2000 - 2009 Hottest Decade On Record For Australia - Reuters

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The average temperature in Australia over the past 10 years was 0.48 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average, said the Bureau of Meteorology said in its annual climate statement. And 2010 is forecast to be even hotter, with temperatures likely to be between 0.5 and 1 degrees above average.

"We're getting these increasingly warm temperatures, not just for Australia but globally. Climate change, global warming is clearly continuing," said bureau climatologist David Jones.

"We're in the latter stages of an El Nino event in the Pacific Ocean and what that means for Australian and global temperatures is that 2010 is likely to be another very warm year -- perhaps even the warmest on record."

Environment Minister Peter Garrett used the report to attack opposition politicians for blocking the government's key climate policy, a carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) aimed at reducing greenhouses gases causing global warming. "Australia is one of the hottest and driest inhabited places on earth and our environment and economy will be one of the hardest and fastest hit by climate change," said Garrett.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6040IE20100105

[sharp_stick]

1. But it's cold here today

and that's all I need to know that Global Warming is a hoax invented by a massive conspiracy between all University climatologists, Al Gore and David Suzuki.

Everyone knows that it's just been invented to make money off the poor oil companies for the Environmental/Industrial Complex to bring good God fearing Americans to their knees in an effort to bring about a one-world Government run by Yemen through the UN.

Whew, that was a lot of shit to spout in one post without breathing but based on some of the Letters To the Editor I've read over the last couple of years I'll wager some morons actually believe it all. ;-)

[Nihil]

2. It would be funny if it weren't so true ...

> Whew, that was a lot of shit to spout in one post without breathing but based
> on some of the Letters To the Editor I've read over the last couple of years
> I'll wager some morons actually believe it all.

There are depressingly many here on DU that argue exactly the same way ... even
using some of the same phrases ...
:-(