Herald Sun (Australia)
"Now their loopy pronouncements carry weight, which is why the week's sport was to kick Bob Brown after he demanded coal barons pay reparations for the floods because, by his voodoo logic, burning coal caused climate change that led to all the rain.His junior, Sarah Hanson-Young, has escaped censure for sins of logic just as egregious. Even while acknowledging the Wivenhoe Dam was holding back water that would have flooded countless more Brisbane homes, she was claiming dams don't prevent floods. .....Greenies never waste an opportunity to push their ideological scare-barrow, that man-made climate change causes all natural disasters and we must urgently close down our coal industry and slash CO2 emissions.
Yet it may emerge that it was this very preoccupation with climate change that caused authorities to take their eye off the ball.Leaked emails from a Wivenhoe Dam engineer, published in The Australian last week, suggest the Brisbane floods were caused by water released too late from an overfull dam.If the water had been released before the dam had reached 190 per cent capacity, some experts claim Brisbane could have avoided the worst of the floods.But so convincing have been the expert pronouncements that we are facing a future of endless drought, the idea of releasing precious drinking water must have been anathema to Wivenhoe's managers."
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