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WARMENING TAKES A HOLIDAY

May:

Climate change gave much of Australia’s drought-stricken east coast its warmest May on record, weather experts say.

Global warming and an absence of significant cold changes had driven temperatures well above the monthly average, said meteorologist Matt Pearce, from consultants Weatherzone ...

“This is yet another sign of the widespread climate change that we are seeing unfold across the globe.”

June:

June 2007 was the coldest June recorded in Australia since at least 1950, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s National Climate Centre ...

Across the whole of the continent the Australian mean temperature was 1.54 degrees Celsius below average for June – breaking the previous record of 1.4 degrees below average set in 1982. It is the second successive year in which June has been much cooler than normal.

Posted by Tim B. on 07/05/2007 at 08:10 AM
  1. “This is yet another sign of the widespread climate change that we are seeing unfold across the globe.”

    Can be repeated for June, coz, you know, coldness is an extreme temperature, and that’s what climate change is man, you know, extreme - like all the up anddown the thermometer.  All the way man, like dude, like wow, that cold shit is hot man!  I told you so.

    Of course we now will have Mr Lefty repeat his claim that climate change experts do not use hot isolated weather as proof of their theory, despite such quotes ...  appearing all the time, everywhere, headlined, except when it’s COLD.  It’s all about the average, and we know how reliable those averages are at showing cause, now don’t we.

    Posted by peter m on 2007 07 05 at 08:36 AM • permalink

  2. It’s CLIMATE CHAOS now.

    You RWDBs are so uppity about consistency.

    /moonbat.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2007 07 05 at 08:42 AM • permalink

  3. Rob Read:

    As long as it’s not weather. I hate weather.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 05 at 08:48 AM • permalink

  4. Polar bear pelts can make very fetching coats.

    Posted by chrisgo on 2007 07 05 at 08:52 AM • permalink

  5. I blame Kyoto.  And Al Gore.  Stop the global coldening now!!!!

    Posted by bondo on 2007 07 05 at 08:56 AM • permalink

  6. Its getting colder???  I better sell all that 30+ sunblock I bought to corner the market.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 07 05 at 09:04 AM • permalink

  7. I wish they’d make up their bloody minds.

    Heard some inane conversation on Steve Austin ABC612 tonight on the way home from shopping. Arrgh. “What sacrifices are you prepared to make for the environment.” or some such shit.

    It was utter tripe.
    I turned it off.

    Now, catchyas tomorrow.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 05 at 09:05 AM • permalink

  8. Dear Jeremy, we know you stalk over here looking for stuff to bleat about. AGW is rubbish and your a self-absorbed dickhead. Now run away and have a cry.

    Posted by CB on 2007 07 05 at 09:06 AM • permalink

  9. It was all that flitting around the globe that Al Gore did.  The man is a global AC unit.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 05 at 09:10 AM • permalink

  10. How can we keep this up?

    You know, maintain the rage, man. I mean, how can a hippie keep it real if this kinda shit just starts going down?

    Oh yeah, send it down Hughie… well, climate change can’t suddenly change, just like that.

    Capitalism is still totally evil and it’s just wrong. It’s Murphy’s Law!

    Posted by splice on 2007 07 05 at 09:10 AM • permalink

  11. Would somebody mind dropping the word to Thorpie that he jumped on the wrong bandwagon and is looking more like a dribbling idiot every day Foxtel keeps running that “eco warrior” tripe?

    He’s a big lad, would be better off clubbing baby seals and wrestling polar bears. Bigger audience.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 05 at 09:21 AM • permalink

  12. Gore effect via Climate Concert in London?

    Yes, polar bear pelts will make nice coats, but it’ll be too warm to wear them. ;^)

    Posted by Jabba the Tutt on 2007 07 05 at 09:21 AM • permalink

  13. July 2007:

    Temperatures in July were exactly the same as they were in July 2006. This phenomenon has scientists worried that it may be too late to stop Global Warming. As David Suzuki noted, “if you can’t see a pattern here you’re in denial. We have to act now, there’s not much time left.”

    Posted by Arty on 2007 07 05 at 09:24 AM • permalink

  14. Well the west coast of the United Seppos could sure use a Gorebasm right about now! It’s half past 6 in the morning and already 88. 

    I realize that dip**** is in the UK so maybe Heidi Cullen could fly around here a bit. She could use her own ego and sense of impoortance for fuel.  No carbon offset needed.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 07 05 at 09:30 AM • permalink

  15. I think all hot air, except for the lag that passes with the Winter solstice in the Soutern Hemisphere.  The coldest is meant to be six weeks after then, around the start of August.  Same as the daily temperature lag, 3 hours after midday to 1500 hrs ... the weather changes year by year, and also hour by hour.

    Is it changing century by century?

    Posted by Stevo on 2007 07 05 at 09:33 AM • permalink

  16. surfmaster—push comes to shove, you can burn the SPF 30 in your kerosene heater as the glaciers slowly surround your house…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 05 at 09:42 AM • permalink

  17. Al’s Kid catchin a wheel

    Slightly OT, but dude, Al’s kid flogged a Prius to 100 mph down the San Diego freeway.  Must be a record for the eco-crate.

