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You can’t take climate change out of the flood equation

25 Jan 05:55am

Filed under: Climate Change, Environment, Flood, Floods, Queensland

When my parents lived in the Queensland town of Gympie in the ‘70s there was an unofficial but strict allocation of civic duties come flood time.

Pets are flood victims too. Pic: AFP

Gympie is an old gold town and the gouging for riches had perverted every natural water course, redirecting the flow through the main streets.

Shop walls displayed the heights previous floods had reached, and it was always accepted there were more to come.

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mollie says:

09:23am | 31/08/11

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10:45am | 15/02/11

Warmists KRudd And Combet Obviously Aren’t Swallowing Their Own Crap About Rising Sea Levels In 2009, KRudd claimed global warming could drown 711,000 properties on Australia’s coast: “KRudd: In New South Wales more than 200,000 buildings along the state’s coast are vulnerable. Queensland is at the highest risk from Australian… Read more »

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