Argo
Wrong it tells us something if the event has never been recorded before and the meteorologicak conditions contributing to it at the time and the region had not occurred either. It was in thst sense an extrene weather event and one which would be impossible if the conditions for warming had been present.

You really do need to reassess your belief in global warming. This is actual evidence that cannot be scientifically refuted.

So, imajulianutter you would obviously argue that the extreme heat weather events that have been seen over most of the world in the past decade are impossible, because it hasn't been warming?

It is a stupid argument. Extreme weather events will occur from time to time due to fluctuations in climate. when the climate is warmer extreme highs are more likely and extreme lows are less likely, but they are not impossible.

This is a point that year 9 lesson you linked to made.

Come on Agronomist, you have to get your TV & radio off the ABC, then look at some of the latest peer reviewed papers.

There has been a decrease in all extreme weather phenomena in the last 2 decades, except for a great increase in ice.

Less cyclones, less extreme heat, less floods, & less damage to human habitation.

There has been a huge increase in bitterly cold winters, but that could be merely weather. Of course the ship of fools showed us that even summer ice is increasing. It also highlighted what idiots many "climate scientists" really are.

The only place there has been an increase in temperatures is in computers, where they torture data in so many ways, adding non existent heat to perfectly flat to declining temperatures.

Only a fool, or someone with an agenda could suggest warming is going on with all the evidence otherwise.

"Australia will be the laughing stock of the world!" Sorry, but this claim by an ALP person is simply wrong. My wife and I have just returned from 5 months in Europe - 22,400km of driving through 20 countries - and Australia just does not rate on the world scene and why should it? Italy so far this year has seen 80,000 illegal immigrants arrive on its shores from north Africa, 3000 of whom died in the attempt to reach Europe. Greece has 20%+ adult unemployment and 40%+ youth unemployment. The French economy isn't doing much better and it has its own immigrant issues. Australia's climate change policy or lack thereof simply doesn't exist in the European consciousness. So Don's question - why does Australia need a climate policy? - is valid and needs to be addressed on its merits.

A decrease in extreme weather Hasbeen? That must be on another planet to this one. Clearly this didn’t happen http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a001-summer-heatwave-2013.shtml

“The last seven months have been exceptional in terms of heat records”

Or this? http://climatecommission.angrygoats.net/wp-content/uploads/Final-temperature-records2.jpg

Sea ice extent http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ shows Arctic ice at 1.54 million sq km below the long term average and Antarctic sea ice extent at 1.37 million sq km above the long term average. No evidence of a great increase in ice there.

agro

you really are descending into the ridiculous now. Time to give it a bone mate.