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Darwin yesterday endured its coldest June day on record:
Rugged-up Darwin residents yesterday shivered through the coldest daytime-high temperature ever recorded in June - and the second equal coldest day on record in the city. At 1pm the mercury plummeted to 22.7C ...
The daytime high was only 1.6C above the coldest day ever recorded in Darwin, 21.1C in July 1968.
I doubt they were shivering; 22.7 Celsius equals 73 Fahrenheit. But what might explain this bizarre (relative) coldening? Just possibly, it may be due to a pre-emptive Gore Effect - the great Chill Bringer’s An Inconvenient Truth is scheduled to show at Darwin’s Deckchair Cinema on August 2.
(Via Ian C.)
UPDATE. R. Timothy Patterson:
Climate stability has never been a feature of planet Earth. The only constant about climate is change; it changes continually and, at times, quite rapidly. Many times in the past, temperatures were far higher than today, and occasionally, temperatures were colder. As recently as 6,000 years ago, it was about 3C warmer than now. Ten thousand years ago, while the world was coming out of the thou-sand-year-long “Younger Dryas” cold episode, temperatures rose as much as 6C in a decade - 100 times faster than the past century’s 0.6C warming that has so upset
environmentalists.
(Via Ninme, who summarises findings thusly: “The Sound You Hear Is the Polar Bears Weeping Over a Photograph of a Stranded Human on a Dwindling Palm Springs Golf Course.”)
UPDATE II. A storm decline is forecast:
The North Atlantic is likely to see around 10 tropical storms this year, fewer than the long-term average for the July to November period, Britain’s leading weather forecaster said on Tuesday.
UPDATE III. So much for the global warming-caused Australian drought:
Dr Hamish McGowan, a senior lecturer in climatology with UQ’s School of Geography, Planning & Architecture, has been using peat samples from North Stradbroke Island to reconstruct a picture of what Australia’s climate has been like over the past 40,000 years.
“People talk about Australia being in the worst drought in 100 years,” Dr McGowan said.
“But what the evidence is showing us is that in the last 5000 years South-East Queensland has been much drier than at present.”
#2 rbj1-
Appropriate use of the capital “S” in the second Science; after all, names of religions are proper nouns….
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 06 21 at 12:28 PM • permalinkWell, you can imagine how a Canadian feels about this story.
I trust the deckchair cinema will be playing tthe Great Global Warming Sindle as well.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 21 at 12:40 PM • permalinkin the last 5000 years South-East Queensland has been much drier than at present
Oh no! The great wettening!
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 21 at 01:38 PM • permalink*shudders, imagining Mr. H moping around the house because the golf courses have all dwindled*
Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 21 at 02:58 PM • permalinkPerhaps Mr. H will find some consolation in this?
Hey, just trying to help…
Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 06 21 at 04:51 PM • permalinkSince the weather has plunged to a bone-chilling 28 C here, I better go exercise now before the temperature plunges any further and I get all hypothermic and have to drink to raise my core temperature. I hate it when that happens.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 06 21 at 05:40 PM • permalinkOr, um, maybe it was the temperature that plunged and the weather remained stationary. I believe I may be hypothermic now. Tequila, anyone?
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 06 21 at 05:42 PM • permalinkCan’t you people get it into your skulls -this cold weather is but another manifestation of global warming. The above average snowfall in south eastern Oz is caused by gorebal wormening. The bloody great glacier starting to flow(slowly) down Castlereagh Street is caused .... aah, what’s the use we’re all gonna die!!!
Cheers
RodCMore GW stories here than you can poke a stick at.
Don’t say you weren’t warned - the ice age is upon us!
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 22 at 02:09 AM • permalink#19 The doomsayers of the 70’s were right! Oh why didn’t we listen?!
Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 22 at 08:05 AM • permalink#19 MM; Pure gold! I like this one: “Environmental group reports U.S. leading world in toilet paper use”. Well, it’s probably because of all that roughage we’ve been told to consume. I suppose we could go back to corn cobs and the Sears Catalogue, or use fern fronds or parrot feathers or whatever it is they use in the undeveloped world.
MM
A better acces point for many of the articles would be under Larry Solomon at the National Post.Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 06 22 at 01:01 PM • permalinkMM, I know I’m dating myself, but I couldn’t help but be struck by this reference: ‘Thanks to new evidence that Dr. Kukla only recently published
Would that be Dr. Kukla of Fran and Ollie fame? If so, it explains a lot about the environmental movement.
#23 rebecca: That occurred to me, too! I don’t remember the show, but I know of it. Fascinating link. And look at the players: “Kukla, Ollie, Madame Ooglepuss, Buelah Witch, Fletcher Rabbit, Colonel Crackie, Cecil Bill, Mercedes, Doloras Dragon, Werner von Worm, Mrs. Dragon, Mrs. Witch, Miss Coo-Coo, Paul Pookenschlagel, Mrs. Bufforfington, Perry Porpoise, Hubert Skunk, Herbert Hare, Felicia Rabbit . . .”
The only name missing is Al Gore, who, in actuality, was probably still in short pants when the series premiered. But those names certainly put me in mind of the gloabl warming folks.
Wow, Fran was one great looking dame. I wonder if she was married to Burr Tillstrom, the puppeteer (i.e., Kukla and Ollie). I know, I’ll ask Frequently Asked Questions.
Were Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison married?
Who?
Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison. The people behind Kukla, Fran, and Ollie.
Oh. Well, no. Fran was married to Archie Livingston. Burr never married. You know. Never. Married.
Hmmm. Worked with a babe but wasn’t married to her. Never married at all in fact. Puppeteer. What am I missing here?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 23 at 08:18 AM • permalinkFamily members have a 100 acre farm near Gympie, north of Noosa, SE Qld, and a few years ago, in response to a few years of limited rain, the CSIRO gave a presentation to local farmers about the history of water fall in the area. Citing evidence from coral reef drillings tracing back 10s of 1’000s of years the presenting scientists concluded that we are just going through another ‘natural’ cycle. Evidence was that the current period with all its cynical predictions showed nothing new in relation to the past. Meaning no one could claim ‘man made’ influences were causing the current shortage of rain. Another latte please, and a douche bag for my pinko mate and his table of 20 on my left.
“Environmental group reports U.S. leading world in toilet paper use”.
But sadly, we are falling behind in reported cases of cholera and typhus. It’s America’s shame, I tells ya!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 06:46 PM • permalink
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I do love the hyperbole of the mercury ‘plummeting’ to 22.7C. It has a wonderful reverse Goreness not it over emphasising the importance of it getting cold, rather than hot.
I don’t buy the suggestion of a Gore Effect by proxy, as it’s colder than usual, and it’s raining heavily, Gore must be in the UK.