    Posted by stokes on 2007 07 05 at 09:49 AM • permalink

  18. May was evidence. June was an anomaly.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 07 05 at 09:50 AM • permalink

  19. #15… Stevo, from my experience as a NZ farmers son,  dead right, cold belt start of August, middle of lambing, death between the wire x 4 .... a little more snow, RIGHT NOW, sprinkled on the topography above the plains, would, however be most welcome ....

    Posted by Isumbras on 2007 07 05 at 09:51 AM • permalink

  20. Heh, heh, heh.

    I could write their stories for them.

    Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 07 05 at 09:59 AM • permalink

  21. #11, Pedro, Thorpie the metrosexual eco-warrior sure has pulled the wrong rein (or wrong something). The promos made me cringe, couldn’t even go near the full program, and I’m an Aussie.

    Next he’ll be touting the new eco-doctrine, that we’re guilty of “solar greed,” humans using up too many of the sun’s rays in detriment to other species.

    There’s no end to eco-borne insanity, apparently.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 07 05 at 10:07 AM • permalink

  22. #21 I found the ads incredibly unbearable too Maree. So did the watermark at the top of the screen. I find it incredible that there’s actually a market for that garbage.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 05 at 10:14 AM • permalink

  23. May was evidence. June was an anomaly.

    July… a catastrophe. August, cloudy with a few showers and dry in the remainder.

    September, the lone warrior and world savior, Tim Flannery, averts further suffering with a timely warning: hoard firewood and strategic stockpiles of baked beans and dried oriental noodles, ready for the real storm.

    October, hysteria in the streets of Iran is reported cheerily by SBS, the ABC and Fairfax newspapers, moments before the end.

    Posted by splice on 2007 07 05 at 10:25 AM • permalink

  24. Ash, I don’t there is much of a market for Thorpe or his post-pool shite. Our 20-somethings and their mates roll around laughing (and commenting unkindly on certain facets of his, ahem, newly groomed persona) when they see him touting this stuff.

    However, old dears like my mum still love him.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 07 05 at 10:31 AM • permalink

  25. I mock him whenever I see him too Maree. He shits me.

    I suspect my comments and those of your 20-somethings are very similar.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 05 at 10:42 AM • permalink

  26. Laugh if you want, but the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye already in Central Ohio.  Usually that’s Oklahoma.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 07 05 at 11:02 AM • permalink

  27. rhhardin, I didn’t know you had elephants in Ohio. That’s totally cool. Did they migrate there after the warming?

    Posted by phil_b on 2007 07 05 at 11:09 AM • permalink

  28. OK people, have found your answer for the next Kentucky Derby. THIS has winner written all over it. SPOT ON, is its name.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 07 05 at 11:25 AM • permalink

  29. #26 & 27, For cryin’ out loud!  Who let the elephants out?  Wronwriiiiiiiiight!!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 05 at 11:39 AM • permalink

  30. And I wonder what the average of May and June together was?

    The more they shorten the time-series the more irrelevant any ‘records’ will become!

    “Last thursday was the coldest ever recorded temperature at 5:32am on July 3”. 

    Clearly a demonstration of climate change

    Posted by Baron on 2007 07 05 at 11:42 AM • permalink

  31. meteorologist Matt Pearce, from consultants Weatherzone

    Nothing like boldly allowing your name to be attached to a self-refuting prophesy.  i wonder how Weatherzone’s bottom line is doing…?

    Posted by Major John on 2007 07 05 at 01:30 PM • permalink

  32. Heidi Cullen of the Weather Channel in the USA is a weather fascist, but in her worst banality she is still not boring enough to drain heat energy from the very air. It takes Al Gore to exert the Gore effect.

    Posted by ForNow on 2007 07 05 at 03:14 PM • permalink

  33. Several years ago in our met lab, our pet met was renown for predicting reverse weather events. He’d call clear skies and calm winds ‘Blammo’ thunder could be heard rolling in. V high chance of rain, look like the Death Valley. After awhile, you just took his forecast as gospel after you reversed the conditions.

    Posted by CB on 2007 07 05 at 09:15 PM • permalink

  34. You brainless DENIERS—the science is settled that the coldest June ever is EXACTLY what you’d expect from global warming—this is just further PROOF. And whatever happens in July will ALSO be further proof. I can hear those polar bear testicles shrinking by the minute.

    Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 07 05 at 11:01 PM • permalink

  35. Climate is defined as weather over a 30 year period, a temperature this month can only be compared to one 30 years ago.

    Should be interesting to compare.

    Posted by Louis on 2007 07 06 at 05:02 AM • permalink

  36. ...shrinking by the minute…

    Shaky B., where can I buy a CD of the Polar Boys’ Choir?  The thought of adorable little bear cubs hitting those angelic high C’s makes my heart melt like an Arctic ice floe.

    Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 07 06 at 06:31 PM • permalink

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