If Climate Change was a real threat, the Bureau of Meteorology might even look at their own historic records.
When Jennifer Marohasy and Chris Gillham did that, they found there was no increase in the intensity or frequency of extreme wet days at Lismore or the towns around it.
The wettest day in Lismore was in February 1954. The wettest year for Lismore was 1893.
If climate change affects flood trends, it might be making things better. Or it could have been, as I described, that the floods occurred the week after Hunga Tonga volcanic dust rolled across Australia.
There are 137 years of rainfall records in Lismore from 1885 to now, but the BOM said we set a new record for Lismore based on Lismore airport where records only started in 2002.
No one needed a supercomputer to read a rain gauge in 1885, and we have excellent long data. Imagine how handy that might be if the BoM wanted to understand, say, Australian flood cycles?
The Bureau of Meteorology is guilty of exploiting taxpayers, vandalizing Australian history, and spitting on decades of work by the earliest meteorologists in Australia. And they want us to think […]
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April 3, 2022 at 12:27PM
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