Certainly did not feel it here, infact this January is officially colder than last year's.
If anything, this January had a lot of cold nights, lots of cold gusty evening seabreezes and southerlies and an endless parade of clear but hopelessly poor seeing nights. But then again, what else is new in Melbourne
All of Christmas, New Years and Australia day were cold here, far removed from anything resembling traditional Australian holiday weather.
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Originally Posted by clive milne
And let's not forget that 2012 was a La Nina year.
Even at this early stage, the economic impact of climate change is significant ($100 billion in the US for the last 12 months from crop loss and storm damage) No figures on costs associated with bush fires or floods in Australia as yet.
.... and the oceans are still decades away from reaching any semblance of thermal equilibrium with the changes we have precipitated.
ie) even if we stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow,
the CO2 we have already pumped in to the air will guarantee us
double the global warming that we have already experienced.
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