Posted: Dec 06, 2012 3:54 am
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/records-tumble-during-spring-heatwave-bom-20121204-2ascn.html
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/coldest-december-morning-on-record-20121206-2awjz.html
One is blamed immediately on Climate Change, the other is nothing, it's only an "air mass change". Remember a couple of years back when there were record cold spells in the northern hemisphere, but the "C" word never left anyones lips.
Why is it only climate change when it's hot...?
Of course, not everything goes to plan, and stories like this show that we know bugger all about the climate of a dynamic planet-wide system.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/stagnating-temperatures-climatologists-baffled-by-global-warming-time-out-a-662092.html
The problem is that there is no "normal" with the climate...it keeps on changing. Just because it's pleasant for us at this brief period of time we are living in, why do people somehow think Earth is "finished" with climate changes and upheavals? The world wasn't designed to be a nice place for us to live...it's changed before and it will change again. Why does anyone think it won't?
Eighteen weather stations in south-eastern Australia recorded their hottest November days on record last week as the country sweltered through one of its most significant spring heatwaves.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) people better get used to it - they'll become more common as a result of climate change.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/coldest-december-morning-on-record-20121206-2awjz.html
The mercury in Canberra plummeted to 0.3 of a degree overnight - the coldest December minimum on record.
The unseasonably chilly temperature was recorded at 5.44am, and by 6.45am the mercury was still only sitting at four degrees.
A duty forecaster from the Canberra office of the Bureau of Meteorology said the minimum this morning was the coldest Canberra has experienced in 75 years of records.
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"A frontal system has moved up from the south bringing cold air with it," she said.
"It's what we call an air-mass change."
One is blamed immediately on Climate Change, the other is nothing, it's only an "air mass change". Remember a couple of years back when there were record cold spells in the northern hemisphere, but the "C" word never left anyones lips.
Why is it only climate change when it's hot...?
Of course, not everything goes to plan, and stories like this show that we know bugger all about the climate of a dynamic planet-wide system.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/stagnating-temperatures-climatologists-baffled-by-global-warming-time-out-a-662092.html
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.
Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.
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The problem is that there is no "normal" with the climate...it keeps on changing. Just because it's pleasant for us at this brief period of time we are living in, why do people somehow think Earth is "finished" with climate changes and upheavals? The world wasn't designed to be a nice place for us to live...it's changed before and it will change again. Why does anyone think it won't?