We're not building any more water storage + the population of SE Qld continues to grow + Australia is the country of droughts as well as flooding rains + I agree with scientists not fake peers spouting cancer cure bunkum among their bag of snake oil sales. All that leads me to hypothesize...climate change will be back on the agenda front and centre in the not too distant future. Tim, we need you. Oh and Ursus, please don't muzzle the ABC...one...little...bit. A brief and not exhaustive list of ABC 'contrarian issues': -exporting live cattle mistreatment -Greg Sheridan's support of torture -trolley collecting criminal masterminds -S Mirabella's inability to have an original thought -T Abbott's fear of talking one on one to the Australian public -AFP selling out young Australians' lives to Indonesia so they can trumpet victory in the war on drugs and NOT arrest drug running kingpins. I do agree with you that News Ltd papers have done the same fearless job in the past (eg midnight state, Haneef debacle) but sadly, at what point did they lose their guts? ursus augustus: 14 Jun 2012 11:21:29am Hi solar rubbish, I had a go at Flannery because his "prediction" was baseless scaremongering. Go to the BOM site and the evidence is that the continent has got about 20% WETTER over the past century so the notion he peddled of endless drought was utter crap , on the evidence at the time and even more so of that of the past