Australia’s by-sea-girtness, as much as its size, means meteorologists will always have their work cut out predicting the kind of weather which has caused such devastation on our eastern seaboard. The chorus of climate catastrophism which the floods triggered, on the other hand, was entirely predictable, even though these are the same voices which assured us only ten years ago that if we didn’t stop burning coal immediately our dams would never fill up again.
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