{"id":469,"date":"2022-05-12T03:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T03:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2022-05-12T03:09:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T03:09:21","slug":"build-more-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Build More Dams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Letter to Editor,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australian Climate Sceptics Blog<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12th<\/sup>\u00a0May 2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since the days of Joseph in ancient Egypt, droughts have periodically rationed water and food supplies for humans and wildlife. Sensible peoples store water, but it is about 40 years since Australians built a big dam \u2013 young Aussie engineers have no damn experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even beavers build dams and weirs to provide long-term wetlands and food supplies along rivers. Dams also moderate floods downstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foolish children and Green politicians think that floods are caused by carbon dioxide, but farmers know that it is La Ni\u00f1a that brings flooding rains to Eastern Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now, La Ni\u00f1a flood-water is pouring down rivers like the Herbert, Burdekin, Pioneer, Fitzroy, Dawson, Mary, Maroochy, Condamine, Bremer, Brisbane, Richmond, Clarence, Macleay, Goulburn, Snowy and the mighty Murray-Darling. And our few dams and weirs are now spilling too much water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But climate cycles will change and El Ni\u00f1o droughts like \u201cFederation\u201d and \u201cMillennium\u201d will come again.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When that happens, we will again find rivers dry, wetlands parched, crops desiccated and water rationed because we did not store enough La Ni\u00f1a water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(175 words)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viv Forbes
Washpool, Qld, Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Reading<\/em><\/strong>:
The Roar of Waste:
https:\/\/saltbushclub.com\/2019\/02\/20\/roar-of-waste\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia\u2019s Dam Crisis:
https:\/\/saltbushclub.com\/2019\/06\/20\/australias-growing-dam-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ron Pike on water mismanagement in Australia:
https:\/\/youtu.be\/PyYdhxjMthw<\/a>
https:\/\/www.spectator.com.au\/2022\/03\/those-damned-dams\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responsibility for any electoral comment here is taken by Viv Forbes, Washpool, Qld, Australia.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Letter to Editor, Australian Climate Sceptics Blog 12th\u00a0May 2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since the days of Joseph in ancient Egypt, droughts have periodically rationed water and food supplies for humans and wildlife. Sensible peoples store water, but it is about 40 years since Australians built a big dam \u2013 young Aussie engineers have no damn experience. Even beavers… Continue reading Build More Dams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[444,453,441,446,457,20,445,458,448,451,22,450,401,456,442,443,449,447,452,454,440,172,455,171],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beavers","tag-bremer","tag-brisbane","tag-burdekin","tag-clarence","tag-co2","tag-condamine","tag-dawson","tag-fitzroy","tag-goulburn","tag-greens","tag-herbert","tag-la-nina","tag-macleay","tag-maroochy","tag-mary","tag-murray-darling","tag-pioneer","tag-richmond","tag-rivers","tag-ron-pike","tag-saltbush-club","tag-snowy","tag-viv-forbes","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}