Considering the origins of the Sahara Desert will keep climate change panic-merchants controlled: Or should, one would think.
However, with climate change fanatics, encouraging panic is the crude tool of choice!

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science/sahara-millions-years-older-thought-180952735/

And snow in the Sahara, December 2016. Pictures.

http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/sahara-snow/index.html

Dan.

Belly,

Hottest day ever in Australia (from Dr Google):

"2 January 1960

"The highest maximum temperature was recorded as 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) at Oodnadatta on 2 January 1960, which is the highest official temperature recorded in Australia."

50.7 degrees Celsius. Can we beat that, do you reckon ?

Joe

Hasbeen,

It's a bit like that where I live. The media raves about all the rain we got, when I didn't get enough to wet my glasses; which brings us back to incompetent reporting. We have only the media's word to go on.

However, I'm sticking to the idea that there is no water shortage, just political incompetence and management shortage. How many years do we need to experience what happens in Australia - lots of rain when we can't use it all, and very little when we need it - before the useless bastards we vote for work out what to do.

PS,

The useless bastards will probably never do anything. Even Morrison has now decided that current conditions - no different from conditions prevailing for a couple of centuries - might be caused by climate change! He is unlikely to have fallen for the climate catastrophists' lies, so it must be that he feels that there are more votes in bullshite than there are in common sense, making hay while the sun shines, and storing water when it is available.

Here is what I think is an excellent summary of the situation in Australia as far as appallingly bad politicians go:

"We live in an era of not just cynicism about the political class but, for many, of genuine hatred – of politicians who insist on solving problems we don’t have, who interfere in our lives, who tax us to the max only to squander our money on idiot schemes, who speak in talking points and gobbledegook, who talk about and, alas, act upon, issues that concern no one, who sell off our assets to foreign powers, who are tethered to ideologies when what we need is “club sensible” policies, and, above all , who don’t do what they say they will." (Paul Collits, Quadrant Online, 12/12/19).

The problem is practically.

Yes some areas of Brisbane got 4 inches of rain in a little over an hour last night. That means every acre received over 100,000 gallons of water in about an hour. An hour later of course it was gone out to sea.

If anyone has any idea of how that water could have been captured, & pumped inland in the hour it was available, please tell us here. I can't see any way, without bulldozing thousands of houses, & making a big chunk of Brisbane a large dam.

We could of course build dozens of dams on all the rivers that run out of the southern boarder ranges. That would capture a huge amount of water. Great idea, if you can get it past the greenies. Of course a lot of peoples farms, some of our most productive, are going to have to go under water to do that.

We get plenty of water inland, but like that rain in Brisbane, we can't retain it. To my mind the answer is lots & lots of dams, both large & small. We need to capture as much as possible as it runs by.

Yes there is a lot we should do about water security, & it all starts with the point we have always had droughts, & the global warming theory is another red herring interfering with taking suitable action, rather than waste money on windmills.