CSIRO: climate change is rubbish ...

... the drought is natural.

Funny how the government, climatologists and environmentalists have suddenly shifted from discussing 'global warming' to 'climate change'.

Anyone in Toowoomba over Christmas experienced wonderful 'global warming' temperatures. Wonderful weather.

Excerpt from the Australian.

Big dry's natural, not due to climate change

28 December 2006

THE drought gripping southeast Australia is due to natural variations in climate rather than the greenhouse effect.

The finding, based on CSIRO research, undermines claims - made by South Australian Premier Mike Rann at a water summit in Canberra last month - that Australia is in the grip of a one-in-1000-years drought.

"It is very, very highly likely that what we are seeing at the moment is natural climatic variability," researcher Barrie Hunt has told The Australian, saying the CSIRO's model of 10,000 years of natural climate variability put the current drought into perspective.

"When people talk about it as a 1000-year drought, they haven't got the information. They don't understand that according to natural variability we could get another one in 50 years or it might be another 800 years, and there's no way of predicting it."

See - Australian - climate change claims wrong.