The intense heat which prevailed for some days caused many deaths besides through the agency of fire. The infant mortality in Melbourne was alarming during the days the temperature was at its highest—110 deg. to 115 deg. in the shade and nearly 150 deg. in the sun. The glaring sun produced many cases of fatal sunstroke amongst the inhabitants, and omnibus horses fell dead in the streets from the same cause.
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As I have been documenting here, Australian history is marked by severe drought most of the time, with floods occasionally interspersed. The Australian government does not seem to understand that “climate change” is the norm, and that there is nothing they can do to change that fact.
Among my friends, I do not find much of a consensus. Most of us are sceptical and do not pretend to be experts. My impression is that the experts are deluded because they have been studying the details of climate models for 30 years and they come to believe the models are real. After 30 years they lose the ability to think outside the models. And it is normal for experts in a narrow area to think alike and develop a settled dogma. The dogma is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. In astronomy this happens all the time, and it is great fun to see new observations that prove the old dogmas wrong.
Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. As a result, the media generally exaggerate the degree of consensus and also exaggerate the importance of the questions.
h/t to Marc Morano
15.2.4.1.2.4. Ice Storms
Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms
http://observatory.ph/resources/IPCC/TAR/wg2/569.htm#1524123
In 1986 the ice was caused by cold, but now it is caused by heat. An additional 0.00003 mole fraction CO2 has changed the fundamental properties of water.
http://www.thelocal.se/32262/20110225/
h/t to Marc Morano
