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BETTER THAN SEVENTH
Sixth place in a Formula One race will earn you a single world championship point. Score one for plucky little global warming:
The Bureau of Meteorology says Australia experienced its sixth warmest year on record in 2007.
Records go back maybe 150 years; the land mass known as Australia has been around for 55 million years. “On record” means nothing. Still, this non-news is causing agitation amongst the Altona warmenhood:
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the latest figures prove the Federal Government must act now on climate change.
She says the statistics should silence climate change sceptics.
Right. And the party that finished sixth in last year’s election should be in government.
“What the bureau statement today confirms is the urgent need to act on climate change,” she said.
“We know of course, we’ve seen 11 years of inaction from the Howard government. The Rudd Labor Government has already started acting on climate change.”
So now we’ll have a colder 2008, apparently. The national thermostat is in safe hands.
Sounds more like a bookie than a person dealing with science.
“This year, chances are it’ll be another above average year around Australia, but it’s a little bit early at this stage to say will it be Australia’s hottest,” he said.”
So: “It could be hotter in which case its glowballs worming, or it could be average with the hot spots reported as one of the 4 horsemen of the apocolipse riding through. If its cooler then we wont say bugger all but talk about how the weather at the moment is “funny” and suck our teeth in a meaningful way.”
Why, if its meant to be a global heating trend isnt there a uniform global effect??
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 01 04 at 03:05 AM • permalinkThe Rudd Labor Government has already started acting on climate change.
Blankets and fans have been issued to all working families.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 01 04 at 03:05 AM • permalink6th hottest? And just like the coke bottle glasses wearing haemophiliac, who got a note from his mother insisting he not compete at the school sporting carnival, it still gets a ribbon.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 01 04 at 03:10 AM • permalinkThe first thermometer came permanently to Australia in 1788 with Capt Arthur Phillip, on the same fleet that brought my husband’s ancestor, George the forger (blood runs true, but that’s another story).
So, temperatures in Australia from 1788 were only taken from Sydney. Not from Newcastle, Norfolk Island, Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, tropical Darwin eventually?
How could a continent larger than the landmass of the USA or Canada in 1788 be measured in one place and be compared for global warming and comparison with 2008? And then be assigned a global warming profile?
This has gotten so silly you have to laugh.
Tim,
I think you’ll find the Australian continent has only existed since the Paleocene, about 55 million years ago.
Posted by Patrick Caldon on 2008 01 04 at 03:20 AM • permalinkAnd this year is still behind 1998, 1991, 1988, 1980 (a quarter of a century ago) not to mention the significant drop from 2005. Labor and their neophytes such as the turd John Connor from the environmental activist group, the Climate Institute are cherry picking in their desperation to justify any ‘action’ taken. Connor used to be campaign director at the Australian Conservation Foundation.
One question for these a’holes is what measurement are they going to use to say that they have succeeded in combating climate change…No more floods, no more droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones and every day will be sunny around 23-24 degrees with a nice amount of rainfall in all the right places during the night. Dream on. Of course these wild climate events never used to occur before 1991. Cyclone Tracy was a figment of our imagination
Well whomever the bookie is that MoFo needs to pay up. ABC predicted this year would be the hottest on record Jan 4th, 2007.
Posted by papertiger on 2008 01 04 at 03:33 AM • permalink#7
No more floods, no more droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones and every day will be sunny around 23-24 degrees with a nice amount of rainfall in all the right places during the night
Is anyone else humming that song from Camelot here?
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 04 at 03:40 AM • permalinkCue video of Timmy Flannery jumping around with one of those big foam fingers shouting
“We’re Number Seven! We’re Number Seven!”
Whoo-hoo!Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 04 at 03:42 AM • permalink#6 Patrick: “I think you’ll find the Australian continent has only existed since the Paleocene, about 55 million years ago.”
Possibly true of the overall separate block of Australia, but the bits I work in are a trifle older. Its a bit like sayng a Bugatti is a 2005 model because it has some restoration panels made.
Oh, this is rich:
“The standout year is 2005, which was Australia’s warmest year on record, but essentially all the warm years that we’ve had have been in recent years,” [spokesman Dr. David Jones] said.
“You can count it back through 1998 [which] was the second warmest year, 1980 was the third, ‘88 was the fourth and 1991 was the fifth.
“So essentially, all the warm years we’ve seen in Australia have been in the last one to perhaps two decades. “All have been within the last decade, or perhaps the last two decades? I’m no PhD like Doc Jones, but it seems to me that only ‘05 and ‘98 have been in the last decade. And what’s with the “perhaps”? He couldn’t take the time to figure out that ‘88 and ‘91 were more than ten but less than twenty years ago?
“All”, to the eminent scientist, apparently means 1/3, or “perhaps” 2/3. Good God, the Global Whoremers are shameless.
There used to be 3 types of weather.
“She’s warm, she’s cold, it’s a beaut day”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 01 04 at 04:05 AM • permalinkCheck this out..another example of our experrrrts
According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the February temperatures in Western Australia were more than 5C hotter than average. But Australia had its coldest June on record, with temperatures 1.5C below the average.
As the Bureau of Meteorology prepared to release its annual weather review today, Don White from Weatherwatch Australia said worldwide figures indicated 2007 was in the top 10 of the past 150 years for warmth, “so global warming is definitely with us”.
But of course!! Who are we to question such hard evidence (/sarcasm off)
Link http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23000327-11949,00.html
For those who want all that in Gillardese
“Whot the byurow statemunt todayyy confirmz iz the ergunt neeeed to act on cliimut change,” she said.
