Causes for Australia's drought?

Question

Can you explain SIMPLY some of the reasons/causes for Australia's drought.

Answer 1

Global Warming.

Simply, because global warming causes an unsteady balance in the eco-system. Here in my country we've benn over two weeks with out rain and most of the green areas are now wildfire (although not that wild).

Answer 2

no rain

Answer 3

There are cycles in our world, and even with respect to the solar system, that impact our environment. There is no one cause to the effect and that is true for everything in our lives. Small changes all add up to just that. Change, cause and effect, much of which we do not understand completely. Chaos, the "butterfly effect" (a butterfly flaps it's wings in South America and the result with other contributing factors is a tsunami in the Pacific), what it boils down to are given all the influences in the environment, and some of it may in fact be our negative human impact, that rain may not fall as needed. Clouds and storms are statistically not counted on and that has been one goal in the science of agriculture and environmental studies since people have farmed, how to live around the fact that we can not count on the rain. We try to predict, and we put a huge amount of energy into statistics, and we force the world into a mold based on the block of numbers that are 365 days in the cube, but it is not that. Things change, the rains will come with hope. At least if they do not any time soon we are at least a great enough civilization that we can make up for it in some way. I know this answer really does not say anything specific at all except that it attempts to put some level of cause and effect into a thing that is causing a really difficult problem for those that farm. One thing we attempt to do is to limit the effect of our "foot print" in the environment to to assure ourselves we don't inadvertently shoot ourselves in the foot.

Answer 4

Well, yes, SIMPLY because it didn't rain enough.