Labor seizes on temperature figures as evidence of global warming

The Australian ^ | January 5, 2010 | Samantha Maiden

[myknowledge]

AUSTRALIA had the second warmest year on record last year, the Bureau of Meterology confirmed today in a finding the Rudd government has seized on as fresh evidence of climate change.

The BOM said 2009 “will be remembered for extreme bushfires, dust-storms, lingering rainfall deficiencies, areas of flooding and record-breaking heatwaves”.

Extreme heatwaves across southern Australia during late January/early February set a new Melbourne maximum temperature record of 46.4C, new State maximum temperature records for Victoria (48.8C at Hopetoun) and Tasmania (42.2C at Scamander), and contributing to the Black Saturday bushfires.

Victoria, South Australia and NSW also recorded their warmest July-December periods on record.

[myknowledge]

True. But yet another 'excuse' for the 'cap-and-tax' climate fraud.

[hsalaw]

Their warmest year, and the rest of the world’s coldest?

[myknowledge]

No wonder!!!!

[Rebelbase]

It’s obviously a Southern Hemisphere thing.

[Rebelbase]

Which will lead to the great Northern/Southern Hemisphere war of the 2010’s.

Australia is secretly planning an invasion of US soil by an army of Road Warrior types bent on ending our proliferation of carbon fuels.

[Publius6961]

Well, let the Australians lead the lemmings over the economic cliff.
Let's see if the sale of a fictitious costly financial scam will cure the imaginary mental disease known as global warming.

Popcorn time.

[hsalaw]

Which will lead to the great Northern/Southern Hemisphere war of the 2010’s.

LOL! Gotta love the Australians - they may have some nutty politics (though, compared to our Obozo-Clown Congress disasters these days, they look pretty sane), but they've been by our side in every war in the past 100 years.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They stole our heat!

[roaddog727]

Localized conditions do not a Climate make....’

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[mware]

Obviously a war between two brothers.

[Elsie]

AUSTRALIA had the second warmest year on record last year, ...

Uh...

When was the FIRST?

[myknowledge]

1910. A century ago.

[Oztrich Boy]

1910. A century ago.

By a strange coincidence, the 2009 figures were pushed up by the January heatwave of "once in a century" duration