'Just confirm for me, it was the warmist that said new dams would never fill, so we should build those desalination plants.'

thats true Hasbeen and the sad part is that next time we have a drought they will again try and cash in on it. One of the prophets was given Australian of the year for his dud predictions. In his favour he is not alone.

Hasbeen, I don't think anyone said new dams WOULD never fill. A few said they MAY never fill, but that certainly wasn't a consensus view.

Those desalination plants were built because the dams would empty, not because they'd never fill.

Hasbeen: "Just confirm for me, it was the warmist that said new dams would never fill, so we should build those desalination plants."

runner: "thats true Hasbeen and the sad part is that next time we have a drought they will again try and cash in on it. One of the prophets was given Australian of the year for his dud predictions. In his favour he is not alone."

Lol! - things are looking up.

The two climate Einsteins of OLO appear to be peer-reviewing each others' material...and what's more - there's consensus!

"So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems"

Tim Flannery, Interview with Sally Sara ABC landline, Transcript.

IPCC AR5 Report

In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century, due to lack of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends, and dependencies of inferred trends on the index choice. Based on updated studies, AR4 conclusions regarding global increasing trends in drought since the 1970s were probably overstated. However, it is likely that the frequency and intensity of drought has increased in the Mediterranean and West Africa and decreased in central North America and north-west Australia since 1950.

The IPCC AR5 notes the lack of warming since 1998:

AR5: Confidence remains low for long-term (centennial) changes in tropical cyclone activity, after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities.

Dear Runner,

Interesting you mentioned the High Priests:

When the temple in Jerusalem existed, on the holiest Day of Atonement, the Jewish High Priest when entering the Sanctum Sanctorum, used to include in his short prayer: "God, do not hearken to the prayers of travellers".

The high priest was trying to override their prayers because while farmers and ordinary people are praying for rain, travellers, being wet and miserable, pray for it to stop.

Today as we travel by car rather than by foot or on donkeys, rain is not as bad for travellers, but here comes a different group who for a different selfish reason pray for the rain to stop. Let us pray that God does not listen to their prayers.