in outback Australia was totally ignored. Heck it could rain every day for the rest of the year here and I doubt it would stop people from believing we are all going to die from global warming. Give it time, someone will claim all the rain fall is because of global warming.
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