“We no of course, we’ve seeen 11 yees of inakshun from the Howard guvvament. The Rudd Labah Guvvament has already starded acting on cliimut change.”
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2008 01 04 at 04:32 AM • permalinkRecords go back maybe 150 years; the land mass known as Australia has been around for 55 million years.
Bush and Howard did some serious shredding there, didn’t they?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 04 at 04:32 AM • permalink...The Rudd Labor Government has already started acting on climate change.”
Yes. lots of acting very little action, not that I am complaining mind you.
Posted by FreddyFrog on 2008 01 04 at 05:57 AM • permalink“Some parts of the country reached the highest average temperatures ever recorded, including the Murray-Darling Basin, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria.”
If it’s global warming how come it’s confined to the south east corner of Australia? The statistics for the rest of the continent must be pretty good if they have to be kept out of sight.
How about comparing 100 years of monthly temp and rainfall figures for every city, town, village and property since Federation?
The govt can gather amazingly accurate figures on population and society through the census every 5 years, why not climate/geographic figures?
Agriculture and the primary industries have been Australiua’s economic lifeblood for 220 years, so why are the figures still so foggy?
#34
Markl
Canberra (presently infested with a biblical 3 years of pillocks)
Have you thought of calling these folks?
Can’t remember where I read this but it was today and I think from some BOM bloke. He said that there is no significant difference between the mean temperatures recorded over the last six or seven years and, therefore, we have no reason to believe there has been any warming during that period despite rising CO2 levels. Roughly something like that.
#34 Mark L.
From where I’m standing back here amongst the minor minions, I can see that behind his back Swinish is hiding a very large aboriginal rock wall painting that he’s chiseled out of a desert cave somewhere. I’m suspicious that it could be used as evidence of a long ago period of glaciation, proving that it’s hotter now than it has been over a much longer timescale.
I think he means to expose us, sir.
(tosses something large and granitic under bed)
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 04 at 07:20 AM • permalinkSo what was the temp (in God’s language, fahrenheit thank you) on January 4, 13,486,990BC? Was it warmer or cooler than January 4, 13,486,960BC? If someone can answer that question, maybe I’ll buy algore’s movie. But only if they can prove that whatever life forms were around then were driving the dreaded *cue evil music* SUVs.
Posted by dean martin on 2008 01 04 at 09:48 AM • permalinkWell there you go baggin’ Altona again. Strictly speaking I live in Spotty, but rest assured we’ve just been slurpin down the leftover rose and Christmas Cointreau on the back verandah, with the back door open and the new airconditioner on full, so’s to cool down the neighbrahood.
And why is it whenever you tell a warmenista that you’ve just bought an airconditioner that they always ask, panting with their desire to bond, “evaporative?” and then recoil when you answer “Nope. Whalefucker.”Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 01 04 at 10:36 AM • permalinkGee, tell us how you really feel, Steve…
“Here is how I know Hillary Clinton will never be President. Last night as the Iowa results came in, I kept refreshing the page over and over. I didn’t really care what happened on the GOP side, but I was fixated on the Democrat results. And when I realized the fat, smug, lying, weaseling, thieving, Secret-Service-humiliating Queen Bee was face-planting beautifully, it made me happier than seeing my candidate win in 2004. I would get out of bed with a 103-degree fever to vote AGAINST this thing, and I think I’m far from alone. I think a good percentage of the people who agree with me are Democrats.”
http://www.hogonice.com/2008/01/petoria_here_i_come.htmlMy favorite part about comparing temps today with temps from 100 years ago? Thermometers 100 years ago weren’t all that accurate.
I’m pretty sure they stuck them in ice, marked “32”, then stuck them into boiling water, marked it “212” and then filled in the middle.
Besides, you know they’re scientifically and mathematically challenged so they’re having problems converting the numbers from fahrenheit into the metric system.The funniest part? In about 10 years when it’s become obvious that, since the Sun is into a lower active period, the Earth is cooling, the very same people will be screaming about the coming Ice Age and how it’s all because of high CO2 concentrations.
Count on it.Tim, sixth place in an F1 race used to get you one point. Then Schumacher started wrapping championships up by July, so the FIA changed the point structure to keep the championship open longer (i.e. prolong the inevitable). Now sixth place gets you three points!
Unless it’s 2007 and you are McLaren, in which case you get no points and should consider yourself lucky your team is allowed to take the start at all.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2008 01 04 at 03:26 PM • permalinkThis time I have to agree with Julia.
The Rudd Labor Government has already started acting on climate change.”
They have started acting on a range of things….What would you expect ? - The Rudd Govt is full of actors….(plus the “odd” bald ex bloodnut singer who is now a wonderful mime artist)...Drum Roll…. -”Envelope Please ”.
” And the 2008 Logie for best acting in any tier of Govt goes to…..Kevin Rudd and his performing carnival troupe at Federal level . ”
#51 “when it’s become obvious that, since the Sun is into a lower active period, the Earth is cooling, the very same people will be screaming about the coming Ice Age”
No Veeshir, they’ll be screaming NOT to stop their activism because of the terrible expected jump in GW whenever the Sun resumes ‘normal service’.
This is their religion after all, so the Apocalypse simply must come. It is decreed by Saint Tim and Lord Gore.This is complete unscientific crap.
How did they measure the average temp in 1939? Where were the thermometers? What was the population? What was the UHI impact?
Talk about comparing apples and assholes! And they didn’t draw this info out of the Granny Smith on their desk.
It seems to me that science is dead in Oz and it won’t be revived under a commie thugocracy.
I for one will be getting in early and buying as much hot (pardon the pun) real estate from Polar Artificial City Offices that I can.
Location, location, location.
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