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Extreme weather in Australia : Comments

By Don Aitkin, published 19/10/2012

Extreme weather hasn't increased in Australia, and we have got better at dealing with it.

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To refute the nonsensical misinformation that is used by deniars to try and prove their point.
UK Met Office responds: It’s still getting warmer
According to the Daily Mail on October 13, UK Met Office data showed global warming stopped 16 years ago. Not so, said Met Office one day later.
http://earthsky.org/earth/uk-met-office-responds-global-warming-did-not-stop-16-years-ago

To address some of the points in the article published today:
Firstly, the Met Office has not issued a report on this issue. We can only assume the article is referring to the completion of work to update the HadCRUT4 global temperature dataset compiled by ourselves and the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit.
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/met-office-in-the-media-14-october-2012/
Posted by Robert LePage, Saturday, 20 October 2012 9:26:16 AM
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Disregarding (for the moment) the connection (or not) between AGW and extreme events, Mr Atkin's point that we don't have tornadoes is off beam. Bunbury in Western Australia has experienced several sizable tornadoes in the last decade - one took out the Catholic Cathedral, which required a total replacement.

A recent storm in the south west of WA last June was extremely wide-spread and ferocious, and according to the state power commission, caused the most wide-spread and worst ever damage from a single event that they had seen.
Posted by Poirot, Sunday, 21 October 2012 9:36:58 AM
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Forgot to add link.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-10/wild-winds-lash-wa/4062970
Posted by Poirot, Sunday, 21 October 2012 9:39:17 AM
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@Mac: "Where are all the climate change sceptics who are qualified climatologists and actually know what they're talking about ?"

Here, Mac:

http://www.petitionproject.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming
Posted by Jon J, Sunday, 21 October 2012 10:10:14 AM
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Jon J, in other words: not here.
Posted by Bugsy, Sunday, 21 October 2012 10:18:36 AM
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But Bugsy, why would they bother to come here, when the sceptics here are managing quite well on their own?

Quite an encouraging result for common sense in the ACT elections last night, by the way, don't you think?
Posted by Jon J, Sunday, 21 October 2012 10:30:57 AM
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