Media covers up metropolitan Melbourne’s biggest rain event on record

Flowerpower what you got to say now ? we got proof man made climate change is a rubbish the books were cooked have some guts and say sorry for being a fool

Look up Climategate scandal and 2009 paper confirming IPCC sea level conclusion withdrawn.If you need more proof let me know.

Today is the coldest February day for six years and the wettest summer since 1910/11 Global warming ? climate change?if so what made it so wet in the summer of 1910/11 was it planes and jets no they were invented in 1903 and jets in 1933 was it cars they were invented 1886 not too many in Australia at that time.
Or is it a normal cycle that has been happening for millions of years ? we don't have records that go back that far.
Can any one help ???????

why are people so completely 'amazed' at the media reporting natural catastrophes? Why are people just carrying on with their 9 to 9 jobs? Wake up people and stop contributing to this mess. Stop working. Stop all of your activities and start fighting for land rights and for a system based on justice and not charity. Wake up and start to change this oppressive system that is obsolete. Start learning about the law of the land...what you are seeing on the tele..once we lived like that as black and as white people and we did not 'pay' to live off of the land. That is a man (not woman) made concept. Stop taking orders from some fictitious system and start breathing again. Stop working for the ethically challenged white man and start empowering yourself.
Stop the ration based system. The ethically oppressed capitalist scions have pulled us off our lands (Indigenous and whites) to hand us all rations and force us into 'voluntary' work and not paying us for it. That is how far gone the system is. If we keep going the mental health issues will be out of control as will people's level of violence. An oppressive system breeds violence, hatred and anger, all very destructive emotions. We fail to realise that we can change this through meaningful dialogue and positive action towards the enrichment of our lives and preserving everything green, old growth rain forests, the waters, the air. I don't want a leader but the masses want a leader. So choose a leader that does not work with corporations and the concrete and bitumen people of the world. Choose Indigenous leaders to run the country. Come on it is too late in the day and it is getting even later..Stop the spread of cancer.

Look, I agree with the concern about media cover up with the historical significance of the amount of rainfall Melbourne received. What really concerns me, however, is this trend to call rain a 'rain event'. Or a storm a 'storm event' Or a flood or flooding a 'flood event'. What's with the 'event'? I guess we'll have to start calling Black Saturday a nasty 'fire event'?

Ditch the redundant 'event' folks. It adds no value to the preceeding word and is indicative of the creep of weasle words into our daily language.

First a small point on journalistic standards (which are notoriously lacking in many blogs, however interesting they may be). A dateline should precede all posts and any initial mention of the date in the body of the article should carry the full date, including the year. Reading this blog posting I was frustrated by the lack of a "year date" until well down in the article. Just a small but important point. The initial "slug" might well also contain the point of origin of the report, e.g.: "Melbourne, 23 January 2013". Cached web pages can linger for ever, so even a worthy blog posting can become irrelevant because the date context is unknown if there happens to be no mention of the date of issue in the body of the blog. The "date slug" is a courtesy to readers and increases the efficiency of research. My "real" response will follow (unless excised by the blogger).

Odd weather patterns? Well, well! Nobody on the planet, as far as I know, has ever, ever, ever even attempted to produce an inventory of the number of fumeroles in the deep ocean trenches that form mighty cracks in the earth's crust. Readers may not be aware that there is one monstrously large trench that starts off the Greenland coast, splits the Atlantic in two, from north to south, snakes around South Africa across the Southern Ocean, crosses underneath Australia, then shoots off at an angle across the Pacific until it reaches the North American coast. Huge! Monstrous in size and depth! Almost totally unexplored! Many of these (number unknown) emit vast quantities of carbon dioxide (and other gases). Likewise, nobody, absolutely nobody, has produced even an estimate of the thermal contributions to our planet's temperature from the thermal emissions from these same deep ocean tranches - or from the terrestrial and atmospheric heating effects of deep geo-thermal cycles. It is notable that the polar regions have been totally devoid of ice for more time, in the context of gelologocal eras, than they have been covered with ice. The ebb and flow of ice over the planet in the ice-ages is on a gargantuan scale, driven by global cycles that our infant science, barely a few hundred years old in the modern sense has not measured, let alone understood. We have no real understanding of the causes of these fluctuations although it is totally likely that the causal factors are closely associated with natural variations in the emissions of carbon dioxide. Unmeasured, and dare one say "unmeasurable" heating and "carbon" effects of vulcanism, plate tectonics, and cyclic "earth core" events, including (perhaps) variations in the earth's magnetic field, may well (for all we know) be a dominant factor in the present suspected trend in the rise in global temperatures and atmospheric carbon. Likewise, sea-levels are also prone to massive natural variations.
This is not to say that we humans should continue to emit carbon dioxide and other gases at an ever increasing rate, or even allow our populations to continue increasing, but perhaps considered action at a measured pace will, in the long term, be more effective than knee-jerk reactions that damage economies.
It seems to me that better understanding of the earth's cycles should be our prioity and that policies should be directed to coping strategies for human populations, rather than hysterical reactions to carbon increases that may well be natural - and almost unavoidable.