Tag: floods
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Floods & Droughts are Nothing New
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Oct. 16, 2022) — There is nothing unusual about today’s floods, fires, droughts, homelessness and hunger – they have always been part of the human story. But satellite technology allows us to track them better and our world-wide media revels in disaster-reporting, bringing tearfully tragic scenes…
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Build More Dams
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (May 12, 2022) — 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 – young Aussie engineers have no…
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Europe’s ‘Unprecedented Manmade Floods’
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2021 (Aug. 9, 2021) — Deadly floods in Germany and Belgium have put climate change back in the news in time for the COP-26 climate gabfest in Glasgow. Not surprisingly, government officials again blamed fossil fuels, greenhouse gases and manmade climate change for the calamities, to deflect attention from their official…
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The Roar of Waste
“HARVEST THE FLOODS” by Ron Pike, Chairman of “Water Watch” in The Saltbush Club (Feb. 9, 2019) — To download this report with all images intact click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/roar-of-waste.pdf Watching the Burdekin Falls Dam with around six metres of water going over the spillway following flood rains in the catchment, we must remember that this is…