What January looked like in Oz.

[caskur]

That'll be short lived. There is more heat coming to WA.



Our electricity bill is $500 at the moment.

[Anonymous]

That'll be short lived. There is more heat coming to WA.



Our electricity bill is $500 at the moment.

 

[Frood]

Polar Vortex is here. 16c

[JOE]

If the North Pole has shifted south to Central Canada, then the equator seems to have also found its new location  further south in Australia

Joe, your idiocy knows no bounds.



If the equator shifts closer to Australia, Australia becomes COOLER.



Now I can hear those little gears in your head grinding and grasping to come to terms with that statement, but Australia is mainly desert, NOT tropical. Desert heat is MUCH hotter than tropical heat. Do you know of any tropical nation that has achieved a temperature of 47.7?



Tropical (equatorial) heat is moist (high in humidity) so it feels hotter in relative terms at 31C (the most common temperature) than dry heat. In the tropics, 31C is more uncomfortable than 31C in dry climates.



So, if the equator shifted further south, equatorial weather would cool the desert, and also bring heavy monsoonal rains that will transform it into lush jungle (like Darwin and the furthest northern reaches of the continent). The conversion of desert to jungle will thus eliminate the fierce desert winds we experience in summer in the southern regions into cooler, more humid winds.

Here's an article from Australia which suggests that the equator is expanding and thst it had ramifications for your country, BT:



https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-tropical-zone-is-expanding-and-australia-should-be-worried-77701">https://theconversation.com/the-worlds- ... ried-77701">https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-tropical-zone-is-expanding-and-australia-should-be-worried-77701

[Bricktop]

No, Joe. That is not an "article".



It is an unreferenced piece of man made climate change propaganda. The author is a geographer. Not a climatologist. Just as we have learned that our politicians lie and our journalists lie, we have also seen academics lie in the pursuit of ideology. There are grave problems within the academic fraternity that conceal duplicity and prejudice.



I know you struggle to read...but when you manage to put words together, the next challenge is to review your source.

[caskur]

No, Joe. That is not an "article".



It is an unreferenced piece of man made climate change propaganda. The author is a geographer. Not a climatologist. Just as we have learned that our politicians lie and our journalists lie, we have also seen academics lie in the pursuit of ideology. There are grave problems within the academic fraternity that conceal duplicity and prejudice.



I know you struggle to read...but when you manage to put words together, the next challenge is to review your source.

Yes, scientists do lie and they argue amongst themselves.





What we do have is an extremely unstable and unpredictable climate now.



Let's take it from there.

[Bricktop]

And when was the climate anything but?



For 95% of the world's existence, there was NO ice on the polar caps.



Political ideology has permeated every facet of our society, but most significantly in those areas where the ideologues can impose influence; the industry of Telling Us What To Do. That's where money and fame are most easily accessed.

[Anonymous]

I have to laugh when I read the notoriously biased NASANOAA announce another record hot year. Throughout the earth's history, the world has been warmer 90% of past years than today.

[caskur]

I have to laugh when I read the notoriously biased NASANOAA announce another record hot year. Throughout the earth's history, the world has been warmer 90% of past years than today.

Well, my niece was just in South Australia for the past 5 weeks, (she's a school teacher on holidays) and they were at a place where the temp was 50.2 or 52 C point something and I have NEVER heard a temp that high in Australia before...



I doubt pre-ice age when the world was a tropical paradise it got to 50+ temps.

[Bricktop]

50.7 °C (123.3 °F)    Oodnadatta, South Australia. 2 January 1960.

[Anonymous]

50.7 °C (123.3 °F)    Oodnadatta, South Australia. 2 January 1960.

State or national record?

[caskur]

50.7 °C (123.3 °F)    Oodnadatta, South Australia. 2 January 1960.

We just messaged her and she said 54... I think she is exaggerating... we asking her now, where in SA.



She said it was 20 kms south of Penong on the Nullabor...

[Bricktop]

As far as I know, 49 was the highest registered temperature during the heat wave.



That doesn't exclude the possibility of higher temps in non-monitored areas, but 54 would be a world record, I think.

[caskur]

As far as I know, 49 was the highest registered temperature during the heat wave.



That doesn't exclude the possibility of higher temps in non-monitored areas, but 54 would be a world record, I think.

On our news it was 49.5 at Port Augusta. That's what I heard.







Whether it's 49 or a ridiculous 50 plus, I have never heard such temps in Oz.



I think previously I've heard ridiculous temps at Marble Bar WA of 47...



One year, most disturbing was when 15,000 Emu were trapped on the rabbit proof fence dying of thirst... we tend to only think how it affects us... I think of the animals and birds out in it. Every time a tree is cut down, my anger grows.





And this, finches and budgies dying of heat stroke...



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[Bricktop]

The toll on our birds was terrible as well.



We were asked to leave water out.