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GAIA IS ANGRY
This inverse-law thing inverts both ways. While global warming activists provoke local colding, mockery of that effect apparently generates massive heat:
The city’s hottest New Year’s Day on record sparked bushfires, caused power blackouts and shut down train lines.
Sydney reached a top of 44.2 degrees [111.5 Fahrenheit] at 4.30pm, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
The maximum state temperature recorded was 47 degress [116.6 F.] at Ivanhoe at 3pm, while the minimum was 25 degrees [77 F.] at Thredbo at 6am.
We need a few global warming protests to cancel this out.
It’s obvious that Mr. Blair hasn’t studied this issue enough. Soon the polar ice caps on both ends of the world will be melted and, as the U.N. has forecast, the world will be destroyed in such a fashion as to make Waterworld and The Morning After look like Oscar-winning documentaries. Please get rid of your cars, Mr. Blair, and your f@rting sheep. To save the world.
(There; I’ve done my bit. Is it snowing there yet, Tim?)
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 01 01 at 09:45 AM • permalinkOh, no! It’s snowing here now. Gaia must have thought I meant Tony Blair when I typed “Mr. Blair”. No, no, you crazy bitch, I meant Tim Blair. The Aussie. It’s supposed to cool down in Oz now, not here! Argh! Darn inverse proportionality.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 01 01 at 09:52 AM • permalinkIf you do have any Pro-Gaia protests down there, please post pictures of any attractive naked women who participate.
I see this as an offering to Mother Gaia, you understand. It’s strictly academic on my part. Really!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 01 at 12:47 PM • permalink111.5 degrees? Is that usual? (Yes, I noticed it’s a record, but are temps in that vicinity normal there?)
Here in central Virginia, we bitch if it gets above 90F. Of course, we have humidity. Do we ever. Sounds like you all don’t.
(D.C., 100 miles north, is considered a “tropical hardship post” by some Northern European diplomats because of the humidity in the summer.)
Good luck with the fires, guys. The US is having a problem in Texas and Oklahoma with grass fires and no rain. Here’s hoping everyone in the fire areas get some rain.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 01 01 at 12:51 PM • permalinkDammit, Australia, stop hogging Europe’s heat!
11°? In Los Angeles, we call that July. What’s the problem?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 01 at 03:46 PM • permalinkOK, 111°... sorry. I was over at Protein Wisdom and picked up Jeff’s hangover by proxy.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 01 at 04:33 PM • permalinkPerth’s low-temp summer presents a horrifying vision of a world subject to global cooling.
Cant find the latest data but the trend noted below has continued:
Perth records cool start to summer
Sunday, 11 December 2005. 11:06 (AEDT)
The weather bureau says this year’s start to summer in Perth has been the coolest for 40 years.The bureau says temperatures have been well below the December average of about 29 degrees since the start of the month.
The forecast temperature for today is just 20 degrees and the bureau says the weather is not expected to heat up for some time.
Forecaster Gary Boterhoven says the cool conditions have not been seen in Perth since 1965.
“All temperatures so far this month have been quite low and it certainly doesn’t look like until next weekend that temperatures may get anywhere near average,” he said.
I cannot understand what all the fuss is about. It was a steady 20 degrees at my place all day and night. Even in the triple garage. Nice breeze blowing too. Cool water and ice on tap. Bar fridge full of XXXX. Draw full of plastic shopping bags. Garden sprinklers working full time.
What is all the whinging about?
Hi Barbara
It does get rather hot here (South East Queensland) sometimes, however usually not this early (not in December). I am about 100k (60 miles) west of Brisbane and it’s been stinking hot for weeks (usually a ‘heat wave’ lasts about three days and we get relief, either a cool change or a storm to cool it down). It’s consistently been over 40degrees celcius (100F) for days, the humidity drops during the day to about 30 percent, however, as soon as the sun is low in the sky it rises, eventually reaching 70 plus percent in the night. Admittedly, the temperature has fallen to 27C (80.5F) most nights, sometimes even as low as 25C. We had a very mild winter, only a few frosty mornings), and that usually signals a hot summer.No bushfires reported in Queensland. Touch wood. I don’t recall any burning off around Brisbane in the cooler months - usually there are a couple of weeks of thick bush smoke as they prepare for the summer fire season, but not this year. Fires this year may be bad if this is the case.
The east coast of Aus has been sweltering, however, Sydney has had a few bearable nights, with temperatures falling to 22.9C (66.5F). A friend visited Canberra for a few days and sweltered, fortunately the friends she visited had reverse cycle airconditiong.
I have so much work to do at home and have taken holidays to complete work to get the house on the market and it’s been so bloody hot I can’t do the outside work - I’m fair skinned and red-headed and can’t venture out in the sun between about 9am and 4pm or I get cremated. And I tossed out all my gel sunblock ages ago as it was out of date. And I just got my ride-on mower fixed - I have an acre and a half of green panic.
I’m off to mix up some
roundupglyphosate for the fence lines and hard-to-mow areas. B’ bye.Barbara I lived in Alexandria and Charlottesville, and believe me, you are entitled to bitch when it gets to 90. Growing up in Nevada, I was not aware the “95 and raining hard all day” could exist in a place without monkeys and toucans. That I had to wear a suit and ride a subway in it, well, to hell with that. Moved back out west the first second I could.
If the daily temp spread in Sydney is a low of 67 and a high of 111, sounds pretty tolerable. This summer in Denver we had a run of days in July with highs of 105 and lows of 70, and I don’t have air conditioning, and I lived. Suggestion: beer.
Posted by Matt in Denver on 2006 01 01 at 10:53 PM • permalink7 Barbara
Here in central Virginia, we bitch if it gets above 90F. Of course, we have humidity. Do we ever. Sounds like you all don’t.
As we used to say when I worked in Richmond, “It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity.”
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 01 03 at 03:02 PM • permalink
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Bloody Melbourne weather is all over the shop as per usual.
40+ yesterday, and raining and cold today.
I don’t care if it’s warm or cold - just a bit of stability in the climate, please.