"It all seems to have happened so quickly. Just two years ago we received warning of an imminent disaster - a climatic shift that “could easily be described as hell: so hot, so deadly that only a handful of the teeming billions now alive will survive”.
But Gaia appears to um...have a mind of her own:
"• The strongest cold outbreak in five years came through NSW and Victoria over the weekend.
• On the Gold Coast in the state’s south-east, the mercury dropped to just one degree Celsius at Coolangatta airport at 4am AEST, in the coldest August morning there in 25 years.
• Landholders and motorists on the Central New South Wales ranges have had to handle the coldest winter outbreak for 15 years.
• Falls Creek has now exceeded its 20 year average snowfall and the forecast is for more snow for the remainder of this week.
• Southern New South Wales is having its coldest weather since 2005, with parts of the highlands blanketed in snow.
• Australia experienced record demand for electricity late yesterday as cold weather swept across the most-populous southeastern states.
• It has been the coldest start to August in 13 years, bringing heavy snowfalls in the ski fields and record low temperatures elsewhere.
• It’s been decades since August was this cold and damp in the southeast.
• Eyre in the Eucla set a new mark for the coldest temperature ever recorded in Western Australia, minus 7.2 degrees.
• August 2008 continues to be one of the coldest on record for most of Australia with temperatures averaging as much as six degrees below normal."
Via Tim BlairNo evidence--short of a woolly mammoth trampling Al Gore to death in the middle of Times Square--will deflect the warmaloonies from their crusade though. Facts are such hard-edged, unfriendly things....better to feel the warm fuzzy glow of the herd in action.