Posted by David Bamford on January 13, 2010 at 01:52:19 user David.
In Reply to: Re: Global warming. posted by Rob Boden on January 12, 2010 at 18:22:40:
Well, I can tell you Rob, that 46 deg isn't going to win any popularity contest either. When Melbourne had 46 deg last summer half the state went up in smoke and 115 people were killed. Railway lines buckled from excess expansion. On Monday it was the turn of the overhead electicity cables to sag too much so that trains couldn't run. A lot of commuters had a lot of trouble getting home. Events like this are definitely becoming more common. We used to think that 38 deg was pretty extreme, and now it is 45 that is making the news and 38 is ho-hum. Our weather Bureau tell us that this last decade has been the warmest on record, and by far the driest. I'm looking forward to winter, when it used to get down to 14 deg. Don't know what it will go down to this coming winter.
David.