From Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

“… I believe the Australian climate has always been a land of droughts and floods …”

Farmers face ‘new world’ of extreme weather as scientists urge action on climate change

By David Claughton, Michael Condon and Cara JefferyABC Rural
Topic:Climate Change
Thu 5 Jun

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Climate scientist and University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor David Karoly said a near-stationary high pressure system in the Tasman Sea had contributed to the high rainfall event, stalling a moist, easterly flow of air over the NSW coast.

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Craig Emerton, whose family has been farming at Croki since 1856, described the May floods as “totally unprecedented”, with water levels three times higher than he had experienced before.

However, the dairy farmer said he was not convinced climate change was the issue.

He pointed to geography for evidence of what happened before Australia was colonised and flood height records were started.

“When we look at the landform on this coastal flood plain, we can see that there’s been big floods over the years where sediment has built up,” he said.

“My dad spoke of six floods in six weeks … so we just happen to be in a very wet period.”

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At Dungog, fellow dairy farmer Sue McGinn shared his view.

“I believe the Australian climate has always been a land of droughts and floods,” she said.

…Read more: 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-06-05/climate-change-linked-to-floods-extreme-weather-nsw/105353550

Aussie farmers have been on the receiving end of climate activism in recent years, with allegations of bullying and heavy-handed tactics pushing through renewable infrastructure approvals.

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Having said that, there is plenty of reason for this skepticism other than anger at alleged coercive green tactics.

Why don’t Aussie greens embrace nuclear power as an acceptable zero carbon option?

This bizarre green rejection of nuclear power is what led me personally to first question climate alarmism. If we are facing a planetary emergency, all options for addressing the problem should be on the table. There would be no major conservative opposition to zero carbon energy, if greens embraced nuclear power.

Greens give the impression they would rather battle conservatives than embrace zero carbon energy which includes nuclear power, despite claiming CO2 emissions are a global crisis. This bizarre rejection of the only path to zero carbon energy which conservatives would accept in my opinion more than justifies questioning their other statements and claim.

The frequently repeated claim nuclear power is impossibly expensive and / or too dangerous is absurd, given that France has derived around 60%+ of their electricity from nuclear for decades. Therefore the green rejection of nuclear is irrational, which means their other claims require careful examination.

I personally recently opposed nuclear in Australia, because I support coal as the cheaper option – but unlike renewables, nuclear is a proven economically viable solution to a nation’s energy needs. I just figured with all that coal waiting to be mined, Australia had better options.

The climate council, of which climate scientist David Karoly is a leading member, is strongly opposed to nuclear power.