The joys of a government run system
One more on the Australian tragedy -- from the
Sydney Morning Herald:
Message to those in danger received six hours late
Tens of thousands of Queenslanders enduring Monday's flash flooding received the government's emergency warning messages hours after their area had been submerged under a deluge of brown, rushing water.
The messages, part of the National Emergency Warning System (NEWS), were sent after 8pm, six hours after Toowoomba took between 100 and 150 millimetres of rain in 30 minutes.
That might have been because the technology used by the Bureau of Meteorology cannot properly advise towns of impending flash flooding, the chairman of the UN Commission for Agricultural Meteorology, Richard Stone, said. New technology could better predict flash floods and he urged the government to buy it because local weather "is only going to get more extreme".
Emphasis mine:
is only going to get more extreme...
So, Stone buys into the Global Warming shite instead of looking back 37 years to when the same weather patterns were causing the same flooding and loss of life. Someone needs to find a new career, preferrably repeating the mantra: "would you like fries with that" so as not to endanger anyone else's life with his personal stupidity and political agenda.
Moron...
Posted by DaveH at January 12, 2011 2:45 PM