A Continent On The Brink, page-8

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    Early in the video a farmer claims they had "5 droughts in 15 years - hard droughts" but no locality or region is given. But do they not realise that is probably normal rainfall - 1 in 3 bad years.
    At about the 1 min 12 secs mark the "2 hours south of Mitchell" segment starts which gave a region to check. Quoting Eric who has been farming 30 years and he says that they have been in a drought since 2012. So the video maker Sasja Beslik visited Australia and was impressed by dryness of the land.I have spent decades here n there in the Oz boondocks and have met hundreds of landowners - most of Oz looks as dry as shown in his video most of the time. Lets see what BoM recorded for October 2017 -

    http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/rain/archive.jsp?colour=colour&map=percent&year=2017&month=10&period=month&area=qd

    wow that region got over average rain in Oct 2017. So Sasja Beslik could not make the most basic checks before publishing dodgy claims? Why am I not surprised.

    How about Eric's claim of basically being in drought since 2012. Here is BoM 12 month drought map for 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2017. To check back previous years just reset the year - so easy. 2016 no drought anywhere near that region. 2015 ditto but drought areas to north, 2014 no drought but some weak drought areas near NSW border, 2013 yes there was drought in Eric's region. 2012 no drought anywhere near that region. 2010 and 2011 were wet over vast areas of Oz.

    http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/rain/archive.jsp?colour=colour&map=drought&year=2017&month=12&period=12month&area=qd

    Oz meedja is bloated with stories misinforming about rain.Any disatisfied farmer can get on the ABC claiming this or that misinformation about drought or lack of rain.The ABC never makes the most cursory data checks at BoM www that would take a minute to check validity of claims.We even had a Premier who said rain had stopped.Sick of fake news and bs when media should know better.Continent is not "on brink" continent is experiencing normal rain.
 
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