It's unlikely 100 year old records were fudged.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/100-years-of-drought/5282030 interactive: 100 years of drought in Australia
By Matt Liddy , Simon Elvery and Ben Spraggon
Updated 13 May 2014, 1:18pm
Use our interactive map to see 100 years of rainfall patterns across Australia, famously a land "of droughts and flooding rains".
Related story: $320 million package for drought-hit farmers
Source: Bureau of Meteorology
Credits: Designed by Ben Spraggon; developed by Simon Elvery; research by Matthew Liddy
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Think; 100 years ago and not a shadow of Al Gore's rhetoric in papers of the day!
Cheers,
