WORST DROUGHT SINCE WHEN?

According to the Australian Bureau Of Meteorology:

Australia is the driest inhabited continent even though some areas have annual rainfall of over 1200 millimetres. Our climate is highly variable - across the continent generally, as well as from year-to-year. We must learn to live with drought!

The current drought has gone from bad to worse:

The National Climate Centre (NCC) says the drought has intensified, especially during November, as a result of a severe lack of rain and hot temperatures.

Senior climatologist Grant Beard says conditions are now the worst they have been since the 2002 drought.

It's good to see a senior climatologist resist the urge to engage in scare tactics aiming to link the drought to global warming:

AUSTRALIA was in the middle of its worst drought in 1000 years, Prime Minister John Howard was told yesterday.

The stark warning was delivered to Mr Howard and three premiers by River Murray Water general manager David Dreverman.

Farmers are doing it tough at the moment; bullshit isn't going to help them.