Discussion: Swedish Newspapers

You've really cracked the bigtime in your media coverage now....

http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=554&a=604...

We could have some fun with this one at work tomorrow :-) (might supply Neil Plummer with an inventive translation that may or may not have anything to do with what he actually said). I haven't spoken to any Swedish journalists lately, so I guess they probably picked up what I said to Agence-France-Presse?

The translation was "National Climate Centre forecaster Blair Trewein was severely censured by his colleagues after failing to warn Liggo that it would be really hot last night and that he should go running in the morning and not the evening."

Reference to your old territory too Al. I can't read Swedish but picked out Wagga Wagga and Tarcutta! It really is as dry around here as the photo shows and 40+C today.

Here's a quick translation of the core of the article in the Swedish newspaper:

David Dreverman was called an ignorant and exaggerating fool by other climate and flooding experts; Blair Trewin – a weather-quack from the national climate centre (mostly known from ruining small Queensland town’s reason to exist) – wouldn’t go any further that to suggest that the present drought was nothing worse than the one in 1895-1903. Then again, very few Aussies would really care about (or be able to relate to) the weather conditions over 100 years ago. Also, the severity of this drought has to be questioned due to the fact that this was a time when all Aussies where hitting the bottle pretty hard. Australians are known for their lies and exaggerations under the influence of alcohol and many researchers claim that this was what actually happened during this drought. The real “crises” back then was nothing more than a brewery that had to close due to lack of water supply…

Trewin’s message was still clear: the world’s driest inhabited continent is only getting drier by the day and water is stating to become a commodity in short supply. He further adds that in order to reverse the situation, Australians should stick to imported beer to save the precious water.

One could argue that this shouldn’t be a problem, given the fact that all Aussie beer taste awful, but the locals doesn’t seem to share that view. According to Dr. Trewin the government is now working on a scheme to re-import fosters from a Canadian brewery.