Three years later, those rains that Peter Beattie warned wouldn’t come

Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun (Australia)
"This is the price of listening to alarmists who said global warming would stop the rain:

RESIDENTS are losing at least $1 million a week operating desalination and water recycling plants in Queensland’s flooded southeast.
As Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman yesterday warned of a possible repeat of the floods that devastated Brisbane in 1974, it emerged that the cost of construction of the now-redundant drought-proofing amounted to $3700 for each household in the nation’s fastest-growing region.

The Gold Coast desalination plant and Brisbane’s recycled water scheme together ran up a $57m loss in the year to June 30—losses to the taxpayer of more than $1m a week.

Just three years ago, the then Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie, claimed Queenslanders could no longer rely on the hope of these dam-filling rains failing again: ..."