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It's comparing the last 15 year average to the last 112 year average as the caption says and as far back as records go.

That would be 10 points on the crackpot index! http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/quantifying-skeptical-arguments/

I thought it was pretty simple really. You challenged. I showed you where and when the BoM are seeing below average rainfall/a drying trend.

Rainfall depends on where you are and the time of year you are looking at. You don't want to get too carried away looking at individual locales. However, the SE is in a drying trend for winter and autumn...

Ok, I thought you might have some primary research to back your opinions up with. There are no citations on your link. As for myself, there's plenty in the resent IPCC report and CSIRO/BOM's state of the climate reports that reference the primary literature.

That's not the primary reference. I want to see what the researchers who did the work said about their data and its context. Not what some retired geologist said about a single piece of it years later. Rebuttal here...

I?ll guarantee if you walk into any pet shop in Australia, the resident galah will be talking about climate change. I suppose you fellas think you know more about the climate than the Bureau of Meteorology.