Australia's Hottest Summer on Record...

[BayView]

Since this interglacial period we are currently in has gone on for a lot longer than normal, at 10,000 years now, you'd think that returning to the worlds current normal state of iceage soon would be inevitable. That article is not as silly as it sounds.


See ya's.

On the news yesterday; Moscow has had their biggest snowfall in over 100 years, so who knows?

A few weeks ago 6000 homes lost power in the US due to snow and bad weather...I think it was Maine, or one of those more Northern Eastern cities.

 

[Bigblu]

While we tend not look at individual years or locations for global trends spanning decades, ocean temperatures off WA were the hottest on record (by 2-5C) during 2010/2011. There is another similar marine heatwave underway here this year. A few local scientists managed to get published in Nature - Climate Change. An example can be found here:

http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/NCLIMATE1627

Also, it is worth bearing in mind that average temperatures are one of the main determinates of species distributions generally.