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Farmers have a reason to be sceptical: The BoM caused hundreds of millions of $ of damage to livestock farming - they warned about a huge drought in 2022 causi
by RachelF 1y ago
Farmers have a reason to be sceptical:
The BoM caused hundreds of millions of $ of damage to livestock farming - they warned about a huge drought in 2022 causing massive livestock culling. Instead there were years of above-average rainfall.
- ggm 1y agoThe BoM cop this both ways. People don't look to the candlestick error bars on their statements, and their long range weather forecast is outside the window of the ABC article we're discussing. I get how upsetting it is to de-stock but if their best belief is the risk is high, what else are they meant to do? If they hadn't said this, and there'd been the drought, they would have got your scorn too, right? If you know a climate/weather bureau of comparable scale of footprint doing a better job, we'd all like to know. AFAIK there isn't one: most of the alternates work in different scale, with different climate forcing functions.