Climatology - given priority status by the panic merchants

The excessive panic in the month of August in Victoria in 2010 over water flow on soils is largely an expression of the public minds preoccupation with only one area of science. Paradoxically the term is anachronistic referencing to historical  trands rather than the study of the present and the processes (weather and hydrology ) . The public think they are thinking ahead when they are clearly hooked on a idea of what "works "( they love technology not science) .
There are lots of other areas of science which provide much quicker and sounder access to predictive modelling on some of these matters than the kindergarten focus of monitoring that dominates Government vision lessness in many of these matters .
I won't list the areas of more relevant science that would be more useful  because the silly ministers who run this country will be off destabilizing the bureau with their latest and greatest half baked ideas which grow new shoots and just as quickly cut them off  . The wannabes want to be ahead of the game and  do all the talking,  instead of those who should be speaking.