What a silly and misleading article.

Here is very reliable trend, when a climate sceptic provides information, it is either misleading or wrong.

According to the Bureau of Meterology:
"2006 Hottest year on record in Canberra"
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/annual/act/summary.shtml

Here is a summary of Canberra in 2006 by the BOM.
Record mean daily and mean maximum temperatures during 2006 in Canberra. Both October and November had record number of consecutive days of above 30°C. Record amount of sunshine.

But is it misleading to talk about the Canberra heatwave of 1968? Just look at Tryster who asks "Why are all these scientist claiming there is global warming if it was hotter in Canberra 38 years ago."

Do not be mislead. Climate is not about one or two days. According to the BOM it is hotter in Canberra now.

skeptical of skeptics, you may have been scientifically literate - but in which discipline? I was an undergraduate in the late '60s and early '70s doing chemistry and geology, and I clearly remember the prevailing view was that we were heading for an ice age. That and the recognition of plate tectonics seemed to be the two great themes in earth science at the time.

Richard, I think you should stick to your fields of expertise, gambling and civil aviation. Publishing 6 articles in 3 years isn't going to feed you.

I have never been able to understand all the hoo-ha about global warming. If the weather bureau has a real problem in accurately forcasting the temperature in two weeks time, what hope have they in forecasting the temperature in 50 years? I would have thought that extreme scepticism, together with an appreciation of the needs of both the media and the scientific community for alarmist forecasts, would have been the normal response.

Oh for crying out loud, plerdsus. I can't believe I'm reading this one again:

"If the weather bureau has a real problem in accurately forcasting the temperature in two weeks time, what hope have they in forecasting the temperature in 50 years?"

Today's *weather* has no more bearing on global *climate* than your latest pay packet has on international interest rates. Please go and look up the definitions of the two words. I don't know how far the temperature will drop tonight either, but I do know it will be colder than this in July.

Simple trends in complex systems do exist, and they can be graphed and used to make predictions. It's called statistics, and what you are doing is the equivalent of throwing out the entire discipline because you occasionally see outlying points on graphs!

Who were you calling alarmist again?

Thanks jeremy29.