The author says:

"Despite having just had the hottest year on record and every monthly Australian record being broken"

The author either doesn't know what he is talking about or is a liar:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=15904

3 other more reliable temperature sources ALL say 2013 was NOT the hottest year in Australia. BOM's records are flawed and politicised through AGW.

There is also nothing exceptional about the weather. Even the IPCC says there has been a downturn in extreme weather. Alarmists are like vultures just waiting around for the next catastrophe so they can ghoulishly claim it is due to AGW.

Cohenite I can assure you I am not a liar and I do have some research-based knowledge of climate change. Climate Change Generation ISBN 9780957943650. I have also read the article to which you refer and find the graphs actually show the warming trend rather than deny it. It may also be interesting for you to consult Wunderground as well as BOM and get it from a global organisation.

I love this bit in the authors profile:

"He came to Tasmania in 2008 to make a documentary...and decided to stay and help in the fight to restore democracy..."

Makes him sound like someone on a secret CIA mission behind enemy lines --is "Tasmania" here a misprint for North Korea or Lybia?

David has his democracy in Tasmania. It is a mendicant State and has to rely on the rest of us to pay them for doing less and less. Whenever I have been to Tassie I have always been impressed by the cheery and lovely people but the politicians, well that is a different story.
Go out and get a real job Dave, the weather is not changing despite the corruption of the BOM. Tony Abbott should ensure a whacking reduction in funds to the BOM and the ABC but with a twist! No sacking the tea ladies all executive salaries have to be reduced by 30% and all super is to be arranged by the executive. No massive salaries and even bigger pensions allowed.

"I have also read the article to which you refer and find the graphs actually show the warming trend rather than deny it."

Are you nuts? The first graph clearly shows 2013 was not the hottest in Australia according to 3 other best practice temperature indices!

As to whether temperatures are still going up, globally they are NOT:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/22/hadcrut4-is-from-venus-giss-is-from-mars-now-includes-november-data/#more-99765

And it's not just Brozek saying that but all these pro-AGW scientists as well:

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/scientists_talking_about_no_warming/

This is terrible; alarmists want to change reality!

Let's have a bit of fresh air on global warming.

Let's start by assuming that the theory is correct. That means that if you take a cubic kilometre of atmosphere, and pump 100,000 tonnes of CO2 into it, the temperature will rise.

However that atmosphere has no brain, and cannot distinguish between one person pumping 100,000 tonnes and 100,000 people each pumping one tonne.

It follows that the relevant figure is CO2 per cubic kilometre of atmosphere, not CO2 per person.

On this basis Australia comes 34th in the world, with 1.24% of the total, and what we do here just doesn't matter.

Of course this doesn't suit the guilt industry (remember all successful religions are based on guilt) which shares the left wing obsession about the fact that we have a higher living standard than the third world.

It isn't even consistent, as the highest emitters per person are the people at Antarctic bases, which should therefore be closed down.

The truth is that the real problem in the world is overpopulation.

The third world is responsible for this, as most of the increase over the last 50 years has come from there. If the population peaks at 10 billion, this is where the increase will come from. Trouble is, we can't even handle the current population of 7 billion.

If the developed world wanted to mitigate this problem, it should force the underdeveloped world to adopt Chinese-style one child policies, but of course that is politically impossible.

Everyone agrees that the current position is unsustainable, and nature has a very effective solution, involving four horsemen.

It should be an interesting century.