Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"Here is Melbourne Water from last year, explaining why we couldn’t have a cheap dam on, say the fast-flowing Mitchell River, and had to build a $3.5 billion desalination plant instead, at more than twice the price, but for one-third of the water.“Why aren’t we building another dam? Our reservoirs need steady rain over days and weeks, to wet the ground and then generate runoff.“Unfortunately, we cannot rely on this kind of rainfall like we used to.”Good thing it was wrong. Melbourne’s dams today are 40 per cent full and rising steadily - already a third above what they held last year. I don’t really blame Melbourne Water for peddling such alarmism. It was obliged to sing along with its Labor masters, who have flogged the warming scare relentlessly and recklessly.This Government in turn relied in part on the scary reports and controversial modelling of a CSIRO gripped by the global warming faith.It was the CSIRO that also warned in 2003 that global warming could strip our ski resorts of “a quarter of their snow in 15 years and half by 2050”.
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Afternoon Snow Wrap 26.08.10 (BigPond, Australia)
"Perisher - Just when you thought we had received a sufficient amount of snow for a while, we were blessed with a further 33cm overnight! .....Falls Creek - 54cm of fresh in the past 24hrs! Fresh powder tracks everywhere today! .....Mt Hotham - 47cm of cold dry powder. The biggest dump in a long time. Awesome. "
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