Indeed the Northern food bowl plan has problems quite apart from climate change. If it was going to happen, I suggest it would have happened by now.. As for the climate change projections noted by the author.. you may or may not believe the temperature projections, but at least they have been kicked around a great deal. However, there is no reason at all to place any faith in the rainfall projections.. Scientists can't point to any track record of any kind for them.. they are just projections done with basically untried theory, which ignore climate cycles..

For two centuries Australia has huddled around the southern coastline pretending to be a European nation. Finally we are admitting that we are an Asian nation, and not before time. This will mean taking another and a better good long look at northern Australia and populating and developing it in a sensible manner. Time and money will be spent, but the inevitable development does not have to inspire such a negative song and dance show.
Tony Abbott spends some time every year working with indigenous Australians in the Cape York area. The idea that he will sign off on a plan to develop any part of our North without taking them with him pays no attention to either the man or his history. As much as it must gall the shushers, he has better creds in this area than most.

I give as much credence to the prognostication of the CSIRO, or BOM or any other Sooth Sayers, as should be awards to the historic ranting are of the famous “oracle of Delphi” in the years about 1400BC.

Thus one may safely conclude that scenarios based on climate forecasts are totally lacking in structural integrity. Much as any structure built of playing cards is demolished by the first puff of wind.

'According to recent CSIRO and BOM estimates, over the next 50 years predicted climate impacts on the Kimberley include: more unpredictable and intense rainfall events; saltwater getting into some freshwater supplies (groundwater and coastal); stronger and more destructive tropical cyclones; an increase in very hot days; more common and severe droughts and floods, and the increased occurrence of wildfires. '

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Just a tip to the author - the title of your articles should not include the words 'climate change' in the headline as this is the key-phrase used by professional climate change shills and sock puppets to get 'alerted' via e-mail as to the existance of a new publication.
As you can see by the inane drivel and flat out lies that are spammed by the usual suspects (or several suspects under different screen-names)they carry out their 'drive-by' postings of the usual thousand-times-falsified denierblog myths of the 'no warming since[insert favourite cherry-picked start date here] variety.
Now that climate change is obvious they have abandoned all attempts at logical discussion and merely endlessly parrot desperate nonsense.

Gravy train rider, or just fellow traveler Leslie Graham?