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Originally Posted by Vars191
 Who is in favor of flooding the center of Australia to modify our climate, this is not a new idler, it was contemplated by the government in the 1950th |
They sure did. The plan was to blow up a series of nuclear weapons across the continent from northern Western Australia and roughly on a line towards Alice Springs. This would make an irrigation channel to feed the inland with water.
It didn't come to fruition because of the cost of the plutonium required, and of course the pumped radioactivity directly in the ground water - which was overly polluted for near eternity with radioactivity by the stinking British twits, who rather contaminate Australia than do it in their own backyard!
(During the cold war, the British thought it better, as first choice in Antarctica!!
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However, there is a great article on other more sensible
alternative Australian water proposals, which you can download as a pdf.
http://www.farmhand.org.au/downloads...er_Part_10.pdf