warmair:

"I am only to happy with that arrangement. I will use hydro, wind and solar, bio-fuel, plus 75% of the power produced by natural gas (methane is 75% hydrogen). You will probably be short of power more frequently than I will. It takes several hours to fire up a coal power station"

Good luck when you go to hospital or rely on the social infrastructure for anything.

Scepticism about climate change in Australia may be something else that will melt during the nation's great heatwave.

''There's a powerful climate change signal in extreme weather events in Australia,'' said Joseph Reser, an adjunct professor at Griffith University's school of applied psychology. ''The current heatwave is outside people's experience.''

A study released by the university and co-written by Professor Reser found Australians were more ready to accept climate change was happening - and many believed they were experiencing it.

The peer-reviewed national survey conducted in mid-2011 and published late last year found 39 per cent of respondents viewed climate change as ''the most serious problem facing the world in the future if nothing is done to stop it''.

Two-thirds saw climate change as a serious problem ''right now''.

Conditions across the country in recent days would provide evidence to support this view. A delayed monsoon over northern Australia has left a string of high-pressure systems to dominate weather patterns over the continent for a fortnight. Temperatures have reached 49 degrees in some areas while the country posted a record average temperature of 40.33 degrees last Monday. Seven of the 20 hottest average maximum days have a 2013 time stamp.

Instead of taking C change as a world event , to find loopholes like HasBeen Just look at what is going on in AU. C change is a weather pattern of extremes, and making it difficult to predict.
Although some here can predict floods, and where they are going to hit.
Heat here and freezing cold there, so there is no global warming, just extreme weather patterns, and will become more volatile.
Ocean temp; rise is a major predicament, in turn driving weather.
Freezing cold is being outweighed by extreme heat.
Greenland is melting at an increasing rate. Enough ice there to raise sea levels by several meters alone.
Straight out denial does nothing for no one. Only increases temperature.

579; you are a gullible, alarmist fool; you have swallowed the BOM lie about 7th January 2013 having the highest national average maximum temperature of 40.33C hook, line and sinker.

An analysis of the BOM claim is here:

http://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/what-record/

First of all there has never been a national average maximum temperature; it is a new term.

Secondly, when you check the BOM's ACORN temperature network, which is the BOM's premier state of the art temperature record and average the maximum temperature at all the ACORN sites on the 7th January 2013 the figure you get is:

35.91C

The BOM has produced a figure of 40.33C which is 4.42C more than their own records show.

What a joke.

cohenite,

"An analysis of the BOM claim is here:"

An analysis?

Here's the about page for kenskingdom"

http://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/about/

"I'm a retired school principal with a keen interest in a range of topics, the main one at the moment being Global Warming..."

How's that for climate expertise?

Banjo,

Thought you miht be interested in this on fire vulnerability in Australia.

http://theconversation.edu.au/a-history-of-vulnerability-putting-tasmanias-bushfires-in-perspective-11530

David G:
The most important line of defence is the colourbond fence you build around your yard.
Popup sprinklers in the house yard, [bronze,] are a very useful idea, as is a gas powered generator, to provide emergency energy for the pumps, if a power pole is burnt to the ground and the power you were depending on to save yourself suddenly disappears.
LPG doesn't sour like other fuels!
A buried container, makes for a useful shelter, which you can emerge from, almost as soon as any fire passes over you, allowing you to get right onto any spot fires, before they can do any real harm.
You need to keep a reserve water supply, and an inground pool will do double duty, as a place to cool off and reserve fire-fighting supply.
Evacuations ought to be planed and enacted, well ahead of any fire front!
Burning bitumen is not an escape route, neither are dirt tracks, blocked by fallen trees or power poles.
Bronze gauze around the verandahs, will improve the outdoor liveability and keep some of the radiant heat and most of the blown embers from entering the house.
Mow an area around your house. Fed "hungry" animals with the fresh green clippings.
Fill everything that will hold water, if you intend to stay and defend.
Place wet towels under doors and any other obvious gaps.
Roof top sprinklers ought to be mandatory and placed to protect the under eves.
Block the down pipes and fill the gutters, to dowse embers that can start an under roof fire.
Ensure your wiring is safe and or renewed; and that no birds or any other creature is nesting in the attic.
Dry nest material can burst into flame almost as well as an accelerant!
Take the advice of senior professional RFB members like Banjo, who by the way, often put everything on the line, year after year, for people who simply refuse to take good advice, with the usual, it won't/can't happen to me, or the Sergeant Schulz Syndrome?
Rhrosty.