No one quite knows how much of the continent of Australia is under water at the moment but just in the State of Queensland it exceeds 800,000 sq KM or about 10% of the continent and guess what? The monsoon season has only just started in the tropical north. To put that in some perspective it is an area larger than France and Germany combined, This won't displace the number of people displaced in the recent flooding in Pakistan but the cost is counted in billions of dollars. I have always said there is a lot of flat land in Australia for a reason and we are being shown the reason.
Where is all that water going to go? Well some of it will go into the Pacific ocean and some of it will go inland to add to the water already making its way to Lake Eyre. Some of it will refresh the Murray Darling system and bring a halt to the senseless buying of water rights by the Federal government. This will transform the inland for years to come, the Pelicans may even return to make their home there again.
Now it might be said all this is the result of global warming, but I remember similar events in my youth long before global warming became popular and we haven't inhabited this continent long enough to know what a thousand year flood might look like. If those events are repeated we are in for years of floods. In fact, nowhere in the world do we have enough information to really understand what nature might throw at us in a normal weather cycle. So how about we stop all this nonsense about global warming and go back to normal variability?
