As soon as someone mentions WeUseWishfulThinking then you know their comment is meaningless, as is that web site it has no credibility and only supports total deniers (of climate change) and what papers it publish get demolished, it is also supported by the fuel industry.

As usual the deniers are out in force with no evidence to support their wild mythical claims.

Well written John.

You're such a nuisance Poirot. The BOM record does show this September as the hottest, by miles:

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=tmax&area=aus&season=09&ave_yr=T

UAH doesn't, although it shows it as hot:

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2013-10-23T08:01:00%2B11:00&max-results=7&start=5&by-date=false

The same with the 2012-2013 Summer; BOM:

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=tmax&area=aus&season=1202&ave_yr=T

But look at UAH in the top graph; the Summer was only the 11th warmest in the last 29 years:

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2013-10-23T08:01:00%2B11:00&max-results=7&start=5&by-date=false

But don't let that worry you Poirot; all grist for the mill for the converted

Wouldn't it be wonderful if there really were no such phenomena as global warming and climate change? We would be living in a world where 7 billion of us (and counting) could continue to acquire ever more stuff while burning ever more fuel, where frakked gas did not pollute the aquifers, where the removal of the islands from the mouth of the Mississippi so the super-tankers could access the Gulf of Mexico from the refineries upriver did not grant Katrina easy landfall, where there was an ashtray on every restaurant table and it was still "filter, flavour, flip-top box".
But global warming and climate change are proving one thing above all else. We as a species really, really do not like bad news. Our brains are not geared to deal with change that fundamentally threatens the status quo, and so we hide our heads in the sand and say it's not happening. It can't be. It just ain't so.

Poirot - oh I see what you're saying. Oh sure after three years or rain and warm temperatures we should expect firestorms. the trouble is, if the IPCC is to be believed, we shouldn't have had the rain. It should be getting drier.

And where did this talk of bushfires come from? The latest IPCC report doesn't mention them at all. (Can you find a reference, I can't?)You have to pick a disaster story and stick to it. You can't fit them all into one story..

Anyone who puts faith in the Aust Bom is a fool. It's staff are all climate change nuttercases and amateurs. Lately (last five years) their predictions about cyclones (numbers and strengths) and floods (numbers and river heights) have been wildly inaccurate. Their predictions of devastation have never been realised. They have never been caled to account for their gross inaccuracy of their forecasts yet they continue to make them and are reported and quoted as authorities.They often miss simple forecasts of weather events a notable one was the Toowoomba and Grantham floods. Another waz their failure to predict the massive rainfall over the catchment of Wivenhoe and their omision of imforming the operators of a fairly common weather event that led to the rainfall that caused the Brisbane floods a couple of years ago. Also their predictions of flood levels during that event were massively overstated.

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